Liquid Keratin

It's 48 hours later, and I'm back with a Liquid Keratin update. After the requisite two-day wait, it was time to use the provided shampoo and conditioner. I still had zero lather with the shampoo, but the conditioner did noticeably detangle my waves as I left it in for a few minutes.

The biggest part of this step was coating towel-dried hair with the leave-in conditioner spray, once again in that awkwardly shaped bottle. It said "style as usual," but didn't say anything about adding other products. Eek, an rule-follower's impasse – what to do?

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I've had Liquid Keratin ($69) on my to-try list for a while now, and its time has come. If you're unfamiliar with this product, the 30-day home treatment starter set should smooth, strengthen, soften, and give you frizz-free manageable hair that lasts up to six weeks . . . according to the box, that is. All of that sounded fantastic, so I was ready to test it out on my chemically relaxed tresses to see if those words rang true.

The first step requires washing hair only with the provided shampoo and spraying the treatment on damp hair afterward. After letting this sit for 30 minutes, hair must be blow-dried and flat-ironed to activate and seal in the treatment with heat. This was a change for me, as I usually commit to adding product and air-drying or blow-drying, so I was expecting my hair to get bigger by the moment. It actually was less poofy than it would have been normally so that's a good sign, right? Instead of taking you through all the notes I took along the way, find my major pros and cons from step one when you read more