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Product: Olaplex no. 7 Bonding Oil
Your hair type/hair concerns: very fine, thin, curly, tangly, low porosity, damaged ends
Overall assessment: it's a standard mix of silicone and natural oil (corn). super expensive for 30 ml. i've seen it recommended for fine to medium hair, it has a lot of great reviews everywhere. comes in a nice minimalistic bottle, has a slight pleasant "young" floral/fruity smell that disappears after putting it in the hair. it's yellow colored because of added dye (why?). it has the olaplex patented chemical but that's only marketing, as the oil/cones would prevent it from actually doing anything on the hair. there's so many fakes on amazon and second-hand sites that it makes buying it kind of tricky
Pros: it's a decent hair oil, a little goes a long way. the smell is nice and i really like how the bottle looks and that it's practical. i had the best results when i put it into wet hair. the texture is thin and spreadable
Cons: it's good but not great. honestly i think the 5 star reviews come from people not having tried many alternatives at this price point... it's a bit too heavy on the natural oil, so it's very easy to overdo it and just make your hair greasy. it doesn't tame frizz all that well. the most accurate way to describe it would be coconut/sunflower oil mixed with some silicone - those oils tend to make my ends kind of hard/crunchy and that's what the olaplex oil does to my hair. it's better than the drugstore ones i've tried, but kind of lacking among the expensive ones. i was afraid i got a fake because of the performance but then i had a chance to try it in store and it's the real deal.
if you like natural oils on your ends you might like this better but then... you could just use coconut mixed with some good silicone hair oil and save your money. or maybe it's better suited towards medium hair as opposed to fine?
EDIT after a week: i tried this on my sister's hair, who has fine TBL hair that's not as wispy as mine and feels/behaves more "normal" and it works way better on hers, makes it a bit softer in a weightless way and most importantly not crunchy like it does for me. it's ultimately a different product than shu uemura or kerastase - it's not supposed to work for frizz and i think the goal with this oil is for it to be competely invisible. still not worth it in my opinion though, could be dupe-able with almond oil and some silicone serum to spread it.
Score out of five: 3/5
Worth the price? No
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