[Sponsored] Essential CC Oil & Night Care Milk

Remember last year Essential released a product to combat bed hair issues? Essential Sleeping Hair Mask could combat bed hair, shortening the time needed to get your hair ready for work in the morning. 

This September they have relaunches the Leave On Treatment range with the brand new CC Oil and Night Care Milk! 

So what does CC in the CC oil stands for? Not colour corrector :p, but Cuticle Care. It works the same as the BB/CC cream for skincare. CC Oil protects your hair against 5 stresses, leaving you with more beautiful, less tangles and manageable hair.

What are the 5 stresses that CC Oil protects your hair against? 

Brazan Blow-Drying Stress

This stress removes moist from your hair, both insides and outside. Leaving the hair dry, brittle and susceptible for further damage. 

Cruel Combing Stress

The second stress, Cruel Combing Stress, caused by daily combing through wet hair. This action causes great hair damage as the hair follicle is at is most fragile state. Likewise, the friction caused by coming through dry hair can form hair knots which makes hair prone to unnecessary breakage. 

Spiteful Split Ends Stress

The third stress, Spiteful Split Ends Stress destroys the ends of the hair which are oldest and dries parts into two with his karate skills. Split ends can go up to 10 split per end! 

Badass Breakage Stress

The fourth stress seems so harmless, but yet it is as bad as brazan blow-dry stress! Besides daily heat styling, blow drying and brushing, other seemingly harmless actions like tying your hair into a tight ponytail or twirling your hair with your fingers exert excessive stress on your hair, resulting in hair breakage. 

Despicable Dryness Stress

The last stress, Despicable Dryness Stress, like the name suggest, it ruins the happy ending of every girl and loath at the sight of gorgeous hair. Exposure to the sun, wind or even air-conditioning can result in hair dryness. The hair cuticle that protects the hair is weakened and is unable to retain moisture within the cuticles of the hair. 

CC Oil 

To combat these 5 stresses, the Essential CC Oil coats each strand of hair with a cuticle coat protection. The cuticle coat protection leaves hair smooth and tangle-free all day! And it is easy to use! Just need to apply it on towel-dried hair or damped hair, pumping an appropriate amount, apply it from mid-hair down. And you don't have to rinse it! 

After applying CC Oil

This is my hair state after applying CC Oil. It helps in coating a layer of protection, without leaving oiliness on my hair. My hair felt smooth and tangled-free the whole day at work. 

Besides combating the 5 stresses, our hair also come in contact with Pillow Friction, this usually happens when we toss and turn at night. This friction is causes the cuticles to be misaligned. Misaligned cuticles creates frizz, resulting in the fabulous lion’s mane the next morning. But in order to "reset" the lion's mane, we have to shower early in the morning to ensure our hair looks perfect for work. But this means sacrificing our beauty sleep! T_T 

Night Care Milk

To solve this issue and get extra beauty sleep, Essential Night Care Milk helps to protects our hair from pillow friction by leaving a protective coat around each hair strand and prevent misaligned cuticles when hair rubs against the pillowcase, leaving hair more manageable the next morning. And application is as easy as abc! All we need to do is to apply this on damp hair or dry hair before we head to bed! It will do its magic throughout the night. The next morning our hair will be all ready for work! The cuticle coat protection leaves hair smooth and tangle free all day. And it contains Hair Supplement Oil, which is similar to hair’s natural oil.

The next day after applying Night Care Milk the night before

This is my hair right after I wake up, applying Night Care Milk the night before. And I am all ready to head for work! No need to "reset" my hair early in the morning and it is time to catch up for more beauty sleep. All I need to do before I head out for work is to comb my hair once and voila, my hair is as neat as it is right after shower. The best part is my hair doesn't feel oily throughout the whole day and they smell nice. 

Now Essential is having a campaign where you can win attractive prizes weekly! All you have to do is to head over to their facebook, and click Play Game or click this link to start playing the game! You will play as Essential’s Mane Hero and combat the 5 evil Hair Stress Brothers and Pesky Pillow King! 

Feeling stress that you need your dose of CC Oil and Night Care Milk? 

Now you can get it at all leading supermarkets, hypermarkets, personal care stores and pharmacies. Both retailing at $11.90 each, which is worth for all the beauty sleep you can have.

