Mane 'n Tail Conditioner: Moisturizer-Texturizer

I found this one randomly at Matas and it was cheap! (Hint-hint for my fellow Danes!) 

Conditioners that can be both rinsed out and left in makes me suspicious since they usually leave a greasy residue behind, but I had to give it a shot since I'm always looking for leave ins.

First impression were positive: Big bottle for a great price.

Second impression: The scent reminds me of a mix of old school Fructis and this conditioner that was the biggest hype in the longhair circuit some 10 years ago... Damn, what was the name? L'Oreal something-something? Big yellow tub? Anyone?

Ingredients

Water/Aqua/Eau, Distearyldimonium Chloride, Stearyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine Lactate, Cetyl Alcohol, Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Glycerin, Cetearyl Alcohol, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance (Parfum), Glycine Soja (Soybean) Oil, Polysorbate 60, Steareth-20, Methylparaben, Sodium Chloride, PEG-150 Stearate, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Propylparaben, Lanolin, Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil, Yellow #5 (Cl 19140), Benzyl Benzoate, Citronellol, Geraniol, Hexyl Cinnamal, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Limonene, Linalool, Alpha-isomethyl Ionone

I'm worried about the coconut oil. It's extremely irritating and comedogenic for my skin. My hair likes it, but for my skin it's an instant disaster that results in itchiness and breakouts. It's very high up the ingredient list too. Cosdna marks coconut oil down as a 4 for acne and 1 for irritant.

Also I wonder why I see hydrolyzed collagen in hair products popping up more and more. Anyone else noticed this trend? 

Cosdna gives it a lot of points for acne and irritants in the ingredients. Almost the entire bottom half of ingredients is in yellow for safety. Hmm!

5 marked as a "2" on acne

1 marked as a "3" on acne

1 marked as a "4" on acne

2 marked as a "1" on irritant

3 marked as a "2" on irritant

That... Doesn't really look so good when you list it up like that, does it?  Some ingredients "overlap" but still. 

Effect

The greasiness I worried about was there. But not a lot. Still noticeable though.

It had a good hold, good shine and a nice scent left behind.

I think I want to mix it into another conditioner though, see if I can get rid of some of the greasiness.
I washed my hands thoroughly after using it and didn't have any issues with the coconut, but I'm still slightly worried about it causing issues anyways. Maybe my skin will react to it when I roll over my braid in my sleep... 

The verdict
Well, I don't hate it. But I'm not particularly impressed either. It's just kind of... Inoffensive. 
I think the big point for this one comes from the price and the fact that it was available at all. Leave in conditioners can be such an enormous pain in the ass to find here, so I'm not picky anymore.
So yea, will use, will buy again.

Trim

As usual when I visit my parents I have my mother trim my hair.
I asked for 5 cm or so, but I think she took off 7. I don't really mind though.
It's funny when your hair reach a certain length: I couldn't tell I had lost any length by feel, but I can see how the end of the braid has thickened up and the tassel got shorter.

I think I've reached a length where my hair can't keep any sort of hemline or thickness at the ends for much longer. I'm tempted to get a creaclip and maintain here for the rest of the year or so. Either that or just give in to the fairy tale ends, lol.

Sharing a picture

I was back in Denmark visiting my parents for a bit and of course I had to go out hunting with dad. I snapped this quick picture of him in the sunset and I liked it so much I wanted to share it with my readers :)

Another TK order

As the title says, I just placed another order at testerkorea.com.

Why?

Because I wanted this:

ETUDE HOUSE My Beauty Tool Lovely Ettie Hair Band

I spotted it at another K-blogger and just had to have it!
(Plus a bunch of other stuff as usual when I order from testerkorea. Hehe)

It should turn evening skin-time/mud mask time from this

Into this

I ordered two: One for washing and one for wearing for masks after washing. So uncomfortable to wear a wet headband when you have a mask on...

I also ordered a bunch of skin stuff and a single hair product: LOMBOK Mastic Easyment Treatment which should be a leave in conditioner. Huge tub, that one! It will be interesting to see if it's useful to me.

The next time someone tells me they envy me my hair, I will show them this picture...

This is what happens when you have iii-hair in unrelenting summer heat.
Especially if you have sensitive skin, I guess.
Since about after a week into the summer heat I've had a line of irritating little breakouts along/inside the hairline at my neck.
No matter what I did with mud masks, serums, exfoliators and toners, it had no effect.
I guess when you get a slightly sweaty neck in your sleep from the heat, you just cant make up for it with anything you apply to your skin.
It seems like the heat is finally going away now, so maybe, finally, it will heal.

AOA: Short hair

I wish I could understand what they're singing!

At first I was a little offended at the hint that cutting their hair short would solve all their problems. But then I thought of how many people I've met in the longhair circuit who seems to believe that growing their hair long will solve all their problems!

Sailor Moon manga act 9

Anyone else seen the new Sailor Moon remake: Crystal?

My opinion can be summed up with this: 

I really hated it. Like, flat out no ifs and buts, hated it.

