Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy was launched in 2007 by well known stylist and salon owner Peter Coppola and has since become the world's leading smoothing system!
All Keratin Complex products are made with natural keratin protein which is famed for restoring, rejuvenating and rebuilding all types of hair.
So here is a quick overview of the best Keratin Complex products to help you on your way to beautiful hair...
Shampoo
Keratin Complex Clarifying Shampoo. This a shampoo aimed at frizzy hair. Use this shampoo to deeply cleanse your hair and leaving it well prepared for a smoothing treatment.
Keratin Complex Colour Care Shampoo. Use this shampoo if you have coloured hair as it will gently cleanse your hair, stripping it of all the daily grime but remain to leave it vibrant and beautifully healthy.
Conditioner
Keratin Complex Vanilla Bean Deep Conditioner. As well as being an absolute treat for undernourished and frizzy hair, this conditioner is a joy to use. Packed with spheres of vanilla beans, this shampoo will leave your hair smelling and looking beautiful.
Keratin Complex Colour Care Conditioner. Designed to detangle frizzy hair whilst caring for your colour. This professional conditioner will leave your hair strong, healthy and vibrant.
Styling Products
Keratin Complex Infusion Therapy. This is a revolutionary hair styling treatment which will help your hair maintain its shine, softness and vitality whilst blow drying or straightening. This amazingly versatile product can be applied to damp or dry hair to ensure hair that is healthy and full of life despite using heat styling products.
Keratin Straight Day styling spray. NEW Straight Day Styling Spray is a superior daily treatment that moisturizes and protects all hair types. When used with the Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy treatment, Straight Day replenishes the hair's existing keratin bonds to enhance treatment results while increasing shine and softness. On wet or dry hair, this hydrating spray smoothes, reduces flyaways and tames unwanted frizz.
Keratin Complex Shine. Apply this light spray to your hair during or after styling for a natural and beautiful looking shine!
Keratin Compelx Thermo Shine. This product adds wonderful shine to hair whilst protecting it from damaging hair dryers and straighteners. Don't let your hair become limp and lifeless, make sure you protect it before using heat styling products!!
So for products which really won't let you down, try Keratin Complex! You will be amazed with your new hair.
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Whether you want straight hair, curly hair or wavy hair, we are here to help you find the right products to give you the best possible results!
Many of us try all the brands that the supermarkets sell but still don't get the results we want. So we are going to suggest some professional hair beauty products which will not be found in the supermarkets or on the high street. These are top of the range professional products and although they may cost you a little more, they are well worth it! The phrase reassuringly expensive comes to mind.
Keratin Complex Thermo Shine. If we are straightening our hair, we mustn't forget to protect it first. So use this amazing thermal styling spray to keep your hair in full health.
Milkshake Curl Passion Curly Hair Mask. This treatment will really care for your curls. Apply to damp hair and then rinse for strong, durable and healthy curls.
Milkshake Yogurt Mask. A conditioning treatment for hair that is dry and damaged or just in need of a treat! This will leave your hair in wonderful condition with a beautifully healthy shine.
Milkshake Hair Lifestyling Shaping Foam. Perfect for manipulating your hair to whatever shape you want. Gives hair a real boost, adding valuable volume! Use this product for hair that will keep its shape and shine all day long.
Enjoy!!
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The key to having beautiful shiny straight hair is not as complicated as you might think... all you need is the right hair beauty products! It really is true! Use the right hair products in the right way and you can have healthy straight hair like Jennifer Aniston (well close enough).
So here are the hair care products that we've found to be the most successful with some simple tips to give you your healthy and durable straight hair...
Milkshake No Frizz Glistening Shampoo Oil. This is a completely natural shampoo designed to eliminate frizz. The unique blend of Date Seed Oil, Abyssinain Oil, Avocado Oil, Vitamins A, D and E, and Rice Bran Oil make for strong, shiny, smooth and frizz-free hair!
Urban:Tribe Smooth Shampoo. Another shampoo great for straight hair! This shampoo is famed for smoothing the cuticle and therefore giving sleek and healthy hair.
