Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Remington Emi Hairdryer


I saw a review for this crazy looking hairdryer online, and thought I might give it a try. I went on down to target, and to my delight, it was on clearance for $20.00.

I eagerly tore the package open and read the directions. It seems you are supposed to put your wet hair into the weird attachment in little one inch sections, and let it whirl your hair around until it is dry.

Ok, I went and washed my hair, and put a tad bit of smoothing serum in it. I have very curly hair, and crossed my fingers that this thing would make it look pretty without straightening.

Well, after doing my entire head with this thing, which took just as long as my normal $10 conair, I looked like I had dreads all over my head. The directions say you are supposed to finger comb through the mess and you will have perfect waves.

Easier said than done, though, since my naturally curly hair was a knotted mess. It took forever to untangle, and when I was done it looked terrible. My hair looks awful airdried, but it would have looked better than this dryer made it look.

I tried to use the other attachment the next day, a diffuser for straight looks. It took AGES to dry, and wasnt any less frizzy than using my old dryer.

Sadly, this thing did not work at all for me. How dissapointing.

Latisse


I had first posted a review about Revitalash, a few months ago. It didn't work, so I went in search of something that would.
Having read glowing reviews about Latisse online, and looking around on their website...

www.latisse.com

...I went to my plastic surgeon and asked for some. It came out to about $130 bucks.
I got home and opened the package, the contents of which are pictured above. My surgeon told me that I should cut each applicator in half, but everything I read online suggests that you should just trash the applicators altogether, since they waste too much product and are very scratchy. I just took the applicator from my old revitalash and washed it off to use with the Latisse.

I've been using it now for about a month, and I can definately already see a huge difference in my eyelashes. I didn't take a before picture, but my eyelashes were disgracefully short. They have grown a bit in length, and seem to stay curled amazingly well. They are stronger, also, and falling out less.

I will be updating as I continue to use this product, but so far I am very satisfied. I would keep buying it just based on the results after this one month, and am looking forward to the change in the coming months.

Sally Hansen's Spray on Shower off hair remover



I bought this stuff after hearing my sister rave about it. She said it worked really well for her, and her legs stayed smooth for awhile.
It's about $9 a bottle, and I found mine at Walgreens. I went ahead and bought the extra strength formula, since I am plagued with super thick hair.

I got it home and decided that I didn't want to be the guinea pig. My boyfriend willingly let me spray some onto his pubic hair to try it out. It came out of the bottle pretty evenly, and didn't smell too terrible at first. You are supposed to let it sit on the area for 3 minutes, then check and see if it is doing anything.
It wasn't.

We left it on a little longer. The label advises that you not leave it on longer than 10 minutes, so he washed it off after maybe 6 minutes. The smell was getting worse as time went on, but still not as bad as Nair.
In the end, some of his long hair came out, but it was sort of patchy, and didn't work very well.

I tried it myself on my legs a few weeks later, and left it on for the full 10 minutes. I didn't have any burning or anything, no discomfort at all. When I washed it off, none of my stubble was gone. It smelled pretty bad, and was a waste of time.

I would not recommed this stuff. It's way too expensive, and it would take longer than just shaving, anyhow. It didn't seem to work all that well, and now I am stuck with half a bottle of the stuff.