So, it turns out early motherhood is a bitch in the vanity stakes. I guess I should have figured out that round the clock childcare isn’t *that* conducive to maintaining your beauty regime. Who knew?
And oh how the mighty have fallen. From the dizzy heights of a head of highlights, tended to religiously every six-weeks across London’s finest salons (Jo Hansford, Richard Ward, Kell Skott, Gielly Green – all in a day’s work as a beauty ed, dahhhling) to a *ahem* rather greying, shapeless, shedding mess.
Yep, not only are you sleep deprived with eyebags that would incur charges on long-haul flights, but your bloody hair falls out. On your pillow, down the drain in the shower and, as is Country Bebe’s latest trick, in his vice-like grip. What you’re left with is a parched, limp shell of your former glossy locks. Sob.
So, after four months of tinkering with my morning routine I’ve found a super swift line-up of products that are combating some of the ‘meh’ and restoring some of the ‘va va voom’.
First up, back to basics. Aveda’s Shampure is truly the best shampoo to revert to when things get tough in the hair department. So faithful am I to it’s restorative qualities I’ve started buying it by the litre. The science bit is that it contains a high protein content to fortify your damaged locks (minimising breakage, ergo fall-out). It’s super gentle yet efficiently cleans the hair of product build-up and just generally makes it happier and healthy. A bit like a hair Yakult.
Next it is my one true hero product. Desert island stuff. Gielly Green’s Argan Rescue.
As the name suggests it contains amazingly nourishing Moroccan Argan oil. Now, my hair is of the greasy persuasion, so I tentatively tried a dab on my ends and *slurp*, my hair just sucked it straight in. Since, I’ve been a tad braver and added an extra pump and again, instant absorption, without an oil slick in sight.
Bear in mind I have approximated 3.5 minutes to myself in the mornings, but I’ve found a dose of Argan Rescue and straight to the hairdryer and I have SUPER silky locks. Like really silky, honestly try it. As an aside I would buy it even if it turned my hair green and made it all fall out because I am clinically addicted to the smell. Okay, there isn’t a clinical addiction for hair products but if there was, I’d totally have it.
Finally, if by some small miracle I grab more than my allotted 3.5 minutes, I start my shower with a slather of Philip Kingsley’s Elastizier or Jo Hansford’s colour care masque. PK because it literally prevents split ends and my hairdresser can tell when I’ve been using it because my hair is strong and super shiny and JH because I can visibly see my hair colour fading more slowly when I use it. I don’t know what she puts in the stuff but it makes my colour zing.