Urban:Tribe Smooth Conditioner. Great for use with Urban:Tribe Smooth Shampoo or with any other professional shampoo. For extra smooth hair, leave this conditioner for 3-4 minutes after application before rinsing out.
Don't forget to care for your hair's needs as well as your own! With excessive styling (i.e. blow drying and straightening) your hair will become damaged. Be sure to use a good, rejuvenating conditioner to restore your hair's natural health. Also, make sure you use professional products to protect your hair before blow drying and straightening.
Macadamia Hair Nourishing Leave-In Cream Natural Conditioner. This is a thoroughly nourishing conditioner which will leave your hair soft and healthy. Perfect for everyday use, also perfect if you're in a hurry as there is no need to rinse this conditioner out... ensuring bounce and shine all day long!
Milkshake Leave-In Conditioner. Another very successful leave-in conditioner as it keeps your hair under control all day. Leaves your hair soft, shiny and easy to style.
Use Keratin Complex Thermo Shine before blow drying or straightening your hair. This professional thermal styling spray will ensure healthy hair despite straightening. Use this product every time you straighten your hair to avoid damage and frizz!
Milkshake No Frizz Glistening Milk. This is a very versatile and simply brilliant product!! This product is designed to smooth the cuticle therefore leaving your hair STRAIGHT! It will deeply moisturise your hair whilst supplying light support to your hair so that it can stay straight all day. This can be applied to wet or dry hair. Use before straightening to help protect and moisturise hair and/or use after straightening to shape your hair as you wish so that it will stay the way you like it... straight!
Now go and enjoy your new straight AND healthy hair!
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There is help out there for those of you with constantly tangled hair! Does your hair tangle the minute you put the brush down? Well fear not, we are going to give you some tips and suggest some products to help you deal with those tangles!
Tips:
Fine hair often tangles very easily so try using a volumising shampoo to avoid this problem.
Rinse your hair with cool water as this helps to seal the cuticle, therefore avoiding frizz/tangles.
Do not be too rough when drying your hair with the towel! Don't rub hair with the towel, just pat it dry.
Use your fingers or a wide toothed comb to separate the hair strands a little, instead of attacking your hair with a brush the minute you notice some tangles!
Use a detangling product after washing hair.
Wind will tangle hair so just try to protect it a little.
Use good quality hair straighteners as these will pull on your hair less.
Try to gently untangle your hair as soon as you can rather than leaving it to worsen.
If you have fine and lifeless hair, follow these simple steps to help boost your roots and give your hair more volume!
Some are blessed with naturally thick and full bodied hair but for those of us who aren't, all is not lost. It's easier than you think to give your hair a thicker look...
Washing Your Hair
Don't wash your hair too often! Shampooing too often upsets hair and over time it will lose its natural bounce.
On days when you do wash your hair, use a good shampoo and conditioner which will not weigh down your hair and will actually give your hair extra body. Keratin Complex Care Shampoo the perfect shampoo for chemically treated hair that needs extra care to restore its natural beauty. Care shampoo is a professional shampoo which will add body and volume to your hair whilst giving it a deep, but gentle cleanse! A perfect conditioner to help boost your roots is: Milkshake Volume Solution Conditioner. This conditioner is formulated to restore strength and vitality whilst thicken your hair from root to tip and will leave your hair beautifully bouncy and healthy looking.
Try to avoid washing your hair on the day of styling as hair tends to hold volume and style better when it is not freshly washed.
Tips for Styling Your Hair
When blow drying hair, flip your head upside down to add volume and massage your scalp whilst drying to give lift to those roots.
Use a large vent or round brush when blow drying to boost the volume.
Gently ruffle hair with your hands after blow drying to give it some life again.
If your hair is still flat, scrunch hair with a thickening mousse. Try Montibello Densi Volume Treatment Mousse. This mousse will boost every strand of hair and will add amazing volume which will stay with you all day!
To seal this style, blow dry on a cool setting.
Bonus Hair Boosting Product
Milkshake Lifestyling Hair Styling Potion. This could be the answer to your prayers. Say goodbye to fine and lifeless hair! Whatever condition your hair is in, use this secret potion to add a brilliant boost to your hair. This product leaves hair natural and healthy whilst adding priceless volume!
