Beauty Blog
Kevin walks through the smoothing services 3rd Coast Salon actually books and how the choice gets made at consultation. It comes down to three questions: how much curl you want left, how soon you need to wash, and how long the result has to hold. Covers how each option behaves on different textures, typical hold ranges, appointment length, what drives cost, and how smoothing interacts with color work.
A Chicago colorist compares the Brazilian Blowout and keratin treatment on how each one works, when you can wash, how much curl you keep, and what each costs. Wash timing is usually the deciding factor.
Every summer the same conversation shows up in my chair. A client pushes the hair off her forehead and says some version of "it looked fine when I left the house," then describes the walk from the Brown Line. What...
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