Chemicals on your hair can be really harsh. In this blog, I go over why you should ALWAYS use a bond builder in your chemical services.
I love lightening and dyeing my hair as much of the next girl, but it really takes a toll on my hair. By constantly lightening or coloring your hair, you can compromise your hair significantly.
What if I told you there was a way to protect your hair when using chemicals? Olaplex and b3 Brazilian Bond Builder are created to rebuild and strengthen the bonds of your hair while going through a chemical process.
Why should you use it? When lightening or coloring your hair, the bonds break, leaving the hair fragile. If you add a bond builder, it will rebuild your broken bonds, therefore you can leave with your hair strong and healthy, rather than split and delicate.
Sooo.. What are bond builders?
What’s the difference between Olaplex and b3 Brazilian Bond Builder? While both claim to be the best for compromised hair, there are great qualities to both.
Benefits of Olaplex:
“Our simple three-step process includes a patented active ingredient that works on a molecular level to seek out broken bonds in the hair that are caused by chemical, thermal, and mechanical damage. You can use Olaplex to restore compromised hair, or add it to another service to provide the ultimate breakage insurance” (Olaplex company).
The three-step process perfectly compliments each other to reconstruct your hair. “I feel like Olaplex really helps me with transforming my clients because it truly rebonds the hair. It penetrates through the cuticle to give my clients healthy hair. Olaplex is perfect to add to your lightener when blonding or color correcting. It is definitely a must when it comes to chemical services” (Mirella Manelli, 2019).
One of the best things about Olaplex (other than it saving your hair) is that they have a variety of take-home products that help you maintain healthy hair in between salon visits.
All Olaplex treatments and products are available for purchase here at Rebel Femme.
Benefits of b3 Brazilian Bond Builder:
“b3 Brazilian Bond Builder is a breakthrough professional tool clinically shown to penetrate the cortex of the hair, and proven to reattach the bonds that are broken during all color services by utilizing an anhydrous delivery system and specifically engineered co-polymer to dramatically reduce damage while improving color retention with no change to developer and no added processing time” (Brazilian Bond Builder company).
While many think that b3 is used as a bonder, it’s not. It actually fills and supports the bonds of the hair. Think of it as a permanent gloss for the hair.
Ashley Wyrick, one of our master stylists at Rebel Femme, loves adding b3 into her services. “I like that it is one step. It is easy to add into whatever service and it makes the hair sleek and shiny”.
b3 helps elongate and make your color more vibrant. Therefore it is perfect for fashion colors or if you are wanting to restore some shine into your hair.
Next time you come in, ask for the b3 Demi Permanent conditioning treatment! It provides intensive repair by fusing amino acids to weakened fibers in your hair.
This treatment creates an incredible shine by sealing the cuticle to lock in moisture (Brazilian Bond Builder company).
If you are hesitant to dye or lighten your hair because of the damaging effects, worry no more! Both treatments will save you from extreme breakage, leaving you with fabulous healthy hair. Which treatment do you prefer? Let us know in the comments below!
