ARCHIVE · ONIX · BROUGHT TO THE UK BY COMPTON LONDON · NO LONGER SOLD

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The second generation Brazilian blow-dry · brought to the UK by Compton London · c.2010

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Compton London · c.2010

Onix Brazilian blow-dry

Before Onix: long, frizzy hair from behindBefore
After Onix: the same hair, smooth and glossy, from behindAfter
Before and after, from the Compton archive.

The Brazilian blow-dry, fixed. The first one made you walk around for three days with unwashable hair. Onix didn’t. That was the whole point.

Onix Açaí + Guaraná treatment and mask bottles

The range

Açaí and guaraná, in black

A shampoo, the treatment and a mask, in black bottles with the green leaf: the Onix Natural Care range, as Compton London supplied it to UK salons.

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Onix Day Açaí home-care shampoo, conditioner and leave-in

What was different

No three-day rule

The first keratin treatments meant three days without washing, tying or tucking. Onix could be rinsed out in the salon the same day.

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The Onix archive

My work, step by step

  1. Keratin smoothing, step 1 of 21, Compton, around 20091
  2. Keratin smoothing, step 2 of 21, Compton, around 20092
  3. Keratin smoothing, step 3 of 21, Compton, around 20093
  4. Keratin smoothing, step 4 of 21, Compton, around 20094
  5. Keratin smoothing, step 5 of 21, Compton, around 20095
  6. Keratin smoothing, step 6 of 21, Compton, around 20096
  7. Keratin smoothing, step 7 of 21, Compton, around 20097
  8. Keratin smoothing, step 8 of 21, Compton, around 20098
  9. Keratin smoothing, step 9 of 21, Compton, around 20099
  10. Keratin smoothing, step 10 of 21, Compton, around 200910
  11. Keratin smoothing, step 11 of 21, Compton, around 200911
  12. Keratin smoothing, step 12 of 21, Compton, around 200912
  13. Keratin smoothing, step 13 of 21, Compton, around 200913
  14. Keratin smoothing, step 14 of 21, Compton, around 200914
  15. Keratin smoothing, step 15 of 21, Compton, around 200915
  16. Keratin smoothing, step 16 of 21, Compton, around 200916
  17. Keratin smoothing, step 17 of 21, Compton, around 200917
  18. Keratin smoothing, step 18 of 21, Compton, around 200918
  19. Keratin smoothing, step 19 of 21, Compton, around 200919
  20. Keratin smoothing, step 20 of 21, Compton, around 200920
  21. Keratin smoothing, step 21 of 21, Compton, around 200921

Step by step created by Zoltan at Compton, around 2009. The keratin treatment, step by step →

“London-based Brazilian blow-dry evangelist Zoltan Vargyai”

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