De Lorenzo Instant Rejuven8

De Lorenzo Instant Rejuven8

My mate got me onto this set with a recommendation for the conditioner.  It's good.  Really good.  I ended up buying the whole pack - of the pictured ones, I've used the shampoo, conditioner and 'the ends' treatment - the other two nope.  So would I recommend this product? Hell yeh.  The conditioner is amazing. I never looked into the ingredients for the whole paraben blah blah but it works really well, leaves your hair in lovely silky condition, and it smells nice too.  The ends treatment - ok I've been using it but you can't really always tell with those kind of things whether they are actually achieving what they claim they will.

So far - it feels good on, so it's made it into my weekly set - I go between that one and an Aveda repair one that I'll talk about later.  They both seem about the same but the De Lorenzo one is cheaper.

I'll be honest, the fact that they have an '8' in the title made me think 'lame'.  But this stuff is good.  The shampoo is good too.  I think there's a fair chance this set will make it into my 'reliables' set.  You can also get it pretty well priced as a set from places like Hairhouse Warehouse etc.

Sebastian Laminates

Sebastian laminates - oh how I love you.

This is my "go to" shampoo. It's amazing. I always like to keep two different types of shampoo on hand as my hair randomly becomes somewhat immune if I just use one, and laminates is one that I always have available.

It's hard to describe why it's so awesome - your hair feels so clean, but it doesn't have that "too clean" feeling where it feels kind of hard? That sounds crazy but you know the feeling - like if you washed your hair with just soap - that feeling. Okay so it does not do that. It's so the opposite. I think it's the only shampoo I've ever used that I wouldn't be horrified if I didn't have a conditioner at hand as a follow up.

It also seems somehow to keep the hair cleaner for longer. My hair doesn't get oily/itchy as soon as it would with other shampoos.

Also - the hair afterwards just sits way better - smoother.

I really can't say a bad thing about Sebastian Laminates. Highly recommended. Buy it. Use it. Love it.

Dry shampoo

Dry shampoo.

So it's been around for a while now and really... I'm a bit over it.

Originally when we first discovered it, we used Klorane because it was the only one we could really find. I read somewhere that dry shampoo works a lot better on blonde hair (I am brunette) and I can really say that I believe that. The problem with dry shampoo is that although it works in the sense of shampooing your hair and being dry (snigger hehe) - it tends to also be visible.

Ok lets go from the beginning.

Dry shampoo is an awesome alternative when you want to get an extra day or (if you like to live life dangerously) two out of your hair before doing a full wash. Especially awesome for girls who have to go to a lot of initial effort when styling their hair - blow dry, straighten etc.... and just want to keep that for a little longer.
Also VERY awesome for those of us with bangs/fringe, because that gets oily first, and we don't always want to pin it back (even if it does look super cute sometimes). So yeh, it's great.

Also great for travelling and camping when you just don't have time and you want to look good.

How to use it?
You just spray from 20 to 30 cm's away, point at the roots cause you won't need it in the lengths, then you massage it in, leave it for a couple minutes, brush it out. Some people also like to get a dry towel and give it a rub.

The problem with it, as previously mentioned... and the reason I got tired of it and don't use it as much anymore...

Well the product itself is white... Yep that seems pretty obvious and yeh I know you massage it in, but I've used several products and the problem remains... no matter how well you towel it and brush... you kind of get like "dust" looking things in your hair, which actually can look a bit like dandruff and ends up giving you the opposite of what you wanted - your hair looks dirty.

Now if they made dry shampoo coloured... this problem could potentially be solved! I mean if you are blonde you don't see that because it blends in, but if you are brunette it's a problem. So how about someone makes a brown version.... or maybe it's already in the works???

So my opinion - I'm tired of it and I think it has flaws, but on the odd occasion I still give it a whirl. Mostly because I already bought the stuff and want to use it up.

I've tried Klorane, as previously mentioned (pictured at top) - this is the standard, quite good, stable choice.

I also tried Batiste - this one comes in different "flavours"/smells. Rubbish.

You can get mini ones for travel, I tried Lee Stafford. Hmm. Mediocre.

I also tried Toni & Guy - expecting some kind of awesomeness. No different to Klorane.

Currently I'm using Et Absorb - this one claims to give your hair a bit of a moisturising treatment at the same time. And of course I'm a sucker for any such claim, so at the moment this is my favourite. Seems to work the same as Klorane and Toni&Guy, but it's "moisturising" my hair at the same time. That's an extra tick.

I also like the way the bottle looks!