I really liked the old Sailor Moon series. It was such a classic. Usagi was scared, girly, clumsy, lazy and in so many ways the weakest link out of all the sailor senshi, but she did her best and saved the world in her own way.

I even liked the live action version (Once I got past the intense cringey feeling) because it managed to balance the seriousness and silliness.

Basically this. So much this.

The new Usagi is aloof and vacant 95% of the time and when she finally shows the "old" Usagi clumsiness it feels shoehorned in. It feels like they just wanted to a produce a show with "mature" and "elegant" girls. And it doesn't work. I miss the old crazy reaction faces and silliness. Both the original manga and anime had that and it really worked.
I have to give the reboot a single point for making Usagi+Mamoru work. In the old anime he was such a dull character until late in the series and it felt like they had to be together because they just had to be together.

Anyways.
In the remake, they include this scene from the manga:
It was a cute little detail.

Her hair grew like crazy overnight but the bangs stayed the same...?
Guess no one cared for George Micheal's opinion on this!

A tip for my USA-based readers

Has everyone heard of the Walmart beauty box?
It's been making rounds in the beauty-bloggosphere and everyone seems to love it. Sure, there are some who dislike some products, but the overall verdict is that for the price, it can't be beat.
Just 5$ for each box which covers shipping and handling. It ships four times a year.
But here's the bad news: It only ships to USA.
Igor says: Booh.

Link

I did something creepy

I saw this woman on the bus the other day. And I snapped a picture of her hair.

Bad. I know.

She was obviously a longhair like me, but I couldn't decipher for sure how she had put her hair up.

Also, what is that hair stick? It honestly looks like some sort of skewer stick more than a real hair stick.

I'm super impressed she could hold her but up with such a wimpy stick!

So, here's what I think she did.

From how thick the lower roll is, I'd say this was the beginning of the tail.
So I'm guessing she first put her hair in a ponytail, then inserted the stick through it horizontally.
Then, I guess she rolled it  up around the stick.
But it looks like the lower part goes the entire width of her bun? So where does the ponytail start?
Did she start coiling left first, then pulled it right?

The next part I'm more sure about: It looks like the tail has continued above the hair stick, but has been pressed downwards by the last bit...

...Where I guess she used the ends to loop around the bun between the bun and the back of her head?

It was a really nice style and I would like to copy it.
But I cant figure out the beginning of the structure.

Any inputs from my readers?

Weight of hair toys

My new Elk&Iron sticks made me curious.
How heavy are my hair toys?

Not all hair toys in picture!
I have a bunch of sticks I never use and I didn't bother to weigh those.
Hm. I should throw those out. All they do is take up space and help unbalance the stick-jar.

Clips

Ficcare set: 60 g for both

Large soaring butterflies Flexi 8 set: 55 g for both

XL dream catchers Flexi 8 set: 85 g for both

XL night owls Flexi 8 set: 90 g for both

XXL Flexies: 50 g each except for:

XXL Greenish Flexi 8 (Forgot the name and they don’t make them anymore): 45 g

XXL Tree of life Flexi 8 (White pearls) 35 g

The XL Flexies surprised me. Despite being a lot smaller than the XXL ones, yet they weigh so much in comparison.

The XXL greenish one I forgot name of weighs the same as one XL night owl. The XXL tree of life weighs less than one XL dream catcher.

I guess the weight really isn’t in the mass of the 8 or the stick, but in the decoration.

Forks

4 Amish pins: 10 g in total

Ron Quattro starlites combo set, small fork: 5 g

Ron Quattro starlites combo set, large fork: 5 g

Ron Quattro copper fork: 25 g

Ron Quattro wavy fork: 5 g

The Ron Quattro forks are so light! No wonder the single Starlites are my go-to!

Sticks

Set of blue corian Ketylos: 25 g

Set of grey corian Ketylos: 20 g

Set of J-list lightsaber hairsticks: 15 g

Set of J-list pencil hairsticks: 10 g

Set of J-list samurai sword hairsticks: 15 g

Set of one kind of wood Ric the combmaker sticks: 30 g

Set of another kind of wood Ric the combmaker sticks: 20 g

Set of smooth Ron Quattro flexstix: 10 g

Set of spiral Ron Quattro flexstix: 10 g

Set of wood Ketylos: 15 g for all colours

Set of wooden hair sticks: 15 g

Single bone WoodArtJewelry stick: 20 g

Single brown Elk&Iron stick: 15 g

Single hair sword: 20 g

Single loop hairsticks I got in a trade, big: 15 g

Single loop hairsticks I got in a trade, small: 10 g

Single TimberstoneTurnings stick: 25 g

Single white Elk&Iron stick: 10 g

It’s funny how the single sticks mess with your head.

I would swear up and down the single TimberstoneTurnings stick is the heaviest single stick by far, but it’s only 5 gram heavier than the bone WoodArtJewelry stick and the hair sword.

But it’s no surprise that the large, massive wood Ric the combmaker sticks are the heaviest set. Or that the simple Ron Quattros are among the lightest.