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So many of us suffer from split ends but don't know the causes or ways to prevent the problem. When the cuticle is damaged and the cortex unravel, we get the dreaded split ends. But nevermind the technical talk, we want to know what we're doing wrong and what we can do to help solve the problem!
So, what are the common causes of split ends?
Well basically, when our hair is dry and brittle, the ends split. Common causes of dry/damaged hair and therefore hair with split ends are:
Excessive heat styling
Bad quality hair brushes/combs
Lack of good hair conditioning (with a good quality conditioner)
Rough treatment of hair (for example, harsh towel-drying)
Over colouring
What can we do to prevent/cure split ends?
As far as a cure is concerned, we are pretty much out of luck. The only solution to get rid of existing split ends is to get a hair cut. However, we can prevent split ends. Here are some tips to help you out:
Try not to scrunch your hair up too much whilst washing to help avoid tangles.
Use a good quality, preferably professional, conditioner.
Comb through a leave-in-conditioner after washing hair on occasion.
Brush/comb hair very gently (especially when wet) to avoid breakage.
Don't use heat appliances too often and when you do, use a good thermal protection product.
Have your hair cut regularly to remove split ends.
Ah, there we go...it is Summer, at last! Yes, we have been waiting a whole year for Summer and right on cue here it is. The birds are chirping, the waves are lapping and I'm sitting in the office with my hair sticking to my face and a fan blowing warm air in my direction, don't you just love it.
Well, actually I do. Summer is a great time of year, the best infact. When your not slaving away behind a computer, or whatever else you do, Summer is a fantastic time of year. There are holidays to enjoy, pools and the sea to swim in, tans to get and general relaxing to be done. But with all of this good life, must come a negative. That negative is what the Summer can do to your hair.
To put it lightly, Summer hair care can be a night-mare of epic proportions, infact it can be so bad that you spend your days wishing for the cold nights of Winter, and that is never a good thing!
Well, fear not, because in this series of handy, helpful hair care tips we will be blogging about what the Summer does to your hair and how you can counteract the negatives to keep your locks looking as bright and breezy as the weather itself, so without further ado, I introduce the 2010 Summer hair care tips!
Summer Shampoo
So, in this week's Summer hair care tip blog I am going to be looking at the foundation of any hair care routine; that is summer shampoo of course!
So, before we pick some Summer shampoo for you to use, we need to clarify exactly what the Summer season does to your hair so that we can determine the best ways to make sure that your hair doesn't get damaged.
To put it simply, as lovely as the sun is, it can be a bit cruel to your hair. The harsh Summer rays can be damaging on the hair's cuticle. This can result in your hair losing its necessary oils and moisture that keep it healthy and can result in dry and damaged hair. Another side-effect of too much sun on your hair is the most hated of hair hells...frizz! Yes, you heard me right, the sun can turn your hair into a humid frizzy mess.
The other major issue when it comes to Summer is swimming. Swimming is great, but it is important to remember what chlorine can do to your hair. If you have coloured hair then chlorine is probably your worst enemy. Chlorine can discolour hair as well as leaving it prone to breakage.
So now we know what the Summer sun can do to your hair it is time we looked into what Summer shampoo you should be using to keep your hair healthy and beautiful!
Macadamia Natural Oil hair products are still a relatively new range of hair products. They are made using a natural oil, called Macadamia, as you may have guessed. Macadamia Oil is amazing stuff, and it is no wonder that they have gone all the way to the South Pacific to source it! The natural oil in this moisture repair shampoo ticks all of the right boxes to make it the perfect Summer shampoo. The number 1 plus of this Summer shampoo is that it uses natural oil that works in harmony with your hair's natural oils. It is essential in the Summer that your hair retains its natural oils, and this can mean over-washing is a big no-no but with Macadamia Natural Oil your hair will be cared for in a natural way and will stay looking and feeling healthy.
As we mentioned above, Summer can be a bit troublesome if you have coloured hair. Not only will the sun damage your hair colour but the chlorine in swimming pools can cause real problems with hair colour. So, with that in mind we needed a shampoo that is specially designed to care for coloured hair. Milkshake Colour Maintainer Shampoo is without a doubt one of the best shampoos for the job. It is made using natural ingredients and it is gentle to hair that has been coloured. Milkshake Colour Maintainer Shampoo will protect the colour of your hair and gently cleanse your hair to keep it clean, healthy and moisturised. For those of you with coloured hair, this is a must have Summer shampoo.
