Wishlisted! MYHoneyChild's Honey Hair Mask

With winter approaching in addition to color damage, my hair craves moisture. I was looking at the 30% sale section in Curlmart, but didn't see anything too exciting.  So I went on MakeupAlley to check out reviews for hair treatments that got the highest ratings and saw  this mask with five 5-lippie reviews.  I went back to Curlmart to look at the details, and saw that is it silicone-free and protein-free so that must mean moisture galore with no build-up!  I can't wait to try this.

At $10 for 8 ounces, the price is most certainly right! The ingredients are: Unfiltered Raw Honey, Shea Butter, Coconut Butter, Mango Butter, Coconut Milk and Honey essence oil.

photo courtesy of curlmart.com

Wishlisted! Christophe Robin's Masque Au Germe de Blé

Obvs, I have been spending too much time on beautyhabit.  Next on my wishlist is this deep conditioning hair mask composed with wheat germ oil.  Christophe Robin was a bit of a wunderkind - he has been doing professional campaigns since he was 19, opened his treatment- and color-dedicated  Parisian salon at 24, and is currently the expert colorist for beauty giant  L'Oreal Paris.  He is an expert in hair color, and an expert is what I need right about now to care for my color-treated locks.  The Masque Au Germe de Blé is supposed to protect hair color and to nourish and moisturize your poor strands .   I am currently on my second hair color in about 4 months, and I am still not happy with the color, so I will be unleashing some more  red fury on my hair soon!  My hair was in a pretty healthy state before coloring, and even after the first time, but I think I was processed for too long the second time because my ends soon felt straw-like.  I have already been deep conditioning weekly with Karen's Body Beautiful 's Luscious Locks Hair Mask (love) but I wonder if this is the most nourishing treatment available.  I wear my hair in its naturally curly/kinky state most of the time so I won't damage it much further. 

Some of his advice on his website and on L'Oreal's:

• maintain the brightness of your color by rinsing with cool water and a few drops of lemon juice
• for an intensive treatment, combine a little of the huile à la lavande with the hair mask for about 30 mins  before shampooing
• flat iron only on dry hair to prevent frizz and color fading
• use a deep conditioning treatment after any potentially damaging situation: after a long (and dry) flight, following sun exposure, and the day after coloring
  

Wishlisted! Leonor Greyl's Huile de Palme

If you haven't guessed by the name of this blog, I am battling a beauty product addiction. I suffer from product junkie-ism. Whatever you want to call it. So this beauty just made it onto my wishlist. 95 mL retails for US$42, and is available at Leonor Greyl's site and at beautyhabit. I have heard great things about using an oil as a pre-shampoo treatment, but olive oil and amla oil didn't do much for me, and coconut oil made my hair pretty soft, but I that felt it wasn't strong enough for my thick, kinky/curly hair. According to Leonor Greyl's FAQ, the palm oil is superior to olive oil because "Olive oil will coat your hair but has no nourishing value and offers no protection from UVA/B rays." Hmmm, interesting. This treatment combines several botanical oils in a palm oil base.

Other products that use palm oil you may have heard of include Ojon, but they use the American species of palm, I am not sure where the Leonor Greyl's palm oil comes from.

The picture is from  http://www.leonorgreyl-usa.com/