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Fresh hair.

February 2, 2015October 21, 2017by xoxojeneenLeave a Comment

Just got my hair done by Sue from Salon Vim at Orchard Central. I trimmed, coloured and did the Privy treatment. My hair is soooo soft and fluffy now…I can dieeeee. I also got a set of home haircare products – the Kerastase Bain Chroma Riche Shampoo for colour treated hair, Kerastase Nutri-Thermique Hair Mask and Kerastase Fibre Architecte Double Serum for my dry ends. I’ve been using Kerastase hair products for a long while now and I love what they’re doing for my hair. I’m all set for the Chinese New Year!

Here’s an exclusive bundle deal from Salon Vim to get your tresses ready for CNY:

Haircut + Highlight + Base Colour + Treatment for $288 and up!

Call 6884 7757 for your appointment.

-xoxo-

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The Salon Vim Experience

October 8, 2013October 21, 2017by xoxojeneenLeave a Comment

My opinion of what sets businesses apart and differentiates them from their competitors is the customer experience. A great customer experience to me, is when the business or service provider is genuinely interested in their craft, and show that they truly care about how you, as a customer on the receiving end feels. It’s not often that I experience great customer experience. Hence, I sing all praises for Salon Vim, the salon I visit for my monthly hair fix. My recent trip there left me feeling like I’ve been completely cared for and thoroughly pampered.

During my visit, I told my stylist, Jaime about my ‘natural curl’ woes and after discussion, she decided that re-bonding my hair was the way to go for it to be fuss-free and manageable daily. I was apprehensive at the start as I am no fan of the poker straight, flat iron look. She assured me that we’re not going for the ironed-out-look and that she’ll be re-bonding only parts of my hair and will be applying various techniques so that my hair will look natural and retain its bouncy shape. She then assessed my hair and told me that my hair was terribly dry. So, to prep the re-bonding process, she had to start with a treatment first with the cream below so that my hair strands will not split in the process. It was just the start of my long hair fixing process and already I was silently giving her major brownie points. She could have easily left my hair to fry and frizz!

During the entire re-bonding process, she patiently supervised the technicians working on my hair and pointed out to them parts that needed re-bonding. She was working by observing my natural curls and was fixing parts that needed to be fixed. Again, she could have easily re-bonded my entire head of hair without much thought. At one point of the re-bonding process, she was also telling the guys to spray water on parts of my hair that were ‘drying up’…how very conscientious!

See how many people were working on my hair?!

After the entire re-bonding process was done, I was super satisfied and was very happy to sit out till my next monthly appointment. Jaime however exclaimed that she was not satisfied with my hair and that she ‘couldn’t stand it’ looking like that – my coloured hair was growing out, my roots were a strong contrast of black and the light colour made my hair look dry, she said. She firmly told me to come back to the salon 2 days later for a re-colouring and treatment session. If you’re thinking in your head, ‘Of course they’ll want you to go back. They’re making your money!’ Well, you’re dead wrong. If you don’t know already, my monthly hair pampering sessions at Salon Vim are sponsored.

This is why I was so in awe. They really didn’t need to have me go back for more colouring and treatments. It was obvious that throughout my visit at Salon Vim, Jaime only had one goal in mind – to fix my hair, and for me to have healthy, glowing locks. And with that, I left Salon Vim feeling like I’ve had such a great customer experience.

My hair after the 2nd visit for colouring and treatment.

I was sent home with a keratin shampoo at my 1st visit, and this Redken hair mask on my 2nd. I was to replace my hair conditioner and use this mask daily to repair and replenish moisture in the strands.

With Jaime.

Me, with a very pampered and well looked after head of hair.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

February 12, 2013October 21, 2017by xoxojeneenLeave a Comment

Hello everyone!

Here’s wishing you a very Happy Chinese New Year!

May you all have a wonderful, prosperous, healthy, wealthy and happy year of the water snake…Huat ah!!! 😀

I hope you’re all having a wonderful New Year so far. The public holidays are definitely awesome and I’m having such a wonderful break doing absolutely zero work, stuffing my face with goodies and visiting my friends and loved ones. I know I haven’t been very active on my blog. I’m a lot more active and current on Instagram, so you can hit me up for ‘live’ updates and more! Do say ‘hi’ there! 🙂

Here’s my lovely family with our only grandparent left. Grandpa is 97 years old and still going strong. This CNY has been pretty low for our family as our maternal grandparents left us recently and this is the first CNY without them. We’re missing them so much and are missing their handmade ‘ngoh hiangs’, home-cooked curry and massive steamboat affair that we had every year. We hope you’re both in a happy place looking out for each other and watching over us!

Here’s my sister. 🙂

Little neice, Ashley (photo bombed by my Dad and Uncle).

