Sooo…a friend of mine is a hair dresser and wanted to try out the RUSK Anti Curl Kerashine Conditioning Formula #1 on my hair. I was excited to try it since it’s very similar to the Brazilian Blowout but without the formaldehyde and as she described it, much better for my hair than a relaxer.

The whole process took about 5 hours from start to finish.

Here are the basic steps:

  1. Wash hair with clarifying shampoo.
  2. Apply 1st product to hair (this requires that you follow the application technique to a T! you can do this yourself but I’d recommend getting it done by a professional or at the least have someone else do it for you at home).
  3. Let product sit for approx. 15 minutes.
  4. Rinse out first product.
  5. Blow dry and flat iron hair.
  6. Apply second product to hair and let sit for 10-15 minutes.
  7. Wash 2nd product out of hair.
  8. Blow dry and flat iron.

Blow drying and flat ironing twice in one day is a daunting thought, but at the end of the process I was definitely happy with the results.

I haven’t done any in-depth research to compare ingredients between the RUSK Anti-Curl and a traditional relaxer, but the truth is…when I used to relax my hair I never asked the stylists what brand or whether the relaxer had lye or not. I will do some research soon, and ultimately time will tell how well my hair maintains this manageability.

When I first decided to “go natural” I read SO many blogs and watched SO many YouTube videos that got me excited but I really don’t have the time (or discipline) to go through all the processes I see women do to keep their natural hair manageable. I have recently found some healthy relaxed hair blogs and that’s made me feel a bit better about chemically treating my hair again. I’m going to try to keep it as healthy as possible as I’ve been doing with weekly coconut oil deep conditioning and I have a list of other products I’ll be trying in the near future.

When it comes to maintaining this RUSK Anti-Curl, I’m currently using the RUSK DeepShine Smooth Keratin Care shampoo, conditioner and deep conditioner. Once that runs out, I have some Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Wild Ginger shampoo, conditioner and deep conditioner set I’d like to use and see how that fares. I am a big fan of Paul Mitchell products, but the RUSK set has been working nicely as well.

Have any of you tried a Brazilian Blowout or other keratin smoothing treatments? How do you like them?

xoxo,

 

 

 

P.S. - (I got this done 2 weeks ago, so this video is a week old, but I’m going to do weekly updates since this is supposed to last about 8 weeks or so.)