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My Hair – My Vanity

Posted August 30th, 2011 in Fashion and Beauty, Louisa, My Style, Reviews. Tagged: .

Are you anything like me when it comes to hair? Do you find that if you feel good about your hair you are more likely to feel good about everything else about your appearance?

My poor mother (Hi Mum!) can testify to the tears I’ve shed about my hair over the years. It’s thick, hard to “do” and there’s a lot of it.

I get to the hair dresser about twice year and so, in a vain effort to compensate, have been splurging on Salon Shampoo & Conditioner (namely Aveda and Kerastase) for the past few years. Even though it costs $100 it also lasts around 6-8 months so it’s not as much as it sounds and it makes me feel like I’m doing something to look after my hair.

A few weeks ago I received some Pantene in the mail.

If there is one supermarket brand of shampoo I do not buy it’s Pantene. I’ve heard all the tales about how it coats and damages your hair and that Pantene is like the wolf in sheeps clothing of shampoo.

No way!

However. I didn’t buy this shampoo, it was sent to me. So that’s different right? Having run out of the Salon Shampoo and being too tight to buy anymore I decided to give it a go.

Oh. My. Goodness.

I am in love. My hair! Oh, my hair! It’s no so much that it feels lovely (though it does) it’s that my hair now does itself. I wash, mousse and maybe do a little rough blow dry and voila!

Pantene

Those photos may not rock your world but I have done nothing to my hair in either of them aside from get up. I haven’t brushed my hair, I haven’t styled it. Nothing. I just got up. To me, that’s pretty darn fantastic!

And in the name of keeping it real, here’s a photo I took right now – total bed hair, still in my PJ’s having washed my hair last night…

Pantene Nature Fusion

 

The range I’ve been trying is…

Pantene Nature Fusion
 Pantene Nature Fusion Shampoo & Conditioner (and some other thing I haven’t tried yet)
Wella Pro Volume Mousse Wella Pro Series Volume Mousse

And at about $14 for the set that’s much more friendly for the hip pocket. Of course, I’ve now run out of the shampoo and it’s only been 6weeks or so which means that over 6 months it costs more like $56 which is still half the price of Aveda or Kerastase (though I do think I got almost a year out of the Aveda once so…)

The real win for me has been that I don’t have worry about “doing” my hair. Being time poor,and having spent my whole life trying – unsuccessfully – to figure out how to do my hair, this is HUGE for me (and why I decided to write about it).

What hair products do you use? Have you tried or would you try Pantene?

 

I received the Pantene and Wella Volume Mousse and a few other items free of charge. I was not asked to write about them, nor was I paid to write this post.

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  2. I was using pantene and loved it but then once I got married I tried to do some cost cutting and just use palmolive. It really doesn’t really cut it, but at this point in time, it keeps the hair clean.

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  3. Your hair looks great!!

    I hear you on the hair issues. I got my hair done (cut, colour, foils, treatment, straightening) on the weekend. It looked awesome!! Until I first washed it. Now if I straighten it, it will again look awesome! But a) I don’t really know how to do it and b) I don’t have the time (although I did think I could do it the night before as I tend to shower at night rather than the morning and it looks good for a few days once straightened – until I wet it – so can use shower cap – but again, that takes my precious night time). I’m normally a brush and tie my hair back kinda girl, but today I thought I would wear it down after all the comments I got yesterday (still looking awesome from the hair dresser). Well not a good idea. In it’s natural state it’s a little wavy and fluffy…so today I feel like a fluff ball!! I have a hair tie here and my be using it later!

    I’ve been using Wella shampoo and conditioner- for coloured hair. It seems good but I wonder if there is something different that can help the fluffyness.

