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hmmm. just check the ingredients. Drugstore products I find are full of wax. I’m using dove shampoo and conditioner right now (out of poorness) and it’s probably the best drugstore brand, but it’s not nearly as good as the Aveda stuff I usually use (when I can afford it, well, the Rosemary mint stuff isn’t even that expensive!)

Bottom line, maybe use the new stuff for a bit longer to see any lasting effects. Who knows, it might be all marketing and Dove really is better!

Not really.  I tend to read the ingredients.  Starting when I took organic chemistry in high school, if the more expensive product had the exact same or even similar  ingredients, I didn’t buy them.The most expensive shampoo I have ever bought was $30 for 9 oz.  It was amazing, I’d buy it again.  I only stopped buying it b/c I started using the products I use on my son on myself.

I find that drugstore line cosmetics (ie foundation, mascara) sometimes work even better than the more high-end stuff that you buy. 

It all depends on your skin type, or in the shampoo case – your hair type.
Depending on how different the product you try from what you normally use can throw off the balance of the oils produced in your hair, changing the texture, and feeling.

It’s all about balance: if you can find a cheap conditioner that makes your hair feel soft and healthy stick to it! There’s no point in trying out something else when benefit of the doubt is that you have your OWN product that works well for YOU.

lol I couldn’t read past the first paragraph…got it, it was expensive. But lord, all expensive things aren’t miracles in bottles! 

Technically if you give your hair a break more often from aplied heat, you wouldn’t need expensive hair treatment, hair will repair itself.

I dont have the money to spend on expensive products…I buy my stuff from Wal-Mart and it works

I don’t get the point of this post if you won’t tell us the names of the products you used so that we can avoid them. Obviously not all expensive things are going to be the best products out there…didn’t need to read a blog for that info.

@fungusamungus33@xanga - agreed

p.s. I love your username hahaha

Yes. Generally skin products. I’m trying Carley’s now and crossing my fingers in desperation.

Go Dove! Love that stuff. 

@fungusamungus33@xanga - As I stated in the post, I did not want to say the name of the product out of respect for the company. (Just because it didn’t work for me, that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work wonders for someone else). I wrote the post to share a life lesson with Lovelyish readers that expensive products are not always worth the money. 

@fungusamungus33@xanga - this. i wanted to know the name of the products so i know not to waste any money on them.

I just ask my hair stylist what products she uses on my hair and I get them.  At least that way if it doesn’t come out right, it’s because of something I did and not the product being a waste of my time and money. I learned that from my brother who is also a hair stylist. 

@Rebecka - Fair enough but next time I think you should keep in mind that generally people are pretty aware of the fact that there won’t always be a positive correlation between price and quality and that writing a blog about a mystery product that didn’t work for you without giving the reader any useful knowledge afterwords is sort of superfluous. 

I only use the Matrix line. And I go to Sally’s to pick it up. Normally, Matrix products are like almost $20 a bottle. But at Sally’s, they’re $7 a bottle (before taxes). And I get hair that is soft and just like I stepped out of the salon. I won’t go for anything else.

I also don’t like Dove. I’ve tried it before and it doesn’t work well for me.

I don’t get why you would withhold the brand name. Maybe other people don’t want to blow their money on a product that doesn’t work.