By: Taylor Welty: Licensed Cosmetologist & Instructor at La’ James International College Des Moines.
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When we get sick we go to the doctor and they prescribe us with antibiotics, then we feel and look better. When we go to the “hair doctor” [aka hairstylist] they prescribe us hair products, and then our hair feels and looks better. Our hairdressers are not recommending professional products to be a salesperson or to make a profit, we truly care about the integrity of your hair.
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Color is all the rage right now; from pastel pink to vibrant violet. We spend a lot of money to get our hair colored & we want that color to last as long as possible. [Check out this fantastic article on Maintaining Your Color by Mrs. Chaney from LJIC Iowa City] Using professional products will help you preserve that color you love. Professional products have many great benefits compared to non-professional. To be honest, products that you buy in a salon are just so much better for your hair than any drugstore.
Some great benefits from professional products are:
Color Protection
UV Protection
Shine
No Wax Preservatives
Conditioning Ingredients
and building the hair from the inside out, just to name a few.
Also, professional products are very concentrated. Meaning the bottle will last longer because you don’t need that much of it. Typically, drugstore or non-professional products are made with wax preservatives [or “fillers”]. All these products are really just coating the hair to make it shine & not restoring it like we want. With non-professional products it is very hard to keep that nice color you just received because it has little to no color preserving qualities.
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Next time you go to your favorite hairstylist, really listen to what products they are recommending you! Remember they are trying to help you!
By: Taylor Welty: Licensed Cosmetologist & Instructor at La’ James International College Des Moines.
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