Beauty : LABELM BLONDE SERIES

 By: Unknown    06:12  No comments

One of the latest products from LABELM is their brightening blonde system - the claim is that it "gradually lightens and brightens while gently cleansing and nourishing hair to prevent dryness, tangling and breakage". Not being a natural or fake blonde myself, I couldn't really review these ones so I found Marta Monzani who was happy to do it.

Review by Marta Monzani

• There has been a change in my hair colour, it is a subtle change and whether or not you notice the change depends also on the light, but knowing my hair, I can see the change!

• My hair colour is a natural ash blond, but it does not have a uniform shade - I have lighter and darker streaks, especially when I am not in the sun for long periods (this tends to only happen when I am on holiday in summer), the colour becomes almost opaque and a bit dull (this summer I did not go on holiday so dull it is).

• After 3 weeks of Label M shampoo and conditioner -  I now have lighter, luminous shades of honey blond and shinier hair. The base colour remains the same and as usual my roots are still somewhat darker. 

Other points in their favour is that you only need a really small quantity of shampoo so it lasts for ages, the foam and scent are amazing, and my hair somehow seems to remain clean for longer . I also loved that the conditioner did not make the hair heavier or greasy, it is almost like a beauty crème which made it silky.

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Beauty Post : TRESemme Keratin Smooth 7 Days Shampoo & Conditioner

 By: Unknown    03:14  1 comment

I was recently asked to trial the TRESemme Keratin Smooth 7 Days Shampoo & Conditioner and since I'm a product junkie * hoarder, my immediate response was 'why not?'.

The products are meant to be keratin fused and thereby will help to eliminate frizz and provide smoother hair. My hair is currently in its natural curly, frizzy state so it seemed like a good a time as any to try this one out. It's also meant to have lower sulfates and therefore be gentler.

Process: I simply washed my hair twice using the shampoo, rinsed it out, applied conditioner and rinsed that out too. I then styled my hair using my normal styling curly hair products.

Result: My hair was less curly than it usually is, the curls were less tight and a bit more 'stretched' if you know what I mean. It wasn't a particularly humid day when I tried these products but resulting hairstyle had no frizz whatsoever.

Review: 8/10 I knocked two points off simply because the shampoo still has sulfates albeit a lower amount,  I try to avoid any sulfates and sulfates also means it cannot be used if you've had the professional keratin blowdry applied. Otherwise, these products get the job they promise done.  

Should you buy it? This depends on what you want - do you want straighter hair ? If no then don't get this because it will diminish the bounce of your curl and waves. Do you want less frizzy, less curly hair, do you want hair that will be easier to blow dry straight ? - then these are for you.

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Beauty Post : LABELM LEAVE-IN CONDITIONER

 By: Unknown    05:46  No comments

Anyone who has curly hair knows that frizz is our worst nightmare. Frizz seems to happen due to a number of factors - dry hair, wind, humid weather, products not working well ..but for me the biggest factor is always the dryness. My hair is the opposite of oily..it seems to have absolutely no ability to form any oil whatsoever.

There was a time when I spent quite some time reading up on curly hair and curly hair products and one thing I had read was to leave conditioner in your  hair i.e not rinse it out - they weren't talking about leave in conditioner, just normal conditioner you use when you wash your hair after shampooing. I tried this many times and to be honest it works very well but then a hairdresser once pointed out that it was probably damaging my hair and causing product buildup leading to an inability for my hair to grow properly (in fact my hair was splitting). 

I moved on to leave in conditioners but they just never seemed to provide enough conditioning, hair still seemed dry, frizz still appeared. LABELM UK recently suggested to me at LFW that I try their leave in conditioner and I have to say it's great. I got it from LABELM Malta when I got back. It's not sticky but at the same time does the job ..it even seems to somehow hold the curl. I used it when I snapped that photo above (I did use other styling products that I normally use (specifically Bumble and Bumble hair creme and John Frieda Dream curls on that day) but it was a really windy day and whilst normally the curls would have dried out in all that wind ..they didn't - yipeee !

Method of Application - just worked into hair after shampooing and conditioning and then continued styling as normal.

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