You too can have a frizz ball just like me! (Wella Vivality Colour-shine & Care Shampoo)

Member Name: chele2002

Product:	Wella Vivality Colour-shine & Care Shampoo
Date:	18/01/02 (558 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Just simply doesn't do what it is supposed to do

Do you sometimes find that shampoo can have the most wonderful effects imaginable on your hair? Leaving it so soft, smooth and silky, that you just want to dance around in the street flicking your hair from side to side, showing off every ounce of your recently washed silky, flowing hair. (Sorry reality check here, for a minute I thought I was on a TV commercial then!?!)

Well I have lost count of the endless bottles and brands of shampoo I have tried, ones that have had the most marvellous, healthy looking effects after using them for the first time, many that have made my hair feel like it has never seen a bath, many more that has dried it out so much that I have ended out looking like a moth ball, and just one that has managed to maintain the look, feel and shine that it claims will be the results after each and every wash. So you are probably thinking to yourself that I am going to review the shampoo that has been kind to my hair, wash after wash ................ sorry but what I want to review is what I call the super flop of hair care 'Wella Vivality'.


I have to say that in all my days of wetting my hair, squirting cold slimy substances in my hair, massaging it in to form a lather and then rinsing, I have never come across anything that it so far from what it claims to be, maybe it is just my type of hair, or maybe 'Wella Vivality' is not all it is cracked up to be.


The bottle says it all or does it?
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According to the label, the 'Wella Vivality' range has been specially formulated to meet the individual needs of different types of hair.

So bang goes my theory, thinking it was just my type of hair, well when they put it that way it should do more than just dry it out; after all I believe I fall into the category of being an individual!

Also the label claims that the colour-shine enhancing protein formula will protect your coloured or
highlighted hair against damaging influences, will cleanse with more shine and a long-lasting colour brilliance.

Well, what can I say but, I have been using hair dyes on my hair for a while now, my latest being 'Lively Ruby' from the Live Color range, which incidentally was only applied to my hair a month ago. Until now my hair colour has looked good, it had a soft silky feel and look, and has felt healthy, well that was until I seen 'Wella Vivality' in Tesco's on a buy one get one free offer. Now since using this shampoo, my colour has become dull, lifeless and as dry as a cream cracker (un-buttered).

I can not speak for all Wella hair care products, it would be wrong to assume that they are as bad as this one the 'Colour-Shine & Care Shampoo', in fact in the past I have used Wella hair styling products, with desired results, but 'Wella' you really need to do something amazing to this one, before I give this any more than 1 star.


The Wella Slogan
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Beautiful hairs needs an expert.

Well my hair used to feel beautiful, now it feels damm right ugly, no kidding, my hair now has that just got out of bed look, that would be fine if I had just got out of bed but when it feels that way all day then it surely doesn't live up to the slogan, and if they are such experts for beautiful hair, I fail to see why, when it has given me a permanent bad hair day!

Perhaps the slogan should be changed to: Beautiful hair needs an expert, so when we find one, we will produce something that works. Or maybe: If you want beautiful hair, avoid this one.

Sorry for the little moan, but when you pay £2.39 for a 250ml bottle, you would expect to have better results than a cheap value, supermarket bottle, wouldn't you?!


The bottle
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Despite this being a 250ml bottle it does look kind of small, perhaps it is just the design, but it l
ooks no where near as much as other brands with the same volume of content. The cap I have to say I can't really fault it, just a push on the top of the cap and wham bam its open, a gentle squeeze and out pops the shampoo formed into a nice neat pile on your hands.

Marks out of 10, I will give it an 7 because the edges on the cap are a little rough.

7/10

The smell
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I know as a whole I didn't like the effects it left my hair with but the smell, divine. This shampoo will probably smell familiar to you like it does me, but its one of those smells you can't quite remember where you have sniffed it before. I found it to be a mixture of a floral fragrance along with a fruity kind of smell, that went well together leaving a subtle, yet noticeable fragrance whilst applying it to my hair, but if you are looking for a long lasting fragrance, look else where, this one last no where near that I would like it to last.

Marks out of 10, I will give it a 5, despite the smell being pleasant, I like my shampoo to keep that just washed smell but after just a couple of hours there were no sniffable evidence that it had actually been washed.

5/10

The shampoo
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I found it to be of a fairly thick substance (not as think as others I have tried), which felt silky whilst in my hands, but when applying it to my hair it didn't seem to spread very well, so I needed to apply a little extra, I also found that it felt quite different to what it did before it touched my hair, it no longer felt silky, but felt like I had squirted some of my husbands shaving foam in my hair along with a quarter of a bar of soap, mixed well together and matted in my hair.

Marks out of 10, I will sadly have to give it a 1, it felt wonderful until it went onto my hair, after that the rest is history and disappointment takes over, on the other hand as it feels nice on my skin (well hands any way) p
erhaps I could get my monies worth and use it as plain old soap with a difference.

1/10

The lather
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The lathering of shampoo, I have to say is my favourite part of cleaning my hair, perhaps it brings the child out in me, memories of sculpturing my hair in a mass of white bubbles, to what ever shape or form I wanted it to be. However, if you do like to mess about with your hair like me and have kinky hair sculpturing sessions then this one really does fail, but what surprises me is the fact that rinsing is a bit time consuming, despite the lack of the lather usually achieved compared with other brands. It's a bit like trying to rinse half a bottle out of your hair, the waters getting soaping and your hair still feels soapy.

Marks out of 10, I would have to give this yet another 1, for the lack of lather and the difficulty in rinsing it out.

1/10

The performance
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I am afraid to say that it didn?t really perform, it didn't shine, care, soften, have lasting colour effects or did it make it feel particularly clean. What it did in fact do is give me such dry looking and feeling hair, striped it of any of it natural conditioners, made my hair look dull, lifeless and lacking in colour.

Marks out of 10, sorry 'Wella' but for performance it gets a big fat 0, it just simply doesn't do what it supposed to do, and on top of that this is the worse that my hair has ever looked or felt.

0/10


Overall
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I feel that there is no way that I can justify the prices supermarkets charge for this particular product, it is quite simply too over priced, fine if it does what it says it will do then I will be more than happy to pay my £2.39's worth but no, there is just no way that I intend to purchase this in the future, even if it was the only shampoo available, I would rather stick washing-up-liquid on my hair than this. As f
or my poor hair, I think I am in bad need of a hot oil treatment, my hair has really suffered at the hands of this product, it has lost any kind of healthy look and feel it had, and my colour has dramatically faded, leaving my hair feeling like a dull frizz ball.

Combined score out of 50

14/50

So if you are looking for a bad hair day then I have just what you are looking for! Perhaps you could try my spare bottle for free and find out just how bad I found this shampoo.

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