Drugstore Curly Hair Product Battle & Review | Umberto Giannini Vs Noughty Haircare

What'S good everybody, it's your main girl, mal back at it again with a brand new comp, harrison video we're going to be doing a product battle of the brands using drugstore products that are found internationally and at a pretty affordable price. That'S right me, your canadian curly, curl, stylist and curl enthusiast we're going to be reviewing any first impressions, naughty hair care versus the alberto there's. So many ends don't come for me. I'M sorry! If that makes me naughty, these product lines are both 100 vegan and cruelty. Free, the only question is which one will be the winner, so if this is something that you would like to see, then stick around and without further ado, let's get to it. So this is going to be my first impressions of both of these shampoos. What we are testing here is going to be the lathering capabilities and, as for the conditioner, we're going to see how it detangles how our hair feels after rinsing. But what you need to know about shampoo and conditioners and reviews are for me to truly stand behind and recommend shampoos and conditioners. I do like to use the long term, but i do want to still share a first impression and at least see how these feel as i am using them, and how my hair feels at the end of the week before i have to wash again to see. If i'm itchy flaky nasty all that stuff so just be aware of that, this is going to be first impressions of these shampoos and conditioners. So now we're here going in with the naughty side. First sounds like a pretty thick shampoo, such a fresh smell, just fresh, clean, not floral, not just fresh, absolutely gon na go for the second shampoo. I just need a little bit more lather and if your shampoo is not lathering on the first shampoo, i mean it's just a sign that your hair is dirty. I haven't washed my hair for six days, so i'm expecting that using a sulfate free shampoo, just let's just watch the magic happen on the second wash almost instantly it's getting foamy on the second time around, because there's not as much dirt in the way now i Can get really thorough and get into my scalp and hair and properly cleanse? I also like to massage and emulsify for at least 60 seconds. Okay, now we've done it now. We'Ve done it! I'M gon na rinse wave, hello, wave hello. You first want to work through your conditioner, with your hands kind of massage it through your hair before going in with detangling, because this is going to help to coat and protect your strands for that process, and i'm actually just going to let this sit go ahead And shampoo my other side apply. The conditioner then come back and detangle this side and come back and detangle this side just to try to make it even let them both kind of sit in the hair and then we'll scrub, a dub dub over here. I actually now that this side is clean and this side isn't. I am itching literally a chain for scalp scrub. Here we are with our curl jelly, wash they're, both pretty jelly, but this one feels a little bit thicker a little bit more like a jelly. Just going ahead and lathering well in my hands, so both of these lines have just a fresh smell. It'S super neutral because it's not overly floral, it's not sweet. It'S just clean. I really appreciate that so on the first wash, i do feel like this. One is giving me more. Lather, like i may not have to go in with a second shampoo, see how it's easier to distribute. You can see how it's really lathered and gotten everywhere and all by using less product, because i haven't had to go in with my second shampoo and i may not need to, but we'll see how this rinses we're going to skip the second shampoo on this one. Because it already feels clean after the first shampoo, so i'm just going to go in with the conditioner. This conditioner has a different consistency. It'S not as thick it's a little bit more silky and kind of just runny in the hand. So, let's see how this applies onto the hair, i can feel that it has a more instant kind of glide through the hair. It doesn't give as much resistance. It'S just automatically more slip, which is super super helpful when it comes to detangling, but i'm just going to massage this through the tangle of the naughty side and then we'll come on back here. I'M coming through with my tangle teezer ultimate detangler, wet detangler brush. The conditioner is actually getting a little bit foamy that actually helps with detangling, because those little bubbles that are kind of foaming in the conditioner like create space between knotting and just makes it a little bit easier to work through, and this is definitely he's hanging. Well, maybe a minute, maybe uh, maybe under two i'm almost through cheers that worked better than i expected, because in the first impression going through my hair, i was like. Oh, it doesn't have that much slip, but it really makes a difference once you massage it into the hair. Let it sit for a moment before detangling. It makes it so much easier because it's helped to work a little bit of its magic just going to keep this aside clean my brush and detangle this side. This conditioner is also getting that foamy effect. Stop pause, my hand is cramping my hand, just covering my hand. Oh ah my thumb. I feel like that one took slightly longer but because we had a couple, hiccups a couple hand cramps, but it is foamier and um yeah. Let'S see how these feel after we rinse, there were the hairs, and here are the hairs, naughty naughtish and a little curl jelly. Mr umberto nini. Both sides feel good. They both feel really lightweight, like they don't have a residue over the hair, but they also don't feel