The third pillar of the Summer shampoo world is a beautiful Summer shampoo that is designed for use on that is dry and damaged. Urban Tribe Flexibility Shampoo is part of an amazing range of hair products that are made by Urban Tribe and Flexibility Shampoo is the one that can repair dry and damaged hair. As we have already said, the Summer can be hell for hair and for many that means dry and damaged hair, so that makes this Summer shampoo choice a no brainer! Urban Tribe Flexibilty Shampoo will restore moisture and nourish your hair so that any cuticle damage caused by the sun will be repaired and your hair's natural beauty restored.
So, now you have no excuse, no matter what type of hair you have, there is a Summer shampoo for you. Now, go and enjoy the sun! Next week I am going to reveal the secrets of Summer conditioning! Bye x
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Pssst...Listen up, we have an exclusive for you! That's right, we have finally got our hands on something we have been excited about for a very long time. As usual, those in the USA seem to get all of the best things first, but now we can have a go. Do you go to bed and dream of having perfectly straight and smooth locks without any fuss? Well, finally our prayers have been answered and we think that all of the rave that has been following this new product around is completely justified. So, without further ado, let me introduce you to Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy!
Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy
So, first things first, what is Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy? Put simply, it is an amazing salon treatment that will utterly transform your hair and take it from curly and frizzy to straight and smooth, and the results don't just last a day or two after a visit to the salon, nope, they last for months! Literally months!
Now, the first thing you should know about the Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy is that there has been lots of talk about in different places. Cosmopolitan have featured it, blogs have followed it and others have just been discussing it! The common thing between all of this hype though is that Keratin Smoothing Therapy is amazing!
So, we know that we are not just dealing with your normal hair product here, this is something special. I like to think of Keratin Complex as the IPad of the hair care world! That's right, I am that excited about getting hold of it and seeing how it works, and most importantly seeing if it is really as amazing as all those blogs have been saying.
A Bit of History
I think it is worth looking at a bit of the histroy of the Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy before we dive in. It is developed by Coppola who are based in the USA. Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy was launched in 2007 and as the official Facebook page tells us is now considered the "leading smoothing treatment in the world", this is certainly quite a claim!
Started by renowned hair stylist Peter Coppola, Keratin Complex hair products range consists of the full range of different products from shampoo and conditioners to styling products and styling tools. What we are interested in though, is the world famous smoothing therapy.
The smoothing therapy itself has gone from strength to strength since its launch and as it hits the UK shores it has recently been graced with some impressive accolades. In March, Keratin Complex won 3 awards in the prestigious Behindthechair.com's awards, including the 'best smoothing system'. Impressive stuff indeed, so, enough of the history of it all, let's take a look at the actual product!!!
Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy
Like all of the Keratin Complex hair product range, and as I am sure you can gleen from the name, Keratin Complex Smoothing Therapy uses Keratin as its main ingredient. The Smoothin Therapy is quite importantly for professional use only, so you wont be able to buy a bottle and use it in the shower, it will end in tears believe me!
Now, one of my personal pet hates, and I know everyone else's in the office as well is frizz. Oh frizz how you blight the lives of women around the world, ruining nights out and days at work, you are the the main ingredient to a bad hair day. Well, take a quick look at the Keratin website and you will see the claim that the Smoothing Therapy will "eliminate up to 95% of frizz"! Wow, that is a lot of frizz, or not if the case may be!
Now, I am not really one for all of the science stuff, so I won't bore you with all of that, but basically the Keratin Complex Smoothing Treatment penetrates into the core of your hair, adding natural Keratin and other ingredients that will straighten your hair and make it frizz free. The other amazing thing is that it is gentle and so can be used on any type of hair quite safely. Another thing, and a thing I didn't know before is that is can be used on hair that has only just been coloured! Amazing.
The Demonstration
So, with a grip frimly on the bottles of Keratin Complex Smoothing Treatment we invited around some of our best salon freinds to the office, packed it full of people and proceeded with a demonstration of this new (to the UK) hair smoothing treatment to really put it to the test.
