Olaplex Was The Worst Thing To Happen To My Hair

Olaplex is a brand known for transforming hair and delivering salon-quality results at home. Some even call it magic in a bottle! I did extensive research about each product and felt I was a prime candidate for the No. 8 Bond Intense Moisture Mask.

What Is It?

Olaplex No. 8 Bond Intense Moisture Mask is a product infused with patented Olaplex bond-building technology and promises to add shine, smoothness, and volume and give the hair a visibly healthier appearance, all in just 10 minutes. It’s also meant to protect the hair from chemical, heat, mechanical, pollution, and environmental damage.

How To Use It?

After shampooing, it’s meant to be applied to clean, damp hair and left on for 10 minutes. Because I have longer hair, I use three pumps of it and apply it to the mid-lengths and ends. It’s meant to be used once a week.

Our Thoughts

The product sounds impressive on paper. I felt it was worth shelling out Rs. 3250 on the very first use. My hair felt silky and smooth, looked shiny, and even had a bounce! I used it a week later, and the results were similar. On the third use though things seemed a little off – my hair felt weighed down, the frizz was unimaginable, and the hair felt almost… greasy? I shrugged it off and thought it was me – maybe I hadn’t washed off the mask well enough.

By the fourth week, when I was one month into using the product, I knew something was wrong because the result was the same – limp, greasy, dry hair with a lot of it falling off. I was one month into using it and still gave the product the benefit of the doubt – over the next couple of weeks, I used 2 pumps instead of three and increased the duration between using the hair mask to 10 days, but nothing changed. I was more than two months into using it, with almost half the bottle done with, down 3k, all for hair that looked like I’d stepped out of a sauna.

Limp and frizzy hair ultimately led to my hair falling out more, and while it’s on the road to recovery right now, it turns out I’m not the only one. There are multiple Reddit threads about similar issues, too, so don’t be like me, and don’t say you weren’t warned!

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