dry. Like i rinsed out the conditioner, nothing happened. They both just feel nice and conditioned smooth okay. So far, so good, i'm going to clip these away we'll go into styling, but as a first impressions right here right now, the shampoo conditioner, i find them very comparable. I think the conditioner on the naughty side, which is a little bit richer in terms of the consistency it's a little bit thicker. So if you have very tangly hair, that's harder to work through, you might like the umberto genonini conditioner, because it's a little bit silkier a little bit easier to distribute and if you're a fan of using less product, i mean i didn't - have to use two shampoos To feel clean with the umberto sides, so this may be a plus one for curl jelly, but it also may be too soon to tell we'll see how my scalp feels at the end of the week. But let's move into styling now: shall we for our prep product? I am going to be using the hello, curls cruelty, free, vegan, friendly, define and reshape curl primer. This has this for curly and wavy hair with sea kelp and shea butter. It also has avocado oil and it's supposed to define and add hold to freshly washed curls at the top of the ingredient list. Here we see glycerin in the number two spot, which means this is going to help to draw a lot of hydration to your hair. If you are in the right climate, the weather forecast, where i am this weekend - happens to be pretty cold and wet and rainy tonight with a 63 humidity. It'S the fall here. I don't know what your climate situation is, but just keep in mind. That'S what's going on in this routine, and it's going to be going on top of. I should mention my hair texture, which is a fine to medium texture. I'Ve got a pretty medium to maybe high-ish density, i'd like to believe it's a medium density and high porosity, she's bleached she's color treated. I really like silicones in my high porosity routine, especially going out when it is rainy, but let's see how these products do. It doesn't say shake, but i'm just gon na shake for good luck and it appears that this product can be applied on freshly washed, damp hair or on dry hair, to refresh which i like i like that, it's multi-purpose. So it's got a nice little milky consistency. There it has a very silky feel to it and also lightweight feel, but it's not completely watery. I can definitely feel that there is some slip and conditioning in there. I just want to make sure thoroughly saturate my hair, especially where i am the driest and kind of most damaged. This product does read hydrolyzed wheat protein in the ingredients, which means it wouldn't be gluten free, but it is strengthening. Protein is a fantastic ingredient. Great, if you have damaged hair, because it's going to help to fill in the holes of your cuticle, where there are missing parts - and this is what's making your hair feel dry and also not retain moisture over time so brushing this through. My hair was already pretty tangled from our shower, but it still feels really good going through very easily. I would say that we have been prepped very nicely now to style. We have got the hey, curl, scrunching, jelly for curly and wavy hair. This lightweight curl scrunching jelly adds definition for lasting flake free flake-free hold without the crunch or stickiness. It has sea botanicals with copolymers that help hydrate and add shine for frizz free waves and curls. Again, it's very hydrating. It has glycerin as the second ingredient. I see this product has one of my favorite humidity, defying ingredients which is poly quaternarium 11.. Note that down on your list, that's something that we like to see here. So this says to coat damp curls, evenly, distribute onto lengths and ends scrunch dry with a diffuser or lead to air dry. Let'S take a look at what what it looks like it looks clear like a jelly, as i expected now when it comes to products like this, i'm just gon na do a little kind of test strand see how that feels running through my hair, and i might Do something crazy, i think in this routine, i'm going to do something i don't usually do and that is brush through my gel because well i don't usually brush through my gel because it can leave my hair pretty crispy. But i do want to make sure that i'm thoroughly distributing product throughout my hair, because this is kind of the only styler that i'm going in with. I do want to make sure that no strand gets left behind, because in these climates i need that extra layer of protection to go everywhere. So we'll put this in now then style and clump and define my curls and then scrunch in the jelly. There'S that little seaweed feel a little bit damn it. I thought this was going to have nice slip, i'm just going to try to work really quickly because gel it gives this yeah the seaweed, no pun intended, because this has like sea kelp or something in it. It gives this, like seaweed, feel to the hair that honestly, i hate feeling, but it's on it's just a texture thing during styling: it's not straining, but should it actually affect the end result as long as you are clumping properly so to clump and define my curls, I am using just my detangling brush, i like to brush style, but you would want to style. However, you like to so i'm just going in pressing my fingers against the spine of the brush and smoothing smoothing everything out. You can see how straight that strand looks which can be kind of scary, but, honestly to me, that's a good sign of good clumping because we go in and do the scrunching afterwards, which is going to give us the bounce. So right now we're smoothing it's going to really lay down any frizz and flyaways again, although i don't usually