Hair Oils: Love// Like// Hate

Moroccanoil: £30.45 // Mythic Oil: £13.95 // Coconut Milk: £5.99

Okay, so hair oils have been floating around the beauty world for about a year or so now, and if you have't already worked them into your general hair-care routine, do so now! They will revolutionize your life, trust me.

I have naturally very thick, wild and frizzy hair, which I have also damaged a hell of a lot over the years from bleaching, dying, heat styling and backcombing, and using Moroccanoil has made the most difference to the manageability of my hair. I first bought this last year, and instantly fell in love. The oil smooths onto the hair easily, with a few pumps covering my entire head. It absorbs fairly quickly and smells lovely! The main advantage that I have found is that it eradicates frizz, defines my natural curls and makes my hair look a whole lot healthier. Also it can be used as a treatment, so you know that it is helping to heal at the same time as all those other lovely benefits! After trying (and for the most part failing) to find a cheaper alternative that is just as good, I recently repurchased, and whilst it is a little expensive, I believe you can't afford not to have it, and I will definitely be repurchasing 'till kingdom come! I really think you do get what you pay for here :)

On the cheaper side, is a product that I have liked a lot over the past few months, but just isn't quite as good as Moroccanoil. L'Oreal Professionel's Mythic Oil has more of a serum consistency, and does do much of the same job, except to a lower standard. Judging it without trying to compare it, I would say that it is a very good hair product for after-shower hair prep. However when it comes to maintaining my hair, it isn't amazing and starts to leave a greasy looking residue. I have used most of the bottle though, and for the price I do think it is a very lovely product!

Okay so Organix Nourishing Coconut Milk is technically an 'anti-breakage serum' not oil, but it lists, very overtly, the inclusion of coconut oil in the formula, and this is why I have put is next to these two 'genuine' oils. First up I would like to comment that the smell of this is divine, and I will keep the product purely for if I want to maybe put the tiniest amount on the ends of my hair just to smell it. Apart from the smell however, I hate this product. The consistency is definitely serum standard, but even for a serum is uber sticky and a little doesn't go very far, as opposed to my beloved Aussie serums. As soon as you put it in your hair it looks greasy, weighed down and lank. It feels like it is not doing anything to help 'nourish your hair', as it claims to do. I would really not recommend this serum / oil / hair product whatever you want to call it! I bought it blind, which is something I never normally do, as I usually am a slave to reading reviews, but I love coconut oil (I used to plaster pure coconut oil on my hair during the height of it's damage) and the brand really caught my eye. I am severely disappointed in this product and shan't buy any more of Organix's products  unless I hear some fantabulous reviews!

All in all I would recommend Moroccanoil and Mythic Oil, and the range in price there means that depending on funds, I will be repurchasing both :)

Beauty Review: L'Oréal Studio Matt & Messy Salt Spray

      Have you seen the adverts for L'Oréal Paris' Matt & Messy range? It's a really well put together ad campaign, and the girl's hair in it is beautiful! Anyway, so I wanted to try this product out having seen the adverts for a long time, and finally, when I was home for my reading week, I went to Sainsburys and picked up a bottle for around £3- £4, I can't quite remember exactly! 

      The aim of this Salt Spray is to "Get tousled, textured hair for a sexy beach look". You can spray it on dry hair or after washing, and the way you scrunch it into your hair (or twist sections) will determine how 'tousled' the effect is. 

      I personally like this product. The effect however is varied: when I scrunched it into wet hair it made my hair messy yet curly, when I twisted it individual sections when wet it made my curls fairly defined, but when I scrunched it onto dry hair I felt my hair felt quite frizzy as opposed to tousled. The images below show each type of effect (please excuse my facial expressions and shameless selfies!) :

         Two things that I really like about it is the level of hold it gives and the immediacy of the effects. As soon as you spray it in you can feel it de-shining your hair and becoming 'Matt & Messy', and  found that each effect lasted as until I washed my hair next. In these ways, I guess it is safe to say it does what it says on the bottle!

       Another thing is that the liquid itself isn't that sticky, but you can feel it doing it's job.
I would say that the main downsides are how varied the effects it gives are, and the scent, which smells of hairspray!

       All in all though, I do like this product and if you want to enhance your curls (or create them if you have straighter hair than mine) this is a good product for laid-back hairstyles! Also the varied effects means that it is versatile, so I guess the more I use it and get used to what application gives what effect this will become a positive!



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