Hair conversion part 2--the hair I always wanted

When I was young, my best friend Holly had silky blonde hair that fell straight down her back. After a shower or out of the pool, she would run a comb through it and it would dry in a perfect, shiny mane. I, on the other hand, had a long shag that, without careful tending by my mother, stuck out in 10 directions. I coveted Holly’s hair--and the hair of all girls I’ve known since who have been able to towel-dry and run out of the house.

Although I’ve been hearing about keratin conditioning treatments, Inever really understood what they did. My hair is wavy and a bit curlyand I have no issue with that. My real issue, as anyone who read my last hair post knows, is frizz.My fear was that a keratin treatment would control the frizz at theexpense of removing the texture, leaving me with unnaturally straighthair, like a lot of people I know who have had the Japanese treatments.But, when I was told by the hair genius Valentino at John Sahag that keratin would give me my hair, just frizz and maintenance-free, I had to try.

I went back to The John Sahag Workshop for what was an, admittedly,time-consuming and expensive process but I can say, unequivocally, twoweeks later, that to have the wash-and-go hair I now have , I wouldhave paid twice the amount and spent the whole day in the salon. Thismay sound like hyperbole, but I can honestly say the keratin treatmentchanged my life.

No one has actually noticed the change (including JeanGodfrey-June who, when I asked if she saw anything different, just saidthat my hair looked extra shiny), which I think is the point: I now havemy normal style without the daily blow-drying/straight ironing.Shockingly, I’ve calculated that I’ve gained an extra hour and a halfin my week, and to quote a friend who also recently had the treatment,“there are few things more liberating than low-maintenance hair.”

--Hope Greenberg, fashion director