Brilliant Brunette by John Frieda
As you know, I’m a huge bargain hunter. Often times, on the weekends, my boyfriend and I will head out to several different off price stores looking for deals, and many times I’ll run into close outs and things of that nature that are dramatically reduced from their retail cost. Now, granted, these are usually not top of the line items, but rather things you’d find in your local drug store, but for about a third of the retail cost.
One such item I recently found was actually something I had already tried before, both when I was a blonde (I used to be blonde, now I’m brunette, my natural color), it’s the John Frieda line for brunettes called Brilliant Brunette. I got two things, both for around three bucks, the Brilliant Brunette shine conditioner and the Brilliant Brunette hair glosser creme.
I like both of them, except I do have one complaint about the conditioner, and that is that I don’t really care for the scent of it. It has a scent that smells vaguely of a perm solution, and that’s kind of a turn off, although the product does not damage the hair, instead it moisturizes it. It’s an extremely thick conditioner formula, and it does the job of enhancing shine, but I think that may be at the expense of sacrificing some moisturizing, which I’m not a huge fan of since the key to battling frizz in maintaining moisture so that excess moisture in the air has no where to go on the hair shaft if it’s all full of moisture already (am I making sense?)
The shine creme is very good, I mix this with a little of Aveda’s Be Curly and it adds a nice bit of moisture and shine to the hair, plus is has a very pleasant scent and it goes on easily without feeling heavy or too creamy.
