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If you are going to dye hair, do it carefully
Dying the hair is maybe one of the most extreme changes in anyone's look, but it can be very dangerous for the hair: you must protect it. Welcome back! Have you ever thought about hair dying ? A process that a few years ago was just used to gray hair covering is now a common practice to define your own style, in the same way as buying a new jacket or wearing new earrings. There is no problem about it, because every person looks better in some colors than others, depending on different factors such as the skin color, the hair length, etc. However, there's a huge difference compared with the clothes or accessories: hair is a natural fiber which is part of our body, and therefore you must be very careful with the way you apply dyes and discolorations . What dyes and discolorations do on the hair and why do they damage it? But, why must you be careful? After all, there's no big difference with painting any skin zone, is it? Actually, dying or decolorizing the hair has nothing to do with coloring or decolorizing any skin zone : each hair is an extremely thin and delicate fiber, which has some resistance and elasticity, but extremely suffers the interaction with the chemicals of which the dye is composed due to its natural keratin composition. [caption id="attachment_26172" align="aligncenter" width="685"] Dying the hair can be a great solution to find your prefect look [/caption] The hair fiber is divided transversely into three layers: medulla, cortex and cuticle. The medulla is a central tube which goes all the way inside the hair from root to end, and comparatively it is much thinner than the other two parts. The cortex is the main body of the hair and, therefore, is where all the treatments that take care of the hair fiber act , especially the dyes. The cuticle , the external layer, is the protective barrier of the hair , which is formed by scales, and that's why everything that wants to do something on the hair cortex has to go through the cuticle. Most of dyes, to have a long-lasting result on the hair, don't just apply the stain on the cuticle because, if they did, the dye will disappear in a few washes: what they look like is to get through the external scales until the hair cortex and act there. However, this process, applied for colorations or decolorations , makes the powerful chemicals to weaken the cortex of the hair and make it weaker, because they degrade the disulfide bridges that keep the hair stable and resistant. This can lead to an easily breakable and falling hair when different treatments are applied on the same hair. Long story short: the dyes or oxidants are aggressive chemical treatments that, when repeated , can make the hair fall . [caption id="attachment_26190" align="alignnone" width="1391"] Hair is divided transversely in three layers: medulla, cortex and cuticle [/caption] Does that mean that if I have thin hair I cannot color / decolor it? Not necessarily. The hair thickness fairly influences its resistance. The important thing is the hair health in general, and especially in the capillary cortex. If the hair cortex is weak, because of a chemical treatment accumulation or for any other reason, it is not advisable to use a dye as usually; but when the cortex is healthy, regardless of the hair type, it shouldn't be a problem at all. On the other hand, measuring the cortex hair is easy: a weak hair is easily breakable and the tips are usually opened . Despite everything, the best is asking for advice to a professional , like your regular stylist. I have a weak hair but I want to dye / decolor it. Is there a way to do it? Forks. At KV-1 we've developed a hair protective system which reinforces the internal bonds of the hair to improve its health and resistance, especially designed to prevent and restore the damage produced bye dying processes in the hair cortex and cuticle and thus protect the chemical stressed hair integrity: the Oneplex professional system. [caption id="attachment_26178" align="aligncenter" width="772"] To avoid coloring damage on the hair we recommend Oneplex [/caption] It is a three steps system for the stylist or hairdresser to protect the hair of their clients while applying the coloring or decolorizing treatment. First, the Bond Multi-Booster is mixed with any kind of coloring product to fortify the already existing hair health and prepare the way for the next product to act. This is the Clean & Maintenance : a stain respectful shampoo that ensures the effect of the previous hair mask and eases the way for... The third and last step: the Bond Perfect Sealer , an intensive anti-breakage treatment that reinforces the hair internally , protecting it against external aggressions. Using our Oneplex system, the hair can easily change from one coloring result to another, or reinforcing a weak hair that in any other case would not have been able to receive a chemical treatment without breakage risk. Take a look at it on our website and recommend it to your stylist , if it doesn't have it yet, because it is an essential product to any styling salon that wants to apply dyes or discolorations . Thanks to it, you could free yourselves from worry and just choose which is the best color for your style, always maintaining the health of the hair. We hope you liked this article. If you did, share it with your family and friends, and follow us on our social networks. See you soon!
