2Pk Olaplex Hair Perfector No 3 Treatment

all right, I purposely waited until I’ve been using this for a minute because sometimes the weather will be nice in my hair will look good and I will have nothing to do with the product. But it’s hot and humid outside so that has nothing to do with this. OK so I’m 40 years old and about 10 years ago I completely gave up on wearing my hair down because I live in Florida. I have very long brown kinda thick kinda curly.. almost to my butt. but not long with varying lengths of broken hair and the longest being a tiny bit in the back.. not calling out anyone.. mine is a blunt cut all around. it’s curly but not tight curls but not big open ones either. They are more like kinks than curls and they affect large amount of hair on each kink. Sorry if I’m not explaining as well.. I am not a hairdresser . I can get my hair to look straight and sleek via flat iron but the second the humidity hits… POOF… it starts just my scalp with these very intense, very stubborn kinks and as the day goes on, the whole thing gets kinkier, but I usually put it up by then because I can’t handle it frizzy. The opposite for the winter where it is like 50° or colder. Maybe even 60. As long as there’s not really much humidity. I remember as a kid in New Jersey I would straighten my hair in the winter and I would come home from school and it would still be straight. Every pic from then I have straight hair. Some people didn’t even know my hair was curly-ish. It would stay soft and silky and STRAIGHT. Now, just like magic, when I moved to Florida 25 years ago.. it hasn’t been straight outdoors since. I tried and I tried, but even if it started out cold that day going to school, I was somehow sweating on the drive home and you know my hair was in a ponytail by then with hairspray to tame down the frizz. Eventually, I literally just gave up and I truly love my ponytails like there’s a whole style to it and a slick back is such a vibe sometimes. The only downside is no one knows how long my hair truly is because it’s always somehow hidden (mainly because it will turn into a frizzy unruly ugly a$$ horse’s tail if I leave it). Also, even though my hair at this point in my life is virgin hair, it rarely feels soft to me. People will play with my ponytail sometimes if it’s down and say how soft it is, but I have no clue what they’re talking about. not even kidding. I’ve tried everything on top of everything. I’ve actually tried the olaplex 7… The yellow oil… But that honestly did nothing for the problem at all. I mean, perhaps it made it slightly less frizzy, but nothing noticeable to the point where it quickly got pushed back after trying it for like two bottles… Like six months of trying. This product has always been on my mind, but I try to tell myself that you can get a good product without spending a lot of money. However, I have not found that to be true with hair products so far. Nothing worked for me that I tried. I mean, sometimes the wow Dreamcoat will make my hair really really sleek but not consistently. And I also have this IGK thing in this price range but again nothing to write home about. I truly never found a product to control the frizz. Enter olaplex 3. I haven’t slept in hair mask yet, I’ve only wore it for about 20 minutes on towel dried hair with a shower cap in the shower while I’m shaving and what not. Then like the directions say I rinse it out and I shampoo and conditioner and sometimes I’ll put a tiny bit in, but not usually. Day one my hair was noticeably softer, but this could have been a placebo effect so I did not want to review it yet. I wanted to give it some time. I’m actually on my second bottle. I get about 10 uses per bottle. really depends how much you use. Less isn’t necessarily more, but you want to make sure all of your hair is sufficiently coated. I bring a bigger hand towel into the shower with me and I dry my hair with it prior to using this so that way my hair is as dry as possible and absorbs as much of this as possible. So I’ve been using it for about a month and a half and I have felt a big difference but obviously, my hair is still kinda frizzy so I still don’t wear it down especially not in June. however, when I wear my curly ponytail, which is basically just letting a ponytail air dry, my daughter asked me if I blew dry my hair dry that day because it was a lot less frizzy than usual. When I say she’s my biggest critic, I mean that in the most loving way. she obviously learned it from me because I don’t wanna walk outside with make up all jacked up and she knows that so she will tell me if something looks bad. Not to be a jerk but just because she knows I want to know. So for her to say that my hair looks softer tells me that it really does look softer. She’s also 15 so at the moment she’s way cooler than I could ever imagine being LOL so for me to get a unsolicited compliment is really a big deal🤣🤣 but in all seriousness that was a really big deal and I feel better because now I know it’s not in my head. It actually is softer. When someone else tells it to you, it makes it a lot more real than when you’re the only one seeing. I wanna make one thing clear that does make my hair particularly heavy like heavier than anything else I’ve ever used by far. If I’m being honest, I never truly understood what they meant when they said a product felt heavy until this. So I don’t get as many days between washes because I also oil my scalp. But it’s a small trade-off. oh and FYI I don’t know if I made this clear, but I am a white girl with European ancestry I’m just saying that because it truly makes a difference when you’re trying to explain your hair texture too people. K 18 to shame because I bought that on here and I’m pretty sure it was authentic and it did absolutely nothing for me. I wasn’t even going to bother buying this off some weird Chinese website because I knew I wouldn’t get an authentic product and technically here is not much safer but I feel like it actually is especially with things like this.. Do yourself a favor, though especially if you live with other women and don’t keep this in the bathroom because is an extremely small bottle and you don’t want to lose any of it, especially not to a child that doesn’t know the value of money!!