Tell it to me straight: Aveda products - Brilliant And Worth Every Penny or Expensive Rubbish?

[PacificDogwod]

I had my first Aveda hairdresser experience today.

Be Curly products were used, and guess what, I am all curly

So, if I were to dish out for that stuff, would I regret it??

Bodyshop Rainforest shampoo and conditioner is so pleasingly cheap...

[FormerlyCatherineDeB]

Thank you Wombat. To be honest I have never felt that I have got to grips with it in 48 years.

Maybe one day I will be brave enough for a 'curly' cut.

[wombattoo]

Catherine your hair looks fabulous

[FormerlyCatherineDeB]

Really pleased to hear that Pacific .

[PacificDogwod]

Love, love, love my short hair!
It's properly short and properly curly
Using Rainforest shampoo, Tigi Bedhead curl mousse and some Boots curl cream on days 2 and 3 to refresh curls/get rid of frizz.
So far no small children have run away screaming from me...

[FormerlyCatherineDeB]

Reporting in after using the Daniel Field stuff. I am ed!

I bought curl enhancing shampoo and smooth & shine conditioner and serum.

Frizz elimination, my hair is smooth and shiny, right now I will be buying it again. I reckon they will sell it in a 1ltr bottle if you ask as they do other stuff in big bottles.

How are you getting on with your new cut Pacific??

[BillStickersIsInnocent]

Aveda gave me awful jawline spots - short bob, didn't clock for ages what was triggering it.

[teta]

I like Aveda products.I use the Damage remedy leave in hair conditioner and the liquid hair gel.I also have my hair straightened with Aveda and coloured with Aveda .It leaves my hair in very good condition and I love the smell and feel. I'm not entirely sure it's worth the money though as the prices are just ridiculous.

[PacificDogwod]

They would have sold me travel sized products, but relatively speaking that was even more expensive and I have stuff I want to use up first

PisssssssedOff, really?!
In my head I've got Spring built up to the Mecca of Curly Haired People

[CatherineDeB]

Could you ask the salon for samples Pacific? You can choose samples when you order direct form Aveda online so I don't see why not.

I have ordered Daniel Field curl enhancing shampoo and first aid conditioner together with both finishing products this morning.

here.

[FrustratedFrugal]

monthly, duh

[FrustratedFrugal]

Oh and actually I like the Damage Remedy too (used mostly at most).

[FrustratedFrugal]

I have used their shampoos on and off for a long time but it's mostly for nostalgic reasons, not their miraculous properties. I love the smell of Rosemary & Mint and their soft travel bottles. But supermarket shampoo works just as well.

[SuperFlyHigh]

Their light elements styling fluid I do like (it's really a serum liquid) but their damage remedy leave in conditioner/treatment I'm not keen on, too heavy.

I quite like (though it's also a bit too heavy) Bumble and Bumble Grooming Creme or their Brilliantine which I will probably get again.

[CrotchetQuaverMinim]

I really like the Be Curly stuff - well, some of it. The shampoo, the conditioner, and the curl enhancing lotion. They've all worked well for me, smell nice, and make my hair softer - my hairdresser has commented on the good condition of it. The curls are curlier and more manageable, at least on the first day I wash it. Nothing much ever makes it look good the second day, but at least this feels nice!

I didn't get on with any sort of conditioner washing, even the Aveda stuff.

[MorrisZapp]

I bought a small bottle of aveda shampoo once, the kind that enhances your hair colour. It stripped my hair so badly I couldn't get a comb through it and had to use copious amounts of conditioner to retrieve the situation.

Put me right off the brand.

[Pisssssedofff]

I thought Spring was bloody awful and have previously posted shocking "after" photos from them

[MaybeDoctor]

I have tried various of their products but quite like the co-wash.

Alternate it with Rainforest too!

[PacificDogwod]

Oh, my hair has most certainly changed with the perimenopause

I would love to go to Birmingham to Spring for a curly hair consultation and cut, but that's just a bit too far...

It's cutting down on drying time that was partially the motivation behind my short hair cut and it's certainly worked for that. Was great on holiday

[CatherineDeB]

Thank you Pacific. I too hate that it is seen as less professional but I buy into it too don't I? When dried with a brush it is actually less work, I can get up and run a brush through it and that is all I do for three days.

Do you know that none of my hairdressers have ever encouraged me to try it curly, none of them.

And of course it doesn't always have that freshly washed look (photo) could triple in volume over the course of a day and takes 24 hours to completely dry.

I think that as well as everyone's hair being different our own hair changes through our lifetime. I used Shampure conditoner and shampoo and their Light elements smoothing fluid (have it in front of me so can remember the name) for 20 years (used to go to Aveda in Covent Garden for it cut). But now those products don't quite do it for my hair.

I wonder if it is menopause related? I have ordered some Daniel Field products. If they don't suit me I will used them on DD.

DH uses Rosemary mint, much too harsh and not conditioning enough for my hair but great for his hair and scalp.

[Footle]

I have shortish fine straight hair and I like Aveda rosemary and mint one very much. I use it every day, just one shampoo and not much of it.

[Libitina]

Love their shampoos and conditioners. Shampure is the one I keep going back to, but also love the madder root and blue malva ones too.

[PacificDogwod]

Cathererine, your hair is gorgeous! I would so totally go with the Cathy from the Moors look - stunning!

It's one of the things that really bugs me: how come 'curly hair' is somehow seen as 'less professional'??

[PacificDogwod]

I have just started using Boots curl creme and it seems to wash out ok with Bodyshop's Rainforest shampoo.

[PacificDogwod]

Oh, I have done the change from really long to really short several times in my long, long life , so that does not really phase me.
I just want to stop having to dry/style it beyond washing/conditioning/styling gunk in and finger style - then go!

A couple of years ago I got that UniqOne stuff following a thread on here (yes, I am a sheep) and it did not suit me at all - left my hair lank, not clean feeling and still frizzy

[Destinysdaughter]

Quick question, if you are using product such as the Boots pink curl cream, what do you use to wash it out? Am worried that it's building up in my hair especially if I'm just washing with conditioner!