Keratin Treatment Fried my hair beyond my worst nightmare
by Alison
(Silver Spring MD)
I recently received a keratin treatment at an Aveda spa in Maryland. The stylist is a friend of mine and has before this, always done an amazingly good job with my hair. My hair is medium length, medium wavy, and a little bit fine. After decades of professional platinum blonde highlights, and the last few years of heavy flat iron use, I thought I needed a serious conditioning treatment. The stylist assured me this product had no formaldehyde. I think the treatment stayed on my hair for 15-30 minutes, in addition, the stylist used a flat iron throughout, to seal in the product.
In total, I was there almost two hours, and I was asked not to wash my hair for 48 hours. Those two days, my hair was extremely flat, but that was not the worst of it. When I finally washed my hair, I noticed it had been completely destroyed. The structure of each hair strand looks as bent and wiry as corn-husk hair, But drier than dry. The strands do not lie flat, but frizz beyond recognition. It is so awful. My scalp is also pink and tender.
This is the worst hair experience I have ever had. My stylist assures me that others have had great result with this treatment. Perhaps, the product stayed on too long for my particular hair. Perhaps the flat iron within the process was too much. But it is really bad. I do not recommend this procedure for anyone.
I also had the keratin treatment done & my hair is now frizzier than before & its so thin. 
I had the keratin treatment done on my hair and it went so frizzy and ruined beyond control- I ended up having to cut two inches off and it still looked like crap. Then this other keratin company wanted to use me as a hair model on stage for the Long Beach hair convention to show how their produce will even fix the ruined treatment. This however made it even worse and now im going to have o cut off another 2 inches of my hair! Tell everyone not to do it!!
My hair is fried too!!!! I went to one of the nicest salons in San Antonio, and nobody gave me any kind of information about "formaldehyde" (I found out it contains carcinogenic properties, and also the fumes are very dangerous), plus there were no warnings about anything else either. 
I have BKT done on my hair last June and it was great at first. By the end of the month, I have alot of split ends and the hair started falling out. Its the worst ever!!! So far I had to cut it twice and still is I have alot of split ends. I recently started using Aphagee and Dr Miracle to help with the bold spots and growing. Do you have any recommendations on how to remove the BKT
I am surprised at the comments. I offer this service in my salon and have had no complaints. The iron needs to be adjusted to different hair textures and color process's. This could have been the problem. The iron fried the hair. I use Keratin complex smoothing therapy by Coppola. Sorry about your hair. 
I had the keratin treatment over a month ago and I absolutely love my hair. After a life time of frizzy hair, it is smooth silky and fantastic. I just hope it lasts along time. I can't believe how easy it is to have great hair all the time. My hair is colored and the color also looks great. I had it done at Elizabeth Arden.
I have scheduled an appointment to have this done on Sept 24 2009. I have very long thick wavy curly frizzy hair. I am hoping to only tame the frizz. I was told it would take at least three hours. I will update you the results...however...after these comments I am getting very nervous about the procedure after reading about what happen to someone after only two hours of keeping the product on their head. 
Though the Coppola Keratin hair treatment has totally removed the frizz from my hair, instead of looking shiny the root areas looks greasy. I can no longer wash my hair the night before. I have to wash it the morning of because within hours the shiny starts looking greasy.
I too had the Coppola method and my hair is sooo
It has been three months plus and my hair is still incredibly terrific, silky and straight. I'm about to do it again as new hair is growing in of course.
I just had this done for the 3rd time. I LOVE IT. I have naturally curly hair which I hate, so this to me is a miracle. It leaves my hair so much more manageable. 
I had the Coppola treatment done about a month ago. I have noticed one very small spot that looks frizzy and kinky like the others mentioned previously but my hair HAS really become more manageable and easy to take care of. 
I had the treatment done about 2 months ago. I will not have it done again. The shampoo doesn't leave my hair clean at all...Looks like I have dandruff even when I step out of the shower. I also have split ends...
