Hair smoothening and hair cut experience at Basil Spa and Salon, Mumbai - Review
By Maggie Manjushree
Hello beautiful ladies!
How are you all doing? Life for
me is hectic ever since I shifted to Mumbai.
And these days, the weather has also got humid. I am a little lazy when
it comes to taking care of my hair. So combining all the three, i.e. busy
schedule, laziness and humid weather, my hair had become really frizzy and
unmanageable.
My sailor would be coming soon
and I want to look my best when I meet him….
And hair management was in top of
my list. I discussed with Tarry about getting some hair treatment done, who
suggested I should check out some deal websites as they offer really good
stuff.
She also asked me to first make up my mind on what I wanted to do.All my life, I have had wavy
frizzy hair so I knew that I wanted to get them straight now. But not poker
straight ofcourse, something that looks lovely and natural. I was also planning
for a haircut.
Finally, I got a deal from a website called groupon.in, which
was offering smoothening/rebonding/relaxing with hair wash and advance hair cut
for just Rs 2000. I took up this deal and made an appointment for a weekday.
Here’s a tip : try making appointments on weekdays for such services and
specially afternoon, because these salons are generally empty and you get a
really good service and loads of time
Here is my experience. I had opted for hair smoothening services by Basil Salon & Spa, situated at Seven Bunglows near the Costa Coffee outlet in Andheri West.
The salon has this warm and comfortable feeling,
and the staff members welcomed with a nice welcome drink and a smile on their
face. I was introduced to senior stylist Sheetal, who comes with loads of
experience and is a very charming lady.
Sheetal checked my hair and told
me that since my hair is super dry, they would have to use a hair mask for
which they would charge an extra Rs 500.
my hair before the service |
I asked her to go ahead. She washed my hair and applied the hair mask for around 3 minutes. Now my hair was prepped up for smoothening. Next she applied the Loreal Hair extenso cream for 50 minutes, which opens the pores, followed by wash and second round of mask.After the second hair wash, my
hair was blow dried and then ironed.
While blow drying, Sheetal also cleared my
confusion about rebonding, straightening, smoothening, relaxing and shine bond.
According to her, In rebonding ironing is done thrice after blow dry and post
that, a neutralizer is used. It gives poker straight look with shine.
In Straightening, ironing is done twice only with blow dry and neutralzer. It’s
a simple sleek look with shine. For smoothening,
ironing is done only once after blow dry followed by neutralzer. The hair looks
naturally straight with shine. Smoothening
gives natural straight hair look with shine. Shine bond only uses the neutralizer
with cream. It’s basically to improve the texture and shine.
That's Sheetal working on my hair |
After the ironing, the
neutralizer was applied on my hair. This locks the straight look. 40 minutes
later, a third hair wash and then, hair mask once again. Finally, the fourth
hair wash followed by the hair cut and blow dry. Since the package said advance
hair cut I was looking at something incredible. But I was just given a simple
cut with bangs. I wanted shorter bangs but they said this looked fine.
The final blow dry before the cut |
Overall, I was happy with the smoothening as it gave really beautiful and well
managed look to my hair. However, I was not happy with the hair cut at all and
felt they could have improved it much.
Here's the final look :
Here are the details of the
Basil Salon and Spa :
Shop No 3, Sea Crest 1, Near
Titan Showroom & Costa Coffee, Seven Bungalows, Andheri West, Mumbai -
400061 +(91)-9821600723, 9867158584
+(91)-22-65006755
PEL SHOUTS : WOW Maggie, that's such a difference. Your hair looks beautiful now and also, cared for. But as you said you were not happy with the haircut, you could have pressed the stylist for something of your choice, as it's your hair and your money. I always carry some references with me for haircuts so that there isn't any confusion. But loved the final look :-)
Have you tried hair treatments? What are your favourite ones and how was your experience? Also, which is your favourite salon?
Do share you views through comments. Also, share your blog ids and lets form a mutual love connect :-)
PEL SHOUTS : WOW Maggie, that's such a difference. Your hair looks beautiful now and also, cared for. But as you said you were not happy with the haircut, you could have pressed the stylist for something of your choice, as it's your hair and your money. I always carry some references with me for haircuts so that there isn't any confusion. But loved the final look :-)
Have you tried hair treatments? What are your favourite ones and how was your experience? Also, which is your favourite salon?
Do share you views through comments. Also, share your blog ids and lets form a mutual love connect :-)
Nice! The result is quite impressive! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks !
ReplyDeleteThats aweumm.. such a stunning difference.. :O .. I need one desperately!! :D
ReplyDeletegreat results.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! This really seems to have made a difference to your hair Maggie..Totally loving the end..I need to try this very soon! :)
ReplyDeleteWow luvly results.. Its amazing... I want to do the same, may I know the results last for how long?
ReplyDeleteThanks manali! Yes you can go ahead if you want a change for your hair.. texture and shine will remain for three- four months ( depend on your hair growth) but if you want more straight hair than go for straightening :)
ReplyDeleteThanks richa! I am also loving my hair.. If you want it .. Go ahed gurl;)
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot preethi :)
ReplyDeleteThanks poo.. I am also amazed by looks what i got after this..
ReplyDeleteThanks for reading and commenting!
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