5 Shampoos I Love For Damaged Hair, The Olaplex 3 Banned Ingredient Scandal + A Zara Storytime

Hey everyone, my name's helen, welcome to my channel in this video i'm going to talk about my five favorite shampoos for damaged hair, but first i thought a little story time. So if you just want to jump right into the shampoos, i'm going to put a time stamp here which says when it's going to start and also down below in the description box, i'm just going to list off the shampoos and you can just like hop around. If that's what you want to do, but i was thinking long and hard about like what is the purpose of youtube now that we have tiktok and now that we have instagram reels and stuff like that or any kind of place where you can just get this Information from someone really quickly - and i thought you know it is actually, in my opinion, the connection and the enjoyment of sort of feeling like you're, having a chat with a creator or somebody who makes videos here. And i think that that's where youtube really still does excel is that time? Maybe you want to relax before you go to bed or something like that or maybe you're putting on your makeup, and you want someone to kind of keep you company. I still feel that instagram and tic toc can't really keep you company, but youtube can so uh. With that in mind, i thought i would do a little bit of a chat preamble, whatever you want to call it beforehand, but i totally get it if you want to skip ahead, no hurt feeling. So i'm sitting here in my very best zara fake chanel jacket. Let me show it to you a little bit here: um, it's got these kind of cool patch pockets as well. So let me tell you the story about how i came to own this garment and boy. Was it a wild ride, but i got ta say in the interest in sort of getting away from fast fashion. I know zara is fast fashion, the epitome of fast fashion. I still will buy fast fashion pieces, but i'm trying now, if it's something that's sort of. I don't know more expensive as this jacket was it wasn't. That expensive was like maybe 80 canadian dollars, which is maybe i don't know my guess, would be like 60-ish u.s dollars, uh, it's an older piece and i actually have to find it secondhand and boy. The wild ride i went on, but it was so worth it. So let me tell you what ended up happening. Um gosh, i love it so much. It'S got these beautiful buttons and it's actually 100 cotton which is wild. I can't really wear tweed, often because it often has a lot of wool in it, which i find too itchy around the neck, uh or oftentimes. It has like polyester, which is, for you know different polyester type reasons: um 100 cotton. I couldn't believe it now. If you are interested in it, i will just like leave down below the number of what the garment is and one way you can find that is zara. Has these inside tags and has quite a long number there's like a care tag and it has the product number on there as well, so, okay, salvation army near me, had this jacket and an extra extra large brand new, with the tag still on it. It was only 20 and i was like ugh, but the thing about jackets. If you don't know this is when they're that much too big for you, they're just a nightmare to take in you. If you're like up a size down a size, maybe you could find some room to alter a jacket a bit, but just from what i know about alterations, it's just very hard to bring something large like that down to a smaller size because of proportions, and just There'S just so many seams as well right, i won't get all into it. Pens are easy to take in structured or blazerish type. Jackets aren't not to that degree anyway. However, the interesting thing is that i was able to spot the tag. Take a picture of the tag and go home and start researching my little heart out. I started looking on ebay. I started putting that number in all over the place. I was just not having very much luck in sort of finding it in the size that i wanted. They had it in medium, but then a lot of people were asking above the original asking price for a zara garment. I was like. I don't really want to pay 150 when it's all said and done, get it here and still need to tailor it, because it's still not my size, the research that i did, oh, my goodness well, what i started doing is figuring out how a lot of people Were naming this when they were selling it resale, it was like it's actually a dress for me. It'S just laser length. I have no idea who could wear a dress that ends like basically weather crotches, but i guess somebody will very short and i'm not even that tall and that's this is like a regular sort of length dress. Anyhow, i thought: is it a blazer blue, look through tons and tons of research, just looking, and also google image search. That was a huge help, not just looking through the items but actually pressing images. That way, i could see the actual pictures of it. I found it on poshmark canada for like forty dollars with tags brand new, so that was a happy happy time. I just scooped it up, and here it is, and i love it, it's a dream. I'M really so happy with this jacket. Dress, i'm wearing it like a blazer because yeah it's a micro, mini helen and editing here. I forgot in telling this tale two key points that i guess i was over caffeinated and forgot to say. One is that one thing i've been doing with fast fashion is trying to find it um, secondhand brand new, with or brand new with tags, just somewhere like on poshmark or ebay, or something like that. Because often it's just inexpensive and i don't feel like i'm contributing to the huge churn of buying so much brand new, fast fashion straight off the rack, i'm fine with it mellowing a bit. Oftentimes means that other people are not wearing it as well, because maybe a season or two have passed, and the other point that i wanted to make was that i used the search term textured weave black dress. I think, instead of using the actual number, because the number not everybody, writes it down the actual product. Article number for the zara garment, but a lot of other people described it in the exact same way just using words, and that was eventually how i found it. Not actually through the product number, oddly enough, but anyhow, basically so