Showing posts with label Haircare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Haircare. Show all posts

Monday, October 10, 2016

MAKE HAIRCARE

M  A  K  E

Haircare Review!

http://www.makehair.com.au

When it comes to haircare products, I mainly stick to the popular well known budget brands. This is
probably because I am on a mummy budget and luxuries like spending hours on end in hair salons
has long become a thing of the past.

Every now and again a different kind of brand comes along which is completely refreshing, new and
different. This modern brand with it's geometric shaped logo and simplistic packaging is all Aussie
and their website and social media give off that strong laid back, holiday beach vibe. Who doesn't
love that! Sounds relaxing right? I love the whole theme as my hair always needs relaxing and feels
beach dried! Since using this new product range over the past few months my hair looks as though
it has had a bit of a holiday pampering.

Now for the rest of me.... !



M a k e  Hydrated Shampoo

375ml - $21.95

Hydration and moisturise are two words you'd see a lot of if you dare looked into my bathroom
cabinet. These are the kinds of specialities I lean toward when shopping up on hair products.

This slim 375ml bottle is packed full of natural wheat and silk proteins which work to deeply nourish
 hair and bring it back to life. The formula itself lathers up nicely without having to use a massive
amount which I tend to do usually if I find a product not lathering as then I don't feel as though it is
really washing all that oil off the top of my head!

Since using this with other nourishing products from the brand below, my hair is stronger, smoother,
softer, shinier and doesn't smell half bad either!

Now I am just dying to discover the conditioner from the range to complete my  M a k e  collection.


M a k e Sleek Cream

150ml - $21.95

This Sleek Cream is a rich leave in protein treatment for stressed, worn out and split end hair.
With ingredients like Sage, Silk amino acids, Linden, Birch, Yarrow and Hydrolysed wheat protein
which work together in healing damaged, dry hair.

I like this kind of versatile product because I can use it whenever I want no matter if my hair is wet
or dry. No need to think about it, just whenever you feel your hair needs some extra TLC, is feeling
dry or sad you can just work a little bit of this through your hair or even just your ends any time of
the day. This will gives a quick long lasting shot of nourishing protein into your hair follicles
instantly making your hair feel smoother, moisturised and smelling fresh!


M a k e Salty Spray

250ml - $21.95

Growing up on the beaches of FNQ, using this kind of product takes me back to days walking my
dogs along the beaches with crystal clear waters and sand between my toes. Living nowhere near a
beach now a days I really miss it when I think about it! Back then beach hair was my everyday
hairstyle. No product required!

Fast forward about 15 years and to achieve that same look and feel requires a little help from some
great smelling, texturising spray form hair liquid!

Just a few sprays of this throughout my hair and scrunching it through with my hands does the trick
in about one minute. To get even more volume and killer waves the trick is to bend over and throw all your hair over your head then spray the product through and scrunch whilst up-side-down.

 WA-LA! Killer M A K E hair for dayz! :)

M A K E haircare products can be purchased from Hairhouse Warehouse Australia.
How do you maintain the health of your hair?

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*These products have been kindly gifted to me for consideration/review
*All photographs & video are my own work & my opinions are all 100% honest & all my own

Thursday, January 28, 2016

PALMOLIVE


~  PALMOLIVE NATURALS  ~

Active Nourishment 
Shampoo & Conditioner

Review!


Shampoo

I have long colour lightened hair which needs extra TLC so using a nourishing, effective shampoo and conditioner duo is quite an important and necessary part of my weekly hair routine. Over the past few weeks I have only been using this pair three times a week with satisfying results.

Even though these are made for 'Normal Hair' types and my hair is more oily at the roots and dryer toward the ends, I thought it did a great job at keeping that happy medium following the days after washing. My hair felt more even in texture and in regards to moisture levels, not being at all oily on my scalp or as dry toward my ends which was a welcome and noticeable change! 

