*Always provide a thorough consultation to properly manage your client’s texture and expectations. *
Steps for Pre-Service: Apply gloves, place small amount of pre-soft keratin primer in bowl.
Step 1: Using a bowl and brush, apply the pre-soft keratin primer with brush to areas in need of priming (softening) and work with gloved hands until thoroughly distributed. Leave on 5-20 minutes, according to the quality of the hair, and how strong the texture is you are priming.
* NOTE: This product should NEVER be applied to the scalp. *
Step 2: After priming, rinse a full 5 minutes.
Step 3: Shampoo hair with Simply Smooth Pre-Clean Purifying Shampoo. You must shampoo 3-5 times, depend- ent on how resistant the cuticle is, and how large an area you are priming. NOTE: When priming only temple area on virgin hair, Pre-Clean 5 times. When priming a larger area or the entire head and the hair is color treated, Pre-Clean 2 times.
Step 4: Dry hair completely 100% using only your fingers, no brushes or combs, and proceed with the steps for a Simply Smooth keratin treatment.
DO NOT USE on double processed, excessively highlighted, or high lift tinted areas, as these hair types are considered primed.
* WARNING: NOT to be applied to scalp or areas previously treated with chemical relaxers or straighteners, bleach or high lift tints. This product may be used on hair treated with 20 Volume or lower considering the quality of the hair. DO NOT preform color services the same day. *
Pre-soft Keratin Primer softens and evens out erratic textures to create an even canvas and helps resistant hair accept keratin.
When working with hair texture, the approach is no different than with hair color - sometimes we see strong zones and sometimes we see mild zones. Simply Smooth Designer Line Pre-Soft Keratin Primer is used to soften and even out erratic textured areas, creating an even textured canvas before the application of a Simply Smooth Keratin Treatment. Using Pre-soft Primer in this fashion, is an artistic approach to texture.
Simply Smooth Keratin Treatments work on addressing the lack of keratin in the hair, being that keratin tends to get depleted over time due to a wide variety of reasons. Pre-soft Keratin Primer was created to help resistant coarse hair accept the keratin treatment.
Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to use Pre-soft Keratin Primer on resistant, virgin, or healthy colored hair, since these hair types are not primed to accept keratin into the hair. Virgin hair (no chemicals or color) is the most difficult to treat.
Using Simply Smooth Pre-Soft Keratin Primer with a PH of 8.5-9.5 allows the cuticle to pop wide open resulting in the acceptance of the added keratin.
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This product is to be applied to the hair prior to using pre-clean purifying shampoo and should also be applied to the strongest textured, most resistant areas first.
Simply Smooth Designer Line Pre-soft Keratin Primer is to be used in conjunction only with Simply Smooth Keratin Treatments.
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**We must keep in mind primer is one of our most important steps when it comes to virgin or resistant hair, in order to pop the cuticle. **