anyway. Okay, let's get into the shampoos thanks for hearing me out, i don't know, is it? Is it silly? Do you guys like stories like this, or is it just like get into it? Okay, let's get into it caristas ben satin. One is my number one all-time favorite shampoo for damaged hair for non-damaged hair, just for my hair in general, and the thing about shampoo is that it's actually highly unique shampoo, if you think about even just like soap soap. Just has to go on skin, but shampoo is working with so many different elements. It'S working with the amount of oil you have coming out of your scalp, it's working with your hair, porosity, your hair texture. I have hair 2a 2b, which is slightly curlyish hair with a lot of straight bits, so it's working with that everybody's scalp and hair are going to react a little differently. This is my holy grail. This is not a surprise for anyone. Who'S listened to me for a long time talk about shampoos. This is my number one favorite, it's the one, i'm using right now and probably part of the reason why my hair is looking kind of nice and smooth this shampoo just works so well. For me, it is expensive something you can find at. I think you can find it at target. You can find it. I think it's cvs, you could find it at some drugstores. I think it's not the easiest to find, but we have it. I think it's sephora or you can order it online. It is not the most readily available shampoo, but it is not that hard to find either. You know in the past, i've said, if you maybe buy it from somewhere, you could return it. I'Ve sort of softened on that approach. Now i really think what we should maybe be working more towards is just getting a trial size of these shampoos and seeing how we like it, because here's the thing what i've learned is that when you return a high-end shampoo or any shampoo, really uh to your. Like the sephora's of the world i'll tell those kind of places they just dump it out. If you don't end up using it, i feel like that's such a waste for shampoo, and i just i feel terrible about recommending that, because it's just such a waste of product and plastic, i feel like if you get the trial size and you don't like it, You probably have a girlfriend, you can pass it off to or boyfriend or friend it's just a small amount or if you just don't really love it, you could still just live with it when you take it on vacation that sort of thing, but i just feel Bad now recommending to buy a whole expensive thing and then we're returning it. And yes, it's great that you'll get your money back, but on the other hand, what a waste of plastic, because you know that plastic goes straight in the bin or theoretically gets recycled. So yeah still my number one favorite shampoo, it's the one i always go back to when i'm sort of in between testing to sort of restore my hair, and it just leaves my hair feeling soft and as best as it can be, even after the years of Testing all these kinds of different products, still my holy grail, still my holy grail after all this time, so here's another shampoo - i don't hear very much about - i think - is just lovely and one that i recommend to people who are kind of wanting to dip a Toe in the sort of luxury hair care market, they are, maybe don't have a lot of hair they're dealing with hair thinning and it's not a hair, thinning, shampoo or anything like that. I just find it nice and gentle smells nice. Nice and light. Does what it says it's supposed to do, which is clean, your hair, but not over strip it, and that is way. Fine, hair formulation, shampoo, and i think that you could use this. Even if you don't have fine hair, i mean a lot of times. The stuff is kind of marketing-ish and i think the point of this one is just that it's light, that's why it's called this and that it won't add a lot of heaviness to your hair. So i think that i could recommend this shampoo pretty well to probably pretty much anyone who doesn't have too oily or too too thick hair. It'S just really. Nice light smells great again readily available at sephora. I think that's the easiest place to get it probably from way's website directly. You could probably get it there too. It'S expensive, you know, that's the other thing, though it is an expensive shampoo, but i find with these higher end shampoos. A little goes a long way. So they end up lasting actually longer than drugstore shampoos do maybe not as long. I don't think that the economics actually work out in favor of these luxury shampoos in the end, but they also tend to be quite gentle and that's something. I think that i find with drugstore or shampoos consistently. One of the reasons they consistently don't work for me is the formulation they just tend to be harsher, even if they're moisturizing shampoos, i've tried some of them here on my channel, you can see some of the drugstore shampoos. I'Ve tried. I find them often to be drying and just to leave my hair feeling kind of brittle and just not at its best is it marketing? Is it just you want to believe? Is it like a placebo effect? I don't exactly know i'm just talking about having try them out what i find works. Well, i just really like um ways: fine hair, shampoo and the conditioner is lovely as well. This is when you can buy the shampoo and conditioner, and i think that you'll probably like them, that's my guess. Here'S a drugstore shampoo. This is the only drugstore shampoo on my list and it is l'oreal's ever pure lotus formulation, which is a volumizing shampoo comes with the conditioner, the conditioner is quite nice, and the shampoo is pretty good too it's volumizing, and this is for color treated, hair and you'll. Find if you have hair damage in general, you can pick out color treated shampoos unless they have like a color added in to try and enhance the brown or sort of enhance the blonde tones of your hair. Just a general, shampoo or conditioner for color treated hair. Actually is fine for pretty much anybody to use it's not that it's marketing per se, but they tend to just have less sulfates and sort of drying products in them. It'S to help keep your hair color more robust. So i finally colored my hair. I don't have any gray hair, i got that all covered and i'm really enjoying