[Sponsored] Essential - Your Perfect Solution to Combination Hair

Our hair is like our skin, when we reach a certain age, the condition of both hair and skin will change. And I just recently went through that change :( and sometimes I don't even realised it until it is too visible for the eye *OMG!* A few weeks ago, my hair roots got so oily that when I decides to skip a day wash, I looked like I just dipped my hair into a pool of oil T__________T, what a tragedy, as I wanted to ensure that my hair ends don't get washed out too often.

Because of Singapore's humid weather, we tend sweat more that results in oily scalp most of the time. To combat oily scalp, what my mum usually does is to shower in super warm water to wash away the oil. But it just damages her ends, as warm water dries up the hair condition. If she doesn't wash her hair daily, she can fix the dry ends as her scalp provides more oil for it. But that results in itchy and oily scalp (and she looked like she hadn't dried her hair at all). Hair like hers is considered as combination hair. I'm sure most of us have the same issue, Combination hair.

And in order to battle combination hair, we have to alternate using shampoos and conditioner. A friend once mentioned before, sometimes we do have to use cleansing shampoo to cleanse away the oil and dirt on our hair roots twice to three times a week. End up we have to purchase more than one shampoo and conditioner to battle our problem *gosh*. However, having two different shampoos and conditioners may not combat the problem.

Light, clarifying shampoos and conditioners targeted at oily roots cause hair ends to be drier than it already is. Conversely, nourishing shampoos and conditioners for dry hair may be too rich for the scalp, resulting in excessive build-up at the roots, giving you that uncomfortable, oily feeling by mid-day. Moreover, depending on the thoroughness of the scalp massage during shampooing, such build-up may not be thoroughly washed off, further causing the scalp to feel oily in a shorter time.

So in order to make it easier for us, Essential's new improved range of haircare will solve the "at least two types of shampoo" issue for us.

Light Finishing and Deep Cleansing Care

Introducing the Light Finishing and Deep Cleansing Care of the new improved range from Essential. With the optimum combination of Smart Cuticle Care and Sebum Cleansing Technology, I can now achieve moisturized hair ends while maintaining a refreshed breathable scalp!

But I have an issue, I don't really know which one is suitable for me, usually I will stand at the supermarkets for like 30 minutes just to decide which shampoo I should change to. In order to understand which type to use, Essential FB have a chart for you to check which type is suitable for you.

Taken from https://www.facebook.com/Essential.SG

If your hair is more towards very dry ends and little oily roots, you can go for Light Finishing type. It comes with both shampoo and conditioner.

This is the 200ml size

If you are like me, having super oily roots and dry ends, then Deep Cleansing is the choice for you.

After using the Deep Cleansing for a few days, I can feel that my roots are not that oily anymore and I like how smooth my hair ends are after using. And the best part? After blow-drying the hair, it feels smooth and fluffy~~~ It also shorten the time to blow dry my hair. Now my hair feels cleaner and healthier *swift swift* Not only that, I see lesser hair drop too, because my scalp is less oily and it feels rather airy, the tingling cooling feel runs through the scalp. ~~ *yay* And my hair shines under the light *bling bling* 

My Hair after blow-dry. Feels smooth and neat!

See how smooth my hair is after using Deep Cleansing. 

For a limited period of time, Essential is giving away a massage hair brush with the purchase of a 750ml shampoo + conditioner set, and it comes in hot pink and mint green.

I love the hot pink brush!

Massage shampoo brushes are a common hair care tool in Japan and is used by majority of Japanese women both young and old. It is to help remove dirt and sebum more effectively from the scalp. The massaging action on the scalp also helps improve blood circulation and promote relaxation.

That is why whenever I go Japan, I envy those Japanese with nice hair *______*. Now I know their secret to great hair. Time to incorporate this into my daily shampoo-ing routine. I've tried it out so far, damn! I like the massage feel on my head as it feels wonderful to get head massage.  One word to describe! SHIOK!

1. Wet and shampoo hair as usual.
2. Hold brush handle between index and third finger and rub the bristles onto scalp gently from side to side with small movements. Do not move the brush in circular motions and this will cause tangles.
3. Rinse off shampoo and apply conditioner as per normal.

This is so easy to use and for ladies who have painted nails, using a massage shampoo brush prevents the polish from dropping off easily.

