Hi everyone!
I'm back with another beauty review for you today! I have been really looking forward to trying the new Living Proof hair care line! It's been out for quite a while now, but it is a bit on the pricier side ($24 for a full size bottle of shampoo alone) and I haven't had the chance to really splurge on it. But, on Black Friday, Sephora had a small little trial size kit on sale for $10! I thought it was a great opportunity to give this brand a shot! My hair was in quite a state (knotty, dry, blah in general) so I waited until I got may hair cut to try it. Is that weird? I didn't want to waste good hair products on my ratty hair! Haha! (Am I the only person who does things like this?).
So, with my hair freshly cut and looking/ feeling much better and healthier, I decided it was a perfect time to suds my strands up! I used about a quarter- half dollar sized dollop of the shampoo, and felt like it wasn't sudsing up at all really. Womp. I went back for a little more and still didn't feel like it was getting my hair really lathered well or clean for that matter.
But.. I carried on. I rinsed it out and went on to the conditioner. Meh. I was very unimpressed. I didn't feel like it did anything. It was almost as if I couldn't get it to work into my hair. I even tried combing it through. Nothing. I let it sit for a few minutes. No improvement. So I rinsed it out. Knots. Galore. Literally clumps of hair sticking together and pulling out of my head when I tried to run my hands though my hair. I was so defeated. My hair is VERY fine, so typically conditioner tends to make my hair too slick, or greasy and heavy. Not this stuff. My hair felt like tangled Christmas lights.
I got out the shower, towel dried my hair, and tried to run my comb through it as I typically would. Nope. Knots. Freaking. Everywhere. It was actually painful. I used my Not Your Mother's Leave-in Conditioner and that seemed to help a bit. I let it air dry for about 20 minutes and then used a dime sized dollop of the 5-in-1 Styling Treatment and ran it through my hair. Also not impressed. It did absolutely nothing for me. My hair felt thick (not in a good way) and weighed down. Zero volume, zero smoothness, and it still felt like my brush was struggling to comb through my hair! And just forget about the round brush.. that was a whole other level of failure. There was no way my hair could even cooperate with my round brush to try to oomph up the "promised" volume.
Lets just say, overall it was not a good hair day. At all. I even went so far as to try everything a second time a few days after my first experience. I was seriously hoping it was just a fluke (or an actual bad hair day). Nope. Same. Exact. Experience. So, I not only had to endure one bad hair day, but TWO! I am so disappointed in this hair care line, and I really wanted to love it. But it just doesn't work for me. I am glad that I didn't splurge on the full size products and I definitely won't purchase it again.
I'd love to hear if anyone else had similar experiences with this brand, OR if you love it please share! Maybe it just wasn't meant to be for me, but is indeed a good product for some! Everyone's hair is different, after all!
♥ Nichole
*The trial set I ordered is no longer available, but I have listed a similar set as well as the full sized product links.
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I got the same set and I just thought maybe my hair didn't worth with it! My hair is naturally really thick and wavy and I literally had to soak my hair in olive oil overnight just to ATTEMPT to get through the knots!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness it's not just me! I was so excited to try it and had such high hopes! It was the worst! The knots were so painful, and I have very thin and fine hair! Moroccan oil finally helped me out overnight too! Crazy! Lol!
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