it. I'M finding, though it's changed. I'Ve touched about this in a recent video where it sort of changed my coloring a bit. It'S made me more peachy and pink because it's got some reddish tones in it which i'm still getting used to, but i think is quite nice to have the grays covered up. But i don't necessarily use color treated shampoo because i'm not trying to keep a really bold red, i'm not trying to keep a pink or any kind of dark. I haven't darkened my hair gone from any kind of extreme, so i'm not that concerned with protecting color. I'M just sort of more concerned really with keeping my hair looking nice and hydrated and doing a nice job of cleaning my scalp without over stripping. That'S why i'm still using the ban satin one instead of a color treating shampoo, i wouldn't hesitate to recommend this ever pure l'oreal lotus shampoo to pretty much anybody. I mean anybody can use this shampoo and conditioner. You don't have to have color sheeted hair and what i like the reason i specifically like it is just not too harsh, and i think that that is something that i really appreciate in shampoos. I find that people tend to use way too much shampoo. So that's another trick too. If you buy this one or if you buy the ones that i've mentioned, try and sort of minimize how much you use you might find that your hair is actually feels much less damaged when you don't over wash it and you don't go to crazy high level Of suds in your hair, you actually don't need that much suds to clean your hair. Next shampoo that i really like, and i'm actually considering repurchasing now because, as i said, i have colored my hair and even though the benson tin, one from caristas, is working really well, i just remember how much i like the shampoo and that's pureology's strength cure shampoo. It comes in a blue bottle, it is sort of a mid-price. It'S not a cheap shampoo. It'S not a super expensive shampoo either. This is for color treated hair and i had used it when my hair wasn't color treated. What i loved was that it was an opaque formula and it left quite a bit of moisturizer moisturizing effect in my hair, despite being a protein shampoo, now, normally my hair and protein shampoos do not get along. That is why i tried the dream: length, shampoo and conditioner, also from l'oreal they're protein rich. That'S a protein rich formulation. My hair was like straw after it was a no for me, but this one whatever amount of protein is in. It worked really well for me and i might go back to it, and this is one that if people do have color treated hair and are looking for a protein shampoo, i wouldn't hesitate to recommend this one. And if your hair's a little bit damaged, it will not leave it brittle if you're looking for a protein shampoo. So that's another good one. Last but not least, olaplex - and this is not any kind of secret to anyone who knows a lot about hair damage or spoken to, maybe their hair stylist. This one is highly recommended highly used people that bleach their hair love this formulation. I too really do like it. I think that the shampoo and conditioner work really well together, and i would definitely get them together. I don't think there's much sense here, for whatever reason they layer together really well and buying the shampoo and using a different conditioner. Of course you can, if you want to i'm notorious for using a different shampoo to the conditioner. I like carrots as shampoos, they're conditioners, i've never found one that really does as well as other ones. That'S just me, but they look like shampoo and conditioner. Here are a system and they work really well together. Now olflex was in the news very recently. I don't know if you are up to date on the scandal but their fragrance that they used to use. I can't remember the name name of it. It starts with la nill, or something like that. I will write the name down here. This fragrance is a substance that is now banned in the eu for reproductive issues. You know it can cause its top repro toxic, i think, is the word and i will link up an entire article if you want to read more about the whole scandal and what what they've done to reformulate it's interesting because olopex, the one thing i hate about It actually is the scent i found it. I find it so clingy and floral and strong, especially if you use the whole system it just it really does linger. It really does work well, but oh, it is like you're wearing a floral bouquet in your hair. I can live with it for the amount of good that it seems to do to my hair, but just in general, it's really heavily fragrant. So maybe, if they're reformulation they'll rethink how heavily it is scented, because i think a lot of people are turned off by the scent. I'M not the only person in the article i'll link below the writer of that mentions also that they really don't like the sentence that they're one off-putting thing about this, i'm finding the same thing, but i will say it's very heavy. You don't need if your hair's very very damaged, maybe you do need it, but for people like me who are kind of like moderate hair damage situation, a lot of my damage got cut off. So i'm not needing a little plex right now, but it did come in handy when i was you know, i had fried my hair with some of the products i've tried over the years here. Olaplex did a great job, so i'm not returning to it right now. If you do use it, though i would say, maybe you don't need to use it a ton just it could be a once in a while thing and maybe consider also getting the small sizes you don't need to necessarily get the big bottles of it. I found the small sizes last me an awful long time. You know, because i was mixing in with other things, and i wasn't using it all the time all right. That'S my roundup of five shampoos that i really really love for damaged hair. What is the shampoo that you like right now? Let us know down below and your hair type. I think it's always interesting for us to look at these and sort of compare and contrast i like to get new ideas too so go ahead and leave that there. If you are in the mood to leave a comment and uh we're going to end it off here, thanks so much for hanging out with me here, we'll see you on the next video