From Mid-may onwards all Essential Shampoo 750ml + Conditioner 750ml comes with a massage brush in hot pink or mint green in all leading supermarket at the price of $19.60. 

If you are not sure if Deep Cleansing Care shampoo and conditioner is the right one for you, fret not! Right now Essential Singapore is giving away sample sizes of both the shampoo and conditioner on their facebook. Remember to like them and follow them on instagram @essentialsingapore for more updates ! 

[Sponsored] Asience Nature Smooth Shampoo & Conditioner

As you know during the period near Chinese New Year, most of us will be heading to the salon to dye our hair, give our hair the ultimate treatment. Treatment doesn’t stop there, it should be continued at home. You know, the daily conditioning, weekly hair mask and daily serum application is also part of hair treatment. For us girls, having an in-depth skin care routine takes up nearly 30 mins or so everyday, we may end up forgetting that our hair needs proper moisturizing too. 

I’m one of those ladies. *guilty charged* I may have a decent skin condition, but my hair isn’t at its best maintenance, especially I’ve bleached half of my hair to dye it pink. And somehow the roots are still dry despite using conditioner and hair mask.  

So in order to maintain my oil scale and dry roots, I’ve change my shampoo and conditioner to Asience’s new hair care range. In January, Asience introduced a new innovative haircare concept – brand-new  power Beauty Serum! Crystalising the goodness of six natural ingredients into a single Serum, to help us,  ladies, to regain the timeless beauty of youth-looking hair.  

The six ingredients that are used in the new range are the concentrated infusion of Argan Oil, Camelia Oil, Pomegranate extracts and Rose, White Pearl and Lemongrass essences. The serum will penetrate into your hair, repairing your hair from within, giving your hair the three key signs of youthful vitality-softness, shine and smoothness.  

There are two types to this new range, first the Inner Rich, for ladies who have dry, frizzy and unmanageable hair. This type is to combat dryness that causes frizzy hair. IT gives all-day moisture that the hair needs, so that ladies with dry issues look less like an untamed lion.  

The second type is the Nature Smooth, for ladies who have oil scalp and tangled ends. MY hair condition falls into the second type, so I’ve gotten Nature Smooth to try out. This range is said to resolve oily scalp and yet dry and tangled hair ends. The formula cleanses and repairs from deep within, hydrating the hair of a light and smooth finish.  

The dry ends, that looked like the wild grass along the highway T_T 

You can see in this photo, before I’ve started using Asience’s Nature Smooth, my ends were super dry and it looked like dried grass along the highway. But I think my hair looked worse than those grass. 

See the oily scalp? This was taken 12 hours after wash T_T, and my hair "shines".

The scalp were oily, its so oily that if I skip a day of hair wash, my hair looked like I’ve dipped into a pail of oil. I have to skip a day of hair wash in order to preserve my pink ends. SO it was either waste the pink or suffer the oil :(. 

The ends doesn't look like dead grass anymore. Looks presentable~

This is after using Asience’s Nature Smooth for a week. I can feel my hair soften, less tangled and not to dry ends.  And it does look smooth on photos. hehehe, great hair for visiting and I don’t have to worry about bed hair.  

Pretty Looking Hair

With a skip of a day of hair wash, I didn’t feel so irritated with my hair as the scalp isn’t as oily and I still look decent without washing it for a day. Plus point, Asience’s shampoo and conditioner always have a fruity scent which I like quite a bit. *psst* Now I don’t need hair perfume.  

Shampoo and conditioner: 

• Contains Beauty Serum formula 
• Massage shampoo onto wet hair to lather. Rinse off completely before applying conditioner evenly on hair. Rinse off completely. Suitable for daily use.  

Treatment: 

• Contains highly concentrated Beauty Serum formula 
• After shampooing, apply evenly on hair. Leave it on for 3 mins. Rinse off completely. 

Asience’s new haircare range is available at leading supermarkets, western pharmacies and personal care stores now. Both shampoo and conditioner comes in two sizes, 200ml at $7.95 and 450ml at $14.90. the treatment care is available in one size, 180ml at $12.90.  

If you wanna try before purchasing a new range of shampoo and conditioner, remember to drop by Sample Store to redeem a set of 3 day sample size to try out ~