I have always had a soft spot for Aloe Vera and have a stack of it sprouting out all over my little garden so to welcome that scent into my hair was lovely and refreshing. The subtle scent lingering after washing the following day. 

Standard, fuss free, easy to use packaging with attractive colours and image on the front.
Competitively priced and great value for money, I recommend everyone giving these a try!

Conditioner 

Using this conditioner together with the Active Nourishment shampoo, I found this duo worked well together as a pair. The conditioner was easy to use and distribute evenly throughout my hair whilst I showered allowing any knotty bits to untangle easily and become smooth. 

The scent smells identical to the shampoo and doesn't over power your nose so you can still breath easy through the steam as you shower.

Easy to use tube which unmistakably matches it's twin the Palmolive Naturals Aloe Vera & Fruit Vitamins shampoo. 

Recommended to families of all ages and hair types. If it can work on my temperamental hair which can't work out weather it wants to be oily or dry, then what do you have to lose? :)

Currently RRP for $4.99 each for 350ml
(Also available in a huge 700ml for $7.99)
*All photographs & opinions are all 100% honest & all my own
*Not sponsored!

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

SUIGO


~ Suigo Haircare ~

http://www.suigoaustralia.com.au

Suigo Vital Nutrition Intensive Hair Repair Treatment
When it comes to hair repair treatments I really just can't get enough. It is up there with one of my
favourite things to do when it comes to treating myself when I get the little bit of extra 'me time.'

This thick, white formula is lightly fragranced with a fresh and light fragrance which is lingering 
with an air of perfume hours after using it. My hair has definitely benefited from it because I can 
really feel the difference in how soft and smooth it is as well as seeing less breakage after using my
hair brush.

Suigo Vital Nutrition Shampoo
Even though I only had the opportunity to try out the Suigo Shampoo & Conditioner in the 30ml
sample size tubes, I was able to get three washes from each which I feel like is just enough to be able
to give my opinion on how they worked for me. 

Again, the scent of these are light and quite refreshing as fragrance from them don't irritate my nose 
as I breathe them in deeply during my shower. The formula was white and a good consistency which
was easy to use and not too runny. It lathered up well into my hair and gave it that satisfying clean
feeling. I feel like this product in conjunction with using both the Suigo Treatment and Conditioner
has helped make a positive difference in my hair's overall health. 

Suigo Vital Nutrition Conditioner
If this wasn't labeled as a conditioner, I could easily mistake it for a hair treatment as the formula is
quite a bit thicker than my other conditioners on the rotation at the moment. To me, this is a good sign
as usually with this kind of product, the thicker the better when it comes to deeply nourishing my
hair.

I couldn't live without conditioning my hair as it does so many things. Smoothing, detangling, 
moisturising and of course treating and repairing it. This does all of the above and on a higher end
of the scale in my opinion. Definitely worth the premium price tag if you hair is in need of some 
serious love!

For more info about Suigo you can find them here. :)

How often do you treat your hair to a deep hair repair treatment?

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*These products were kindly sent to me for consideration/review. 
*All photographs & opinions are all 100% honest & all my own

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

HAIR & ME


~  HAIR & ME  ~

Hair Rejuvenation Treatment

RRP: $19.95

My hair has had a hard tough life. You name it I've most likely tried it! From every hair craze or
trend which come and go as often as I wash my hair! Teasing, straightening, back combing, curling,
crimping, dying, chalking, bleaching.... it's all been there!

My latest obsession of late has been gradually going back to blonde. I used to bleach the absolute
crap out of my hair in my late teens/early 20's admittedly completely damaging the crap out of it to
the point of it beginning to fall out! And even then I couldn't stop. I loooved being a blondie!

So I am going back! But this time instead of DIY-ing, I'm leaving it to a professional and visiting the
salon. I am a jack of many trades, lightening my hair safely and properly is definitely not one of them!

Even though I have been lightening my hair gradually, going lighter means hair is always going to
be under more stress than usual and that means lots of TLC is required.

