One of the many things that I regret taking for granted for so long is glossy hair. There your hair is, all glossy and lovely, and then one day there it is, dull and a weird texture from decades of coloring, heated implements and, frankly, age. I spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to restore my hair to its shiny youth, and I won’t lie — it’s something of an uphill struggle.
The horrible irony is that in order to look naturally glossy hair has to be submitted to highly unnatural processes — more coloring, more blow-dries, more heated implements. The result is temporarily satisfactory but, of course, the processes themselves are cumulatively damaging, so that you’re trapped in a very unsatisfactory circle. In my view the best thing to do with damaged hair is to use K18 (which is a product of genius), let it dry naturally and then leave it alone as much as is feasible, but whether you are able to do that or not very much depends on how messed up your hair is in the first place. My naturally dried hair can result in me wandering about looking like a dandelion. And there’s still the issue of shine.
