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Battle of the Week: Tame My Mane

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There’s an old wives’ tale that says the quality of a person’s hair reflective of their personality: that’s bad news for me, because my hair is thick, stubborn, and difficult to manage. When I get out of the shower, I never fail to apply dollops of product onto my hair to protect it from the stress and damage caused by the heat styling tools I use on a daily basis: a hair dryer and a straightener.

I’ve used hair products that worked to my hair from heat damage before, but that’s pretty much all I did. And then I ran into two products that not only protected my hair from heat damage, but actually made it submit willingly to the straightener. This is a story about how I came to love the Honey Dew Nutriv Serum vs the MK3 Dual-Phased.

IMG_8589Let’s start with the MK3 Dual-Phased: it comes in a spray bottle, which dispenses a formula that is basically a cross between a serum and tonic. It contains a proprietary Pearl-P formula to replenish the hair cuticle, resulting in smoother and shinier hair overall. It’s also great if for damaged and chemically treated hair — two things that I have in copious amounts.

To use, it has to be shaken so the ingredients are properly mixed together (I think they are of different densities), and then sprayed onto damp hair. It’s also great for protecting the hair shaft against the heat of styling tools and adds a healthy sheen to it. It feels slightly sticky when it first makes contact with the hair shaft, but this dissipates as soon as you subject it to the heat of a hair dryer. The result is softer and manageable hair that’s ready for the next step in styling.

IMG_8595Next up is the Honey Dew Nutriv Serum. Unlike the Dua-Phased, the serum is packaged in tiny single-use vials of five. They don’t look like much, but a little goes a long way! I used very little on my thick medium-length hair, and one vial ended up being good for up to 5-6 applications.

Like the Dual-Phased, the serum works best on damp hair. After rubbing a small amount of the product in my palms, I applied it onto the shaft and ends of my hair. The texture of the serum is fairly viscous, and despite containing silicone, the product is not greasy and left absolutely no sticky or oil residue on my hands. After I blow-drying my hair, I was really shocked to realize that it had gone completely limp, which is a good thing for me! Yes it maintained its slight waviness, but it was much softer and smoother to the touch.

While both these products are excellent, I do have to choose a winner — and I choose the Honey Dew Nutriv Serum. It’s not that the Dual-Phased is an inferior product — it did everything it said it would — but the serum happened to be more effective on my hair. If you have thick, unruly hair too, you will probably love the Honey Dew Nutriv Serum; but if your hair is finer and more manageable, you’ll get by just fine with the MK3 Dual-Phased.

Both of these products are sold at Makarizo salons. The price of the Makarizo Honey Dew Nutriv Serum varies depending on which salon you buy them from, but they should retail between IDR 15,000 – 25,000 per piece, or IDR 50,000 – 125,000 for a box of five (in Jakarta, you can find these at Lutuye Salon). The Makarizon MK3 Dual-Phased retails between IDR 70,000 – 110,000 depending on location as well.

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