Moroccanoil // Treatment Oil Review

Moroccanoil // Treatment Oil
RRP £13.45 for 25ml Travel Size

I received this Latest In Beauty box a few months ago.

First Impressions

The oil itself is extremely lightweight and not greasy. After the first use when my hair was dry it felt super soft with barely any frizz. It has a slight nutty scent to it which does pass onto the hair. This is actually the 3rd 25ml size I've used now (they get featured in beauty boxes a lot). 

Usage

These 25ml sizes take me around 2/3 months to use up. I tend to wash my hair every 3/4 days and use about 2ml on my hair every time. My hair is down to my butt so I tend to always use a lot of product. I use this along with 2 other leave-in conditioners but as the last step as the oil helps lock in moisture. When my hair air drys it feels soft and bouncy and when I blow dry it, it's sleek and shiny.

Would I Buy It: I haven't needed to yet seeing as how frequent it crops up in boxes but if I saw it in TK Maxx I would. I don't think I would pay full price for it though.

Overall Impressions

When I first saw this product a few years ago I just thought it was a fad product but now having used several of these bottles I've come to really like the product. If I had a higher disposable income; this would definitely become one of my staple products. I especially like using it in the winter to keep all the moisture locked in from the cold, icy air.

Nexxus // Encapsulate Serum Cavier Review

Nexxus // Encapsulate Serum Caviar
RRP £24.99 for 60ml

This was a 15ml sample that I received in a Latest In Beauty box a few months ago.

First Impressions

I honestly had no idea that this was a hair product. It was only when I read the back and it instructed me to apply to damp hair that I realised. I was about to use it on my face! It has a nice powdery smell; kind of like baby powder.

Usage

It's a nightmare to get this stuff out of the bottle. I had to keep banging it against the table to shift the product to where it would be dispensed. Once it eventually leaves it's in a white liquidy state. I thought the "caviar beads" would come out whole but the product gets mixed together when dispensed. 15ml lasted me about a month and I only wash my hair every 3/4 days and used 3 pumps at a time.

Would I Buy This Product: No.

Overall Impressions

This does nothing apart from leave your hair sopping wet. I've never known anything like it. Normally, my hair dries quite fast, but every time I used this, it took twice as long to air dry. I like to shower before bed, braid my hair and then quickly blow dry for 5 minutes in the braids just so it's not soaking wet. When I used this product, I was blasting my hair for 20 minutes and it still wouldn't dry. This product just seems to coat the hair in the something. That coating doesn't wear well either. I think if you wash your every every day or so you won't notice but after a couple of days I noticed that my hair would stick to itself and knot more easily. Something that doesn't happen with my normal Aussie leave-in.

I can't give this stuff away. I've taken it to work and everyone else had the same response, thinking it was a face cream then reading the back. I've also had one friend pull a face thinking there was actual fish eggs in the product. On almost every website this product has an average of 4 stars out of 5; I don't know how. Maybe this works for finer, Caucasian hair, but it was useless with my mixed Afro hair.