After many years in IT tech support and web dev, I unexpectedly ventured onto a new path. Now I'm in my thirties and have a double degree in Earth Sciences! I am raising fowl, a goat, a horse, four cats and a husband. I spend my free time in the garden and with my animals. Currently, my long-suffering husband and I sleep with one of our cats in the bedroom with a young pullet in a cat cage on a shelf who refuses to sleep with the other chickens! It strangely works out. My husband is an aspiring author writer and often blogs a story about our lives on the farm etc.
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Review of L'Oreal Mythic oil Milk
This is my unpaid review of L'Oreal Mythic oil Milk... and I just found out I was using the product wrong, by accident, showing me how it actually works. Well!
Normally I steer well clear of cruel, uneccesary animal testing companies (Proctor & Gamble who own Head and Shoulders, Pantene, Oral B, Duracell, Olay, Covergirl etc., then L'Oreal and others). Those who know me how vehemently I actively spout on about animal cruelty and avoiding cruel farmed pig, chicken, and animal testing companies (Avon, I've found, DO test on animals - to sell their product in China they have to).
A little while back if you'll remember, after moving to tank water from city water of a different State, I was in desperate depression over my inability to brush my hair of horrid, all-encompassing knots (dreadlocks after one day), so I tried every product I could afford to try and remedy it. This is the post hair products galore.
I finally purchased Activance with Rhodanide (something I know is good for hair from previous use) L'Oreal Mythic Milk and a Tangle Teezer brush.
In the shower, I use three conditioners ("shampoo" with Tresseme Salon Silk as I've done for years, then Matrix Biolage Detangling Conditioner, then Evo Mane Prescription), using my Tangle Teezer to help comb the final conditioner out of my hair.
Then I get out put a towel in my hair, press water out, then (much to my daily bad headache chagrin) take the towel off and head bang that water outta my haiiir for about 10 seconds.
After this, I use 8 sprays of Rhodanide mostly over my scalp and massage gently.
I then pump three squirts of Mythic Milk into my palm and rub my hands together, and gently massage it through the ends of my hair, finally putting remainder on my scalp.
In laziness, I'd then just let my hair air dry and not brush it again until it was dry. I hardly ever blow dry my hair - maybe twice a year? But I should brush it when it's damp.
I finally purchased Activance with Rhodanide (something I know is good for hair from previous use) L'Oreal Mythic Milk and a Tangle Teezer brush.
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Well, I never thought that the L'Oreal Mythic Milk product was doing anything.
In the shower, I use three conditioners ("shampoo" with Tresseme Salon Silk as I've done for years, then Matrix Biolage Detangling Conditioner, then Evo Mane Prescription), using my Tangle Teezer to help comb the final conditioner out of my hair.
Then I get out put a towel in my hair, press water out, then (much to my daily bad headache chagrin) take the towel off and head bang that water outta my haiiir for about 10 seconds.
After this, I use 8 sprays of Rhodanide mostly over my scalp and massage gently.
I then pump three squirts of Mythic Milk into my palm and rub my hands together, and gently massage it through the ends of my hair, finally putting remainder on my scalp.
In laziness, I'd then just let my hair air dry and not brush it again until it was dry. I hardly ever blow dry my hair - maybe twice a year? But I should brush it when it's damp.
Anyway, the other day I was trying out a "home" remedy for getting rid of hair colour (crushed mix of vitamin C tablets, chelating shampoo and dishwashing detergent). It didn't work, but what it did do was tangle my hair into crunch crap knots.
- So, I sprayed Rhodanide as usual, but put a heap more Mythic Milk in my hair...
- then, which is important, I brushed my hair with my Tangle Teezer and fingers until I had no knots.
- So I could go to bed, I waited until my hair was mostly damp with some areas still wet, then I plaited my hair and slept on it.
Next morning? The softest freaking hair I've had since my last shoulder length hair cut!!!! Frakking hell. I couldn't believe it.
