Thursday, February 21, 2013

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Get Celebrity Hairstyles and Discover Hairstyle Tips - ELLE Stylist Kim Vo uses an unlikely ingredient in his signature line

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It's no secret that the right amount of sake can make other people appear more attractive, but now there's reason to believe it can make you more attractive, too. Celebrity hairstylist Kim Vo says his Vietnamese grandmother used to rinse her hair with the rice wine to bring out shine. "It's how Asians get such shiny, beautiful hair," he says. "In Vietnam, they actually use cõm rue, which is a drink from fermented rice, like sake. The Vietnamese are funny—they rinse their hair with the fermented juice and then eat the rice." Vo also consulted his grandmother when creating his new line of hair products, based on a rare Vietnamese botanical called boket. Also known as the Vietnamese honey locust bean, boket has a high sugar content, which locks in moisture to protect color-treated hair. Vo's line also contains other natural Asian ingredients such as rice, soy, silk, and lotus, all valued for their anti-oxidant properties. For those of us who lust after silky Asian hair and don't have grandmothers to send us their secret ingredients, we'll have to settle for the next-best thing: Vo's new line.