Blonde hair: update + my (new) favourite hair care products!

Nothing is more damaging that dying your hair? Think again! Bleaching is extremely, extremely damaging.
I bleached my hair once and I had to chop off all of my long locks. This week, after letting my hair rest for about five months (which is a very long time to not do anything to it) I dyed it again a few days ago. Luckely my hair is healthy again, but I still want to take good care of it.
Today I'm giong to show you a couple of products that have helped me maintain my healthy hair!

The conditioner on the left is actually by a local shop, as well as the spray next to the Dove conditoner.
Basically, it contains argan oil and it just helps my hair repair. The next product, the bright yellow shampoo is by Schwarzkopf. It's the Gliss Kur hair repair shampoo with liquid keratin. I have had several of these shampoos and I liked them but I got this one this time because it has oil in it.

The next conditioner, in the red tube, is by Herbal Essences. It should make the end of my hair more beautiful and less damaged. I think this conditioner smells so good and makes my hair feel so soft!

I also have a Dove conditioner for coloured hair. I don't use it very often, I mean, it should make coloured hair last longer but I don't think it work for blonde hair.

On top I just have my Keraste hair oil, which has been a life saver! I've used it sooo much over the last year and it's still not empty! I love this thing!

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed! 

Are there any products that you would recommend for damaged hair?

My view on the "tangle teaser"!

Sometimes there are trends that knock you off your feet. People are all over the place about it, bloggers are always writing about it and it seems like you're the only one who hasn't got it. Sometimes I don't think a product is worth the hype, sometimes I think it is.
These last few months I have been feeling a little bit overwelmed by the "Tangle Teaser". This is a brush made out of plastic, and they say it's good because it damaged your hair less.
I have very sensitive hair that gets damaged easily, so after doubting I decided to go ahead and give it a shot! I asked my hairdresser for a tangle teaser, went straight home and tried it! You can read about my opinion right now! 

 

So this is what mine looks like. It has a handle, which not all of the tangle teasers do but I find it easier to work with. I actually went to two places and the first one asked €17 for a teeny tiny one, the second one asked €12 for this larger one so that's the one I got. I do think that €12 is still quite a lot of money for a simple piece of plastic but okay.

That day I got my hair cut and put into model. The pictures below are from the day after - I woke up, didn't do anything about my hair and then tried 'tangle teasing' one side.

This is what it looks like! I think it's pretty obvious which side is good and which side is the side that still hasn't been combed through, right? It went so smooth and fluently! I love it!
The thing is that now that my hair isn't being perfectly styled and dried at the salon, I find that it's a little bit harder to get trough! Especially the ends of my hair are hard to get right.
I can brush them and it looks good, but I feel like the tangles aren't all out. So I use my tangle teaser for everything exept the bottom, where most of the tangles normally are. If you do dry your hair all the time, you will get through more easily, but I try not to use a lot of heat on my hair (same reason: damaging).

Overall I'm quite happy with this product - as you can see in the pictures it did it's job well and if it will damage my hair less, that's even more perfect. I do think that the price is a little bit too high, I mean €12 for a silly piece of plastic? 

If I didn't "need" it, I don't think I would buy it, but I don't regret getting it. I would especially recommend this to the damaged hair ladies out there that need some extra care and softness for their hair- just like me!

Thanks for reading! Have a good day and stay safe!

Kérastase Elixer Kultime Review

Hello you guys! I have written about hair oils quite some times on this blog. Most of the time I tell you I don't like to use it because it makes my hair really greasy really fast. In believe I got this Kérastase hair oil in my last Deauty box in December and I was like "not again, I'm not going to use this". But since I've been trying hairstyles a lot lately, and I've been curling and teasing my hair quite a lot, I noticed that I couldn't keep doing this to my hair without damaging it or making it really dry. So I had to find a solution. My hairdresser has used oil on my hair before drying it, just a little bit to the ends, so I thought that maybe it would be a good idea to prevent dry ends.

This Kérastase hair oil is called the "Elixer Kultime", it's a radiating and beautifying scented oil for colour-treated hair.
I normally don't like scented products because you never know if you're going to like the smell or not and if you don't like it, it's really hard to try and use the product up, but I do like this scent. It smells like my hairdresser's products: nothing too extravagent and also you'll probably love this smell when you're 15, but 'adult' women will like it as well.

Another thing I like about this hair oil is that it's for colour-treated hair! After all that's very important to me because I have red hair and I have to be careful with the colours I use, so that I don't strip my hair of it's colour.
The bottle holds 50 ml and I think I'll be able to use it for a very long time since I only use a teeny tiny drop every time I washed my hair.

I know I didn't give hair oils much credit in the past but I think I might at some point ajust my opinion about them, after all, oils have their charms too!
Do you like using hair oils? Which one do you use?

Have a lovely day!

Schwarzkopf Professional expert mousse - vibrant red hair!

Hey everyone! I hope you all had a lovely day yesterday! Today I'm doing a review on my newest red hair product.
It's by Schwarzkopf Professional and I got it at my hairdressers the other day. The bottle says: "Igora expert mousse 5-88". It's a semi permanent mousse color. I don't dye my hair myself, but I did want to try this mousse. (I also heard that, when you dye your hair yourself, it's best to use a semi permanent product.)

Okay so to start off, a little update on my red hair. If you really want a bright, vibrant red, you have to continue to dye it very frequently (which means it's quite expensive). Red hair is hard to keep and you have to change a lot of things about your hair routine. Now, I'm rather happy with the results I've had with my red hair, it's almost been one month since getting my hair dyed in a brighter red colour and my roots are barely visible.

This picture was taken a week ago.
The reason I didn't take one today is because I'm sick and I look aweful.
Please excuse me. Anyways, this is how my hair looks now.

I'm convinced that it also has to do with this mousse I've been using. Let me tell you, it's only a little bottle and it's pricey, but if keeping my hair vibrant red and nice means using this (and only having to dye my hair once a month or maybe once in six weeks- which is exeptional for people with red hair), I will continue to use it. So far, I have used it two or three times.

It's simple to use. You wash your hair, dry it a bit with a towel, shake the bottle and then apply this mousse.
If you leave it on 3-5 minutes, it'll act like a colour refleshing and conditioning mousse. If you leave it on between 15-20 minutes, it's an intensive colour treatement. Please do be careful. I noticed that my hands look really red after applying this, so don't touch anything if you want to avoid stains. I wash my hands right after applying the mousse and leave it in for about 15 minutes. Also, make sure not to wear your favourite clothes. Even if your hair is towel dried, it might still drip a bit and you don't want to get stains all over your prettiest shirt.
After the 15 minutes, I rinse until the water runs clear.

I am really happy with this product (of course I do use other products like red hair conditioners and such to protect my hair colour). I do admit that it's a bit expensive, but I knew from the start that red hair needs to be touched up often and that I was going to need more pricey, special products.

The bottle is almost $25,30 (which is around €19)


Have a great day!