L'oreal extraordinary oil oil-in-cream

Matas had these for a really good price, so I grabbed three of them.

First impression: Pretty tube (And hard to get the details of. So shiny)

Second impression: Smells good. Vaguely fruity.

Ingredients

Aqua/water, cetearyl alcohol, Cocos Nucifera Oil / Coconut Oil, Cetyl Alcohol, Cetyl Esters, CI 15985 / Yellow 6,CI 19140 / Yellow 5,Chamomilla Recutita Extract / Matricaria Flower Extract, lactic acid, phenoxyethanol, Behentrimonium methosulfate, trideceth-6, chlorhexidine digluconate, Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil / Sunflower Seed Oil, Nelumbium Speciosum Flower Extract, benzyl alcohol, cinnamal, linalool, Linum Usitatissimum Flower Extract, amodimeticone, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, caramel, Gardenia Tahitensis Flower Extract, Rosa Canina Flower Extract, bisabolol, bht, Cetrimonium Chloride, Glycine Soja Oil / Soybean Oil, parfum/fragrance

(And WTF. It's so cringe-worthy that L'Oreal doesn't have the ingredients listed on anything on their website! Seriously, seriously unprofessional!)

COSDNA spits out this analysis of the ingredients:

Hm! Kind of a mixed bag here: Even parts green, yellow and red? Not so good.

2 marked as a "2" on acne

1 marked as a "3" on acne

1 marked as a "4" on acne

1 marked as a "1" on irritant

2 marked as a "2" on irritant

23 ingredients are marked with colours for safety:

13 marked as "green" which is 56%

6 marked as "yellow" which is 26% (And a cluster of four of them are fairly high up the list)

4 marked as "red" which is 17%

Statistics-wise, this is perhaps the least impressive product I have analysed.

Also, I took a double-take at that it contains "Chlorhexidine Digluconate". Hm.

I'm a little confused about the "6 precious oils", so I took a look at what they were.

I found exactly 3. That's half of what it was supposed to be.

Cocos Nucifera Oil

Coconut oil. 

Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil

Sunflower seed oil.

Glycine Soja Oil

Soybean oil.

Had a bunch of flower extracts though. I wonder if those were supposed to count as oils?

Matricaria Flower Extract

Chamomile

Nelumbium Speciosum Flower Extract

Lotus

Linum Usitatissimum Flower Extract 

Flax

Gardenia Tahitensis Flower Extract

Gardenia

Rosa Canina Flower Extract

Dog rose

So: 3 oils + 5 flower extracts = 6 precious oils.

That's some advanced math right there! 

Anyways. The product itself though turned out to be pretty nice. Good hold, pretty glossy effect. The scent is barely noticeable once it in my hair, but Hubby still approves.

Fairly easy to rinse off my hands too.

The verdict
I'm honestly a little put off by the COSDNA analysis, but the product is pretty much exactly what I look for in a leave in product. Sooooo...
I guess I will figure out if I will repurchase or not when I have run out... If I can still get it by then. Leave in products seems to pop up and disappear randomly on the Scandinavian market.
For now, I will enjoy the product, but be on the lookout for any skin reactions.

Today's hair

It's been so windy lately. Not particularly cold, just the wind and windchill. Brr.
So since I had some errands to run, I figured I would try to use one of my fake bangs as a forehead-warmer (lol)

Those long pieces at the sides have a tendency to curl up. I guess the whole piece could use some professional styling and trimming too. Maybe I could get the long pieces flat ironed?

Hubby was being funny so I smiled.
Arrrrrrrrrrgh I hate that stupid smile with the stupid fat cheeks I get when I smile

Oink.

Hair inspiration

This is one of those styles that just looks so nice and simple. A slightly squished cinnamon bun? Should be easy, right?
This woman even look like she has more hair than me, so if she can do it, so can I.
Right?

Yea, perhaps not so much.

To make this style hold, I think I would need to start off with a ponytail. That would give this bun a total of three anchorpoints to hold up the bun.

So I did that, formed a cinnamon bun (Took some work to keep it from beebutting) and squished it to make the megaflexi fit.
To my surprise, it actually held.
Didn't feel secure, didn't feel very stable, but it held.
The Flexi slid down a bit in one side, but that was all.

Would I do this style again?

No. Although it was an unexpected, pleasant surprise that it held up, I will not do it again.

It "just" looks like a cinnamon bun and I already have one fantastically stable and simple cinnamon bun I can do. Why do something lesser good when it looks about the same?