I’m the kind of person that companies love, in the sense that when it comes to brand loyalty I’m the ideal customer. Once I find a product I like, I will buy it over and over again without much reconsideration. I may even end up filling my life with an assortment of products from a specific company just because I like what they do. I’m a creature of habit, ultimately. Which is why it’s surprising that I decided to branch out and try a couple new things from my local drugstore.
- Perfect example of my brand loyalty: when I was 18 I got a free sample of Glycomed hand lotion and loved it so much that I used nothing else for the next 14 years! But for some reason when my last bottle ran out I decided I was done with Glycomed, it wasn’t giving me the results I wanted and I didn’t care for the smell anymore. I did some research online and read some reviews and ended up buying Jergens Ultra Care moisturizing body lotion.
Diagnosis – wow, I am seriously impressed! Within a couple days my skin was already feeling smoother and softer than it had been in a long time, and now that it’s been about a week the appearance of my skin is less cracked and dry-looking as well. It even feels warm on my skin when I first put it on. Smell is nice, no complaints there.
Overall rating: 9/10 (it’s so good I recommended it to my mother!)
- My hair has been fairly oily for as long as I can remember, which meant as a teenager I couldn’t stand going a single day without shampooing my hair. But I’ve come to realize how terrible that actually is for my hair and I’ve switched to rinsing (and not shampooing) my hair every other day. But my hair hasn’t gotten quite used to this change yet, so on the second day it looks fairly oily. I’ve been thinking about getting a dry shampoo to alleviate this problem but I’ve got black hair and most dry shampoos are white powders. Then one day I saw Mark Anthony’s Clear Dry Shampoo on sale and thought I’d give it a shot, despite the lack of reviews.
Diagnosis – uhh, it doesn’t do a thing! I shake it up and spray it on and nothing happens, my hair is just as flat and oily as before. Even the nice smell of the dry shampoo wears off within a few minutes. Clearly I should have gone with Klorane like the internet advised me. Maybe next time.
Overall rating: 3/10 (at least it doesn’t make my hair look worse?)
2 comments:
My hair's fairly dark (dyed red) as well but I found a really superb dry shampoo that also adds a lot of volume to my hair. Then I realized it's a Swedish brand so might not be available outside Scandinavia - it's called Klippoteket and everybody over here swears by it. It's easy to use, spray and then wait for a minute, then comb/brush the excess out.
I've also been getting fairly into natural cosmetics (doing hairmasks with coconut and olive oils, removing my eye make-up with coconut oil, fairly hippie stuff) and remember reading that you can make your own dry shampoo with cornstarch and if you like, add cocoa powder to it to make it darker. (Google for instructions.)
Then there's also these: http://www.beautylish.com/a/vcgij/3-best-dry-shampoos-for-brunettes
Or you can just look for a product that comes with good reviews. I sometimes check MakeUpAlley reviews for products I'm thinking of testing out.
I'm a big MakeupAlley fan too. :) Thanks for the link! My research keeps saying good things about Batiste, so I think that will be my next purchase/attempt.
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