So, during last night's shower and drying routine, I did the same thing - this time using the suggested four pumps instead of the heap I put on yesterday, brushed it through (after about 15 mins of it being on my hair), waited til it was mostly damp, plaited it then went to sleep. SAME thing - awesome condition and shine.
Every time I use the L'Oreal product, I think about the animals that were tortured to get that product on the market. It makes me very upset. I really hate that animals are tortured for the sake of human beauty and food - or just humans being the #### that they are. So believe me, my use of this product did not come cheaply to me, emotionally.
Labels: Activance with Rhodanide, animal testing, beauty review, depression, Evo, hair drama, hair hell, hair problems, hair products, hair solutions, L'Oreal, Loreal, mythic, Mythic Milk, tangle teaser, Tangle Teezer
what are your thoughts?
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posted by Da at
11:48:00 AM
Tangle Teezer review :: It's fantastic
This is my unpaid review of the original detangling brush: Tangle Teezer. Can you marry a hair brush? Because seriously, the Tangle Teezer hair detangling brush has changed my life.
I first used it over a month ago now, and as it worked those crunchy knots out of my hair, and smoothed the cuticle... I cannot kid, Hallelujah began loudly in my head - with music, and different parts of the choir singing their pitch and all.
The same thing happened when I used it in the shower tonight. I am feeling light and happy since that first Thursday night I used the Tangle Teezer.
The frustration, the trials, the money... all of it could have been avoided had I had this hair brush six months ago.
The Tangle Teezer brush is truly remarkable.I did not buy the Tangle Teezer hair detangling brush from the website < http://www.tangle-teezer.com.au/ > because, even though I would've been willing to spend $30+ on this little miracle, I am smarter than to just accept the first price I stumble upon. So, with a discount for being a student, and the Tangle Teezer already being half the price of the Tangle Teezer website, I got my lovely black Tangle Teezer for $14.
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I can use the Tangle Teezer when my hair is completely wet, towel dried, half dry and half damp, or completely dry with the same results: a fantastic, painless, FASTER way to detangle my hair. I haven't had a crunchy knot in ages. I still get knots of course, my hair is just that type of fine strand hair. But, I'm no longer concerned by the knots. It no longer takes me 40 minutes per half of my head. And I have really fine, thin hair! I still need to use my fingers to help separate the more difficult knots out, but that is to curb even the small amount of hair fall which occurs with the brush.
Don't expect miracles if you just grab your matted pony tail and pull the brush through your hair - you have to know how to brush your hair to detangle, as I show you in the next paragraph. Be smart about it, and it will work for you.The Tangle Teezer has very soft (malleable) long and short bristles which bend with the pressure you place on your hair. When you run into knots you will find it makes a sound that reverberates around inside the hollow centre of the palm grip - but it isn't ripping out your hairs, it is just the sound of it brushing. I suggest that like me, you separate your hair into half, then into quarters from there and starting on ONE quarter of ONE side, start brushing your hair when knotty GENTLY from about 10 centimetres from the bottom - detangle that first before going another 10cm up - and so-on, so-forth. By doing this, you're working on smaller sections of your hair and making it easier for the brush to do its magic. I have very long hair, so I need to start from the base and work my way up - otherwise, it makes detangling too difficult. To make it easier to brush the hair at the nape of my neck, I throw my head forward so my head is facing the ground (sit down if you can't stand) and brush from the nape down AFTER detangling the ends, as above.
I cannot recommend this brush enough for adults and mothers for their children. Say good bye to child-hood hairbrush-time tears!The split ends I started noticing when time and time again I had to spend 40 minutes brushing one side, then another 40 minutes for the other side of my head have stopped. As in, I haven't noticed any new split ends appear.
For a brush that doesn't look very special, it has saved my sanity as well as my hair follicles. And I mean that with all my heart.
Labels: adults, beauty review, children, detangle, detangling brush, hair, hair problems, review, tangle teaser, Tangle Teezer
what are your thoughts?
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posted by Da at
10:48:00 PM