go through with a brush when i'm using my gel. This is an effective method and something that you might want to do if you have very unruly hair, like a lot of frizz flyaways, just shorter strands throughout your hair. It is a good idea, something something to note. My brush is gliding through. I will say i'm not getting a ton of like resistance, it doesn't feel like it's ripping my hair out or anything. It'S definitely smoothing through nicely, and that is what we're looking like freshly applied. I want to just take a tiny bit more of it. Just on my hands and we'll scrunch, all of that in to really bring the life into the curl just doing a little bit of finger coiling on my you know, trouble areas and my bangs and the top layer where i really just want the curls to look Perfect - and this is what we're looking like freshly styled now - i'm just kind of going to insert one of these volume clips just to keep this hair off of my face. It'S also going to help to set my bangs away from my face, because they're kind of growing they're a little bit too long to wear in front. I want to link these clips as well as all the products that i'm using in the description box below so you'll be able to find them there. Moving on to the umberto genomini side, i need to add just a little bit of water here, because uh my high porosity hair, it sucks up a lot of water and it spits it right back out. It tends to dry pretty fast, as opposed to really low porosity hair that it it doesn't even hold on to water, so it can also dry pretty fast. Let me know if your hair is high, prostate or low porosity and if it dries fast or slow. So i'm not soaking the hair. I just want it to be damp. Both sides just damp i like to style down and to prep the umberto giannini side, we're using the creme de curl curl control cream, again vegan and cruelty free. Now i did try to find a spray because i like to compare very similar products. So although this is a cream version - and this is a spray - they both seem to do very similar things. They'Re both kind of controlling they're, both supposed to add hold, while also adding hydration and definition, but the differences here are the creme de curl does have silicone. So is that a good thing? Is it a bad thing in my eyes, i'm seeing green lights, because that is something i like about this. I like the added heat protection because again we will be going in and diffusing. So it's a little extra. You know just it's just a little security blanket. I like to have over the hair, so cyclopentasiloxane is the second ingredient here. Gon na help to really coat the hair, then we got the second ingredient, which is petrolatum. We'Ve got coconut oil. There glycerin is behind all of those ingredients. So this isn't so much hydrating. As it is more an emollient with hydrating properties as well as a base, this spray is going to be a little bit lighter, whereas this one is gon na have a little bit more of a coating effect and again it is a little bit more of this Cream consistency that we can see i've played around with this product on other hairs before, but i'm excited to use it on my own hair and i'm trying to apply an even amount, as i did on you know the naughty side. On the naughty side, i really sprayed quite liberally all over my hair and here i'm using a good amount as well just to make sure that i evenly coat my hair and now brush that through. And although there are silicones - and you know - lots of emollient kind of ingredients in here - it really doesn't feel greasy right off the bat. I'M super happy to see those kind of ingredients in this, because, again it's offering me heat protection, that's something that silicones are great for they provide heat protection. So i love the feel of this so far. We'Re gon na go in now with this is a very, very famous product. It'S the umberto giannini curl jelly scrunching jelly. It calls itself the perfect product for scrunch drying. I don't know what scrunch drying is, but it's supposed to banish frizz and add shine with no crunchy feel the ingredients here seem pretty hydrating. It'S got glycerin a humectant higher up on the list than any kind of emollient ingredients. This scrunching jelly also has that poly quaternarium 11 humidity resistant ingredient that i love to see, but something to note is because i've already got that protective barrier from the cream with those emollient ingredients. All this glycerin that is in this crunching jelly might not ruin my hair day before. So it should do that. We shall see this one's a little bit pink she's a little bit pinky and not very stinky. Again, it's just got that really clean smell. The umberto giannini products are, they have a slight floral element to them, mostly with the basis of just clean, as opposed to the um, the naughty products. It'S not floral. I wouldn't consider it floral. It'S mostly just like clean, like ocean breeze. We'Re gon na apply this. The same way that we did on the naughty side, i'm going to be brushing it through and then of course, scrunching it in this is the naughty side, and this is the umberto giannini sign. I'M going to go ahead and diffuse off camera and come back with the dry results. Okay, the hair is dry and, as you can see, believe it or not, the curl jelly, the umberto genini side has more crunch. It has like a really wet and crunchy look and feel which again i like, because it's completely temporary, we'll scrunch it out. But if you see the immediately dry results on the naughty side, it's got a much softer more voluminous look. So this is the before now to finish: we've prepped, we've styled! Now we finish i'm going to remove these clips and i would always go in