L'Oreal Paris Vox Box Review

***Products mentioned in this blog were received for free from L'Oreal Paris and Influenster for the purpose of trail and reviewT. All opinions are 100% my own. ***

 Hello and welcome back. Today I would like to share with you this new hair line I started using a couple weeks ago. This is the Advanced Hair Care Extraordinary Oil line from L'Oreal Paris. This line was in the  most recent Influenster Vox Box I received.  The box came with the shampoo, conditioner and Oil serum along with a coupon for $2 off the oil cream, which I later purchased. 

This particular line is meant for dry hair, which I have. I have dry, frizzy, curly and yes damaged hair. With my hair I have to put an after product in if I want to wear my curls. This is just to maintain them and keep them from frizzy all over. Though I then have the issue of my curls being weighed down. To help reduce frizz I limit shampooing my hair to maybe once a week. This way the natural oils can do their job. But at last product builds up and then more shampooing is needed and I am back to were I started. So I straighten my hair most days. This has its good and bad. It may be straight and a bit less frizzy at that point but my hair still looks dry and damaged. And yes I have cut my hair off before to get rid of those damaged ends. However, I hate short hair and am still anything but happy. 

I have tried many brands of shampoo, conditioner, leave ins, deep conditioners. And I never see much difference from one brand to the other. And since my income is limited, I stick with the cheap stuff. You know things like Suave and White Rain. Unless of course I find a better one at the $store or its gifted to me. The price of most name brands is just too out there for nor much difference in performance. Don't get me wrong, some of them are great and the clarifying shampoos are great to use on a limited basis. I have one called Hair Food I love to use once a month to make sure all the products are out of my hair. But my hair is still left frizzy, dry, and honestly just plain scary.

Now in walks this months Vox Box. As soon as I saw it was being shipped out to me I got supper excited. This line is based off oils. OILS! Something that I knew my hair was lacking. And again I have tried others before and been disappointed. I will admit that part of the disappointment could because I could not afford to try the whole line of products because the prices were just outrageous or because I could not find them. So to receive three of the four was amazing and I couldn't wait to try them. In fact I was so excited to try them that I used the oil serum when I straightened my hair that day, before even trying the shampoo.

I opened the serum and oh my! The smell! It was amazing. You can smell the coconut and other oils. If they had a perfume that smelled like this I would buy it too. I used two squirts of the serum in my hair and straightened it as normal. The picture above is about six hours after using it. My hair was softer and shinier then it had been in a long time. It did not feel so dry and did not look it either. And the best part, well besides the smell (did I mentioned I loved the smell :) ), it did not weight my hair down. It was was light as normal.  Ok, it was not my shampooing night but I just had to try the shampoo and see if it did as the bottle claimed. Soft luscious hair in one use.

So in the shower I went an I opened the shampoo and conditioner. Once again... OH MY! The smell was exactly the same as the serum and to die for. It was like a little oasis. The shampoo is a translucent gold brown color, kind of like honey or amber. The conditioner is a yellow color. The shampoo does not lather a ton, which is good. I have read that an ingredient is added to most shampoos to make the luscious lather and that its not really good for your hair. But I will tell you my hair was clean, and it was not stripped like most leave my hair. The condition was great too. Its a cream formula like most. But unlike most its a little looser of a formula. One thing I hate about conditioner is that you have to use way more than your shampoo and you always run out of the matching shampoo before the conditioner. Not this one. I used the same amount as my shampoo. And the amount I used for each was way less then other brands. I let the conditioner sit for a couple minutes before rinsing. I was pleased to find that my hair still had that silky conditioned feel after rinsing. Now it was time to wait for my hair to dry, that would be the real test.

Once my hair was dried I was so pleased with the products I headed to my local Wal-Mart, I really don't like Wal-Mart but when your pinching pennies you go where things are cheapest. I found the last bottle they had of the leave in Oil Cream. And surprise surprise, no price tag or scanner to be seen anywhere. Did I mentioned I do not like Wal-Mart? I saw that shampoo and conditioner were there, for now, and only $3.97. That is not bad for a brand name products. I was expecting them to be at least $5. I did not see a spot for the serum either. So I suspect when the time comes to get more I will have to try Target. Anyway, I purchased the cream with my coupon. I found at the register that the retail price they had it at was $5.97, again not that bad as a discontinued cream I used in the past and loved retailed at $10 (spoiler, this Oil Cream is way better). After my coupon I paid $3.97 and went on my merry way.

Now the shampoo bottle claims that it is meant for daily use. I mentioned before that I only shampoo my hair once, sometimes less, a week. But I wanted to try out all the claims it was making on the face of the bottle. So the next morning I hoped in the shower and shampooed my stubborn tresses once again..... and was shocked!

Ok, so my hair is still a bit damp in this picture. But does this look like the curls of someone who has shampooed their hair two days in the row? Well, ok it may differ from person to person and hair type to hair type, but for me it does not. Normally, at this point, my hair would be so dried out and frizzy that you would think I brushed my curls dry. Oh, also in this picture I used the Oil Cream right after the shower. Literally a pea size amount went through my entire hair while damp and made it even softer than just with the shampoo and conditioner. Now its time to style.

The serum states that it can be used before shampooing to protected your hair or before styling to control and produce shine. Since I straighten my hair most days I figured it would be best to use prior to straightening. Two squirts in my hand, per side of my head, rubbed in my hand and then spread through my hair. I am quite happy with the end results.

My hair has never felt so soft or been so shiny without looking oily. And yes it looks weighed down but that's just because its thin. So when I straighten out my curls it goes flat. If I had more time I would have used different techniques to add volume.

So my overall assessment of the four products shown above? Well, if you have not guessed I love them. I love them so much, which was totally unexpected, that I will be buying them from now one. I think $3.97 for a bottle of shampoo and condition is actually quite reasonable for the results I have gotten. Even the $4.99 price I found online and at other retailers is reasonable to me. I finally found a price for the serum it too is the $5.97 like the cream. Though I suspect online and at other retailers it may be just slightly more. Being as I loved the results and quality of the products, and the small amount needed each time, I feel that this price too is reasonable. Oh, and yes the cream smells just like the other products and the smell alone justifies the price. It does not fade away immediately like others do, so not only does my hair look great but smells clean too.

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