Monday May 07, 2012   

A little break from travel photos for a look at what filled up my suitcase.

Starting with firming creams then shampoos followed by hair care/perfumes and body lotions.

I ditched a lot of the packaging for some of this stuff to save on room & weight in my luggage. Helpful tip I guess?

I bought a new body roller. An upgrade from my previous plastic ones but not quite as nice as the original ReFa. I was going to buy the ReFa but it’s $250 and I just felt so silly trying to justify the cost. This one costs about 1/5 instead and I’m really loving it. I’ve been using it every night to counteract swelling.

This is essentially Nivea’s state-side discontinued “My Silhouette” Happy I found it.

I used 1/3 of the Angel Heart Hair Wash at the hotel. Mostly to get it weighing a little less. It re-locks for easy transport! It’s a pretty OK shampoo. Nothing special but didn’t weigh my hair down & smells very lovely!

Hair spray I used while on my trip. ケープ Free Arrange. It’s OK. No strong odor and has a less stiff, “free” hold so it’s good for down do’s. To be fair it was raining 1/2 the time so my hair wasn’t gonna look too hot either way.

Hair fragrances
I only purchased rose-scented ones and there were A LOT of various brands. Seems like every brand had one and then some. Baby Veil, Organic Rose Water Mist, Jewel Jouer in Mimi Torte.

The Loretta is a hairspray for “fluffy” hair looks. The products of this brand are decorated beautifully and have a scent of rose and lavender.

Prostyle Morning Reset Water in rose, Liese Curling Water, Liese Designing Jelly (has a stiff hold,) then some rose shower wash & powder spray.

“Essence for Princess Perfect Hair”
SOLD! lolol

Also the box for this is gorgeous. It’s hair essence so it adds shine and softens plus gives off a scent of rose all day.

Next to that, the SALA Hair Cologne is what I’m currently using daily. I’d say the scent lasts about 6~8 hours.

But the commercial, OMG this is me…

Next to SALA’s is Ma Cherie’s Hair Fragrance. The Sexy Girl Hair Cologne. I didn’t think Sexy Girl had a rose one at first because their pink bottle is “Candy Berry” scent and I just naturally looked to pink bottles for the rose scents. Finally I took a moment to look through all their fragrances and realized the purple can was the rose. Serves me right for thinking rose = pink 100% of the time.

Bewitch in Love hair body cologne and more stuff from Pink-G brand which I mentioned before here.

Then some Body Fantasies in Rose Petal which is a scent I had never seen in the states before. It’s a mix of rose & baby powder. Baby Powder isn’t among my favorite scents but it worked in this case. I bought it for something I could take with me on the plane (under 3oz) and was a strong scent since I would be essentially off & on planes for 24hours straight. Apparently this scent won some 2011 Yahoo Beauty Award. My friend told me I smelled good so I guess it works

Then just some Rose of Heaven stuff & Happy Bath Day body powder spray.

Liese Night Care Whip. This sounded intriguing. You blow dry it into your hair at night and it’s supposed to help you wake up with ready to go voluminous hair. I haven’t used it yet and the reviews at cosme.net have me a little doubtful but I still wanted to try it out.

I regret not buying the rose toner from this line after reading reviews that it was amazing. Either way, I did get the rosewater hair mist & this moisturizer.

That’s it for now~

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Monday March 26, 2012   

Had a chance to use the Kao’s Essential Ultra Honey and Shea Butter hair mask I got from Yesstyle! (official link) Wow it does make a difference! 

It’s easy to use. Shampoo your hair, rinse, apply mask cream for 5 minutes, rinse.

Smells heavenly. Plus it made my hair silky soft again. I used the mask then blow dried my hair immediately after without using any voluminizing product. The mask really did add volume to my hair! Really impressed since I always have to get body from a styling product. It left my hair smelling wonderful and also added back rich shine. It revitalized my hair color from October too. It had mostly faded and matched my roots decently. But after using the hair mask it was much more obvious in my highlights just where my roots began! Haha. Double-edged sword. This would have been a blessing in earlier months. It’s been a few days and the rich shine isn’t as noticeable now. So I could see how this would be a good weekly-use product. 

Essential Damage Care Nuance Airy Intensive Hair Mask
Intensive care for severely damaged hair, without the heaviness.
Enriched with 3x more High Purity Honey and Milk Protein to protect and strengthen.
Shea Butter repairs and moisturizes.
Gives limp and flat hair a light and bouncy feel.

As for the flyaways, I’d say I saw about a 50% reduction! Others mentioned that the Rich Premier version of the mask is best for severely damaged hair. I worried it would be too heavy for my limp, flat hair so I tried the Airy one first. I’ll try the other one some other time. I have noticed less breakage though so that will help with flyaways in the long run. 

All in all I really like this hair mask. I feel it did a better job than the Tsubaki Shining or Lux treatments that I’ve used in the past. I also used Aussie 3 Minute Miracle in the past and I feel this worked better. 

I’m just glad it worked as well as a leave-in conditioner without any of the heaviness that usually weighed my hair down flat! Plus my hair was nice and tangle free!

Quite pleased!

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