Hello everyone! I bought a new hair product to try recently, and this product is my first hair mousse. Since this is my first time experimenting with hair mousse, I decided to style my hair with this mousse on wet hair, as well as on blow-dried hair.
Cost: $6.99 – $16.99, depending on where you buy it.
Ingredients: This hair mousse has a small ingredient list of about 26 ingredients. This product does have some good ingredients in it, including aloe leaf, vitamin E, and silk protein. If you are sensitive to smells, you may not like this product, since it does contain parfum/fragrance. However, this hair mousse has a strong lemon scent, rather than a perfume scent.
On Blow-Dried Hair
I styled my hair by drying each section in the brush with a hairdryer until the hair was 90% dry. Then I applied this hair mousse to my hair. This hair mousse made my hair look great when I styled it this way. My hair looked like it was naturally beautiful, neat, and controlled. My hair was not overly shiny and it did not feel oily. In fact, my hair felt like nothing was on it at all.
When I first applied this mousse to my hair, I thought that it would not work for me because it did not seem to add moisture or oil to my dry locks. After all, it felt like nothing was on my hair, so seeing how nice my hair looked with this product was a pleasant surprise.
Another good thing about this hair product is that you do not need a lot of it since it is a mousse. A little bit of product on each section of hair will go a long way, so this hair mousse is very cost-effective.
Lastly, I loved how thick my hair looked and how it had a lot of body and mobility.
However, there were two things that I did not like about this hair mousse. The first is that this hair mousse did not last long on my hair; it only lasted one day after I took my hair down. For that one day, it looked nice, but on the second day, my roots looked unruly again, so the hold does not last long on curly unruly roots. The middle and ends of my hair still looked neat and nice though, just like they did on the first day.
Another thing that I did not like about this hair mousse is that it left a flake-like residue in my hair.
On Wet Hair That Was Not Blow-Dried
I applied this hair product right after shampooing, conditioning, detangling, and adding a moisturizing leave-in conditioner. My hair was only towel-dried. No heat was used at all.
My hair took forever to dry this way and it was not fully dry until around the second day, so that is when I took my hair down.
I know that many ethnic women like hair mousse, but unfortunately, there was nothing that I liked about how this particular hair mousse made my hair look while it was wet. There was also a flaky residue in my hair again, and my hair became so dense with this product that it did not move freely like I would have liked it to. In fact, my hair felt a bit stiff.
The hair density was concentrated at the roots and center of my hair, so the ends looked straggly in my opinion. The intense density also seemed to cause tangles and some matting in my hair in some places, despite fully detangled it with a comb and a brush before setting it with the mousse.
Finally, I just did not like how my hair looked at all with this product in it when applied to it wet. My hair basically looked wild, unruly, and it did not look controlled at all. The density led to extreme shrinkage as well, so my hair shrank to half its size. Furthermore, the tangling made it so that I could not even separate some sections of hair. It seemed that the mousse had locked some areas of hair more intensely than others, which also made it difficult to style. As a result, I ended up restyling my hair and starting again from scratch that night.
Effect On Ethnic Permed Hair
I wanted to give this product one more shot, so I gave this hair product to a friend, a Black woman with permed hair. I asked her to try it out and tell me what she thought of it. She used it to refresh her hair, so two days after blow-drying her hair, she applied this hair mousse on sections of dry hair and blow-dried it in. She said that she loved how this product made her hair look. It had made her hair which had become thin from perming become much thicker. This product also added shine to her hair, and it made her hair look very nice and sleek.
Final Thoughts?
I think that this hair mousse will work well on naturally straight or wavy hair, as well as on permed hair, but on ethnic, very curly, unruly hair that has not been permed like mine, it does not work as well because it thickens the hair too much while it is wet, to the point that it makes the hair become even more unmanageable. If you have very thin, straight, or wavy hair, such as what many Caucasians or Asians have, then this hair product may become a holy grail for you if your focus is on thickness.
Based on my personal experiences with this product, I do not recommend using it on unpermed/unrelaxed ethnic hair while it is wet, but rather on curly hair that has been straightened, since it will work much better. I also think that it is a good idea to pair this hair mousse with other products, such as a hair gel if you have very unruly roots. Personally, I would never use this product again on wet hair that has not been straightened first, and the next time I do use it again, I will pair it with a hair gel or a curl balm, rather than use it alone to set my hair.
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