Products that suck

Today's post is not really a positive one, but regret purchases need space on my blog, too. I hope I won't need to write a lot of them! :)

Keep in mind, that if something doesn't work for me, it might work for you, it's the same the other way around. Everyone is different.

1. Balea Young Soft & Care Mildes Waschgel mit Vitamin-Cocktail
I was so pissed off at my skin at some point, that I went to a drugstore and buy comepletely random gel wash for my face. So I bought this one from Balea for Young skin. It's gel consistency with quite big granules, so it doesn't do great job as a scrub. After few days my skin was dull and roungher to touch, and I blame this product. I have sensitive skin and it didn't work for me.

2. Afrodita Hydra Thermal Natural Mineral Water + hyaluronic acid 24h nutritive moisturising
I wanted to try a moisturizer with Hyaluron, but this one gave me only dissapointment. I didn't feel like it gives enough moisture to my face and I've seen more cloged pores than before. So, I stopped using it and my skin was better, then I discovered Argan oil :). Like I said, I have sensitive and quite dry skin, but it works for my mother, who has normal skin.

3. Lee Stafford For hair that never grows past a certain lenght Treatment
Don't hate me, I know many of you like Lee Stafford products! I tried to make it work but it didn't. I assume that this product stimulates hair growth (well, it says that in the name), but if I put it on my scalp it made my hair really heavy and I had to wash it again next day. Also, I have sensitive scalp and it caused some itching and mild allergy reactions. Well, ingredients are bad and can't really do anything good for long term use.
If I put it only on my ends, can't really do anything for hair growth, can it?
However, it leaves my hair really soft and smells nice, but there are many other products that do that for my hair. I still finished the jar, but won't repurchase and price is kinda rediculous, too!

4. Lee Stafford Dry shampoo Original for Oily roots
Another Lee Stafford product that doesn't work for me, probably because I don't have oily roots. My hair just gets lifeless and scalp is more dry than oily second day after washing my hair. Once you spay this on looks like a white powder (like a baby powder) and when I had blonde hair it wasn't a problem, because it blended in my colour, but it doesn't work on my dark hair and I had to brush them and massage my scalp like a crazy woman to make it dissapear. It gives little volume, but after an hour or two, my hair looked flat again.


Have you tried any product named here? Did you like them?

Hope you're having a fabulous Thursday!

My hair - my hair style, care and colour

Let's talk about my hair today :). It was requested, and I get questions about my hair colour and about my hair in general, so here I (hope) answer all your questions.

Firstly, let's talk about my hair in general.
I have quite thick hair, my natural colour is I would say medium brown (my undercut hair colour is my natural colour) and it gets lighter in summer time. They are quite straight, they just have this natural "wave" at the ends. They can get frizzy, grow pretty fast and scalp is kinda sensitive.

Now let's take a look of my haircut.
I actually shaved my right side last December, but I had much shorter haircut, I had pretty short hair all summer. My left side is quite long now, I actually want it even longer. I go for a trim every two months and I try to shave my undercut every two weeks, it's 9mm atm (well, it has grown from last week's haircut). I shave it myself or I go to my hair stylist. I've been going to the same hair stylist for 7 years now, it's the only person I trust when it comes to hair cutting.

This is how my hair looks from the back.

And left side is kinda bob-ish.

My current hair colour is blond, I was actually pretty scared before dying it, I haven't been blonde for 8 years. I used Smart Beauty Smart Blonde permanent toners in Beach Blonde (bought it here). I left it in my hair for 30 minutes (it says you leave it for 30 - 60 minutes) and it came out more yellowish then I expected, but it was wearable, so I left it that way. I coloured my hair again before surgery, but this time I used Revlon hair colour (I can't remember which shade, sorry), it was too late to order Smart Beauty one online. I don't recommend Revlon, it's washing out like crazy and it didn't cover my roots. Smart Beauty stayed the same shade for whole month, so I recommend their colours. I'll write a review when I colour my hair again.

Lastly, my hair care is pretty simple. I don't like putting a lot of hair products in my hair, like I said I have sensitive scalp and I don't like the feeling of having a lot of products in my hair. Currently I'm using and loving Lavera shampoo Milde pflege, it's calms down any itchiness I might have on my scalp and it cleans my hair nicely. My hair conditioner is also from Lavera Glanz & Volumen Haarspülung. It leaves my hair super soft and shiny. This is my basic hair routine. I wash my hair every two days or three, I exercise on regular basis, so my hair gets dirty pretty quick.

I'm also testing out Lee Stafford hair growth treatment, can't tell you much about it, but it makes my hair super soft. My favourite "hair mask" has to be regular extra virgin olive oil, I massage it in my hair and leave it for an hour or two or over night. I also love virgin coconut oil for my hair. The best way is that you warm up the oil (not too much, you don't want to burn yourself) and then massage it for at least 5 minutes (the more the better, massaging your scalp stimulates growth) and put a cap or plastic bag over your head, then wash your hair as you normally would.

Another product I'm testing right now is Keune care line Leave-in hair repair, I think it works well with my frizzy hair. The smell is also nice. And yet another product I'm testing out is Lee Stafford Dry shampoo for days I don't wash my hair. I don't really have oily roots, but it gives me nice volume, smells nice and it freshens my hair.

I always blow dry my hair when I wash it, otherwise they are all over the place and I can't really do anything with them. I use round brush when I blow dry it and for everyday use, I use another round brush with rougher bristles for teasing, if I need any volume and regular comb for everyday use.

Hope this helps to some of you :)