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Hair Conditioners – Moroccanoil – Albuquerque Hair Salon

Are there conditioners better then others?
Are there natural ingredients (olive oil or coconut oil) that are good ingredients in conditioners?
What are the best conditioners available?
How often is hair conditioned?

Yes there are conditioners better then others; however, for the best results for your hair, it is best to first analyze what your hair needs – more volume, moisturizing, or just help combing through. It is always best to consult a professional stylist if you do not know what your hair needs are currently. More volume is obtained when an extra volume conditioner is used. If your hair is dry, it is always best to use a moisturizing conditioner. Combing through conditioners is usually named “De-tangle”. There are stipulations to using each of these conditioners and the rule of thumb is to use your better judgment to determine when your hair needs to be conditioned.

Argan oil is made from the actual nuts from the Argan tree, which almost solely grows in Morocco, is known to have restoration and age-defying effects. Argan oil is one of the best natural

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oils as it is highly rich in vitamins E and F, fatty acids, squalene, antioxidants, carotene, phytosterols, and phenolic compounds. Indeed, Argan oil has been clinically tested and proven to have miraculous results on hair.

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We believe, in Albuquerque, Moroccanoil to be the best product on market today. We typically advise our clients to use the professional shampoos and conditioners, as professional products have the correct PH balance for each hair type. Again, as a general rule, it is always best to consult your hair stylist for your type of hair and to suggest the correct type of shampoo and conditioner for you to use – and mainly, when it is best to use the products. It is also best practice to alternate shampoos and Conditioner, as hair, like anything else on the human body, remembers what you are currently using and tends compensate. In other words, your hair gets used to your hair products and you may not want those results.

Conditioner for Fine Hair
We recommend conditioning fine hair two times a week or as needed due to dryness. If your hair is damage, you can add conditioner only to the ends, as often as needed due to dryness. As an option,

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you could make a “home made de-tangle”, which consist of mixing a small hand bottle of filtered water with two table spoon of conditioner.
Conditioner for Medium or Thick Hair
For medium to thick hair you can use conditioner daily. You can also, add a deep condition treatment weekly as part of your hair care routine, (add the deep conditioner to your hair, middle shaft to ends, and place a plastic cap on your hair for about 7 to 10 minutes, rinse and style as usual).
Note: Always make sure you keep the conditioner away from your scalp in order to retain your current hair volume.
Remember: The day you use your deep conditioning treatment, your hair will lay flatter than normal; however, this is fine and temporary – after 1 wash, your hair will have more volume.

Written by:
Andrea Montoya – Albuquerque Hair Stylist, Beautician, Hair Colorist of Uniquely Elegant Salon
Lene Ramirez – Albuquerque Hair Stylist, Beautician, Hair Colorist of Uniquely Elegant Salon
Edited by: Rodrigo J. Ramirez

Lene Ramirez – Brazilian – Albuquerque Hair Stylist

Understanding Brazilian Blowout – Albuquerque, NM

Brazilian Blowout Master Certified hair salon

Lene Ramirez – Brazilian – Albuquerque, NM, ABQ, Hair Stylist – Hair Colorist — Lene Ramirez – Brazilian – Albuquerque, NM, ABQ, Hair Stylist –
Hair Colorist

Lene Ramirez, of Uniquely Elegant Salon, Albuquerque, is a Master Certified Stylist awarded by Brazilian Blowout®. As of this date she is the only stylist in Albuquerque or NM New Mexico to have this certificate.

What is a Brazilian Blowout®?
Brazilian Blowout® is a smoothing treatment to smooth and redefine curls, waves and unwanted frizzy hair. It also leaves your hair healthy, shiny and adds moisture.

