John Freida: 3 day straight

I recently purchased the Allure Summer beauty box, and one of the products was John Frieda 3-day straight spray. I have been wanting to try this since it came out; all of the reviews in Allure and Lucky have been stellar. The Allure editors used the word "shocking" to describe it, so I knew it must be pretty different than other straightening products.

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And let me tell you, it is certainly badA. I can get my hair stick straight, but it takes a good deal of flat ironing in very small sections, which after time can be damaging. I have tried different smoothing products, and they work well but they do not last longer than a day. This stuff? It's unreal.

Let's go through my collage below, shall we? Let me go ahead and note that the instructions state clearly that this is designed for use with the flat iron, so you will not get 3 days of straight hair without the flat iron. Also, they mention you may have to touch up on day 2 and 3, and that if you shower, obviously the effects are gone. This is not a permanent styling like Keratin treatments, etc (which I'm starting to hear that Brazilian stuff is REALLY bad for you, so any of you doing it might want to research and/or stop doing it). Anyway, continuing on...so as you can see, right out of the shower my hair is pretty messy and wavy. The instructions recommend 7-15 sprays, so I started on the low end with about 7 or 8. I think I could have/should have done more, but 8 still did the job. Following blow dry, it was actually pretty straight. Usually it is much wavier at this point. Then came the flat iron; day one flat iron was probably the straightest I've gotten my hair outside of a salon. I didn't have to go over pieces over and over either, just one swipe did the job. If you have curlier/coarser hair, you may have to go in smaller sections, but you still shouldn't have to run over each section numerous times.

Day 2, right out of bed I had some flips and curves around the bottom of my hair, but this is much, MUCH straighter than my hair normally is right from bed. Usually it looks like a messy rat nest, to be honest. I added a little dry shampoo to my bangs because they have a tendency to get oily, and then touched up the bottom with the iron. I didn't have to do anything to the back. Again, the instructions note that you may have touch-ups, so my experience was normal. You can see in the pics that it definitely returned day 1 condition on day 2. It stayed like this all day, and I went out IN THE RAIN folks. Full on 95 degree 100% humidity Baton Rouge, and my hair stayed straight as a board. Unreal.  Then I went to yoga class, where the A/C was apparently broken, and I proceeded to sweat my butt off. I wanted to see how it really held up for 3 days, so I took a shower with a shower cap to avoid wetting my hair. Day 3 (today) I'm in a ponytail, mostly because my roots are just too oily and dirty for dry shampoo to help. But do you see my ponytail? SO STRAIGHT! And there is NO frizz in my hair. Not a bit. I'm very pleased with this product. I think that if I had even longer hair, it would be even better!!

Now for the potential downsides. I'm not sure how well this would work on shorter hair. I think it's designed for medium and long hair. As you can see, I have medium length hair, so it worked well. Also, for people prone to oily hair, you might not make day 3. As I mentioned, I wouldn't have made it, even if I had skipped yoga on day 2. 

In general the positives greatly outweigh the negatives, and it's only $9.99 at drugstores. I HIGHLY recommend!