What's your least favorite styling product(s)?
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Topic: What's your least favorite styling product(s)?
Posted By: Kgirl
Subject: What's your least favorite styling product(s)?
Date Posted: July 24 2003 at 3:38pm
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I'm home sick today with strep throat and bored out of my mind so I decided to start a poll of everybody's most hated styling products! Have fun :) Mine are: Matrix Sleek.Look Extreme Cream-this stuff seriously wrecked my hair. It was SO dry and strawlike for weeks until I cut some of it off. Kerastase Oleo-Relax Serum-this stuff left my top hair layer frizzy and wavy. My hair looked somewhat lank and I didn't care for the smell. L'Oreal Straight Up Ironing Gel-my hair was sticky and gross. 'Nuff said. Rusk Wired Styling Creme-Ewww! This stuff smells like rotten cologne. It literally made my hair stiff and dry. Clairol Herbal Essences Maximum Hold Mousse-it left my hair feeling stringy and stiff when I wore it wavy/curly. That's all I can think of for now. :) |
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Posted By: caramia
Date Posted: July 24 2003 at 8:54pm
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Generally, my least favorite styling product is hairspray. I haven't found a hairspray or a method for applying it that will allow me to still run my fingers thru my hair. I hate it when the hair is all stiff and stuck-together-like. Caramia  ------------- "I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me." |
Posted By: Lyris
Date Posted: July 29 2003 at 8:35am
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Oh let's rant some more; it's such fun. Most hated product of all time: Special FX Straighten Out Gel. Once upon a time this product was actually pretty good, but they reformulated it into a rubber cement-like pink ooze that greased up my hair so badly I was embarassed to go out in public. ------------- Look for beauty, and you will find no intelligence. Look for intelligence and you will find both.Proud member of the Cult of All Soft |
Posted By: emo
Date Posted: August 01 2003 at 1:38pm
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redkin anti snap dried out my hair bed head after party make it too soft and life less ------------- |
Posted By: Kgirl
Date Posted: August 05 2003 at 8:52am
Hehe! I tried that too a couple years ago. I remember the greasy feeling and the odd smell. It was very weirdl; I don't think I'll use a pink colored gel again. :) Got some more to add to the list: Rusk Str8 (I don't have much luck with Rusk styling products though I do adore their shampoos and conditioners.) KMS Flat Out Relaxing Balm: RIDICULOUSLY over-priced for such crap. I think this is worse than the Special Effects Straighten Out. :( Any more you guys hate? ------------- |
Lyris wrote:Posted By: wheeler
Date Posted: August 06 2003 at 11:17am
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Dep gel and other hard gels like that are the WORST! I went through about a bottle of the stuff every month when I was taking ballet and my hair was damaged as a result. Also, I don't like hairspray and Aveda products are so heavy feeling and over priced. ------------- Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. - M. Scott Peck |
Posted By: Cranberry
Date Posted: August 06 2003 at 12:14pm
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Yeah, those cheap gels can either not work AT ALL or totally make your hair that damaged, gummy, nasty texture. I don't know if they've got a dollar store at all of your various locations, but at the one near my place, they sell these huge tubs of gel for--you guessed it--one dollar. A long time ago, a friend and I bought one for another friend as a gag (the friend we gave it to is a major short hair product junkie). We all tried a little bit of the stuff just for fun and for the sake of being experimental (I know hair care enthusiasts are frowning upon us now) and that gel was BAD--not even worth the dollar we paid! Took me a couple days to fully get the stuff out....it was a stupid "for-fun" hair mistake, but I guess you get what you pay for, sometimes not even that. |