Loving it: Naked Rescue Repairing Hair Treatment

Skulking around Woolies one day, I came across this giant tub of hair treatment.

"Hmm," I thought, "this looks promising..."

My skin and scalp have been all kinds of crazy this year and decided to rebel against most commercial hair mask treatments. L'Oreal, Sunsilk, Dove... You name it, my skin had a issue with it. I either got rashes or pimples on my scalp. Urgh.

Favourite Things: My Top 6 Hair Treatments

Helloo lovelies,

The good thing of having gone through a phase of buying insane amounts of haircare stuff, is that you will actually find some products that your hair just loves. A short post today, I thought I'd just share them with you.

Before we start, just a note to say that I have normal to greasy hair. I wash my hair on alternate days, and that's about as long as I can go without a hairwash. Anything longer and you'll think I just stepped out of the set for Grease.

Monday's Beauty Sharing: What's in your shower?

Happy Monday lovelies.

Since Monday are usually associated with the blues, I'll try to help you ladies get through today by indulging you with a little voyeurism. *Hehe*

Here, take a peak into my bathroom. And check out my crazy product line-up.

For the Wavies/ Curlies: L'Oreal Elvive Re-nutrition Hair Mask

As faithful Loverly readers know, I went on a Curly Girl quest a few months ago in an attempt to make peace with my frightfully frizzy hair. While it has mostly been successful -- I now get straightish hair or waves 9 days out of 10 -- the search for great curly products hasn't been too great. I have found a great (cheap) conditioner for co-washing but have yet to find my ideal hair mask and conditioner which doesn't break my budget.

So, I was both delighted and dismayed when I found out that L'oreal hair masks are all CG-friendly -- not a hint of 'cones or 'xanes in the ingredient list. I was delighted because L'oreal fell nicely into my budget. And dismayed because L'oreal does animal testing.

(I really do try to avoid buying products from companies that animal test. My conscience pricks each time I get a new tube of sunscreen from Olay or Neutrogena. I love the stuff but why why why must they compromise my principles?)

Looking at my lifeless ends, I decided to go against my ethics and buy a pot of this. Vanity, how you do a girl in!

If you are looking for moisture, this mask is IT. I have used other L'Oreal hair masks from the Anti-Breakage and Smooth Intense range before and they do not provide the moisture I get from this particular version. Even without another curl product, I get lovely clumping once I get out of the shower. I have always heard that honey works for curls and this may have proved it.

I even used this after swimming the other day and was pleasantly surprised to find that my hair felt soft and moisturised enough to create loose waves. With the other two masks, my hair usually feels a little coarse to the touch. Chlorine is really kills my hair and it takes ages for it to go back to normal. No such problem with this mask!

As much as I like the Re-nutrition mask and what it does for my curls, I won't be repurchasing again. Not because of the animal testing thing, but because my skin breaks out into big red rashes each time I use it. Ouchie. I wonder if the strong royal jelly scent has anything to do with it.

I strongly recommend a patch test before giving this a go.

L'Oreal Re-nutrition Deep Nourishing Mask retails at AUD 11.50 for 200ml.