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Applying a capillary treatment is necessary to maintain the hair healthy, but it must be done well, without skipping steps. Hi again! Most of you already know us, and you know what we do: at KV-1 Anti-Aging Beauty we work mainly in hair treatments to take care of the hair of our users. We are pioneers in Anti-Aging Treatments in Spain and, specifically, our brand developed the Hair Lifting concept. We have been focusing ourselves for more than 30 years on the hair cosmetics and we know how to work to provide the widest range of care and nourishment to your hair. That's why most of our treatments are based on the Three Steps System . Today we came here to explain it. Sometimes, the hair treatments don't give the expected results . Mainly, the effectiveness of the treatments applied to the hair remain in the way that they are applied . And although it's true that most of shampoos and hair masks can be applied in your own shower, the stress, the lack of practice or the day's problems imply that the applying may not be the adequate, showing that nobody is best for your haircare that your own stylist . [caption id="attachment_26135" align="aligncenter" width="740"] The hair treatments can be applied at home or in the salon, but it's always better in the latter [/caption] Despite everything, every hairdresser has its own way of working so, what can be done to a treatment for having a real effect on the hair? Three steps for a perfect hair To avoid all these problems for a treatment to work, at KV-1 we have implemented a system based on the Anti-Aging Technology for all our products to provide an optimal result in any case : the KV-1 Three Steps . Of our 7 hair product lines only two don't use this system , and this is because the kind of treatment they produce. But the rest of the lines ( Hair Lifting Originals , Advanced Cellular Repair , Fiber Prestige Moisture , Tricoterapy Advanced Care & Oneplex ) use this hairdressing modus operandi , because through the years we've checked that this is the best way. And what are this KV-1 Three Steps? This three phase ritual is based on the ideas of purifying , preparing and acting . This implies a first step , in which we apply a product destined to clean the cuticle and the scalp which varies depending on the treatment: in the Tricotherapy one, for example, this step corresponds with our Dermarescue Exfoliant . Then it comes a second step , usually a repair hair mask which activates the hair for the final step: in our Oneplex, this stage corresponds to the Bond Clean & Maintenance . Finally, it comes a direct intensive treatment , as third step , to soak the hair fiber and the scalp with nutrients and our most powerful formula , providing the most visible and final change to the hair: in our Collections, the final touch is given by the famous Hair Lifting . [caption id="attachment_26148" align="aligncenter" width="537"] Our three steps method can be summarized in: 1-Exfoliate, 2-Clean, 3-Treat [/caption] Why shouldn't I use one of the three steps on its own? As we were saying, it is not advisable to use any of our products of a treatment separately , and this has a reason: if each product prepares the hair to the next one, using just one of them doesn't allow to absorb at the maximum the active principles and nutrients which make our hair stronger and beautiful . Let's say, for example, that we want our hair to get extremely moisturized using just the mask of our Fiber Prestige Moisture . No doubts that it will have some effect on the hair, because it has a great quality, but the hair wouldn't have been purified before, nor would it have the final nutrient and active principle bomb that it should, and that's why its effect would be very limited. Furthermore, it has to be said that the hair treatment would only be effective if its maintained through time . It is a great idea going to your stylist to enjoy a KV-1 ritual, and no doubts that your hair will be improved immediately, but if not repeated usually, external (as pollution) and internal agents (as the hair growth itself) will erase that first effect slowly until make it disappear and, therefore, making your hair health diminish again. Thus: maintaining a pretty hair precise a frequency of application . [caption id="attachment_26154" align="aligncenter" width="586"] Only the correct use of the KV-1 Three Steps System allows the obteinance of all the benefits of a treatment [/caption] All these things said, we advise you to use the three steps in each of our treatments . Just this way you'll be able to experience the true quality of KV-1 Anti-Aging Beauty and maintain it through the time to keep waking up amazes and always enjoying a healthy and young hair . We hope this article was useful. If it was, share it with your friends, partners and family, and look for us on social networks. See you soon!
Learn moreWhat happens to my hair in autumn?
