John Frieda Corrective Shampoo and Shiner

...my leftovers!

John Frieda Frizz-Ease products are aimed at frizzy, dry or chemically-treated hair. The bottle is nice, a straight white cylinder-shape with a silver lid which you have to press on one side to get the shampoo out - no more sodding about with lids. It makes a fuss about saying "prescribed" for dry, frizzy hair, which is obviously a gimmick, but sounds quite promising and as if the manufacturers know what they're ...
...designer-brand type shampoo, I found it was a lot cheaper in Asda than Boots. A 250ml bottle will set you back about £2.99 on average. This is still a lot more expensive than most ordinary shampoos though, and if you wash your hair every day could turn out pricey in the long run.

The first time I tried it, I found I didn't need a huge amount to lather it up properly, and it smelled all right too - nothing special about the smell though, ... more

As a start, I'm going to introduce you to the main reason for this review - my so-called hair.

My hair is a travesty. When God was handing out nice sleek shiny hair, I was round the back of the bike sheds having a fag. It seems to have been hijacked by an alien with a warped sense of humour and only a vague idea of what human hair is supposed look like. It's long, about halfway down my back. It's greasy at the roots, not straight, not curly, just somewhere in-betweeny, but full of frizz. Most of the length is dry and brittle. If I don't wear it tied back or have it straightened, it looks like I stuck my finger in a socket. My split-ends have split ends - I think you get the picture! On top of all this my hairline round my face isn't straight, and I have small pieces which never, ever grow to more than an inch long which stick out in all sorts of mad directions. The reason this irritates me so much is that , although it has been every colour under the sun at some point I haven't had my hair coloured in about seven years, I don't even own a blow-drier, and I have never used hairspray, gel or wax on it. My only forays into the world of scary hair implements are confined to very occsional trips to the hairdressers to have it straightened if I'm going out. Since I go out on the town about once every six months, that really is occasional.

So, if you have any one of the horror-hair symptoms listed above ( or, heaven help you, all of them) then you should really try some of the Frizz-Ease range. No kidding, this stuff is the business. Here, I'll just give my opinion of the shampoo.

You can find the range almost everywhere, supermarkets, pharmacies, Boots, probably Debenhams and other department stores although I admit I haven't looked in these last ones. I found it by accident when hunting through Asda for some more shampoo, having given up on the last bottle. I do this frequently, buy a shampoo with extravagant claims on the packaging, find out it's crap, and leave it on the bathroom shelf. Don't worry though, it never goes to waste. My hubby would wash his hair with Fairy liquid if nothing else was available, he doesn't care what the bottle says. I let him finish my leftovers!

John Frieda Frizz-Ease products are aimed at frizzy, dry or chemically-treated hair. The bottle is nice, a straight white cylinder-shape with a silver lid which you have to press on one side to get the shampoo out - no more sodding about with lids. It makes a fuss about saying "prescribed" for dry, frizzy hair, which is obviously a gimmick, but sounds quite promising and as if the manufacturers know what they're doing.

The price is reasonable for a designer-brand type shampoo, I found it was a lot cheaper in Asda than Boots. A 250ml bottle will set you back about £2.99 on average. This is still a lot more expensive than most ordinary shampoos though, and if you wash your hair every day could turn out pricey in the long run.

The first time I tried it, I found I didn't need a huge amount to lather it up properly, and it smelled all right too - nothing special about the smell though, but i didn't think it was medicine-y. (has anyone ever tried Vosene?!!). After rinsing well and letting my hair dry naturally, it actually felt nicer than it had before, and looked shinier too, although nothing like the girls do on most shampoo adverts - I have often wondered exactly how much processing their hair is subjected to before the advert is filmed, I refuse to believe there are really girls with hair like that! (Of course, I'd like to believe there aren't anyway!)

My frizz wasn't so noticeable after using the shampoo, it also seemed to have tamed the sticky-outy bits which give rise to that "finger-in-socket" look. Thinking this was a bit too good to be true, I used a different shampoo for my next hairwash, and then switched back to Frizz-Ease for the third. The difference was definitely noticeable.

As someone else has said about this product, it does lose it's effectiveness after you've been using it for a while. Most shampoos are like this, you need to change shampoos every so often so your hair doesn't get a build-up of one product. The good news is that when I used a different shampoo for a while and then switched back to the Frizz-Ease, it worked it's magic again.

If you have frizzy hair, give it a try! 

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