Revlon reminding us of when it was a global giant (Revlon Flex Volumising Conditioner)

Member Name: norton501

Product:	Revlon Flex Volumising Conditioner
Date:	08/08/09 (25 review reads)
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Advantages: retro smell

Disadvantages: may not appeal to you- the perms and moles of the 1980s!....

I found a bottle of this Revlon Flex Conditioner in my local poundland store. It came in a large/ tall white plastic bottle with a flip cap at the top.

I know Revlon are a bit of a cosmetics giant and were quite huge in the 1980s... Therefore it wasn't so much of a surprise when I opened the bottle and it smells like the 1980s!!! Its great! You get a banana milkshake coloured, slightly runny liquid. It smells like conditioners and shampoos used to smell. Like some hotel shampoo and conditioner's still smell. It is hard to describe, but it smells retro in an old perfume sort of way. This is not at all unpleasant and made me giggle quite a lot.

I then wondered if the bottle had been picked up by the pound shop I bought it from from a throwback box of toilettries that had been in storage since the 1980s... but it wouldn't have the same texture if it had- the contents would have separated.

To think back, Cindy Crawford was the cover girl for Revlon for years and years and this is what this reminds me of- big perms and drawn on moles. I think we are all just accustomed to shampoo smelling like the floral flowers from some rainforest garden of eden like glade, but they used to smell like soap and scent. Not everything used to smell like strawberry. This product reminds you of that, but in a good way. It doesn't smell like some old stuffy mothball wardrobe.

for this reason I like it. I would not use it all the time, but as I rotate both my shampoos and conditioners all the time (as its good for your hair to switch products quite a lot) I would buy a bottle of this every 3 or 4 months I'd say. Especially if you can get a large 400ml bottle for £1.

It is a decent conditioner, it left my hair feeling soft and did not leave a heavy conditioning residue as some conditioners do. But for me the performance is overshadowed by the smell! I couldn't resist running out of the shower and ramming the bottle under my husband's nose going "smell this, its like the 1980s". If you get some you will see what I mean.

Summary: Good product, it is a decent conditioner and the smell is novel