with an oil or serum always especially because of the climate that i live in and because of my hair texture and my hair type, because it's high porosity again. I want that smoothing that ceiling to help lock. All of that moisture in thing is, i don't have an oil or serum from both of these brands to use, so i'm just going to use an off-brand one. You can use whatever hair oil or serum that you like, or prefer to use i'm going to choose to use something that is also silicone. Free as most of this routine has been i'm going to use the crow smith bonding oil one pump on each side. Neither side feels sticky. I definitely see more volume on the naughty side, but i think more definition on the curl jelly side we'll have to see how both of these last i am late for date night and i will keep you updated uh in a few days. We are back after four long, wet and cold treacherous days, so um it's day, three, the end of day three and i'm not messing around here. Yes, i wanted the humidity, but i'm not sabotaging this wash day, so i'm wearing a freaking grocery bag. On my head, as i should and you'll see the true test tomorrow stay tuned. Let'S talk about it. I want to go through all the products that we used and then come to a conclusion of i mean which side looks better but also which products i'm going to recommend for you, because for everything that we use there's a time and a place and a person That they're going to be best for so starting back at the wash my hair hasn't gone excessively oily. I'Ve actually been wearing hats, so if you're noticing some frizz or some flatness on the top magic business, even with that, my scalp hasn't gone excessively. Oily everything's been feeling great, i feel like. I got a really good clean, as well as a good condition, so i'm just gon na have to say that for me, i, like the umberto janine product, because i didn't have to use as much shampoo on the wash day, but both seemed really decent, especially for A sulfate free shampoo, which, if you are someone that lives in hard water conditions, did you see the water pressure in my shower? It'S not the greatest. I have kind of hard water, but i don't mind my sulfates, but if you have very hard water conditions where you are living, you want to avoid sulfates, and i like these sulfate-free shampoos, i'm not gon na lie. Remember it's all about how you use them. So if you have to do two shampoos and follow the directions, naughty got that thing really right: they nailed the instructions here approved as for styling. So when we look at the naughty side, it looks a little bit naughty compared to the curl jelly side. I'M saying pearl jelly because i am avoiding saying alberto, but these were our two leave-ins. I remind you that this bad boy was silicone free and while i do like silicones as seen in this baby, i do really like this product. If you're, someone that has fine hair, that's easily weighed down you're looking for a light, leave-in conditioner, that's got some detangling properties, something that's just going to prep your hair for styling. Remember that's what this is going to do it's going to prep your hair. So it's quite lightweight i like that. It'S multi-purpose! I would recommend this product for curl, styling and air drying or cover diffusing, because this doesn't have heat protection right. I do like that. The creme de curl, curl control cream does have heat protection and i think it really aided in keeping the frizz down in this rainy weather and as long as your hair is nicely hydrated, like you got a nice condition or even deep conditioning in the shower. I think that this is going to be just enough you're not going to need all that much more hydration, but the emollient and occlusive properties in here are what's going to keep all that hydration in your hair. So that's fantastic! I do like this. I think it did a fabulous job, especially under our gel, which has got to be the winner here not got to be it's not not glued, but it did leave me with a cast and hold not as necessarily described it's supposed to give you. You know crunch free hair, but it did give me crunchy hair, which is what we'd like to see at the beginning of our routine, as you can see after scrunching it out, it's left my hair soft. My hair has good volume. There'S definition there's been hold natural shine, not too much, because at this point my hair is feeling a little dry and i think it gave my hair good clumping even brushing this through, which again, i don't usually do. Let me know below, if you like, to brush through your gel or if you like, to use your gel as a cast over top of your already clumped curls, something that i usually like to do. And if that is you, i dare you to try something new, because i have been pleasantly surprised here today with our winner. Unfortunately, i don't think that the naughty scrunching jelly is gon na be for me, it just didn't give me enough hold from the beginning, and it is a little bit richer in glycerin, so in the humidity in the rainy weather that i have been in, i don't Think that that worked well for me, as it's just brought too much kind of moisture into my hair and left me a little bit more frizzy, lacking definition volumized, but otherwise, not not quite as defined, and so it's going to be a no from may. But that's all i have to say. I hope you enjoyed this new review. We haven't done a battle of the brands in a while, but let me know what else you would like to see. Let me know if we should do some duping. I feel like that. Would be a fun kind of expansion to the battle of the brands series which you can see more of here on the channel? 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