OLAPLEX Mini No.4 Bond Maintenance Strengthening and Reparative Hair Shampoo

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Low porosity/Coil/4C-ish hair girlies, stay AWAY!!

I will leave this review on all the products I used that caused HUGE CHUNKS of my hair to fall out on wash day after using them as instructed. I get a silk press about 2-3 times and year and before using their products my hair was mid-back length, thick, with voluminous layers. However, due to low... porosity my hair would feel dry very quickly and needed lots of moisture and oils to stay hydrated. The least manageable part was how the dryness let to many split ends despite regular trims. With static due to dryness, the ends would get knotted even with wide tooth combs or brush detangling brushes. And because of those small knots, certain hair strands would snap or get tangled up even more. Even though I had lots of volume and long hair, the bonds were weak and i wanted to strengthen them. Therefore, I purchased Olaplex hair kits that would help with the issues I was experiencing. However, Olaplex [Falsely] advertised their bond repair products, saying that it will support strengthening hair. But the absolute opposite happened. Their products as a whole dried my scalp so much that it looked like I had psoriasis. After the first application, of numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, rinsing when the instructions said rinse, and leaving-in the products that were marked as leave-in, I would have never guessed that the moment I rinse my hair, so much would be just dropping off my head. I thought, maybe it's the weather, and went on with using the products. But by the time i made it to wash day #2, my scalp had gotten SOOO much more dry than it has ever been before. And it itched like crazy. Again, I thought it was the weather, and kept using them in the prescribed order from the instructions on each bottle. But before i could even realize that the products were killing my hair from the root, my scalp had become so irritated that it had dried into extremely huge flaky layers. And no matter how much I washed and scrubbed my scalp, it didn't help. I have never had issues with dandruff and now suddenly from the nape of my neck to my front edges, it was hard cakey dandruff. I had to clarify my hair from their products with warm white distilled vinegar water. Only then, the the flaking stop. What's even worse is the state of my ends, they look fried and feel even more brittle. they snap immediately just combing through with my fingers. I kept losing so much hair that I now have BALD SPOTS. My hair is so light it's traumatizing considering how much body and life there was to it before I started using Olaplex. It has now been 3 weeks since I stopped the product and went back to my old routine but every time I go under the showerhead, I still shed like cat's fur in spring. My hair is fried an unmanageable. I have no other option but getting a bob chop at ear length. The damage is ridiculous. I am convinced 99% of positive reviews were PAID for, and many are bots!!! There is no way this product is not killing people's scalp. They're trying to induce dependency and LIED through their teeth about their products being for all hair types. A LIE, it's all a LIE!! DO NOT BUY! Especially if you already have dry hair, low porosity, frizzy hair, thick coils and dense volume. Their products might work for straight and overly oily scalps, but it was in no way tested on people with my type of hair and dry scalp.