Hair

Brand: L’Oreal
Product: Shimmering Hair Coloring in Starlet

I’ve been dying my hair off an on for about five years. I became tired of the cost of professional highlights, and those self highlighting kits at the drugstore reeked of effort. Box dyeing seemed my best bet. I wasn’t thrilledwith the results I got with Garnier and Clairol, so L’Oreal Preference became my color brand of choice. I’ve always been happy with my color results.

The new year aroused a desire for a little change. I got my sassy new haircut at Great Clips and then swung by my local Walgreen’s to pick up a new box of hair color. I decided that I wanted to stay blond, but I wouldn’t mind a brighter, bolder color. I stayed within the L’Oreal brand but selected something from the more cutting-edge Feria line.

So far, I’m loving the results. I know that I’m little more than a week into the color, and it remains to be seen how quickly the color will fade, but I’ve gotten so many compliments on the color (and that has never happened to me before), that I felt the need to share. Starlet, on my naturally dark blond hair develops into a glistening, and indeed shimmering, buttery blond. It imparts multi-tonal color with tons of highlights without the “obviously dyed” look. The color was quick to develop, only taking 20 minutes for the whole head and theprocess was gentle, (no burning scalp, ouch!).

For $10, I don’t think you can buy better color results.

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Gemma

Chain: Great Clips

I am faithless. I have rarely visited the same hairdresser more than twice. I guess I just have not found “the one”. In pursuit of “the one”, I’ve endured countless bad haircuts and poured a ton of money down the drain. I’m tired of $65 haircuts. I’m tired of tipping the stylist, the shampoo girl and the colorist. Truth be told, I get the most compliments when I get my hair cut at Great Clips.

Great Clips is a nation-wide chain. Haircuts for women cost about $15, but can be sometimes had for $7 or even $5 with a coupon. No appointment is necessary, so you can stroll in whenever you find the time. The salons are impeccably clean, if not super-trendy. The stylists are licensed, friendly, and just as attentive to detail as the stylists at more shi-shi salons. Your $15 won’t buy you a shampoo or a head massage, so you won’t leave with that
ultra-fab blowout. But, let’s face it, how long does that blowout really last?

I’ll skip the shi-shi. Great Clips it is for me!

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Gemma

Brand: TRESemme
Product: Dry Shampoo for Oily/Straight to Normal Hair

I hate my hair. It is the bane of my existence. It’s baby-fine. There’s not much of it. If I don’t wash it every day people start demanding answers from BP.

Nowadays, I don’t have the luxury of washing my hair every day. I’m the mother of two boys. Blow-dry my hair? Please. I’m too busy prying random objects from my son’s mouth. He has the jaws of a pit-bull on ‘roids by the way, but I digress.

A little baby powder on the roots is a decent solution to the greasies, but, it can be a bit messy, and if you use too much you could end up looking like a third grader just clapped out erasers on your head. I was excited to try TRESemme’s dry shampoo spray and even scoured several stores for it before I laid my paws on a bottle.

While it did absorb the greasies, it did little to control static. In fact, I’m convinced it made my hair even more filled with static than normal.

It smelled okay. Think green tea and citrus. Not offensive, but not exciting either. I’ll keep it tucked in my gym bag. I might use it again, but probably not.

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Gemma

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