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Goldwell Trendline Straightener
by roses28
**** Introduction ****
On my last visit to the hairdressers i asked my stylist to recommend a product that will tame and help straighten my hair, she recommended this goldwell trendline straightening balm.
**** The Product ****
This comes in a 150ml bottle with a pump action application nozzle, only one ... small pump of product is enough to give my whole head enough product to do the job.
This is used to help tame and smooth difficult hair types, it is applied to wet towel dried hair and then styled as usual. apply a small amount of the product to the palms of your hands and massage into your hairs mid lengths and ends.
**** The Results ****
At first this can feel very sticky on my hair but once it has penetrated my hair and it has been styled it is fine.
This leaves my hair silky smooth with a brilliant shine and it also helps me straighten it to perfection which is something I have never been able to do without a hairdresser before.
**** Price ****
This goldwell product can be bought form many hair salons and also sally stores, and will cost you roughly 8.95 but the prices do vary as you do have to pay vat in certain places.
**** My Views ****
I am very happy with this product it does exactly want it says on the bottle, may hair is now managable and easy to straighten which has made my visits to the hairdressers less frequant therefore saving me money in the long run.
If you have wild unruly hair then this is the product for you, as it really helps and helps fight against humidity so I can now leave the house on wet rainy days.
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Goldwell Duel Senses Rich Repair Shampoo
by I-tried-this
Goldwell Dual Senses Rich Repair.
OK. So I am lucky when it comes to hair care- I seem to have picked up some great bargains so far this year, and one line I really want to recommend is called Rich Repair and is by Goldwell who are a salon brand (this means you wont find it in Boots or Tesco's etc, just on the internet ... and in salons- and of course, on flee-bay). Or if you're lucky like me, you spot it free with a 6 months magazine subscription for £6. (Sorry folks, the offers over now.)
I am going to review the set as a group here as I never did try them one at a time, and I don't really tend to think hair products mix well across the brands anyway- but that's my own understanding, others are open to disagree!
I have done a little research and found that the range can be purchased, full size being 250mls from around £7 up to £14 which is expensive, but worth it, personally? It works better the John Frieda and Aussies hair masque which had been some of my previous favourites. The set is designed to repair damaged hair.
The set I have contains a shampoo, a conditioner and a conditioning masque- now here's where a whole new world opened up to me- the treatment masque is NOT a conditioner- its used after the shampoo, but before the conditioner. You leave it in for a bit, but its not for using by itself as it wont actually condition your hair like a conditioner does, it will add proteins and stuff instead, its a bit like a vitamin pill, you take it with food to make it work, not instead of food as it wont work or wont work as well. I didn't know that- the result was extra strong Barbie hair- strong where it hadn't been, smooth like it hadn't been, but NOT soft and NOT easily brushed- learn from my mistakes, don't' make them!
The shampoo appears to look like any other shampoo; a just off white iridescent type gel/thick liquid and smells like a non descript shampoo. It lathers really well, I have shoulder length hair and I am able to get away with a blob the size of a 50p coin when sitting in my hand. It rinses out quickly and also very well.
The hair masque follows next. Once the shampoo has been rinsed out, I scoop out double the amount that I would have put in of shampoo. The tub it comes in says to leave it in for 60 seconds, but I do think the longer you leave it in, the better the result for repairing damaged hair. It is a thickened smooth custard look, a yellower white which blends into hair easily and smells quite sweet and similar to the non descript shampoo smell. It also rinses out easily after the 60 seconds plus.
The conditioner instructions also suggest leaving in for 60 seconds, which I have done and also have not done- it does make a slight difference to there being fewer tangles in your hair so I would recommend leaving the stuff in while you shave/clean/read! Just as before, it rinses out well.
After towel drying my hair, it does feel slightly easier to brush then previous products- where I would have had to use serum.
