If you haven’t tried this Frederic Fekkai wonder potion yet, then you don’t know what you’ve been missing. Daub on your hair before you go to bed at night, and drift off while the instantly-absorbed lotion takes effect. Wake up and, tada…your tangled mop is replaced with shiny, silky tresses.
Price: £8.95
Stockist: Urban Retreat Hair Therapy @ Boots www.boots.com
While you work in most hair masks after shampooing, Urban Retreat’s offering is a novel pre-shampoo affair. Leave on wet hair for ten minutes, then shampoo and condition as normal for a really intensive repairing effect. Oh, and it smells yummy too!
This legendary formula from Kiehl’s actually moisturises using real silk powders, as well as jojoba, soy and wheat proteins, to smooth down fly-aways, silken your hair and give you a shiny, polished-looking finish.
Frankly, we wonder how we survived before ghds and their ceramic plates were invented! Suddenly, they made it possible for us normal gals to get rid of our frizzies and have Jennifer Aniston-style hair at home. The lazy girl’s answer to blow drying, the ghd styler is good for so much more these days: like fixing fringes; curling; creating waves; and flicking out ends. The one and only straighteners worth buying.
We first fell in love with this tropical-smelling conditioner when they used it in Toni and Guy salons and many years later, it’s still one of our faves. Don’t be fooled by the name though, this juice is good for blondes, brunettes and red heads alike, for a shot of real intense conditioning action.
If you’ve slept in after a big night out and don’t have time to wash your tresses, you’ll be wishing you had a bottle of this on your dressing table, big time. Although there are many pretenders to the crown these days, Batiste still rules the roost in the dry shampoo stakes – soaking up grease and disguising odours from the night before, or simply adding texture to clean hair.
Okay, so any shower cap would do, but they’re a definite essential and this one is sooo cute! Avoid post-shower, steam-induced frizz on days when you don’t wash your hair by covering up with a sweet shower cap like this one from Cath Kidston. ZPM and Benefit also have some beauties!
If you only invest in one shine spray product (although with the hundreds on the market, why stop there?!), may we suggest this one? We heart the whole Bumble & Bumble range; particularly this spray. Just one spritz is all one needs for gleaming finish.
Price: £5.98
Stockist: John Frieda Frizz Ease @ Boots www.boots.com
It worked when you were a teenager, and it still works now; John Frieda’s Frizz Ease is the most effective product under a tenner we could find. Frizzy hair: 0. You: 1.
Kerastase are renowned for their top-quality hair products, and no bathroom cabinet is complete without a little help from this uber-brand. Those girls with curls – who have a notoriously tough time keeping their locks in shape – should try Kerastase’s Oleo Curl shampoo and conditioner, to start keeping those pesky tresses in shape from the first wash.