Now, I am quite enthusiastic, so you probably are not surprised that I am in love with this product, however some of the people at our salon expose are quite serious people. Well, let me tell you, they went crazy for it, not only did they demand they have some for themselves, but they simply couldn't believe the difference to our model's hair. We held the demo last week, and still this week we are getting calls from people saying that they have just seen the model's hair and can't believe how different she looks!
Now, we don't yet have a video of the demo, but are holding more so will get onto that, but I have trawled Youtube to find something to show you and here it is:
Now, the other great thing is that you can now buy the Keratin Complex Hair Products range of shampoos, conditioners and styling products online in the UK from an official Supplier. So, take a look at all of the info and give it a go, you won't be dissapointed!
Over the hills and far away are the secrets for you to have a good hair day. That's right, they might be rich, they might be pampered and filmed all day long but there is no reason why you can't use a little bit of magic to get hair as beautiful as the girls in the hills. This week we have picked the sleek dark hair of Audrina Partridge to try and emulate and here is how we did it.
Colour:
Audrina constantly has a beautiful deep, dark colour to her hair. The first thing you need to do is bring out the dark, smooth tones in your hair. For this we use a shampoo that is designed especially for brunette hair. We have chosen Toni&Guy's Dark Brunette Shampoo. It is from Boots and is an easy product to get hold of. Even though this is only an 'off the shelf' shampoo we were impressed with its quality and its promise to 'add shine' was a fair claim. The shampoo isn't too strong and will simply enhance the dark tones in brunette hair.
Shine:
The main element of Audrina Partridge's hair is perhaps its amazing, seemingly never ending shine! It is the shine that stops people in their tracks and makes her hair noticible for all of the right reasons. There are plently of ways to ensure good shine in your hair but we want lasting shine that will last the whole day. Our advice is to start with a really good quality conditioner.
Only last week we were telling you how important a good quality conditioner is. It is always worth spending the money on a good conditioner for your hair and this is truer than ever now. We have been using a bit of a special product called Voila Color Kult. Color Kult is a specialist conditioner for brunette hair and it is an amzing product. This conditioner is infused with colour which will add to the tones in your hair already.
As well as dealing with colour, Color Kult is also a great quality conditioner. Your hair will be left silky smooth and most importantly; shiny!
Straighten
WAIT! Don't touch the straightening irons yet. One of the biggest mistakes women make when they want to achieve the 'Audrina Partridge look' is to get the irons out and straighten the living daylights out of their hair. Yes, you can use irons to straighten your hair, but it is not the be all and end all. Before you even look at the heated irons, there is a strict regime to follow.
Only after you have properly washed your hair and conditioned it with a good quality conditioner should you move onto the straight stage. Before using any kind of heated tool on your hair you should make sure you protect it. For straightening irons there are hundreds of good quality products on the market that will protect your hair from damage by using tools.
For this job we want a spray which will add protection as well as promoting frizz free, shiny locks. We went for Milkshake No Frizz Glistening Spray, a natural hair spray that will protect against damage from heat tools. The great thing about this heat protecting styler is that it adds a beautiful glisten to your hair, perfect for achieving the Audrina look.
Summary:
Use a shampoo that works with the tones in your hair to deepen your colour
Follow shampoo with a good quality conditioner to prepare your hair for shine!
Protect your hair before going near straightening irons
This is quite a simply style but there are important steps to follow. The most important thing for smooth, frizz free hair is that it is healthy, this means not too much straightening with irons and using good qualitys products!
Conditioning your hair might sound like an everyday kind of task yet there are certain nuances that will allow you to take it to the next level... You shampoo and then you condition, that's the routine and it never changes... But wait! We know that a lot of the ladies out there don't put nearly enough thought into conditioning their hair. Conditioning is very important, and I am here to show you why. Don't just think of hair conditioning as an after thought, plan your hair regime around your beautifully soft and healthy hair and you will not regret it! See, look how happy your hair can be ;)
1. If you are looking to save money, save it on the shampoo. Don't get me wrong, having a good quality shampoo and a top quality conditioner at the same time is an excellent thing, but if you have to make cuts somewhere, make them on the shampoo. A good quality hair conditioner will make up for the losses you are making on shampoo, but try it the other way around and you could be left with a dried out mess in weeks. So, tip 1, condition with a good quality conditioner, even if you have a standard shampoo.
