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Revlon ProYou White Hair Shampoo
by amy_elizabeth
Revlon Professional Pro You White Hair is recommended on the bottle, and by hair-dressers, as a treatment for greying or white pigmented hair. The neutralising pigments in it are meant revive and illuminates grey-toned hair and get rid of any yellowish tints that occur in older age sometimes.....wait you say, why am I reviewing a white ... hair shampoo when I clearly am not old enough to have naturally white hair and clearly do not have white hair....well in fact I now have dyed blonde hair..........
As well as neutralising yellowy shades and re-newing natural white colouring in your hair Revlon pro-you White Hair Shampoo is also fantastic for natural or coloured blondes, like myself!
*WHY?*
Neutralising and fixing pigments in the shampoo helps coloured and naturally lighter hair, whether white, grey or blonde to stay bright and avoid darkening and yellowing over time due to natural colour-fade, age, chemicals or the sun.
In between colours, I usually go about 5 weeks, my blonde hair, which is naturally a dark blonde/auburn, tends to dull a little and lose it's vibrant colour. Under the recommendation of my hair-dresser I started using this shampoo about once every 5 weeks (about the last week before I have my hair coloured again) just to make my colour look brighter and newly coloured rather than a 'dulled' blonde : ( . The first time I squeezed some of the shampoo onto my hand I was a little scared...it comes out as a rather thick dark purple solution...how scary is putting something so obviously not light coloured onto really light hair! Similarly when you do pluck up the courage to massage it into your hair it makes your whole head go a dark purply, blue!!!! Don't be too scared though, stick with it and leave the shampoo on your hair for a few minutes, like you would with a conditioner and then wash it off and all the dark colour disappears...phew! The result...this shampoo made my hair look extra shiny, healthy and blonde...an effect that is easily achieved after being coloured but not so easily after it has been a few weeks since colouring. The neutralising pigment in the shampoo apparently removes any brown or yellowing shades from your hair and adds extra shiny blonde high-lights, which made my blonde hair look beautiful again! : ) Instant results!
*SO...*
~The shampoo brightens coloured and naturally lighter-coloured hair
~ Fruit acids in the shampoo eliminate any dandruff
~The shampoo is gentle on old and coloured hair, and won't strip colour
~The shampoo only needs using occasionally in conjunction with your regular shampoo
~The shampoo adds an extra sparkle and shine to hair before a special event without the need to visit the hair-dresser :)
~The shampoo, in a 350ml bottle, costs in between £5-10 and lasts ages
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Revlon Flex Volumising Conditioner
by norton501
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.
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