Giovanni Shine of the Times shine spray review

Sorry guys, my camera is being glitchy and I can't take pictures right now.

So I picked up Giovanni's Shine of the Times spray....it's supposed to be like a lightweight spray that does the same thing as Biosilk or Chi. I got it for 12 dollars at Walgreens.

Smell: There's a cheap plastic-y smell that dissipates as soon as your hair dries.

The nozzle was broken when I got it, so I guess the packaging wasn't very good. It was in a cute cube-shaped container, though.

The product is thin and not very oily, which is nice. It doesn't weigh my hair down. Although the instructions say to spray and then walk into the mist, the nozzle sprays in a straight line and doesn't really spray into a mist. So, I spray it onto my hands and rub it into my hair.

The product does leave my hair shiny, but I feel like it just sits on my hair. The shine only lasts about 2 hours, then my hair isn't shiny and just feels dirty. This could be because I work in a bakery and the flour floating around the air gets caught in my hair.

This product does what it is supposed to, although for only a couple hours. But it is worth the price, which is less than half the price of Biosilk and Chi, considering how much you get. It doesn't weigh down your hair or smell incredibly bad. It can be a bit difficult to find, though. My rating: 7/10

Tigi Superstar Volumizing Spray review

I need to save my hair. I've bleached it, highlighted it, and then got so annoyed at the constant re-dying I had to do to keep up, that I dyed it back to brown. I rarely blow dry my hair, but I do like to heat style it because I love curls :-)

 

As a result, my hair is dry. No, wait, let me re-state that. My hair is weird. My roots get oily easily but my ends are extremely dry. To try to balance it out, I only shampoo the roots and I only condition the ends. I read somewhere that your hair gets washed anyway from when the shampoo gets rinsed out through the ends. I'm always, ALWAYS on the lookout for something that will restore my hair. My hair is also thick enough that when it gets long, I don't have much volume up top because it's so heavy. So, when I came about the Bed Head Volumizing Leave-In Conditioner, it was like YESSSS!!!

 



I got it at Ulta on clearance for about $6, but I think it retails for $11 - $18.

 

I read the reviews, some people raved about it and some people complained about the scent. It was on clearance, so why not?

 

I opened the bottle and sniffed it. Strawberries, ok, I can deal with that.

Then I sprayed it. Because I have so much hair, it took quite a few sprays. After the second spray, the smell was overwhelmingly horrible. Have you ever smelled rotten, fishy strawberries? This is what the conditioner smelled like. When it dried, the smell went away, but that took about 10 minutes. This smell is nauseating.

 

As for the conditioning effects, I saw none. My hair went limp, my roots went greasy, and my ends were still dry. Maybe I didn't use enough, but there was no way I was risking even more of that smell.

 

I thought it was just because my hair was too thick, so I gave it to Claudia. It didn't work for her either, and she hated the smell too.

 

Bad, bad product. My rating? 1/10.