Wednesday 21 April 2010

Doctor, doctor

So I’m back from my little trip away. I got back on Monday and was back to work on the Tuesday and since I didn’t take my laptop away with me on my trip away, I couldn’t blog. But even if i had my laptop, perhaps I wanted a little computer free weekend!!

Anyways back to the blogging world, after moaning to my boyfriend the other week that my hair was felling a little ‘dull’, he bought me a surprise. He’d been shopping in our local mall/shopping centre and popped into Lush. Yummmm. Where he purchased me Lush’s The Hair Doctor



This product according to Lush is Cleansing, stimulating, reviving hair moisturizer for mending poorly heads. Hair Doctor will make house calls to inspire sad scalps and revive hair in need of help. There's Fuller's earth, a clay which degreases your hair and scalp, stimulating peppermint and rosemary, and chamomile to soothe sore scalps. [extract taken from Lush.co.uk ]

My first thoughts when I got this product and saw it was, “Have I REALLY got to put that in my hair?” I personally think this looks gross. It looks like mud or clay that a farmer just dug up from a field!! And it doesn’t smell that much better either. I know Lush products are a little unusual, but the thought of putting it on my hair was a little scary.

You get a small 250g tub for £14.95 (expensive, but Lush always is). Depending on the thickness and length of your hair, that determines how much of this product you use. Now I have very thick hair, its shoulder length... so not too long. But having incredibly thick hair, no matter the length basically means you have to use a lot of product in it regardless.

Anyways I decide to use the entire tub on my hair to get the complete benefit. I applied mine on 'dirty hair', as there is no need to wash your hair before you apply. Just apply to dry hair. Scoop this out the container and try to spread this evenly from root to tip. You can comb through if you wish, I didn't. Leave this in your hair for around 20 minutes. In the mean time you can play with your rubber ducky.

I have no pictures of me with it on my hair because I just happen to be in the bath and handling a camera whilst using this product is kind of a no go!

My verdict on The Hair Doctor....I wouldn't repurchase this. I found when applying this that it was hard work to get an even coat. I was so thick and lumpy and was just annoying. During the 20 minutes my head had a very unpleasant burning feeling. I almost got to the stage where it became unbearable. I was glad to rinse it off.

A couple of days after using this product on my hair, i felt like i had to scratch my scalp constantly. I don’t know if its where the methanol/peppermint open the pores on the scalp and i just had a funny reaction. I had properly rinsed this after the 20 minutes, but my hair still felt like something was clinging to it make it feel greasy

I’m not totally disregarding this product, it may work for others. But for me I'd give the Doctor a miss!

~Ang xoxo
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Thursday 15 April 2010

Great hauls of fire....

When a girls got to shop, a girls got to shop!! I was feeling a little blue after work the other day (it was a long stressful day), and just needed to let my hair down. So in the classic Angela way - I took a detour on the way home from work and spent some of my non-existent money *sigh*

My detour took me to MAC @ House of Fraser on King William Street in London and Boots (of course!). I made some little purchases (ha! little, never!!)



I bought some MAC and Herbal Essence, Boots No7, Real Life nails, 17 and Rimmel. Also purchased an adorable hand bag by Linea.

First the cosmetics;

From MAC I picked up Perky eyeshadow, another Paint pot in Painterly and the Petrol Blue Pearl glide intense eye liner. And the rest from Boots is 17 lipstick in Shell, No7 lipstick in Pink Lemonade, their Lift and Luminate Foundation in Porcelain 03 and Stay perfect lip lacquer in Sugar mauve. One Rimmel nail varnish in 398 Black Pearl.



I also purchase hair products, which I'll be taking away with me on my trip this weekend. They are Herbal Essence Shampoo and Conditioner in beautiful ends. It smells yummy. I also got the beautiful ends split end protection cream; which I've used already and makes my hair feel lovely on the tips.

Picked up some false nails as they were reduced from £3.99 to £2.00, I'm going to apply them tonight and paint on the Rimmel Black Pearl for the wedding I'm attending tomorrow :)

And the boring stuff - cotton pads, but essential to every girl across plant earth.

I'm going to review the cosmetic products once I've used them a couple of weeks. Then I can give you my real honest opinion.

Lastly, the bag!!! It's a gorgeous blue bag from Linea.



House of Fraser were having a 20% sale, so this was reduced (high five) It was £45, so I got £9 off so I only paid £36 woop woop! I'm going to use this bag in the summer and I will take on my trip to Straford-upon-Avon this weekend :)

I think I've definitely let my hair down enough!

~Ang xoxo
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