Review: Wella Pro Series Volume

Hey guys,

Here is a review for you. Never would have guessed that after the title, right? lol This time it's about the lovely Wella Pro Series Volume shampoo and conditioner.

Before we start the review. Here's a picture for my ingredient-girls:

Wellas short description: "Delivers volume for free-flowing hair with movement." To keep it simple: it's true. :-)

It's a really lovely series. The products smell nice, the shampoo foams nicely, cleans and the conditioner makes your hair feel soft without dragging it down.

In addition, it is the first volume shampoo I ever came across that doesn't make it hard to brush your hair afterwards.. Volume shampoos always seem to "knot" my hair, this one doesn't.

In a nutshell, I'd definitely repurchase it and can recommend it. At the moment Bipa has an offer. Buy 1 get 1 free:

Love,
Guinevere
This was sent to me for review.

Review: Wella System Professional Colour Save Mask

I got this about two months ago and used it several times, so time for a review. :-)

For my ingredients girls:

I really really like this mask. It's a great product. Just as simple as that. It makes my hair super-soft and shiny.  

The "bad" thing about it is the price tag:

24,50€ is not cheap.. Is it worth it?

A good question. It's a lovely product and I'm glad I own it, but I think there are other masks out there which do the same job and only cost half as much.

The good thing is that you can get it at every DM. I hope this was helpful if you were thinking about getting it.

Love,

Guinevere

The product was given to me for review.

Review: Wella System Professional Colour Save Shampoo & Conditioner

Edit 28.11.2011: After using my other shampoos again, I noticed that ever since I dyed my hair, I generally need to wash it one day earlier, so it definitely isn't this shampoos that caused the early oilyness!

Wella sent me a couple of hair products and today I'm gonna talk about two of them - The Colour Save Shampoo and the Colour Save Conditioner.

Both of these are from their System Professional range which is available at hairdressing equipment stores, but also at certrain drugstores (DM i.e.) which I think is great. I like it when products are easy to get.

Let's start with the shampoo:

It has this typical hairdresser product scent, which immediately gives you this "I'm using fancy products" feeling. *gg* It's difficult to describe the scent in detail, but I'm sure you know what you mean.

So what do I think?

I gotta say I have one big problem with this shampoo, a problem which kicks it immediately out of my "a great product" category and that's kinda sad..

I need to wash my hair every three days, until then there is no visible oiliness. With this product I lose one whole day..

An example: I washed my hair on Saturday morning and on Sunday evening I had to wash it again, I put it up in a ponytail and got one more day out of it that way, but that's not the point.

This costs almost 15€ and for that price I should get my usual three days out of it. I mean this is my personal experience with this product. It might be fine on your hair, but not on mine.

Other than that it's a nice thing. It smells nice and I do have the feeling that it does preserve my colour better than a normal shampoo, but still. This lost day is a no-go for me.

Pro:

• nice scent
• easy to get
• prolonges your hair colour

Con:

• price
• hair gets oily faster

On to the conditioner:

This is really nice.

I like the consistency, the scent and how my hair feels after using it. It's a really nice conditioner, but nothing extraordinary and probably that should be the case for the price (again about 15€).

Pro:

• does what it's supposed to do
• preserves colour
• easy to get

Con:

• price

So, I guess that's all I can say about these two.

I don't know what to say about the shampoo, would I recommend it? 

If you wash your hair every day anyway. Get it, it does a good job in preserving you hair colour.

If you don't want to wash you hair that often, you shouldn't buy it, cause you'll be pretty annoyed with it.

The conditioner on the other side is really nice and if you have some money to spoil, try it. Nevertheless, I think you could find an equally nice product for a better price.

I hope this was helpful!

Love,

Guinevere

This product was sent to me for review.

The Ultimate Hairdresser Experience

I regularly get mails from different brands about new products, which will be released soon. A couple of weeks ago I got one about a new Colour Lock System by Wella.

This system prolongs the brillianze and beauty of your coloured hair. There are four different types of infusions: Hydrate, Volumize, Smoothen, Repair. Out of these four one picks two and your hairdresser massages them into your hair. It's a serum and foam.

Since I'm a hair junkie I was quite curious, so I asked if I could get that system to test it. Julia, the lovely contact from the company that sends me the newsletters, told me this treatment is only available at a hair salon, but if I want I could try it there.

Of course I said yes and yesterday was the day I had my appointment and that at a chic hair salon - Strassl Exklusiv in the Ringstraßengalerie. I never was at such a fancy salon. It's brand new and I looove the interior design. Exactly my style, modern, sleek, simply classy:

When I arrived the first thing the woman at the reception said "such extreme long hair..". I felt the need to apologize.. Maybe I should have said that, but, luckily, they got over that first shock quite fast.

I was escorted to one of the beautiful chairs, offered something to drink and we started talking about the colour I would want. When I left home I was sure I just would want a true black, but I asked about her opinion and she recommended a natural, glowing, soft brown. I said yes.

Here are some before and after pictures:

Before:



After:

Truly beautiful, right?

But this endresult wasn't a 30 min job. It took 4 hours.. *g*

Let's go over the process:

• hair analysis aka what should the endresult look like

• lovely Julia and Natascha washed my hair with a hybrid product (basically, a mix between a shampoo and a gentle bleaching product) - a lot of tugging was involved.. the price of long hair and quite some charging for the bad quality (drugstore) colour I used to dye my hair and how uneven my result was - again I felt the need to apologize

• since my hair reacted nicely to the bleaching, the colouring started

first I got some light strands and and then the rest of the colour was applied

After thirty minutes Julia washed my hair and then started using the Colour Lock System which looks like that:

That took short 10 minutes: first the serum and then the foam. I got the mix: Colour Save and Repair.

After washing it out again, she blow dried my hair.

As you already saw the result was this beautiful glowing, but natural looking brown:

I never thought this would be such an exclusive and professional experience. I'm so grateful. So thanks again to the lovely girls from Strassl, Wella for letting me test the system and sponsoring it and Julia from the PR company who made this appointment possible.

I'm certainly gonna come back, regularly. I don't know how to afford it yet *g* but the quality definitely convinced me. I always wanted to try this ashy emo blonde, even if I doubt it would suit me. If I ever decide to go for it, I'll do it at that salon with Julia.

So if you have a hair "experiment" coming up, I would go there.

Love,

Guinevere

All services were covered by Wella.