That's where this Hair & Me Rejuvenation Treatment has recently stepped into my routine to help!


This treatment contains coconut, macadamia, jojoba and almond oils which sounds like a delicious
blend all in itself so I am sure I don't need to go convincing you on just how wonderful and
deeply moisturising and nourishing it is to your hair. Not to mention the smell! Omg, the scent
of this treatment is 100% delicious and reminds me of one of my favourite sweet treats - Coconut Ice!

Sooo, as a blogger it's my passion to talkabout and share this stuff so don't even try to stop me, 
I can't and won't so don't even try, it's impossible! (Just ask my husband!) ;)

To me, this oily mix seems ultra concentrated because I found even a small amount (about the same
amount you would use to shampoo your hair) to be sufficient to get the job done. Even on my long
and relatively thick hair, the combination of oils seem to coat every strand of hair completely.

(Left - My hair after a few applications. So silky smooth & healthy! Right - With the treatment worked through my hair.)

Once the recommended time is up (30-45 minutes) and it's time to shampoo the treatment out, even 
as I am rinsing I can feel the difference in how my hair feels. It is smoother and silkier as I let the 
warm water rinse the oils away. Feeling like most of it has fused into the cuticles of each strand.

Once dry it has been a whole lot easier to manage! I don't even straighten it as much anymore
because the main reason I straighten my hair in the first place is to keep the constant frizz under
control, but now there is a whole lot less of that I can give my hair a break and let my natural
waves be wild and free ... and they actually behave themselves! No really! Now I can leave my hair
out loose the whole day without having to shove it up in a high pony or messy bun half way through
because my hair has driven me crazy and I just can't take it anymore! 

:)
(Hair & Me Rejuvenation Treatment coming out of the pack in the cold Winter air. Approx 8degrees!)

(Hair & Me Rejuvenation Treatment melted once warmed in your hand ready to apply!)

Vegan friendly & cruelty free! What's not to love?!

Hair & Me currently only stock a limited number of hair products, but since trying this one it's
clear to me their other products are probably worth a look at too!

Have you tried Hair & Me products?
What are your thought's on the benefits of hair oils?
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*This product was kindly sent to me for consideration/review. 
*All photographs & opinions are all 100% honest & all my own

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

SUMMER HAIR CARE


Summer Haircare 

with

~  P U R E T O P I A  ~



Moisture Repair
Nourishing & Strengthening Shampoo
RRP: $10.95 (250ml)
-
When you have long, dry and damaged hair like mine you want to invest in a good
strengthening and rich moisturising shampoo because it will help nurse your hair back
to good health and make it shine! This shampoo used together with the matching conditioner
(see below) has really made my hair feel so soft, I barely recognise it as it never feels as good
as this! My hair also smells just divine with the exotic mix of lime, grapefruit, spearmint and
geranium, imagine that for just a moment and breathe it in! Ahh, so refreshing that I don't
even think my husband minds so much when my hair accidentally whips into his face! haha! :D

Australian owned & made, recyclable packaging, against animal testing and 100% sulfate free!
I bet you won't be able to find one bad thing about this product! It ticks all of the right boxes!


Moisture Repair
Moisturising & Strengthening Conditioner
RRP: $10.95 (250ml)
-
I maintain the natural colour of my hair by running a permanent dye through it every few months
to help fight the ever so persistent greys that keep on popping up, creating way too many bad hair
days! So to be able to use this product which is designed to help with the damage that can be caused
from colouring and styling your hair is perfect for me! It contains wheat starch and proteins which
strengthen the hair whilst making it all nice and silky and shiny! Then the array of flower and
seed oils such as sunflower, lime and grapefruit give it it's incredible scent, moisture and colour
protection.

Use as you would any normal conditioner working it through the bottom half of your hair
and then thoroughly rinsing it out or you can leave it in for as long as 15 minutes to really
let the ingredients soak into your hair and drink them up, maximising the overall result this
range of products gives to your hair.