#OOTDs

Pink Flare’s drop-waist dress for reunion dinner and leopard print pony hair wedges from Pedder Red.

Details.

Pink Flare’s Korean Fever Dress for CNY Day 1. I love the checkered prints and asymmetrical hemline on this piece.

It’s almost a month after my birthday, and I’m still celebrating. Lucky me. 🙂 I’m sharing the cake with Penny, also a birthday girl.

The must-have ‘lucky’ yu-sheng. Huat everyone!!

Not sure if you guys noticed, but I had a hair-cut/colour and changed my hair’s parting to the centre before the CNY. I’ve been meaning to try a centre part and colour my hair for the longest time and Serene (from Chez Vous Salon) did a wonderful job. So happy!

Here’s the process of getting my hair coloured and cut.

I got a light brown colour done with subtle undertone highlights. I love love love the colour (and cut)!

After:

Love that my hair is still soft and smooth after the colour. Serene did a quick colour treatment after the dyeing to seal the colour and condition the hair. Serene really understands my hair and gives me the best possible treatments and cuts so that I can maintain it daily. There’s no point in only having gorgeous locks when you walk out of the salon and having a nightmare to maintain it daily. I have natural curls in my hair, so I can’t have too many layers done or it’ll get really messy. So Serene gives me straight cuts with a wee bit of layers at the ends to show the undertone highlights. Mad props to her!

Colour Extend shampoo from Redken for luscious locks and to maintain the colour. 🙂

Here’s how to look for Serene at Chez Vous for awesome hair:

Tel:

6732 9388/ 6732 9468

Add:

Chez Vous

391 Orchard Road

#05-05

Ngee Ann City Podium

www.salonvimbychezvous.com.sg

xoxo

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Bad Hair Days No More!

November 4, 2012October 21, 2017by xoxojeneenLeave a Comment

Last Wednesday, I went excitedly to Chez Vous Salon at Ngee Ann City to get my hair fixed. By fix, I mean to get my hair from frizzy, unmanageable and unruly to soft, silky, luscious and manageable hair…all in a span of 3 hours.

Some background about my hair, I’ve always had rather frizzy, unmanageable hair. Hair treatments, spas and even the best shampoos have never quite worked to tame my unruly mane. I’ve always relied mostly on re-bonding to keep it in shape, but have never liked how flat and shapeless my hair becomes after a re-bonding session.

So here comes Chez Vous to the rescue. They told me about this treatment called, ‘Keratin’ that injects all sorts of goodness into the hair strands (keratin, amino acids + omega 6 and 9) to treat and re-store hair to its natural luscious condition. Whee! I couldn’t wait to try.

Hair Before:

See all the frizzy bits sticking out at the top?

Strange curly kink on the top right side of my hair.

Keratin Treatment Step 1:

Wash with Keratin shampoo and leave to set for 10-15 mins. Ed, the hairstylist assistant propped my head up on the sink with a ‘pillow’ so it wasn’t uncomfortable to lie at the sink for so long. I have to mention that the head massage after to wash off the shampoo was awesome!

Keratin Treatment Step 2:

Keratin application. That’s a TV in-front of me by the way. What a clever idea for salon patrons to kill time between treatments, hair dyeing and such.

Keratin Treatment Step 3:

Set the hair under the O3 machine for 10 mins.

Keratin Treatment Step 4+5 (final):

Dry and crimp.

Can you see how straight, smooth and glossy my hair is already? 😀

Hair After:

Super happy with the results. My hair has zero frizziness, is super glossy, shiny and luscious! I never thought that I’ll be able to use the word ‘luscious’ to describe my hair. 🙂

Here’s a close up shot whilst my hairstylist, Serene is cutting my hair. I snipped off about 2 inches.

Meet Serene, the stylist behind my now gorgeous locks. I’m usually very fussy about hair cuts and get really worried when I work with new stylists, but I have to say that I’m super happy with the results post treatment and cut. 🙂 Thank you Serene!! Did I also mention that Serene and Ed stayed almost 2 hours past closing time just to work on my hair? What superb service Chez Vous has got. I felt so so bad having them stay late.

Ta-dah! Meet the happy trooper with gorgeous hair. 🙂

The lovely people at Chez Vous also passed me a post-Keratin treatment care set complete with Shampoo, Conditioner and leave-in oil.

The Keratin oil is infused with argan oil. I’ve always heard good things about argan oil for hair. Can’t wait to try!

This is my hair, 3 days post treatment and cut. I’m loving it! I don’t even comb my hair when I get up these days and it falls nicely into shape…without being too flat. I’m a complete Keratin and Chez Vous convert.

Want luscious locks too? Look for:

Serene