Five Uses of Olaplex Treatment (2023)

Last Updated on January 3, 2023 by Gaga

What Is theOlaplex Treatment?

Olaplex is a reconstructive hair treatment developed by scientists for repairing damaged hair and preventing future damage. Olaplex active ingredient – Aminopropyl Diglycol Dimaleate works on a molecular level to repair and restore disulfide bonds in the hair, giving strength and elasticity to hair fibers. When hairstylists add Olaplex to hair color, bleach, or neutralizer, this component shields against the damaging effects of chemicals and helps to improve hair quality. This makes it possible to perform chemical services with minimal damage to the hair.

The Olaplex system consists of three essential components:

1. No.1 Bond Multiplier (highly concentrated)
2. No.2 Bond Perfector
3. No.3 Hair Perfector

Different Uses of Olaplex

There are several ways to use Olaplex to improve the health of your hair:

1. As a standalone hair-repairing treatment
2. Bleach services, highlights, balayage, color
3. Permanent waving
4. Keratin treatments
5. Hair relaxing and thermal reconditioning treatments

1. Olaplex as Stand-Alone Repairing Treatment

The ‘Stand-alone Olaplex Bond Reparation Treatment can be done whether you have had a chemical service or not. Heat styling and tension from combing and brushing can also weaken hair’s protein bonds and cause damage inside the hair shaft. Olaplex Bond Repair Treatment is a proven way to rebuild the strength of heat-damaged and mechanically abused hair.

If your hair has build-up from hair products and minerals, you need to clarify it with a chelating shampoo prior to the treatment.

Olaplex Bond Reparation Treatment steps:

1. Fill a non-spraying applicator bottle with 3oz (90ml) of lukewarm water.
2. Add 1/2oz (15ml) Olaplex No.1 into the application bottle and mix them together.
3. Wet the hair thoroughly (if there wasn’t a need to wash it) and towel dry.
4. Fully saturate the hair with the solution. You may comb through to endure that every strand is coated with the solution.
5. Leave it on for 5-7 minutes.
6. Don’t rinse.
7. Apply a generous amount of Olaplex No. 2 Bond Perfector to your hair and comb through it to distribute it evenly.
8. Leave it on for 10 – 20 minutes or more.
9. Rinse.
10. Shampoo and condition as usual.

2. Using Olaplex to Go Lighter

Hair damage has been a major problem since the invention of hair dye. To lighten hair a colorist needs to “break the bonds” in your hair. The lighter you go – the more bonds are broken! A drastic color change can sometimes cause serious hair damage including breakage and dryness.

Olaplex has theability to reconnect broken disulfide bonds in the hair shaft and minimize the chances of breakage. The product increases hair elasticity and enables hair to withstand more dramatic color changes with less or no damage. Olaplex makes your hair stronger and healthier, and your color will last longer.

Hair can be colored or lightened to any level with minimal damage to the strands. Dark hair can go blonde faster and blondes can have their hair even blonder without being fried. Olaplex literally goes into hair and reverses damage from previous exploits and also prevents damage to your hair that would be caused by chemicals during color service.

Olaplex Colour Change – Dull Brunette to Power Blonde by Tom Smith

Bond Multiplier

Bond Multiplier can be mixed directly into your color/bleach to protect your hair before any damage. It works with any type of color including permanent, semi, or demi hair color, glosses, toners, and high lift. Olaplex step 1 reconnects hair bonds broken during exposure to chemical services, heat styling, and mechanical abuse.

Bond Perfector

This is the second step of the Olaplex system and is applied after the color processing has been completed and the hair has been rinsed and towel dried. In this step, your hair is saturated with the Olaplex Bond Perfector to ensure that all the newly formed bonds in your hair stay intact. The product is left on the hair for a minimum of 10 to 20 minutes. After rinsing out the product the hair will be shampooed and conditioned.

Why is Olaplex Important for Blondes?

If you start with dark hair color, you will need to use bleach to pull the pigment out of your hair and get your hair as light as possible. Lightening, if you don’t do it properly, can seriously compromise your hair’s structure. Repeated bleaching in a short period of time can leave hair weak and inevitably lead to breakage.

Platinum blonde which has become the hottest hair trendrequires serious bleaching. Many women can’t achieve their dream hair color because bleaching would be too harsh on their previously highlighted, porous, bleached-out, and already compromised hair.

Olaplex is especially essential for anyone who wants to go more than three shades lighter to reach their desired hair color. The product allows for more frequent hair coloring and makes it possible to lighten your hair to new levels with minimal damage. Re-bleaching previously bleached hair is now easily achievable and you might be able to go platinum without ruining the integrity of your hair. Brunettes can now go platinum blonde in one day without frying their hair.

3. Using Olaplex Before Keratin Treatment

Olaplex works very well as a strengthening pre-treatment for Brazilian Blowout or keratin treatment. Olaplex Stand Alone Treatment should be performed prior to keratin service. Olaplex will penetrate the hair shaft to strengthen hair internally before the hair shafts are coated with the keratin treatment. The result is stronger and more flexible hair that is resistant to breakage. Olaplex also enhances hair softness and shine and maximizes the benefits of keratin treatment and Brazilian Blowout.

Olaplex can also repair hair damaged by a keratin treatment but make sure to wait at least three weeks after keratin service before using Olaplex.

4. Olaplex Before and After Perm

A perm is a procedure that breaks numerous bonds in the hair. If the integrity of your hair has already been compromised an Olaplex treatment is recommended to prepare the hair for perm service. Take equal amounts of Olaplex No. 2 and a protein conditioner and mix them in a bowl. Apply to towel-dried hair concentrating on the most damaged areas of the hair. Use a hot dryer heat to dry the mixture in the hair completely. Then, mist the hair with water and proceed with the perming process.

As a restorative post-treatment, diluted Olaplex No. 1 should be applied over neutralizer over each rod to repair the damage caused by the perm. Leave Olaplex No.1 Bond Multiplier in the hair for about 5 minutes. For very damaged hair rinse and towel blot rods and then re-apply Olaplex for another 5 minutes.

You don’t have to wait 48 hours to shampoo your hair after doing neutralization with a neutralizer enriched with Olaplex.

5. Olaplex for Relaxed Hair

The best way to protect the hair from the chemicals in relaxers is to perform a treatment with Olaplex before and after your relaxer process.Olaplex may be added to your sodium hydroxide relaxers as well as to your neutralizing shampoo.

How to incorporate Olaplex into your relaxing procedure depends on the desired level of straightness.

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What is No. 3 Hair Perfector?

The tiny bonds within our hair are constantly being compromised due to thermal, mechanical, and chemical processes. No. 3 Hair Perfector is a take-home product that helps to maintain the health of the hair between salon visits.
The No. 3 Hair Perfector contains the same active ingredient as both the No.1 and No. 2. It will continue to link bonds within the hair, making hair stronger, softer, and shinier. The product is designed to use once a week before shampooing your hair. It should be applied to damp hair and left on for a minimum of 10 minutes. Afterward, your hair should be shampooed and conditioned.

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