Pure Treatment
Hydrating & Rejuvenating Hair Mask
RRP: $12.95  (250ml)
-
This stuff is just icing on your hair cake!
If you want to get lust worthy hair and can take the time for a little extra pampering once
a week, then this is your guy!
(Click on product title link for full review!)


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*These products were kindly sent to me for review
*All opinions & photographs are my own
*All prices are true & correct as listed on Puretopia's official website at the time of this post

Monday, November 24, 2014

KERASTASE


~    K   E   R   A   S   T   A   S   E    ~

Discipline  Range

      Review!     


With Summer fast approaching my hair needs to go and sit over in the naughty
corner and have a stern talking to and some serious discipline!
Whenever it becomes humid, with even the slightest amount of moisture in the air,
my hair goes manic and it becomes a nightmare to control. >_<

So it seems this new Discipline haircare range has come into my life at the most perfect time!
My hair has now been fully disciplined!
 How lucky for those unruly, cheeky little, drive me crazy strands!


RRP: $42 (250ml)
This very pretty, pretty, shiny rose gold and peach packaging has me totally sucked in and
drooling from first glance! It just looks sooo....oh what's the word - expensive & luxe!
No joke, it even smells expensive & completely salon luxe! It doesn't even stop there,
just wait until you use this stuff. (and seriously you like totally will because after reading my
review of this entire range you will be completely sold! ha!) ;)

It feels so nice to massage into my crazy, kid, play doh, glue, grass, mud and god knows 
what else gets up in there from day to day smelling hair that my kids put in it with their grubby
mitts! To be able to unwind with a hair pampering like this after my usual crazy day is just bliss!

Thank you Kerastase!

RRP: $48 (200ml)
We all know one is not complete without the other, and the above Bain Fluidealiste's sister is this
Fondant Fluidealiste which picks up where the Bain leaves off giving your hair instant strength and
smoothness as it soaks in and detangles.

It says to use this on towel dried hair and leave in for 1-2 minutes but I just use this whilst I'm still
showering. I squeeze out as much water as I can from my hair and then apply a generous
 coating of this down the bottom end of my hair beginning from around where my ears
 are and working the product down toward the ends. Once I've detangled my hair, this usually 
takes me a good few minutes because I have so much of it, the product has been left in
 long enough and then I thoroughly rinse it out.

RRP: $60 (200ml)
This stuff is the icing on a very luxurious hair cake! :)
The rich, thick, white texture is so creamy and smells totally a-maze!
Seriously, a relaxing treatment masque that doesn't feel heavy or like it's weighing my hair down
as it rests in there soaking into every strand is exactly the kind of pampering I love to indulge in!
(Not to mention quite hard to find!)

In conjunction with using both the Bain Fluidealiste and Fondant Fluidealiste together with this
Maskeratine, collectively they are creating hair magic! The difference in my hair overall is obvious!
The frizz and annoying static has gone away and instead I am left with smooth, soft, shiny, 
deeply moisturised, lust worthy angelic looking hair!! Oooh!

(Keep scrolling for pix below!)

~ RESULT - Total Hair Make Over! ~

Have you tried Kerastase? 
How do you keep you hair looking it's best?

If I have intrigued your interest be sure to check out the Kerastase website for more 
products and info! 

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*These products were kindly sent to me for review
*All photographs & opinions are my own

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

PANTENE


~ PANTENE PRO-V ~

Daily Moisture Renewal! 


Ah, so here we are again with yet another hair post!
I know I do a lot of them, but hey hair is important & I'm passionate about it!
Come on now, you know you'd feel a bit odd without it, right? Right!!

So when the opportunity arose for me to try a new hair care product for one
of my favourite beauty websites Primped I couldn't wait to start!

