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Yes! Refreshed, hydrated and silky locks with just one salon treatment.

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Yes! Refreshed, hydrated and silky locks with just one salon treatment.

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If your tresses are so frizzy and tangly that it is near impossible to run a brush through them, the problem may be extreme dryness. This could be the result of a combination of factors: your genes, the environment, and damage from heat styling or chemical treatments like perms, rebonding and colouring.

At Shunji Matsuo Hair Studio, the Shiseido Professional Aqua Intensive Perfect Repair Hair Treatment ($150 for short hair;  $170 for medium length; $190 for long) is designed to add and hold moisture in hair with its dual oil technology.

The 90-minute treatment includes shampooing, Aqua Intensive Recharge, a repairing, moisturising serum that is massaged into the damaged areas of hair, and Aqua Intensive Hold, an oil-based product that is worked through all your hair to ensure the moisturising ingredients from the serum are fully absorbed.

Finally, Aqua Intensive Shield is applied to lock in every ingredient. To prolong the effects for up to a month, you get to take home a tube of Aqua Intensive Shield. The salon also carries other products for home use. Simply ask a therapist to recommend the ones that best suit your needs.

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