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Karonica said:
I went to answer your question, and I read it over again to discover I was answering a different question. I have no idea about the strength. That does sound interesting though. Maybe the difference is application techniques, and how they follow up after the perm has been applied. Sorry, I dunno. /images/graemlins/confused.gif
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I think that you are exactly right. I really believe that it is the application techniques that stylists (or people who do hair often and are good at it)are more aware of than we are.
I've seen this happen with just plain old heating appliances to. My hairdresser when she blow dries my hair (well before she switched products) it comes out looking like a press, my "press" or flat iron looks like a perm.
I can NOT duplicate that at home even with the SAME tools....
On the other hand, I do know that "professional" products are usually more concentrated than the ones sold to the consumer, in addition to that they (stylists)) usually have a product rep that will demonstrate all the diffrent application techniques for one particular product that are usually more involved than what the instructions say on the bottle (not talking about relaxers here though).
If the relaxer is the EXACT same as the one you are using I'd say it's her technique. If somehow it's different (even slightly) then it's the product.
Just my guesses, hth
