Olaplex explained

I realise that, but i don't think my hair is so damaged that is has no bonds left  to link, or so healthy that none of the bonds are broken.
Plus it doesn't make sense that I am seeing no improvement on any part of my hair, if it is just dependant on having the right amount of broken bonds to link

I would say my hair is stronger, but it's dry as a flipping bone! Dryer than it's ever been. If that's the protein treatment the bad hairdresser did without telling me or something else or the olaplex, I don't know. But it's soooooooo dry and none of the normal things I do is bringing it back.

Well, that happened to me with some keratin.
The first time I used it was terrific, but it had a con: it worked so good because an extra added that contained formaldehyde. When the keratin vanished the effects of the formaldedhyde remained. Making my hair straight as a straw and really, really dry.
I used the same brand again without the formaldehyde and felt like nothing was done in my hair.

Recently I used another brand of keratin free of formaldehyde and worked really good. But obviously the results do not last with any keratin  or any protein treatment.

With olaplex I am hopping to see improvement over the time. Hopefully it will have "accumulative" properties.
I was thinking on bleaching my hair with Olaplex... but after trying it I do not feel is that "safe" for my hair.

It does feel slightly nicer but not dramatically. Not at all. Obviously not as it has been advertised everywhere.

Overall I feel quite dissapointed with Olaplex.

I think if we think of our hair as a car, olaplex will fix the engine, but not the paint or the gloss of it, or the tires.
So Olaplex can work in the "main" hair shaft, like fixing the engine, the main heart of it. But for the hair to feel and look totally nice, needs extras, like the tires, or the painting in a car.
That is why the Olaplex people say it dos not replace protein or hydration treatments. They complement each other.
I think Olaplex is great for bleaching/processing  the hair, as is where it got all the rave reviews and has become a revolutionary product, but is not that great as a treatment by itself.

Olaplex recommend using your usual conditioning treatments to take care of the outside of the hair, that the Olaplex only helps the internal structure, which makes sense.
I used my normal conditioner and oils after each treatment, still seeing no difference.

Does anyone know if it's available for hairdressing students in the UK? I'd love to get hold of some to test out for myself. I know on the USA olaplex website they say it is available for cosmotology students. I emailed star qualities days ago asking but they never got back to me.

Oh & thanks for all that info!

To be fair, days ago includes a week end and a bank holiday! Not everywhere puts a priority on answering emails.

Oh yeah of course I completely forgot. I'm on summer holidays after finishing a levels, so bank holidays been nothing to me right now. Hopefully they'll get back to me soon with an answer anyway

Does anyone know if it's available for hairdressing students in the UK? I'd love to get hold of some to test out for myself. I know on the USA olaplex website they say it is available for cosmotology students. I emailed star qualities days ago asking but they never got back to me.

Oh & thanks for all that info!

Can you let me know what they say? I did my training years ago now and I wonder if they would let me purchase based on that. I don't work in a salon anymore so I would have to get my proof from the qualifications board 🙈

I copy from another forum where we discuss olaplex as well:
http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=124721&page=14

Olaplex Update: Noticed yesterday by the end of the day that my hair was straighter.

I have done nothigh since the olaplex. Air dry, wearing a messy updo or a bun, everything as always...
Yet, my hair that has been mostly straight since I can remember, except when changing texture with greys that become coarser, started to curl up a little, making sligh waves. My hair has always being straighter in dry weather and wavy/frizzy in humidity enviroments.

Ok, so nothing change since my olaplex, nor the weather (indeed it has been raining here) nor my routine or care with my hair, nor the texture of my hair dramatically (yes, it feels nice and soft but not beyond any condinitoner effect) nor the look of my frizzy, crazy hair, but! it is straighter!!! I am kind of surprised!!! So it has to be the Olaplex!...
maybe it will have cumulative effects with more applications (I hope so!)
I will keep you posted.

@Swiks yes, of course, I'll post when they email me back. I'm sure there's a few people on her who've done some kind of hairdressing course and would be interested to know if that would allow them to purchase olaplex.

My hair is straighter now. It is naturally quite curly, but the length and bleaching straighten the curls to waves. It has been looking less curly recently (my hair has been fully bleached for over 3 years so it is pretty tired) but since Olaplex it is even straighter. Could be coincidence though. I try and dry it as straight as possible without heat, so I don't really see my natural curl pattern. I am struggling less to get the kinks out of the roots though, so yay.

A quick update on Olaplex from the longhaircommunity forum:

A stylist friend (who has had great results with Olaplex on her clients and is a huge fan of the product) contacted Olaplex about why it hasn't worked for me. (Her words)

"Eric (Pressly) said, and Jordan (Alexander,the VP of Education at Olaplex)  agreed, that the thiols on your ends could be oxidized and permanently damaged. That with the age of your hair, that your single sulfur hydrogen bonds have already paired with 3 oxygen molecules, making it too late for Olaplex to prevent that reaction, too late to pair  that single sulfur hydrogen with a single oxygen molecule. When the sulfur hydrogen pairs with 3 oxygen molecules it creates SO3 (a sulfate group), which will then go on to create cystic acid. Cystic acid will then eat the protein out of the hair."