HAO Hair Days March 5, 2026 0 Comments

Asians living overseas share a common pain:This hair, it's too expensive to get. Especially for coarse hair like ours, every season or rainy day, our hair will blow up like a lion. If you want to go to a salon for a smoothing treatment, you will often shrink back when you see the quotation. In fact, as long as you choose the right products and tools, you can do a salon-quality "keratin smoothing" effect at home, so that the hair will restore the satin shine, but also to resist the frizz brought about by hard water.

This blog will show you how to do it at home! DIY Keratin TreatmentThe "foreign explosion head" is a goodbye for good.

1. Why does Asian coarse hair need keratin?

Keratin is the main structural protein of the hair. Hard water and dry climates in Europe and the U.S. cause the loss of keratin on the surface of the hair, leading to cavitation, which is how hair "dries out, becomes brittle, and loses its luster".

  • Home Principles: Keratin molecules are locked into the hair core by heat, filling in holes and forming a waterproof membrane on the surface (resistant to hard water and moisture).

2. Work for a Cause: A Checklist of What You Need to Prepare

Before you get started, head to Amazon or Sephora to stock up on these tools:

  1. Keratin Care Kit: Recommendation GHK (Global Keratin) 或 L'Anza Specialty brands, such as Sephora, or the common Virtue Labs。

  2. Clarifying Shampoo: This is the key! All hard water scale and residue must be washed out first.

  3. Flat Iron: The temperature needs to be able to reach 450°F (230°C)This is the key thermal energy that activates keratin.

  4. Professional hair color comb and clip: You have to do it in different sections so that you don't miss the back of your head.

3. HAO Hair Days Exclusive: 5-step operation diary

  • Step 1: Pre-Wash Wash twice with Clarifying Shampoo. Do not use conditioner! We want the hair scales to open up completely.

  • Step 2: Precise Application Blow dry hair to 80% and apply Keratin in sections. Remember toAvoid the scalp. 1 centimeter.The Asian scalp is oily, so applying it to the scalp will cause the hair roots to collapse.

  • Step 3: Development Put on your shower cap and wait 20-30 minutes. Then you can have a cup of coffee and think about where you're going to eat with the $500 you've saved.

  • Step 4: Blow-dry Dry your hair completely on low to medium heat. It is normal for your hair to feel a little sticky at this point.

  • Step 5: Flat Ironing This is the most important step. Repeatedly clip each strand of hair 5-7 timesThe high temperatures will allow the keratin to fuse with the hair and lock in the shine. High temperatures cause keratin to fuse with the hair, locking in the shine.

4. 📖 Editor's "aftercare" recommendations

  1. Don't wash your hair for three days: Give keratin time to "set".

  2. Change your shampoo: After that, you must use the Sulfate-Free Shampoos that contain sulfates. Affordable shampoos with sulfates will wash your keratin away within a week.

  3. Reduce exposure to sea salt water: If you go swimming at the beach, remember to apply hair oil first - salt is the natural enemy of keratin.

📖 Edit Testimonials

Since I learned to DIY at home, I haven't gone to an American salon for two years. Although it's hard to clip my hair by myself (Asian hair has a lot of volume!), it's worth it to see the "auto-straighten" texture after washing. But seeing the "automatically straightened" texture of my hair after washing it makes it all worth it.

💡 Warm reminder: For the first time, it is recommended to ask your roommate or significant other to help you to clip the back of your head, otherwise, it will affect the durability of the product if it is not evenly clipped!

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