Showing posts with label L'Oreal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label L'Oreal. Show all posts

Thursday, 11 February 2010

Review: L'Oreal Elvive Nourish & Shimmer Highlights Shampoo and Conditioner

Afternoon again kittens,

I have another review to dish out :)

Naturally I have dark blonde hair almost mousy brown, my skin is too pale to go darker so I made the decision last year to go blonder but cunningly with highlights, going lighter and lighter each time I have them re-done.

The genius of having naturally dark blond hair is when my highlights grow out slightly you cant really notice the difference :) But thats not to say I am lazy.

I have tried John Frieda's Blonde option shampoos and conditioner, and I was not overly struck by them.

I have also tried V05's selection of blonde shampoos and conditioner, and was more impressed than John Freida.

Introducing L'Oreal Elvive Nourish and Shimmer Highlights Shampoo and Conditioner.

What The Company Say:

The brightness of your highlights can fade. To keep them looking their best, you need a specific, targeted care, for touchably soft hair and bright, illuminated shine.

L’Oreal Paris has created its first nourishing conditioner enriched with Royal Jelly and Brighteners that provides specific, targeted care for highlighted hair.

L’Oreal Paris has created its first nourishing conditioner enriched with Royal Jelly and Brighteners that provides specific, targeted care for highlighted hair.

My Opinion:

The scent of this shampoo and conditioner collection reminds me of Milk and Honey, and is a welcome change from the usual scent of Lemon and Camomile which alot of blonde shampoo and conditioner collections carry.

The shampoo lathers very quickly and easily worked into the hair, and full of scent. The conditioner is creamy and instantly glided through my hair, I left the conditioner on for about 3 mins and combed it through, then rinsed my hair through.

I blow dry my hair rather than letting it dry naturally as I am quite impatient, with other blonde products that I have used on my hair leave it tangled and sometimes matted, but with L'Oreal I was able to comb through my hair after I had towel dried it without much effort.

Price: £2.45 each in Boots :) 5/5

Packaging: Clean Lines, I was able to tell the difference between the shampoo and conditioner easy. Also the way the bottles are designed when they were near emptying it was easy to get the rest of the products out. 5/5 

Product: I shall be buying this again was very impressed 5/5

On a side note, for something alittle different go check out Beauty Judge, its home to review on beauty products from Highstreet to Highend. You can win free products and meet some great people on their who share the same love for Beauty Hair and Fashion:

xx

P.S. I was not approached by L'Oreal for this review nor was I given the products by the company :)


Friday, 20 November 2009

Are you more Highstreet or Highend?

I have been flicking through magazines to try and lull me off to sleep as I have a dreaded nighshift tonight. But instead of making me sleepy its just made my brain work harder.

This is an idea I have been toying with lately, I know when I sometimes read magazines (I wont name any) I see that they just give you the highend option, and if you are like me, I haven't got pots of money to play round with as I am still a student (I qualify in 7 months).

So I thought to these highend products that the magazines are spilling out, I would try and give a highstreet money saving option. We all love a cheaper option, to save money on other little luxuries such as shoes and dresses :)

Metallics have been every wear clothes, nail polishes and eyeshadows. I have been lusting after metallic eyeshadows, I have a number of gold shadows, bronze shadows...........But no silver. Here is my Highend option, Cristal Boreal eyeshadow is a dior product, as part of their Christmas 2009 looks. Its priced at a steep £19.50 for a single shadow.


Now for the Highstreet option and it comes fro L'Oreal. Here are what the L'Oreal say about their mono colour appeal shadows:

"Colour Appeal is a super smooth eye shadows designed to provide long lasting colour in a silky smooth formular. Also it doesn't crease."


This little gem will set you back back approximetly £3 - £5 a steal really.

Lip balms are a love hate relationship for me I have a tough time finding one I truly like. Highend is a Lip conditioner by Mac £10.50.

"A protective emmolient balm formulated with SPF 15, a sheer wash of colour and an all natural sheen. Conditions lips, locks in moisture. Contains almond oil, shea butter, avocado extract, wheat germ oil, vitamins a and e."



So what would be a worthy highend opponent? Sleek Pout Polishes

"Pout Polish contails an SPF 15 to protect your lips from harmful rays. Highly conditioning Pout Polish contains shea butter, almond jojoba and avocado oil to deeply nourish your lips so you can pucker up in confidence."


Have you noticed that the ingrendients are very similar to that of Mac's lip conditioners, but at £3.91 you can say no!

To finish off this post another Mac Product, in the form of theirLiquid Eyeliner. Priced at £13 its not too expensive and is a good product. Simple packaging makes it versatile.

The highstreet product is from a brand I dont really know W7, I havent heard much about them. The only place I found this product was on http://www.magicmakeup.com/. The liquid eyeliner cost less than 75% of Mac's product. This little recession busting beauty product costs a very cheap and cheerful £1.97. I know I cant believe it either!




I hope this little post has helped you, It was alot of fun to write.......I cannot believe how many beauty bargains there really are out there.

A xx