This intense daily moisture renewal has put back some added moisture to my hair.
I've been using some pretty good hair products lately, so thankfully my hair has
been in pretty good condition. But being cursed with dry ends, well, they
can always do with a bit more moisture in them and these products have helped!

These products claim to revitalize hair with four times damage prevention!
Prevention is always key, but if there is damage already done, hopefully it's
working on that too, at least it feels like it is, so that's a great start! :)

I first started using Pantene products way back when I was still in high school
going back over ten years ago! Of course I've used about a billion different other
brands since then, but Pantene seems to have stuck with me and I always have
back up bottles of it. So what does that tell you!? Yes, I'm a hoarder... but at
least I'm hoarding the good stuff I actually really enjoy using!

What brand do you find you have a lot more of than others?
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* This product was kindly sent to me for review
* All opinions & photographs are my own


Thursday, July 31, 2014

PURETOPIA HAIR MASK

~ Puretopia ~

Bioactive Solutions

Pure Treatment

Hydrating & Rejuvenating
Hair Mask!



If you're been reading my blog for a while now, you'll know the constant war I have
going on with my hair. I've always had long hair down my to my backside and even though
it's so much more work to look after and maintain, I love having the length and can't bring myself
to want to cut it short. My hair is also naturally frizz prone, thick and generally just painful to control,
which leads me to just shoving it up into a messy bun most days if I'm just at home and don't have to
face the big bad world.

I am constantly on the hunt and discovering new and innovative hair product to
help me out and to make life easier. Then is dawned on me recently that I've
been completely ignorant to a good old fashioned hair mask! Like seriously,
what is wrong with me?! I have such an endless supply of shampoos, conditioners
and serums, yet not a single hair mask!? I know I used to use them all the time.
I think I just stopped buying them ages ago when I decided I needed to down size
my product collection.

Anyhow, then I got the opportunity to try this Australian, 100% Sulfate free
beauty and realized what I'd been missing from my life!
I am rotating through a few different brand of shampoos and conditioners
at the moment and don't get me wrong, I am really enjoying them, but you
know, my hair still isn't looking exactly perfect... well it is now beginning to shine
a little brighter now that I've given it some extra special TLC with this luxurious tub of goodness!


This generous 250ml sized round tub is full of natural and moisturising
 ingredients including; argan, macadamia oils, almond oils, sunflower seed oil, flower oils
+ more! As you can imagine it smells delightful. More of a creamy scent than anything.
Which leads me on to the texture and feeling it gives to your hair.
The formula itself feels & looks just like a lightly natural smelling scented body moisturiser - only
it's designed just for your hair! It is a decent thickness which makes it good to work with when
you're applying it all over your hair so you're not wasting a heap of product that drips out of your hands. The deep moisturising properties in this product help to protect your hair from heat
styling. (Yup, that's me! Guilty!) So that's perfect for me!
This amazing formula actually aids in improving the elasticity of your hair therefore making
it stronger, less prone to breakage which limits dodgy looking stray fly aways which are in my
case weak hairs which have snapped from either brushing, styling and poorly
designed hair elastics.


Do you use hair masks? Tell me your fav!
:)

Love Candy!
xo

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*This product was kindly sent to me for review
*All opinions and photographs are my own

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Pantene Pro-V Ice Shine Review!



I was recently given the opportunity from Beautyheaven to trial and review a few of the products from the new Ice Shine range from Pantene. I have been loving them so much I thought why not do a blog post to review them in further detail from my video review which can be seen here. :)

My hair is naturally thick, lacks shine, is dry and frizz prone no matter what the weather is like, so this shampoo, conditioner and daily rinse off treatment had a lot of work to do!

Before & After


As you can see from the before and after photos of my hair, these products are simply amazing and they have done such an incredible job at not only transforming my hair into a more visually appealing mane, it also feels softer, smoother, stronger and all over healthier!


Have you tried this new range or heard of it?
 Have you used any Pantene products before? 
Which are your favs ones you'd recommend?



                           ♥ CandyFairy