Tresemme Touchable Curls Shaping Milk

Review Summary: Perfect Summer Tool

4 Lipstick Tubes out of 5

I picked up a bottle of this Tresemme Touchable Curls Shaping Milk on a whim; I love Tresemme products, it was inexpensive at under $5 and since I've been growing my hair out, I've been looking for products that make it easier to wash and wear.

I've been using it for a couple weeks now and I really like it. I wash my hair at night - I have for many years - and I usually wake up with a crazy head of hair in the morning. Now that I've been putting the "shaping milk" on at night, my hair is less frizzy and feels conditioned when I wake up. It's light enough not to leave residue, but I feel that it conditions more than Infusium Leave-in Conditioner, which is a product I have often used in the past.

The Tresemme Shaping Milk leaves my hair shiny and ready for any styling product I may want to try or styling tool. It also leaves my hair well enough to be left alone, but it is also light enough that you can use it with other products.

It's a 10 Miracle Leave-In Product

Review Summary: I'm in love!

(5 Lipstick Tubes out of 5)

I got my haircut a couple days ago, which is something I don't do very often. Sometimes, I go 6 months between cuts. I went to a new stylist at Salon Lofts who used this product on me. I typically don't buy products that stylists use, but he was not pushy and I loved the way it smelled and made my hair feel. I was shocked to find out it was $20 for a 10 oz bottle, but I had already said I'd buy it and I decided it would be too embarrassing to tell him I've changed my mind.

And I'm so glad I didn't!! I absolutely LOVE LOVE this product. It smells wonderful, sprays easily into the hair when wet - and after blowing it dry - it leaves your hair amazingly silky. It really changed the texture of my hair after just a couple times. I don't think it adds much volume, so I continue to spritz a little Chi Volumizing Spray at the crown before my blow-dry - but this product leaves my hair shiny and amazingly soft.

It's expensive, but the product should last a long time. It takes very little spritzing to reap it's benefits.

Highly recommended!!! (I've also found it online at various sites, including Amazon.com)

Chi Volume Booster

Review Summary: Love it!

(4 Lipstick Tubes out of 5)

Because I recently tried the Chi brand Silk Infusion product and loved the way it smelled, I've been wanting to try another product in their line.

I picked up a bottle of Chi Volume Booster from the drugstore and paid more than I like to pay for hair products ($12.99 I think), but I felt like treating myself, so I did!

And.. I found out I love this product. It smells wonderful; much like the other Chi product I tried earlier. And this stuff really adds volume! I feel like I have more hair when I use it!.. Sprayed on before a blow-dry, it most definitely adds volume without any stickiness or tackiness. It doesn't add curl, but it certainly adds thickness.

I highly recommend it!

L'oreal Elnett Strong Hold Hairspray

Review Summary: OK; too pricey

(3 Lipstick Tubes out of 5)

I'd read about this hair spray in various magazines where beauty editors ranted and raved about it. They said that people were smuggling cases of it back into the states after visiting France because it was unlike any other hairspray you can buy in the U.S.

Well, since several people claimed it was the greatest thing ever, and it was now, shockingly, going to be available in the U.S., I decided that Santa might be able to put a can of it in my stocking this past Christmas. I hated to do it, but I paid something like $12.99 for a large bottle of it at Target it and it made its way to my stocking on Christmas Eve.

The wording on the bottle claims: "Disappears at the stroke of a brush." I'm not sure why you would want expensive hairspray to completely disappear at the stroke of a brush, but I guess that is something other people want.

The hairspray comes out in a very fine mist and doesn't leave your hair particularly stiff or crunchy or helmet-like.. But it smells terrible!! I was shocked at the scent.. Certainly, I believed a hair product imported from France that was $12 a bottle would smell nice, but it doesn't.

I wouldn't recommend spending the money!

Tresemme' Super Hold Hairspray

Review Summary: Long-time Favorite

(5 Lipstick Tubes out of 5)

Tresemme's Super Hold Pump Hair Spray is a long-time favorite of mine. It's super-cheap ($3-$4 a bottle at Target or drugstores), it holds well, it doesn't flake and it smells decent. It's the hairspray I always have on hand and use to fill my purse-sized spray bottle that I carry with me.

If you're pulling your hair back, it holds flyaways down very well - and if you're wearing your hair down, it gives just enough hold to keep things in check.

This is a product I've used for a while and would hate to see discontinued because I'm so used to just reaching for it when I'm running low.

Dependable and inexpensive; highly recommend!

Chi Silk Infusion

Review Summary: Love It!

(4 Lipstick Tubes out of 5)

I learned about this product on a new website/blog I've been checking in on from time to time: pursebuzz.com.

This product is an oil-based product you put into your hair before using a heated styling tool.

It's not cheap, but I was felt like treating myself, so I ordered a small bottle on drugstore.com to try it. I recently purchased a 1" ceramic curling iron (I have never been a curling iron user, but thought it might be fun to try since I've been growing my hair out).

The product is a very thick, yellowish oil. It takes a teeny tiny dollop to do the trick. It moisturizes and adds a little texture and, I would presume, protection from a heated curling or flat iron.

It smells wonderful and I often just rub the oil into my hands after using it to moisturize my hands and allow the lovely scent to linger just a little.

Again, it's pretty much an oil, so if you have very fine or thin hair, it's not for you. But for almost anyone else, it's something fun to try!