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    • Thanks Bec, I totally hear you about the frizz! I go for a lion frizz look in my true au naturale state – not pretty ;) I’ve been given so many products from hairdressers to try to deal with the frizz and none have really worked. Oh, and by “given” I mean I’ve forked out $30-$50 to try them! I don’t know it if helps but I always ask the hairdresser not to straighten my hair because apart from not really liking how it looks on me I also can’t replicate and I feel like when they cut it to curl a bit it seems easier to manage…
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  4. Isn’t it fantastic when you find a shampoo you love!!! Although I am very jealous of you with lots of hair. I am breast feeding for the 3 time and my hair falls out in clumps so it is so very very thin now I would love some extra hair. Although I just started a Nu Skin shampoo which has made it at least look healthy!!

    Well done on the find!
    Jen

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  7. I’ve just switched back to Pantene and I am liking it a whole lot more than others. It will remain to be seen if I have an allergic reaction to it in a month or so (I usually have to switch shampoo and conditioner every 6 weeks), but until then, it’s great.
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  8. I use Pantene as well…I too hate my hair – it’s thick and goes frizzy! The more stressed I am whilst trying to dry and straighten it, the worse it turns out! I have to be completely relaxed to get it looking half decent which is probably why the only time it looks fabulous is when the hairdresser does it! In Winter I only wash it once or twice a week so I don’t have to dry it and style it! Congrats on finding a solution that works for you – I understand the excitement! :)

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  10. Oh I wish my hair was thick and hard to do. I have the opposite problem…..mine is thin and impossible to do! *sigh* After a life time of neglect and indifference and horrible hair days I have recently decided that I will spoil myself and go to the hairdressers every 8 weeks for a cut and colour. My 2nd appointment is this week and I am looking forward to my 2 hours of pampering, trashy magazines and celebrity gossip :) I have used Pantene before and liked it. At the moment I am using Tresemme because it came in a gigantic bottle with a pump on the end which is very handy. The bigger the bottle the better because I HATE running out of shampoo!

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    • Yes, love a big bottle! Every year I go to the hairdresser around Feb and say ‘this year I’ll go every 8 week’s and I do – once! Sigh :) one day I’ll get there. At the moment I just go if there is something I want look extra nice for. Hope you have a great time being pampered this week!!
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  11. I totally hear you about the feeling better about your appearance if your hair is okay. I’m so slack in regards to myself but the one thing I’ve been trying to do this year is get my hair done regularly. Makes me so happy after it has been done. I think the whole thing about hair dressers not liking pantene is because it takes just a little bit longer for dye to set in your hair if you use pantene. So you are sitting in the salon for longer = less turnover for them. I like how smooth with no flyaways my hair is when I use pantene :-)
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  12. I’ve been going ‘no poo’ – mostly to avoid the chemicals in shampoo and conditioner, but also because people raved so much about giving them up. I used to use shampoo, conditioner, mousse and blow-dry every morning, and my hair would be looking limp and greasy by the evening/next morning.

    Now I just use baking soda and vinegar once a week. It sounds really weird, but my hair has more volume and doesn’t get nearly as yuck as it used to. (In fact, I had a number of people ask if I’d done anything to my hair because it looked so nice.) I haven’t used mousse all year, and only told Tim a few months in – he was really surprised because he hadn’t noticed a difference at all.

    http://www.naturemoms.com/no-shampoo-alternative.html

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  13. Ever since going to that PG Hair event I’ve been using Pantene again and from there I got on to their Clinicare range which does AMAZING things for my incredibly chemically damaged/ pregnancy ravaged hair.

    Side Note: Do you know that in my reader it always says (title unknown) for your posts? I use google reader. Just thought I’d let you know in case you weren’t aware.
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  14. I’m a panten girl too, although this is a range we haven’t had in the UK yet. If it’s that good i hope it is launched here soon. I have tried them all. My problem is i have fine limp hair that does nothing. The pantene body and bounce does just that :-).
    Enjoy it hun…

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  16. Louisa you have my heartfelt sympathy honestly :0)

    I have thick unruly hair which drives me insane most of the time yet so many people say to me “oh you are soooo lucky” lol. You are totally right though if my hair feels a mess, so do I and even though my children are now teenagers I remember the times I would leave the house for someone to then point out that I had breakfast cereal in my hair or worse!!

    Glad to hear you’ve found an answer to your dilemma – take care.

    Tracy
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