2. Don't just slap a palm full of conditioner in your hair and work it in like you would with shampoo. All you need is a small amount of conditioner. Then apply it to your hair gently, working it down the length of the hair. We suggest you use a comb to gently work the conditioner right along the hair to the tip, don't force the comb through your hair though, let the conditioner smooth it out slowly, there is no rush when conditioning.
3. Avoid the root of the problem! Conditioner is designed to work on the length of the hair, not the roots. There is no point in spending time working conditioner into the roots, that is the work of shampoo. Just concentrate along the length of the hair. Working conditioner into your roots will only clog up your style and leave your hair looking lacklustre.
4. Timing is important. The optimum amount of time to leave conditioner in your hair varies from person to person, but there are general rules of thumb to follow. If you are just taking care of your hair in your normal routine, then leaving the conditioner in your hair for 2-3 minutes should be long enough for the conditioner to work its' magic. If your hair is particularly dry and in poor quality you may want to leave the conditioner in for about 5 minutes before washing out. If your hair is very badly damaged it is time to use a hair treatment mask. Masks are best described as intensive conditioners and are designed to be used on a weekly basis, follow the instructions on the mask and be amazed at your new silky smooth hair afterwards!
5. Wash it all out! One of the silliest things you can do is to not take care when rinsing your hair after conditioning. The top tip is don't leave any conditioner in your hair, it will only clog things up and effectively undo all of the good work you have done. A good rinse to make sure that all residue is out of your hair will ensure that the conditioner has done its' job properly.
So, now we know... conditioning is important and if you are going to do it, do it properly! Watch this space for our top 5 conditioners of all time...
We hate unwanted frizz, the main ingredient of a bad hair day...so without further ado, here are our top 10 tips to avoid unwanted frizzy hair!
1. Use a good moisturising conditioner. This is the best thing you can do after shampooing because it adds moisture to your hair as well as having ingredients that promote smoothness. It is always a good investment to have a good conditioner. Our top tip is , it is a good investment for healthy hair and no frizz!
2. Get your hair cut regularly! Cutting your hair on a regualr basis need not be a painful or expensive task. As long as you stay on top of it, having a regular hair cut will get rid of split ends and remove damged hairs.
3. Don't wash your hair every day. I know this sounds silly, and surely clean hair is better, but it is a known little fact that washing your hair too much can strip your hair's natural vitality and make it become more greasy and unhealthy. Give your hair a good wash, using a high quality shampoo, every few days. We suggest Macadamia Moisturising Repair shampoo for an affordable, high quality shampoo.
4. Straightening irons will give you frizzy hair! Ok, maybe not straight away, but after a while of using heat styling irons, your hair will become badly damaged and will need repairing. That is not to say never use irons, just if you do, make sure you protect your hair with a thermal hair treatment before you use the irons.
5. Pretty much the same as the above...avoid blow drying your hair. Blow drying damages hair as well and will make your hair frizz. Just be careful how you treat your hair, it doesn't hurt to let it dry naturally every now and then!
6. Don't use too much hairspray when finishing your hair style. Too much is bad, just use a light mist and this will help you avoid unwanted frizz.
7. Use Milkshake No Frizz Glistening Serum. Ok, ok, this is a complete plug! But it is a great product designed specifically to target frizz and get rid of it!
8. Here is a more 'out there' method, but worth a go. Sleep on a satin pillow case, or wrap your hair in a silk bonnet when you sleep. Apparantly it will help your hair feel really nice and smooth!
9. Mousse products don't help! Using too much mousse can cause havoc for hair prone to frizz. Really if you have frizzy hair, mousse isn't the product for you, try using a spray because chances ae you have enough volume anyway.
10. Ok, this one is another obvious one, but get to know a stylist who knows your hair inside out. There is really no substitute for someone who spends a lot of time learning about your hair and then treating it how it wants to be treated. My hair stylist is my best freind!
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