The only real let down is that it doesn't protect my hair from heat damage- if I don't use heat to dry my hair (say for example I let it dry naturally) it dries wavy and not too frizzy, nothing ground breaking on the looks department though, my hair has never ever looked good when naturally dried! But if I blow dry it, it does still go very frizzy and I should also add, if you have coloured hair, it wont strip the colour as quickly as some products seem to (Tigi Headshot- which otherwise is a good product, Mop and Bodyshop all drain colour) But it did drain my colour to some extent- I should add, it does not at all say anywhere it is designed for coloured hair which is probably why it did my brightly coloured hair no favours, but for me it is a down point, though unfair for me to actually mark them down on. (So I won't). But I will mark them down on not being able to reduce the frizz caused by the hot hair driers as a protection formula would have been better.
But I can say that if you don't heat dry your hair, its not as frizzy and even if you chose to, afterwards, my hair felt very very soft and smooth and was very much easier to take care of as it just didn't seem to tangle as much. It also seemed a lot stronger- 6 months before I used this product, I had my hair lightened 3 times on one day to make it closer to blonde (sort of strawberry blonde/Jennifer Antison (Rachel) in Friends was the result, prior to that it had been much darker, sort of pillar-box red) so were talking a bit of a jump and my hair suffered as a result and became easily broken with a hair brush. After using the above products for just a month, my hair was noticeably better and felt much smoother.
If only it dealt with the frizz of blow drying/straightness, it would have been the full 5 stars from me!
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Goldwell Trendline Straightener
by blonde_girl774
When I visited my hairdresser for last Christmas I was looking a right state, mainly due to my stinking hangover but also due to the fact that my hair resembled a back combed bush in all honesty. Most of the time I straighten my hair using my trusted GHDs but around Christmas time I was having dreadful problems during nights out as my ... hair kept going frizzy… that dreaded word that all girls hate! I desperately asked the advice of my hairdresser who suggested a product made my Goldwell called from their Trendline range which is quite simply called “Straightener.”
The product comes in a dark blue plastic bottle with a grey dispenser head that can be pushed down on for easily dispensing the product (but annoyingly you often forget to turn the head to lock it when you pack it in your case!). The bottle is quite simply decorated with the product name and brand symbol on the front while the back shows the instructions, ingredients and the fact the bottle contains 250ml. The product itself is a clear gel in colour which is moderately thin in consistency, similar to that of shower gel or bubble bath. It smells quite similar to the inside of my hairdressers if I’m honest, quite an expensive smell almost, with a slight hint of nail varnish and hair spray also!
The product promises to relax waves and curls so as to create straight and sleek hair until the next shampoo, if that wasn’t good enough it also offers superb shine and it will protect hair during the drying process – ideal if you use straighteners regularly. The instructions specify that you “dispense an adequate amount in the palm of your hand and work through the towel dried hair in sections.” I find that two squirts of the pump is sufficient for my hair but of course it will depend on the length and thickness of your hair. Merely distribute it with your hands through your hair and then comb through to ensure an even spread of the gel. After that merely blow dry and straighten as you normally would.
So what were the results like? Well my hair is naturally quite curly and extremely frizzy if I don’t apply any serum to it, which I never do when using this product. After blow drying my hair my heart did begin to sink as the frizz was still evident, as big as ever and just as ugly. However as I started straightening my hair it did feel a lot softer than normal and upon finishing it also appeared to be a lot flatter and sleeker looking that it usually did. To put it to the true test I went out the following night after applying a pea sized drop of the product to my hair (as suggested by the hairdresser, to prevent moisture from getting to it) and came home practically in the same condition (well my hair was, I wasn’t)! I was amazed to find that upon waking up the next morning and brushing it my hair looked just as it had done before going out the previous night – shiny, sleek, smooth and without a hint of frizz about it.
I’d recommend this product to anyone who suffers from curly, frizzy or wavy hair – even if it’s just to be used in preparation for a night out to prevent frizz rather than as an actual straightening product. I’ve had my bottle for about 6 months now and about a quarter full but that is with about 2 applications every week so it does last a while. It’s currently only available at professional hair salons and on the internet but if you are interested in buying it then here’s the best places and prices…
www.hairsupermarket.com £5.99
www.jans-online.biz £8.95
So if you want to avoid the frizz this summer, you know what to do! Thanks for reading!
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