The Hair Tips You Actually Need: With Singapore’s Top Salon, Chez Vous

Navigating the world of hair care can often feel lonely and confusing. What type of treatment works for your hair, how to keep costs low and how not to destroy your hair any further! To help you achieve the best results for your hair, we’ve turned to the experts at Chez Vous, Singapore's leading salon renowned for its cutting-edge techniques and personalised care. 

Read on as we share insider tips from Chez Vous’s top stylists, and give you essential advice to elevate your hair game. Whether you are seeking to debunk myths or simply looking to enhance your hair routine, these expert insights will lead you towards beautiful, easy to maintain hair!

Vanilla Luxury: Help us understand the terminology around anti-frizz treatments – Keratin Treatment, Nanoplasty, Hair Botox & Fillers etc. Which one do you recommend for Singapore’s humidity?

Chief Director of Chez Vous Hair Salon (Flagship), Serene Tan: Singapore is notorious for its humidity (and heat), and we know how this can wreak havoc on your hair, causing it to become frizzy and unruly! When selecting an anti-frizz treatment, consider your hair type, desired outcome, and the various hair services you tend to go for or might be considering.

First off, forget about Keratin Treatments; these are so yesterday! New age treatments such as Nanoplasty or Hair Botox and Fillers are longer lasting and contain less harsh chemicals. In summary, the chart below shows which treatment suits each hair type helping you achieve your desired dream hair texture. 

These treatments effectively smoothen even the most stubborn of curls without damaging strands. Liquid Hair Treatment reconstructs bonds for stronger, elastic strands and delivers lasting frizz-reduction benefits by repairing both inner and outermost layers of the hair. We also love how you can customise your Liquid Hair Treatment with two Advanced and Supreme options. The Advanced option allows you to keep your natural curls, while the Supreme version gives a stronger curl reduction resulting in smooth and straight hair.

Finally, Sugar Hair Lamination gives a less rigid and pin-straight appearance while avoiding stiffness that is usually associated with keratin treatments. They are even customisable based on your preference and are colour safe. 

Vanilla Luxury: Tell us more about bond repair treatments such as Olaplex. Are they worth the expense and how do you recommend we use these to enhance our hair treatments?

Associate Director of Chez Vous Hair Salon (Flagship), Charles Chong: Bonds serve as the structural "skeleton" of our hair, but these bonds can weaken or break due to chemical services, styling, and environmental factors. Repairing these bonds at a molecular level is vital, as it enhances hair strength, elasticity, and resilience against damage. This process restores natural texture, improves manageability, and minimises breakage. Therefore, bond repair is crucial for ensuring overall hair vitality and restoring healthy hair. Unfortunately, bond repair is frequently overlooked in hair care because it typically demands long-term treatments for incremental benefits.

Investing in bond repair is essential unless your hair is relatively healthy and not chemically compromised. However, some customers complain that their bond repair homecare routine made their hair worse. This is because our hair comprises different components: bonds, moisture, protein, and cuticle protection. Bond repair is important, but so are moisture infusion, protein replenishment, and cuticle protection. Always rotate your home care routine for maximum results.

Here’s how to incorporate Bond Repair into your haircare routine effectively:

A. Add bond protection treatments during in-salon services to minimise damage.

B. Use Epres bond repair treatment once a week on dry hair before shampooing.

C. Opt for Liquid Hair Treatment once every 4 to 6 months.

Vanilla Luxury: Am I damaging my hair without knowing it. Is there something a hair stylist would never do to their hair? 

Director of Chez Vous Hair Salon (Flagship), Readen Chia: These are 3 common mistakes that customers make without realising. 

1. Air drying their hair instead of blow drying with medium heat (and heat protection): When hair is wet, it swells. Prolonged swelling pressure causes hair to become brittle and fragile. Blow drying with medium heat and a heat protectant can prevent this.
2. Using a heat protectant cream, serum, or oil instead of a spray: Many customers prefer creams, serums, or oils, but these products can't be distributed evenly over the hair without being too heavy. We recommend using a lightweight heat protectant spray to mist hair evenly before enhancing it with a cream or serum prior to blow drying and using heat tools.
3. Not incorporating bond repair homecare at least once a week: Bond repair may not produce immediate visible or tactile results like other aspects of haircare because it works deep inside the hair. However, it is essential for maintaining overall hair health and strength.

Vanilla Luxury: Is it possible to get fashionable, long-lasting colour without the use of bleach? 

Director of Chez Vous: Private Space, Shawn Chia:  I hate to break it to you, but in general, fashionable hair colours are not long-lasting colours, with or without bleach!

That said, customers are pleased to know that they can now achieve trendy foggy hair colours without bleach using the latest non-bleach water mist dye technique!

This is the latest and most popular non-bleach foggy hair colour trend (aka Water Mist Dye or 水雾染) right now. If you've scrolled through Lemon8, XiaoHongShu, TikTok, or Instagram, you've likely seen it. It is the latest non-bleach hair colouring technique to achieve trendy hair colours that are slightly ashy, smoky, cool-toned, and foggy. 

These shades used to require bleaching, but not anymore! Hence, it minimises hair damage considerably. Moreover, these hues brighten and complement Asian skin tones and are office-friendly without being boring!

However, due to the absence of bleach, it is not possible to achieve blondes or blonde-based hues, including lighter than level 7 medium browns. It is also not feasible for intense grey, blues, light pastels, neons, and hair that is dyed black or very dark repeatedly amongst other limitations and texture types. 

Vanilla Luxury: I need to touch-up my greys too often. Do you have any valuable tips on making hair colour last as long as possible? 

Chief Director of Chez Vous: Private Space, Jerry Lin: First off, avoid washing or making your hair wet, 48 hours after colouring. When you do wash it, try to stick to a blonde shampoo and also apply a scalp mask before heading into the shower. Lastly, use cold or lukewarm water to wash your hair and avoid hot water that strips pigment.

Vanilla Luxury: Do perms really damage your hair and is there any option in Singapore that allows for no or low damage perms?  

Director of Chez Vous: HideAway, Oscar Lee: Over ten years ago, perms were notoriously damaging to hair due to the harsh chemicals and lack of technology to protect hair. 

But that’s not the case anymore. Chez Vous: HideAway’s exclusive innovation, the most hair-caring Korean Filler Perm goes beyond traditional hair-damaging perms. By integrating not one but two hair treatments using five cutting-edge boosters during the perm service, this treatment can offer unmatched protection against damage, deep hair repair and intense hydration and nourishment. This all-new Filler Perm helps you get the best-looking K-inspired curls and hairstyles by treating and protecting your hair with 5 revolutionary boosters including biotech developed Peptides, reactive Amino Acids and nano-sized Hyaluronic acids. The result? K-idol-worthy wavy hair that's luxuriously soft and irresistibly glossy – minus the harsh damage.

About Chez Vous

Looking for a true hair companion in Singapore? As the red dot’s leading hair salon group Chez Vous is committed to a better, personalised hair experience for your tresses. Whether it is bringing the latest technology and trends to Singapore or designing products exclusively for our climate, Chez Vous has been a trailblazer in the industry paving the way for better products and services. 

Best of all, they have a unique salon solution for your individual needs.From a personalised luxurious escape to affordable indulgence, you will find a salon and stylist to give your hair the love it deserves. 

Chez Vous Flagship store: 391 Orchard Road, Ngee Ann City Podium, #05-05, S238872

Chez Vous Private Space: 391B Orchard Road, Ngee Ann City Tower B, #08-01, S238874

Chez Vous HideAway: 391B Orchard Road, Ngee Ann City Tower B, #14-04, S238874