Is your hair naturally unruly, frizzy and difficult to control?
With her dry and hay-like hair, Agent C was at her wits end until she was invited to try out Volume Rebonding from Koinonia Hair Salon: a hair straightening process that adds natural curls at the end for a more voluminous and natural look!
Check out her experience below!
May 2015
It’s been about 1.5 weeks since I pampered my hair and I’m getting used to my new hair! Hahaha!!
So I guess its finally time I shared about it. Hahahha!! My hair is always in a mess as much as I try to tame it. Natural wavy, frizzy hair, I can’t help but admit that sometimes I think my hair looks like hay, black hay..
Don’t believe? Let me show it to you!! Please don’t judge!! Hahahhaaha!!
NAHH!! Say hello to my hay hair!
LETS REWIND TO APRIL
So one day in office, I received a message from Agent G, founder of Beauty Undercover, if I would like to go for volume rebonding at KOINONIA HAIR SALON. She heard about my hair from @rebekatee (I secretly suspect beks can’t stand my hay hair anymoreL my nv comb hair partner in crime)
A short intro about Beauty Undercover (http://www.beautyundercover.sg), it is a website where you can find all kinds of hair reviews of different hair salons. Most importantly, the reviews are sincere and authentic. Go check it out if you haven’t! Trust me, you will be stuck on that website for a while reading all those reviews.
Anyways, I went to check out about KOINONIA. Just google Koinonia, and all the good reviews about them, specifically volume rebonding ones can be easily found. WOOHOO!! So after some arrangement, my hair appt was set to be 10th May!! And I happily started my countdown to the Hairperience (Hair + Experience) with Koinonia!
FINALLY ITS D DAY!!
I nervously made my way to the salon at Pacific Plaza near Orchard MRT! That’s how the entrance looks like. I was slightly early for my appt at 11am, so I went to the washroom as I knew it was gonna be a long session. When I was done, I headed to Koinonia Salon and saw Agent S walking in. Agent G wasn’t able to be there with me, so she got Agent S to go with me instead. Cynthia, the creative director was at the reception and welcomed me when I told her about Agent G.
I was brought to my seat. Decided that I should take a few photos of the salon before Agent S takes over my camera and snap the pictures for the whole procedure.
This quote was right smack at the wall near where im seated. Its like talking to me!! Hahahha!! I should start dolling myself up, in case I meet my destiny LOL!! I need to be as pretty as possible.
Here’s a picture of how the salon looks like.
And so.. it’s the start of my Hairperience at KOINONIA!!
WARNING!! LONG POST AHEAD!!
Here’s Cynthia analyzing my hair to ensure that I’m a suitable candidate for volume rebonding. It’s afterall a chemical treatment, so it is going to be damaging no matter how good/healthy your hair is. Like a hair doctor, she asked if I dyed my hair, when I last cut my hair, and when I last rebonded my hair.. She means business okay!!
Lucky me, my hair is actually quite healthy despite it looking so much like hay.
So it’s an OKAY for volume rebonding!!
She checked how I would like my hair cut and how short I wanted to go.
I’m comfortable till shoulder length.
Based on her professional opinion, she said that slightly below shoulder is good so that the C curl will fall nicely around shoulder length!
Sounds good to me!
She brought over an iPad to show me examples of how my hair will look like. LOL!!
Spot the hay hair. You want a clearer look?
here you go! Cant wait to say goodbye to them!
Changed into my Korean Kimono LOL!!! And off I go to enjoy a good hair wash by Gino, the hair assistant.
The most unflattering angle, but who cares, I’m enjoying my hair wash by Gino, and it was SOOOO GOOD. His scalp massage is THUMBUP SHIOK!!
That’s Gino, drying my hair.
Here’s Cynthia working her scissors on my hair, to trim it to a good length, removing all those dried/fried ends so that I can have nice hair at the ends 
I told you right, she meant business when she was analyzing my hair, she said its better to do a treatment tgt with the volume rebonding so that my hair will remain smooth after the procedure, which means yayy!! I don’t have to worry about them hair becoming HAY again! The recommended treatment is the 5 steps MUCOTA TREATMENT.
