Wella Shockwaves Ultra Strong Mess Constructor

I first came across wella shockwaves after running out of my brylcreem, which I didn't really like much as it was too waxy and made my hair feel really greasy. I had a quick look on the shelf for a product that was not as thick as wax but could still do the same job. In fact it did the job better for me than the Brylcreem wax did. The gel really does hold hair up well, I'm not sure how good it would work for people with longer hair but for someone like me with short hair it manages to hold my spikes up and keeps them in the same position for most of the day, but I normally find a top up every 6 hours is needed to keep it held together. It also works well when ...  Read the complete review

I've been using the shockwaves max hold gel for a couple of years now. It makes my hair spikey, very spikey. That's a good thing, until the next day when you wake up, go to the bathroom and look in the mirror. You'll jump a mile in shock when you see the state of your unruly barnet. Hair will be sticking up all over the place at odd angles. If like me, you use it every day, you'll need to wash your hair frequently, not only to get rid of the mid morning carnage that is your hair but also to de-gunk your scalp as the gel tends to dry it out. Saying that, pre-bedtime you can't really fault this gel. Coming in a nice little blue tube, you apply a small dollop to your ...  Read the complete review

Oookey dokey. An old favourite. Suggested this one myself, so I feel very attached to this review. Enjoy. Before I go onto the product itself, I have to say to the you the reader that my hair is the most unmanageable kind you can get. As a natural redhead, I have the fewest average number of hairs per square inch on my head, its quite fine too. It grows a bit weird too - mostly from the back of my crown. This along with a bit of an odd shaped head (really selling myself here, eh?) makes keeping my hair in any publicly acceptable state is an arduous task at best. Wella Shockwaves best marketing decision, at least on a personal level, was when they ...  Read the complete review

The ultra strong mess constructor is a great hair product... a)if you have the right hair for it b)if you use enough of it c)if you dont use too much of it d)if you want your hair to look messy I find that not using enough results in my hair drying too quickly, therefore not being able to style my hair, rather just make it stay in one place for a short period of time. The problem is, unless you buy it on offer it can be very expensive compared to other gel type products. For this reason, i tend to wet my hair before and after applying the gel, however this defeats the object of using the gel. Once i tried using more of it. this didnt work as my ...  Read the complete review

I wanted a product that did not make my hair look greasy and that tamed my frizzy hair, well I sort of got what I wanted... Firstly this product does okay to tame hair, you don't find many stray hairs once you've used this product all over. If you're after the messed up look then it does well to create this, or even a spiky look, though I'd argue at the 'Ultra Strong' hold of this product, definitely not true; unless you want to use half the tub! Where the product fail miserably is it's creamy, wet texture that once first applied looks okay, but give it time to dry and you are looking at a grease ball of a head. It clumps hairs together no matter ...  Read the complete review