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People who have used Brazilian Blowout®
Many of the Hollywood actresses and world top models use Brazilian Blowout®. The count is unprecedented. Click on this link to see a few of the magazine covers.
http://www.brazilianblowout.com/press.aspx

Considering a smoothing treatment?
When considering a smoothing treatment, Brazilian Blowout® brand is the better choice. If Brazilian Blowout® brand is done correctly, it will leave your hair feeling healthy, with no breakage to your hair and no new growth breakage, as Brazilian Blowout® brand has keratin that repairs tiny cracks and fractures on individual hair follicles before sealing each follicle.

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Also, when considering a smoothing treatment, it is very important to know the product and the brand your salon is using. Be sure that the product is truly the Brazilian Blowout® brand. You may also want to make sure the stylist is certified for using the Brazilian Blowout® brand. Your hair salon should also direct you to the after care products, which, more than likely, include sulfate free Shampoo and Conditioner.

Difference between a relaxer and a Smoothing treatment
If you are wondering the difference between a relaxer and a Smoothing treatment/Brazilian Blowout®; a relaxer is a chemical that straightens your hair permanently and needs to be done every 6 to 8 weeks due to new growth.
Smoothing treatment/Brazilian Blowout® is a professional semi-permanent treatment that improves the health of the hair. Brazilian Blowout® uses Keratin which is a protein that restores luster and softness to all hair types.

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The best quality of Brazilian Blowout® is you can still use your hair slightly curly or straight with less styling time. Brazilian Blowout® is the only Brand of smoothing treatment that does not require maintenance with new hair growth.

What you may not know about Brazilian Blowout®
In the many Brazilian Blowouts we have done, it is amazing the amount of clients that do not know this helpful fact. You can add color to your hair or add highlights to your hair on the same day, just before you get you Brazilian Blowout® done; Which means, you can have everything done to your hair on the same appointment – in effect, this will save time – your time.

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Importantly, when you do get a Brazilian Blowout® on the same day following your hair color or hair highlights, Brazilian Blowout® will seal in your color or highlight nicely, and in the days to come, your hair color or highlight will fade less and your hair will shine more.

Please note: If you do decide to color your hair or highlight hair after you have had a Brazilian Blowout®; you must allow a two week waiting period, as your hair needs a chance to close fully to accept the new color properly.

So, there you have it!
To recap, Brazilian Blowout® is the best smoothing treatment on the market. Always ask your stylist questions concerning the products they are using to smooth your hair. Try to use stylists that are Brazilian Blowout® certified. You can have your hair colored on the same day, just before your Brazilian Blowout®. If you add color to your hair after a Brazilian Blowout®, you need to wait 2 weeks for your hair to accept the color properly.

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AlfaParf Milano’s Premier Permanent Hair Color

Alfaparf Milano Hair Color – Albuquerque

Everyone has done it at one point in their life, and that is to use a store bought box color on their hair. Yes, all hair color comes in some sort of a box, so I’m sure you are asking, “What’s the difference from my local drug store box color and going to see your local Albuquerque hair stylist”. Well, for one your drug store box color is not formulated specifically for your hair. As Albuquerque, Nm hair colorists, we will evaluate you individually, and make a professional educated decision on your hair type, how resistant your stubborn grey is and what color best suits your features such as: Will that beach blonde look good with your skin tone or will that blue black wash you out. These questions cannot be answered by the drug store box color. With Alfaparf Milano, Evolution of color, not only will you walk out of the salon feeling like a new woman and your colors vibrancy will last until your root touch up. This alone is worth 20 store bought boxes of color.

As a hair stylist, I am amazed of the power a new hair color can give a person. I have heard many testimonies from my clients concerning the benefits after they received a new color. “My coworkers asked me if I got a face lift!”, or “I nailed that job interview!” The Evolution of the Color inspires every hairstylist’s creativity, superior 100% gray coverage, and gives each person’s hair Extra luminous, shiny hair with intense color, longer lasting results, and with minimum color fade-age.

AlfaParf Milano professional colors are the ideal support for the Albuquerque best hair salons, hair colorists and hair color services, providing endless choices of color and vibrancy. Color services can be made for complete hair color change, add subtle highlights or total gray hair coverage. These decisions are difficult to make and it is best to consult the advice of expert Albuquerque hair salons. With the help from a talented Albuquerque hair stylist, using Alfaparf Milano hair color line, this will be an easy decision.

