I bought this product because I recently cut my son's hair with some hair shaver's. What a disaster!! If you've ever cut a childs hair you'll know how hard it can be to get them to sit still, in my son's case this is nigh on impossible as he's only 14 mths old. I have tried taking him to the hairdresser's but this proved to much for him and he promtly started screaming at the top of his voice lung's ,lol.
So you can imagine my dilemma - he was starting to look like a hippy dude so I had to take action!! Well when I had finished shaving the back of his head and was quite pleased with the result's - I then proceded onto the top - he wriggled around that much that the attachment popped of and he ended up with a wee bit missing in his fringe area (oh the guilt)
I felt terribly guilty about this and he also looked a little bit silly, lol. So off we popped to the shop to see if there was anything I could use to try and disguise my mistake!!
Not much choice really in my local chemist. Then I spotted this and thought "this must be good, I've seen it on tv". I paid for my L'Oreal raspberry burst hair gel (which wasn't exactly cheap at £1.99 for a 250ml bottle) and went home to try it out. By the way he WAS wearing a hat to hide the said mistake,lol so he wasn't to embarrased.
The bottle's a nice shape and it's red and blue with yellow writting on it - very eye-catching. I personally don't think pacgaging is too important but, I suppose it's got to be presentable hasn't it? The information on the bottle is quite a good read for a hair gel product!
THE INFORMATION ----------------------------
Extra gentle styling gel plus manager Not sticky Helps stop unruly hair in it's track's Suitable for all hair type's Contain's no alcohol (alway's a good thing in my book) It's say on the bottle that it's so gentle it's tear free and Ophthalmologist tested (whatever that mean's)
I suppose if you using this on long hair it will help against tangling and knotted hair but, as my son had just been more or less scalped this wasn't really an issue!! So I squited a small amount onto my palm as directed on the bottle and applied it to his hair - especially his fringe area - spiked what was left up and hay presto - he now looked very cool and no longer like he'd had a barny (fight) with the barber!! When it drie's you can't really tell it's on but the hair doe's stay where you styled it to so, thats good. Extremely good in this case, lol.....
You will all be pleased to learn that my son's hair is now doing fine and in recovery!! It's growing back and you can hardly tell where I accidently shaved his fringe off.
I would recommend this to any-one with kid's but I would also like to add that I have a small worry about the product. This product smell's absolutely scrumptious - infact some kids may even find that it smell's good enough to eat, so if you are letting your children use this themselve's - make sure they know it's for there hair and ABSOLUTELY not to be eaten. It smell's like raspberry jelly to me and kid's will probably think so too.
I still think it's a top product hence the 5 star rating. Just be careful.
Thanks for the advice. I want to buy Adam some gel, as he sometimes fancies being a spiky hedgehog. I had held back as I didn't want soemthing that was going to be sticky or cause tangles etc. I never realised that L'Oreal did this. I feel a trip to Boots coming on. Their shampoo is great. He likes cherry almond, and he likes the grape conditioner too. I have started using their swim one (I think that's orange) as he has started swimming lessons and I hate the effect of chlorine on hair.
06.05.2004 14:22
I enjoyed reading this. My worse investment was a pair of remington clippers, my kids wont let me near them! Perhaps I had better sell them on Ebay.
15.10.2001 10:49
Thanks for the advice. I want to buy Adam some gel, as he sometimes fancies being a spiky hedgehog. I had held back as I didn't want soemthing that was going to be sticky or cause tangles etc. I never realised that L'Oreal did this. I feel a trip to Boots coming on. Their shampoo is great. He likes cherry almond, and he likes the grape conditioner too. I have started using their swim one (I think that's orange) as he has started swimming lessons and I hate the effect of chlorine on hair.
10.06.2001 00:50
LOL@Trampus