NOT THE POLISHED ARTICLE...... (Fructis Style Polishing Wax)

Member Name: Gingaro

Product:	Fructis Style Polishing Wax
Date:	08/08/05 (712 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Quite cheap (when on offer) and smells lovely (after the initial strong fragrance)

Disadvantages: Hard to apply, doesn't hold spikes in place that well and makes hair look greasy

On impulse I recently purchased the Fructis Style Polishing Wax, allegedly an extreme styling wax from Garnier. The price? £1.79 for a 150 ml tub. This to me seemed a little on the cheap side but it was on offer. On further investigation it would seems that this product would usually retail for £3.49!

Actual Garnier products are widely available from supermarkets and large chemists. Personally I have only ever tried their extreme glue which I found wonderful when trying to style rather long spikes in my hair and on the back of this wonderful product I decided to cast aside my past fears of hair wax in general and take the plunge.

Fructis Style is easily identified on the shelf, coming in a lime green tub that draws the eye immediately to the shelf. The marketing spiel that comes with the wax states that it contains fruit micro waxes that will help to provide extreme, gravity defying styles that will remain solid with shine.

After washing and drying my hair I took the tub in hand and rubbed a blob of the wax onto my hand. This was not an easy process, the wax was very hard and it took a few minutes of rubbing it between my palms to soften it up into a consistency that could be applied to my hair without large blobs remaining. The smell of green apples was evident on opening and applying the wax and I have to say it was far more overpowering than the other Fructis products I had used in the past.

Rubbing the wax into my hair was fairly straightforward and I managed to style a few spikes into my hair. The spikes themselves appeared to be rather large and clumpy with a white shiny residue. With much more rubbing between my fingertips the residue disappeared but I wasn’t happy with the style at all, it was nothing like how I usually style my hair with gels.

The spikes that had been styled into my hair did remain upright for a few hours but my hair looked incredibly greasy as though I hadn’t washed it for a week or so. I was not impressed.

After trying the product again on three separate occasions, once after having my hair cut shorter to approx 2 inches in length I am still not impressed and have reverted to the much cheaper and better Shockwaves gel. This may smell nice after getting over the initial strength of the fragrance but it is a nightmare to actually style hair and leaves it looking like your hair needs a damn good wash.

NOT RECOMMENDED

Thanks for taking the time to read and rate.


Steve :o)

Summary: A crap product that is far more expensive that its better rivals