It's not your imagination: hair falling increases in the months between September and December. Yet, don't worry! There is a solution. Autumn finally came to establish itself. Tree leaves get dropped on the pavement, the sun falls sooner and the cold reconquers the space it lost in Spring. But there's another thing about this season: in mornings, what was a clean pillow became into an entangled jungle, brushes seemed more angry and hungry than before, and all our clothes don't look as tidy as before. In a nutshell: there's hair everywhere. And we all think: why hair falls more in autumn? . [caption id="attachment_26070" align="aligncenter" width="669"] As tree leaves, hair falls more in autumn than in other seasons. [/caption] WHAT IS HAIR? Well, first we need to know what hair is: an amount of fibers , mainly formed by keratin (a protein which also integrates nails) that just appear in mammals (like humans) and that work as thermal and other external factors insulation for the body . The human body evolution implied that all over millions of years, our species has been slowly losing hair in different parts of the body, leaving them almost naked; other parts, like armpits, pubes and head have been able to maintain a high concentration of this protective layer. Hair is divided into three parts : Root , Body and Tip . The body and the tip are the medium and upper parts of the hair, and its health depends mainly on the care of the cuticle, the outer layer of the hair fiber. But the root is maybe the most important section, because there is the hair bulb , where hair is born and where it gets stuck to the middle layer of the skin: the dermis . [caption id="attachment_26072" align="aligncenter" width="695"] The four phases of Hair Life Cycle: anagen, catagen, telogen and exogen. [/caption] HAIR LIFE CYCLE The hair bulb is more important than the other parts of the hair, because all the hair life cycle depends on this initial part, because it is there where it receives the nutrients to make it grow. The hair life cycle is divided into four stages: anagen (in which the hair grows for 3 to 6 years), catagen (in which the hair stops growing and rests for 1 to 3 weeks), telogen (in which the hair falls off slowly , on its own or with the help of mechanical agents, and lasts for 1 to 3 months) and exogen (in which the hair follicle begins to create a new hair from the root). This cycle has as a result that every day fall from 50 to 150 hairs , in a normal season. But in a utumn , different causes, none of them ultimate, resulted in a greater number of falls for most of people. Being clear our love for everything involved with the hair, we've listed some of the most important possible causes for this massive falling... [caption id="attachment_26074" align="aligncenter" width="552"] The 'areata' or temporary falling works due to multiple factors, but is never ultimate. [/caption] 7 reasons why the hair falls more in autumn There's lots of reasons why the hair falls more in this season. Either way, it is important for you to know that the hair that falls in Autumn can be recovered with time . The hair loss is divided among two main kinds: androgenetic , which depends on the genes and causes the permanent baldness, and areata , which is always temporary and depends on external factors (as the sunlight or the dyes) or internal (as a disease or stress). The Autumn one is an areata falling, and therefore is temporary. Here are 7 possible reasons why this occurs: A possible explanation is the 'shedding' . The humans, like the other mammals, change their hair and, as well as animals like bears, dogs and rabbits, with the arrival of the cold weather, their body rejects the old summer hair and changes it for a new winter one. Another reason is that, in general, a huge part of the hair goes into catagen stage at the end of the spring and needs approximately three months to go to its telogen and exogen stages, through the summer. When summer is over, is the time when all the dead hair from spring ends by falling off slowly . Also, in summer the sunlight has more power and affects the scalp more; it becomes thicker and denser and thus protects our head more from sunrays . When autumn comes, and while the sun decreases its intensity, the hair loses quality and falls off . Coming back from summer holidays implies that our habits change to get back to work and everyday routine. Sometimes, this creates a strange stress in holidays, where there's more time to drive things calmly and have better quality of life. This badly affects our body and, of course, hair, making it to fall more. Again, in summer, the exposure to more sweat, sea salt, chlorine from pools and other external factors make our hair weaker and that it falls easier during the autumn. A person with iron deficiency or with hormonal alterations , during autumn, will have an even weaker hair and will see it fall more than normal, especially if its long (not because it falls more, but because it's more visible). Finally, the extreme temperatures , especially when they imply abrupt changes, will affect the hair badly. This is even worse in the change to cold temperatures, something typical of autumn. [caption id="attachment_26076" align="aligncenter" width="735"] To control any kind of hair fall and other related issues, we recommend you Tricotherapy Advanced Care by KV-1 . [/caption] What can I do to avoid autumn hair falling? And now what? We have to resign to losing our hair every autumn? Somehow, the autumn fall is inevitable, because all the reasons we explained to you above. However, a deep hair healthcare, and especially of the hairbulb or root and scalp will decelerate, stop or even prevent a large part of the autumn hair fall , improving the hair looking in general. For doing this, it is essential nourishing and working the hair strength. The best solution to this is avoiding stress , keeping good nutrition and, above all, trust on a professional . From the experience that gives more than 30 years dedicated to the health of the hair and the haircare in general, in KV-1 we recommend you our trichology line Tricoterapy Advanced Care , which was made specifically to maintain a strong and resistant hair, working on the hair root and the scalp to treat any kind of severe hair problems, among which there is the areata or temporary falling . We hope that this article was useful to understand how the hair works and avoid the annoying autumn falling. If you found this helpful, share it on your social networks and recommend it to your friends and colleagues, and also be aware of future articles. See you soon!
Learn moreHappy After-Halloween!
