Redken Align 12 Ultra Straight Balm Review

Redken Align 12 Ultra Straight Balm is the most effective and easiest hair straightener that I have ever found. I'm not particularly talented at hair styling and have tried many different products in an attempt to make my long hair silky-straight rather than the slightly wavy frizziness that it otherwise tends toward. However, most products that I've tried have either left my hair still mostly wavy/frizzy or have required far more work than I am willing to go through on a daily basis in order to make my hair straight. Redken Align 12 is easy enough for even me to manage -- you just rub a dollop into your palms and then run your hands through your damp hair. Plus, it's very forgiving of any minimal and/or haphazard styling tendencies and makes my hair smooth & straight even after my typical rushed styling routine of flat-ironing only about a third of my hair while it's still mostly damp. In addition, it leaves my hair soft and without any of the product-stiffness that I detest in so many other hair-styling products. It is a bit pricier than your typical drugstore straightener, but I seem to need much less of it to produce much more effective results than the drugstore straighteners I've tried, so it definitely seems like a better value overall to me.