This is what I understood from the stylist, the first 2 steps will be done before the rebonding to strengthen the hair and increase elasticity, so the hair won’t break easily. So there they are applying some solution to my hair and using the steamer behind to accelerate penetration of the solution.
And the last 3 steps will be done after rebonding to condition the hair.
The steaming probably lasted around 10-15 mins!
After the steaming, Gino put on a ear caps and the visor for me. It’s like putting on battle wear, the battle with Hay Hair! First time having to “put on” a visor on while doing my hair. It helps to prevent any chemical / shampoo foam from getting into your eyes/face. Really thoughtful please!
Applying the rebonding lotion. Gino is really meticulous in ensuring that every single strand of my mane is coated with the lotion.
After applying all the goodness, it’s time to set the hair, the machine opens and closes and a faint “London bridge is falling down” music was playing as the machine does its job, make me want to fall asleep.
Checking and applying more of that goodness to my hair.
And the machine is back to heat my hair. Trying to pay attention to the music it’s playing. Did I hear “twinkle twinkle little stars” this time? Omgosh, are my ears hearing things??
After about 30 mins of heating, it’s time to wash it off.
Enjoying the hair wash once again.
I asked Gino about the machine and he said the heat helps to open the hair cuticles and speeds up the process, as the hair is able to absorb the cream faster. He also cleared my suspicion about “London Bridge & Twinkle Twinkle”. It was really playing! Hahahha!
Gently towel drying my hair, I don’t even treat my hair so gently.
Cynthia checked on my hair and also helped with the blow-dry!
So after washing. They started to curl the ends of my hair and I look like this!
Then they started clipping the curls to the machine. Hahaha!! It reminded me of tentacles.
Am I saying hello to nice hair soon?? I hope so!
While waiting for the curls to set, he started curling my fringe, OH THE HORRORR!!
AHJUMMA LIM IN THE HOUSE YO!
I was starting to get worried about the curls:/ and asked about it, and I was assured the end results won’t be like this.
After a good about 15 mins or so, the tentacles beeped and it was time to remove the curls. And it looked so curly!!
I can hear myself crying inside
THIS WASN’T WHAT I SIGNED UP FOR ![:(]()
But hey hey, it’s too early to judge, Gino started using the straightener to straighten my hair and adjust the curls. What he did was to straighten until the end leaving a C curl, thus the name. Hahaha! So cool!
that’s why a smile for the picture even though with the curls!!
See how focused he is!
After all that curls adjustments, that’s why my hair looks like from the back & I’m 80% done!!
Next, It’s neutraliser time!! So he’s spraying the neutraliser solution into my hair and combing through it as meticulous as he can be. And after all that neutralizing, its time to wash the hair again!!
After patting dry the hair, Gino continued with the remaining 3 steps from the earlier treatment to condition the hair.
He started applying the treatment lotion onto my hair in sections. Did I mention that it smelt good too?
Say hello to the steam for another 10 mins, to let my hair absorb all the goodness.
& We’re almost done!!
blow drying the hair
AND….. TADAHH!!!
That’s how the back of my hair looked like..
Let me remind you how it looked like again.. LOL!!
HELLO NICE & TAMED HAIR!!
Here’s one with Cynthia before I left the salon!
Really wanna say a BIG BIG BIG THANK YOU to Cynthia & Gino from KOINONIA Salon for having me and giving my hair so much LOVE.
I really haven’t seen them so tamed in the longest time!
1.5 weeks on!!!
Loving it!!
No more Hay Hair, LOL, even if I don’t comb, no one can tell cos its so tamed now.
If you haven’t given your hair some pampering, perhaps its time you should!
I wouldn’t deny that KOINONIA is a little on the pricey side, but they really bother to ensure that your hair is given the care and treatment it needs and they made sure that my hair looks healthy and nice at the same time. And you can rest assured that your hair is in safe hands.
Those who want to try out volume rebonding. Don’t say I never share ahhh!!
They are having 15% off volume rebonding in MAY 2015. So hurry, you don’t have much time left to enjoy the promo.
Read more about Koinonia Hair Salon here!
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