The night of the undead is just about to come: Halloween ! Pumpkins and disguises go out of the fields and closets to take the streets. And in the air floats the cold autumn, but also the fragrances of perfumes and makeups from those who enjoy this night to become terrific monsters and legendary creatures. And, how about you? There's nothing as funny as the night of Halloween : buying or making a costume, having a plan with the friends, preparing for the party and giving it all until the sun rises. If you want to enjoy again as a child , this is also your night: staying up until late, wandering through the streets and asking for candies to strangers is a funny way to break the routine and enter again, for some hours, in the fantastic reality of the children. Who doesn't like a plan like this? But be careful! Every great Halloween costume includes a huge amount of makeup , because looking dead staying alive is a little bit complicated. And a large amount of makeup, although just for one night, isn't good for your skin ... If you have in mind becoming a gloomy undead through lots of dark makeup and tatty clothes, stay with us: someone has to take care of what happens after you come home. Let's see: you arrive home after praying to the undead, taking the streets all night long, and you are tired of fighting a bit against your costume and enjoying even more of this unique night. You go through the door, look at yourself on the mirror and see your face crying for help to get washed and be cleaned of all that makeup, but it's really hard for you spending so much time removing all those layers of beauty products at four in the morning. And sleeping with that face is, of course, out of the question. Luckily, you remember that yesterday you've read the blog of KV-1 Anti-Aging Beauty , where they've written about their Cleanser Mousse of SCR , and you bought it to your stylist: saved! But, what is the Cleanser Mousse by SCR ? Our Cleanser Mousse by SCR is a very simple treatment and easy to use to erase all kinds of dirt and makeup without rinsing or drying the skin out . That's why it is suitable for all kinds of skin , being dry or greasy. Its mousse texture helps to penetrate better between the layers of dirt or makeup, providing to the skin, also, a tightening effect to provide firmness , at the same time that cleans, thanks to its coconut oil derived ingredients; Because of that, this facial cleanser is perfect for preparing the skin for the application of an anti-wrinkle cream . To all this, it must be added the Acmella Oleracea extract , a typical Madagascar plant which contains a huge quantity of spilanthol , an element that relaxes the skin micro-contractions, instantly reducing the expression wrinkles . Coming back to the present, you remember that yesterday your stylist sold you a Cleanser Mousse by SCR and you go to the bathroom. You open it, apply it and, in less than a minute, you don't see that horrifying monster in your face again, and you'd even say that you look younger than before! Your face is clean, fresh and younger again, and you can already go to bed without any worries. A perfect way to end this long long night. If you want to have this sensation, dedicate this article to your hairdresser or stylist by tagging it on social networks, calling it or explaining it to it on your next visit. This way you could have also our Cleanser Mousse SCR. Meanwhile, we write you here our website for you to take a look at it: https://kv-1antiagingbeauty.com/en/product/mousse-cleanser-mixed-skin/ We hope you liked the post and enjoy this Halloween Night reborn, thanks to the Cleanser Mousse by SCR . Hope to see you soon!
Learn moreREBORN!
Hi! It's been a long time! There has been such a time that we don't see each other. It's true and yes, we've also missed you! But thanks to what we've been working on these months, KV-1 reborns to keep offering a hollywood-like haircare to your clients. We are back, and our commitment is stronger than ever! But to you, that don't know us yet, we have some things to say too... [caption id="attachment_25964" align="aligncenter" width="415"] Hairdressing passion! [/caption] It has been some time since we last met and the information, nowadays, lasts a breath-take. That's why, in this "re-entering", we remember you who we are and why we have passion for hairdressing : In KV-1 Anti-Aging Beauty we began our activity in 2008, picking up the experience collected through more than 30 years in professional cosmetic laboratories. Today we create haircare and skincare professional products for Spanish market, and for the international as well, in countries like USA, Korea, United Arab Emirates and Russia, among many others. [caption id="attachment_26005" align="aligncenter" width="726"] KV-1 worldwide distribution [/caption] KV-1 Anti-Aging Beauty product lines, focused on offering high quality and usability solutions for hairdressing specialists and stylists, are complemented with the Essence Shots ' highly concentrated solutions and the last generation home treatments of Singular Care products. All these treatments are produced in our MS-Lab laboratories. Placed in Palau Solità i Plegamans (Barcelona, Spain), they have the newest research, development and innovation (R+D+I) solutions, and they guarantee that all our products incorporate active principles certified by the European Union. [caption id="attachment_25958" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Our laboratory: MS LAB. [/caption] Our highly supervised manufacturing process, in white rooms with purified air, allows the achievement of the quality guaranteed sealing from the European Union legal disposal, and always working under the good manufacturing practices of cosmetics' production. We are present in several countries, being leaders in the Anti-Aging treatments development. Our wide network of distributors and professionals of cosmetics feel part of our brands and they value our cometics' results , their exclusivity , their sublime quality and the strict timing on the products' delivery . With KV-1 Anti-Aging Beauty we step forward in the Beauty sector, creating professional solutions for the hair and skin , having as main goal the perfect combination between efficiency and immediacy . [caption id="attachment_25970" align="aligncenter" width="623"] Our styling line [/caption] We provide visible results from the first application and, with the constant use of each one of our lines, we ensure the achievement of an absolutely healthy hair. Thus , day after day , we work to honor a very specified work philosophy : to offer hairdressing professionals an exclusive product with always excellent service, delivery, quality and education. And now that you know us a little bit, we recommend you to take a look frequently, at least once a week: we'll be informing you and providing you valuable information from the cosmetics sector and over haircare in general. Be aware! See you soon. KV-1
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