New Loreal Shampoo and a Laugh At My Expense

These samples could not have come at a better time for me.  Two day's previously I had a hair disaster and a blonde brunette moment.  I have lots of random bottles of shampoo that I am trying to use up (I always run out of conditioner first) so I purchased a random conditioner to go.  Well I thought I had bought conditioner, I had actually bought shampoo but did not realise this until I was washing my hair that night.  I had an interview early the next morning for the journalism placement I am going on and my hair had been back-combed all weekend - see my dilemma? I needed something to work as a substitute for conditioner so I scanned my bathroom and found Lush's Ultrabutter and The Body Soaps Mango Body Scrub.  I had heard Ultrabutter has many uses and the mango body scrub is oil based - this was such a mistake.  My hair ended up just caked and the oil from both products would not budge from my hair.  I went to my interview with my hair caked in talcum powder because I also had no dry shampoo. 

My hair was not a pretty site but Loreal Ever Pure Shampoo and Conditioner really helped restore it to its naturally thick frizzy state.

Gwen Stefani gives it a thumbs up and I can understand why.  I really liked this shampoo and I felt it helped lift all the product from my hair and some of the undesired hair dye build up that currently holds on to my hair.  The colour of my hair looked great afterwards and it was so shiny.

"Specifically designed for coloured and dry hair, L'Oreal Hair Expertise EverPure Colour Care & Moisture is a Colour Care System with non-sulphate cleansing and gentle moisturising care. The formulae are enriched with botanical rosemary and juniper oils and leave hair feeling nourished".

The price however I do not like as it is quite expensive with the cheapest I have seen it being 2 for £8.00; which is not too bad if you have the money to spend but like I said in the previous post when you are unemployed you cannot afford to be spending that on shampoo.  What is everyone's favourite expensive shampoo?  

No Doubt about it. They are back.

No Doubt have finally returned on to the scene after a whopping ten year hiatus which makes me feel really old.  I was aged ten or eleven when, Rock Steady, the last No Doubt album came out and I have been a fan of the band ever since. For me the upcoming album Push and Shove is the album of not only the summers end but the album of the year.

Ten years No Doubt fans have been waiting which is a long time when you realise that I wasn't even a teenager when the last record came out and now I am in my twenties. My whole high school and university career.

There was of course Gwen Stafani's solo work but that was not up to everyone's taste.  I personally loved her first solo album but the second one felt a little too main stream R&B for my personal taste. I did enjoy seeing Stefani expressing herself musically and extending her interest in fashion though.  She is someone who has been a style icon of mine for years.  I used to cut pictures of her out my girls magazines and put them on my wall. Being a small brunette there is not much that she wears that I could actually pull off but I enjoy looking at her.  Not in a perverted way more in the way you would admire a work of art.

However back to the point - the new single.  The opening notes of the song appear to show the combined styles of Stefani's solo work and No Doubts most modern sound.  Judging from this single the band have steered closely to the reggae style featured on Rock Steady.

The reggae beats are sure to make this song a summer anthem among fans and I hope that it will recruit some new younger fans to the No Doubt camp.  It is amazing to know that there will be girls around the age I was when Rock Steady came out that will love this. It would be great to see girls looking up a strong front woman like Gwen Stefani rather than the likes of Selena Gomez.

So GET IN LINE and buy the album in September.

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