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By BR Kellie and BR Zoe
Kellie and Zoe are putting the L'Oreal Paris ELVIVE Extraordinary Clay range through its paces. Usually the daily hair washers in the crew, they're going to find out if the hero product, the Clay Mask can live up to its claim of rebalancing oily roots. Which means, they won't be washing their hair for five days! Day 3 and they would usually be greasy haired gals by now...and yet...
KELLIE - DAY 3 - Oil, wherefore art thee?
Who knew taking part in a five day hair challenge could be so nerve-wracking? I woke up this morning scared to look at my hair. Surely it was going to be ridiculously oily and that I'd still have today, then two more days to get through, and I'd have to do them with horrid hair. I mean, I can wear hats, but I'm not a huge hat person. And scarves just slip off my head - I think I have a weird shaped head.
So it was much fear that I faced the mirror...and holy moly...it wasn't even at the usual day two stage of oiliness, where there's the hint of oil and you end up washing your hair because you know what's to come. It was just...hair.
By mid-afternoon I had noticed some oiliness had appeared around the front of my face, which is where I usually see oil, albeit 30 hours after washing, not 54 hours. So I took to the oil with the dry shampoo. I loooooove the scent of this! And I especially adore the way it doesn't leave a white sheen on my brunette hair. It's unlike other dry shampoos I've used as it has to be left to dry for two minutes before it's brushed through - but the important thing is, it works! Oil tamed!
And look... here's a rare picture of a Pixie with her hair loose. And I'm standing in front of my LOVE sign at home because so far I'm in love with this range!
ZOE DAY 3 - Erm, where's the oil at?
So here we are, 48 hours since I last washed my hair.
I woke up this morning with no oil in sight, but I was sure I'd start getting a bit greasy through the day so I wore my hair up in a pony. (Oily girls, you feel me right? When oil is on route you do not wear your hair down!)
By 7pm tonight (Thursday), my hair was looking, well, ok-ish actually. A wee bit of oil around my hair line, but nothing major and frankly nothing worthy of a hair wash. Which I'm not going to lie, felt strange. I was looking at my hair and I knew it didn't need washing, but after years of going no more than 36 hours max it felt odd. Old habits die hard I guess.
So to appease my inner 'must-wash' I decided to crack out the dry shampoo. Now probably because I'm a daily hair washer I have to confess...I've never used dry shampoo before! EVER. I wasn't sure what to expect but I had Kellie and Nat's warnings in my head. "Do not over spray, you'll coat your hair in the powder."
The dry shampoo smells as fresh as the other products and yeah, you spray it, leave it, and brush it through. And...well...
WHAT WITCHCRAFT IS THIS?! Look at my before and after. So with a spritz and brush my slightly oily, majorly pony-bumped hair looks like it's just been washed and blown out!!
I would take this hair out on the town. For real, it's smooth, it's soft, it doesn't feel bitty or gunky. With one fine misting, I am a dry shampoo convert. Anyhoo, it's time to put on my PJs and watch some telly - let's see how I'm doing 72 hours post hair wash hey? Talk tomorrow! xx
I wonder if the dry shampoo works better when paired with the rest of the range. I bought it two weeks ago to replace my old faithful and have to admit I hated it and my hair still looked greasy after application. It smells nice and leaves no white cast to my hair but did not actually work for me.