Q: My hair feels like it’s gained a hefty 10 pounds. After all the leave-in conditioners, high-gloss serums, waxes, mousse and hairspray I use constantly week after week, my mane is getting weighed down. How do I make it light, bouncy and shiny again? This product gunk has to go.
A: Two words: clarifying shampoo. Believe me, I’ve been in the same boat as you for the past few years — my hair gets the brunt of blow-drys, curling irons, leave-in conditioner and Sebastian super hold hairspray, too. The only way to kick that funky gunk building up on your hair shafts is to strip it away with clarifying shampoo.
There are, of course, a ton of options out there for the picking, but let’s break it down to the two best: Lush’s Rehab and Redken’s Hair Cleansing Cream Shampoo.
Rehab from Lush (insert Amy Winehouse lyrics here in a singsong voice) melts away product like a charm — and smells peppermint-y fresh, with hints of rosemary and juniper. Hair Cleansing Cream Shampoo from Redken gets rid of hard water minerals, minerals and other dangerous-sounding metallics that come through the shower pipe, while fruit acids pump up the gloss volume.
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine…