AlfaParf Milano’s products have always been created by hair stylists for hair stylists and color artists, available exclusively to prestigious salons. So if you are ready for a new color, one that not only will make you feel younger, but will have your co-workers asking your secret for staying young looking, and give you that boost of confidence that you’re craving, ask your hairstylist about using Alfaparf Milano color line. You will love yourself for it.

Written by: Carly Bel-Air
Edited by: Rodrigo J. Ramirez

Uniquely Elegant Salon – Albuquerque – Open its doors

Uniquely-Elegant-Salon-Logo – Girl with Big Red Hair

Lene and Andrea opened the doors of Uniquely Elegant Salon today with a grand opening party of many friends and family. Many of the members of the “Brazilians in New Mexico” community attended as Lene made homemade Brazilian Hors d’oeuvres and served champagne, not to mention Lene’s Brazilian soup, which is to die for. The decorations were fabulous for this Albuquerque hair salon.

Drawings were held for free hair cuts, which was a big hit since many of the already-a-client of the ladies felt really special in receiving a free one. Drawing were also held for the Uniquely Elegant Salon t-Shirt and coffee mugs that my company, MatrixMate Printing printed up.

The party lasted about 3 hours and everyone seemed to be having a really good time. The dynamic dual handed out their Salon Menu which includes:

Men’s Haircut
Kids haircut
Men’s Quick color
Kids Cut (12 years and under)
Women’s Haircut & Style
Color
Color correction
Root touch up
Highlights
Brazilian Blowout smoothing treatment
Keratin smoothing treatment
Brazilian Keratin reconstructive treatment
Brazilian Chocolate deep conditioning treatment
Morrocanoil deep conditioning treatment
Makeup
Updo
Wedding Updo
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Facial Wax
Brazilian eyebrow tint

The party set the precedent for the positive feeling of being warmly welcomed while being served in Uniquely Elegant Salon.

Kids Haircut Albuquerque — Shanti getting his hair shampooed

Kids Haircut Albuquerque-2 — Shanti Ramirez

New Hair Salon idea from hair stylists in Albuquerque

In 201 Lene Ramirez – Brazilian – Albuquerque Hair Stylist 0, two cosmetologist colleagues, Lene and Andrea, now best friends, decided they want to run an Albuquerque Hair Salon. They both brought the idea to me and we pondered over it for a year or so. In November of 2011, Lene and Andrea made that dream a reality by opening my Uniquely Elegant Salon at 8311 San Pedro Dr NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113 Just 2 blocks north of Paseo del Norte.

I was completely astounded when I first walked in to the new salon. These two ladies made a complete elegant shop that any mother or mother-in-law would be proud of. I was proud by just seeing the pictures they sent me by email, as I was in Quebec, Canada on assignment and could not be there for the opening day.

Both ladies were vastly trained in cosmetology, and had many years of hands-on hair styling and, from the looks of the salon, interior decorating too. They chose Alfaparf to be there hair color line, which is a very high end Italian product line, and Moroccanoil to be there main hair care product line. Both choices proved to be wise.

Lene, being a born and raised Brazilian, naturalized American, had a unique method of styling curly hair, which proved to be valuable to Uniquely Elegant Salon as the company later became very acquainted with the Hollywood craze Brazilian Blowout in Albuquerque. To Lene, this was the same styling of hair she was accustomed to during her adolescence in Brazil.

Andrea, with roots of New Mexico, is best known for her art in razor cutting and she is simply phenomenal with cutting curly and wavy hair as well as long hair layers and short hair for women, men, kids and teens. She took to Brazilian Blowout like and angel fish to water.

I am so proud of both ladies!

Welcome to Uniquely Elegant Salon in Albuquerque, NM where you can feel unique and have your hair as elegant as you want.

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