Davines Divine Hair
Every year, season, week, month a different trend emerges in beauty-world and at the moment it’s oil’s time to bask in the glory. Facial oils are nothing new – I have five different products waiting to be trialled and just threw out a bottle of my favourite. I love them, in fact my entire body is often covered in some kind of oil.
And now my hair is, but it doesn’t look like it is, and that’s the best discovery ever. But before I fell madly in love with this newest, most excellent product to grace my bathroom cabinet, I eyed it up suspiciously. Ah, I thought. Another one of those. Another product to promise me silky hair when all it will do is give it uneven grease with some flappy little flyaways, that no matter how often I slick it down, or curl it around a finger or brush it, will still frizz out. The worst thing about trying products like that is the Day TWO effect. The greasy, “holy shit I really need to wash it again” look. Which goes spectacularly bad if you happen to go to the gym in the morning to do RPM and then your hair-tie snaps and you have nothing left to tie it up with. Remember those troll pencils that when you spun really fast had wild hair? Well imagine that with a severely greasy head. Yip. Totally can’t stop at Dizengoff for a coffee looking like that.
Davines OI/Oil Absolute Beautifying Potion, $48, is quite possibly my favourite hair product. I applied it to damp hair hoping it would weigh down the curls and smooth out frizzies. It did. I let my hair ‘air dry’ which in this humidity is a bit of a risk. It behaved. The next day I went for a run and then ran the ghds through the ends. It looked totally good. It felt silky. I didn’t get greasy roots or flappy ends. I didn’t have to wash it.
So, what’s in a product this good? Well of course it’s full of the only ingredient you can possibly ask to smooth out hair nicely – silicon. It’s main ingredient, Cyclopentasiloxane, CPS, is apparently a very light and water-thin silicone and works well with other, heavier ones to spread evenly. But it also evaporates, which is why you don’t get too much of a heavy, greasy look. CPS rates highly over on The Beauty Brains. The rest of the ingredient list carries more silicons of the safe, hair-friendly kinds.
It also has fair trade Roucou oil from the Amazon and some essential oils – geranium, lemon and plus Vitamin E for some anti-oxidant goodness.
Davines participates in the LifeGate Zero impact project to reduce and offset the carbon dioxide emissions from the production of this product. Check out their site for more information on their sustainable beauty practises.
And when you’re shopping, keep an eye out for this product.
~ Tamsin xoxo
Like Moroccan Oil – another silicon heavy hair serum – and many, many, many others (what do you think your conditioners are made up of?) this product will solve many a woman’s bad hair day.
