Shh-shh-shh-shine on... (Charles Worthington Shine On Silkening Serum)

Member Name: zusy

Product:	Charles Worthington Shine On Silkening Serum
Date:	05/03/01 (814 review reads)
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Advantages: Super-shiny glossing, with no greasy or oily gunk weighing your hair down

Disadvantages: Are there any to having shiny hair? Perhaps, if you were climing a mountain with a close friend, and you both stumbled on a cliff side, and your friend just managed to grab your hair as they fell...but slipped off it as it was so glossy...

How do they do it? The models who flip their hair as they shimmy down the catwalk (grrrr), those superstars who pose for the cameras in their free desginer dresses, showing all their dental work and patting their perfectly groomed yet fashionably tousled glossy locks (grrr)...

Hair serums were sent to earth by hair-care angels. I first discovered this fact having used Boot's own 'Japonica' hair serum - this can be hard to get hold of sometimes, so I opted to give Charles Worthingtons' version a whirl.

Boots (not sure if any other stores have this offer, but they may well do) had a stand of mini trial sizes called 'Take Aways'. I chose six for six quid, and this product was one of them.

I love it! It smooths and glosses down the most flyaway, frizzy bits of hair, and leaves the rest perfectly shiny. It isn't at all greasy and oily, as some hair serums can be.

There are two types of serum in this range - one is for fine or flyaway hair (my hair-type), the other is more intensive, for naturally curly or permed hair.

I will definitely be buying the full sized version of this serum, although the min-size is perfect for taking on holiday, or simply trying out the product to see if it suits you first.

The trial size is a 15ml pump-bottle. This may not sound like much, but I promise you, you really only need two or three squirts at a time, so it should last you a long time.

What I like most about this serum, is the fact that it doesn't weigh your hair down and make it look lifeless. You can use it on towel-dried hair (just work a small amount through your hair) or on dry hair, to calm down individual strands that tend to 'escape'.

The blurb on the back of the bottle says it's good for "treating split ends..." I wouldn't agree with this statement. It may make your split-ends look a little less noticable (actually, a lot less noticeable, to be fair
...) but the only 'cure' for split-ends is to go for the chop.

Any product that claims to glue you hair back together is offering you a pot of fools gold... Split-ends means you are over-processing your hair and should leave it alone a bit, or that you simply need a haircut!

This is a fantastic product, the only people it wouldn't suit are those with very greasy hair. Even if you have 'normal' hair (whatever that is...) this serum is great for adding extra sheen.

If you feel like shining, give it a go. It wont make you a moviestar or supermodel, but your hair will thank you for trying it!

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