Head Treatment
It would be a fitting death for me, given my current line of work: A bit of my over-shampooed, -conditioned, -cut, -thought hair brushes up against a glowing, beautifully fragranced candle and poof! straight to hell in a beauty basket for me.
As it happened, I was sitting next to a calm, quick-thinking, and true friend when this scenario came almost to pass; I'd leaned across the table to kiss my six-year-old son, who was having an I-haven't-eaten-in-four-hours meltdown in the middle of a crowded, upscale restaurant.
Before I sensed a thing, my lifesaving friend had somehow grabbed my flambé-ing hair and put the fire out. Everyone but me—who missed the whole thing—was deeply horrified. Blackened bits of hair were all over the tablecloth; the smell was unbearable. "Does anybody smell ... like, burnt hair?" I heard a bartender querying the hostess. The already-hostile couples—it was a Friday night, and nobody was happy to see a tableful of kids on Date Night—coughed and held their noses. I went to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair in hopes of obliterating the smell. The only thing worse than burnt-hair smell, it turns out, is wet burnt-hair smell.
"You're going to need a serious haircut," said my friend.
"I'm definitely going to have to wash my hair," I said.
Burnt hair is, perhaps unsurprisingly, very rough and split end-y. So after my shower later that night, I put in about a bottle of Philip B Hair Oil and left it on for a half hour, then washed my hair again. In the morning, I discovered that, miraculously, the fates preserved not just my life, but somehow, my haircut: The fire burned my Sally Hershberger layers just so. They must be shorter, but they are all still in proportion to one another. And the Philip B transformed the burnt, hardened ends back into hair, somehow. It's as if it never happened. —Jean Godfrey-June, beauty director
i'm so excited to try this product! I'm always hesitant to try hair oils on my fine hair, thinking i'll end up one greasy mess. but the longer it gets, the more i think i need some repairing oils/serums for the ends.
I bought this right after I read what it did for dried fire eaten hair, and I have to say it exceeded my expectations. Not only did it ship with in 4 days (with minimun ground shipping) but I also recieved 2 free samples as well.(the peppermint shampoo and deep conditioner) I let the oil sink into my hair over night (about 8 hours) and the next morning when I shampooed and conditioned my frizzy wavy hair was magically smooth vibrant and glossy. Even the curled up dried out ends which resulted from countless flat ironing were healthy looking! I would recommend this product to anyone who has damaged hair from heat styling, highlighting, or whatever your reason for dry strands because this really worked for me and I've only used it twice!