Battle Of High Street Products || Dry Shampoo (Garnier vs. Lee Stafford)

    After hearing a lot of hoopla about Garnier's latest 7-in-1 dry shampoo I decided to put it up against the test with another new product, by a well loved hair brand Lee Stafford. To cut the battle between both of these high street products short I'm going to talk about them both individually, with their strengths and weaknesses.

Garnier Ultimate Blends 7-in-1 Dry Shampoo:
    When Garnier launched this product I never heard the end of it all over Youtube and on various blogs. I happened to be in Tesco around the launch and it was on offer so I thought I'd give it a go. From the get go, I wasn't impressed with this product compared to a lot of people who were very pro Garnier. Personally I believe the sole purpose of a dry shampoo, is to substitute washing your hair for a day or two, covering up an extra grease and grime. In fact the whole idea behind this dry shampoo, is it performs 7 actions (cleansing,absorbing grease, lightweightness, suppleness, detangling, fragrance all with no residue). Out of all the actions, the fragrance is the most prominent, its a rather sickly vanilla scent which isn't pleasant but I can handle it for a few minutes. The only positives I found was that on freshly washed hair, it does add some body but on greasy hair it has no effect and just leaves your hair feeling even worse.  

Lee Stafford Dark For Oily Roots Dry Shampoo:
    Now onto a dry shampoo product that I highly recommend and it's the brilliant Lee Stafford. I only very recently picked up this product, compared to the Garnier thats been sitting in my room for a few months now, and I've instantly fell head over heels for it. In the past, whenever I've tried Lee Stafford products I've never been disappointed, and I'd honestly put this dry shampoo above the traditional Batiste range. For a dry shampoo, it's a little pricey at £5.99 but I think it's worth the extra bit of money. A huge difference I found was as the one I chose was specifically for dark hair, it doesn't leave dark pigments on your skin, which was a huge problem with the dark brown Batiste dry shampoo. It does however have the annoying white residue instead, but luckily it rubs/brushes in very evenly and doesn't leave little bits attached to your hair which is a plus! Whatever condition your hair is in, whether it be freshly washed or greasy it takes away all the unnecessary bits and adds in texture and volume, and just looks overall really impressive.

Leavers Do Collective Haul

    As  I mentioned in my post yesterday my leavers do, the last time I'll see everyone from my school year is tomorrow. Now I originally opted for a straight dress as it has become the fashionable, on trend thing right now. I made a post of this, showing you the dress and shoes I would wear, however I've made a decision to scrap that and go for the more traditional big puffy dress. 


    Now with people close to me who haven't seen the dress, I'm keeping it under wraps right now so I won't be presenting a photograph to you all, but on Sunday I will have a post up on the entire day/night which will include numerous photos of the dress so that is all to come. These following items are things I've picked up for the day and to help with the preparation. 

    The first item is something I've never tried before and it's Katy Perry's own brand on fake eyelashes, now there's 4 different varieties and I'd like to say they go more fuller and extreme between all 4. The ones I chose were 'Cool Kitty' personally I would say these are the number 2 on extreme and fullness almost like the ones she is wearing in the photo.

    I haven't worn these before and I've only bought one packet but after researching into the brand 'Eylure' and those who have tried out all three products these seem to be the favourite across the board. Adding the extra volume and length needed without over exaggerating the appearance of false lashes. These lashes are £5.95 each which is a decent price I'd like to think, but a review on whether they're worth it will be up soon.

    This product is just a general re-purchase as my current 'Peep Show' mascara is being quite clumped around the brush and considering this event only occurs once treating myself to a new mascara wouldn't harm anybody. I hardly own any products from '17' but I do intend on increasing my collection as their make up has never failed me at all.

    Giving a high standard of length of volume to your lashes, this mascara is something that everybody should buy. I have standard sized eyelashes so this helps to build on that and create a good effect, darkening them slightly helping to make them stand out more. I know a few people have quite short eye lashes so I'm not sure on its performance but I'd imagine it helps a lot, retailing at £6.29 its very reasonable for a good product.

    My last leavers do related product is this, now what I tell you next might be deemed as wrong and inappropriate for my age but I had thought about it for a long time. Due to everyone getting fake tanned for leavers, I wanted to avoid the orange look and sticky consistency that comes from that, so instead my mum hired a tanning bed to be placed in our house for 5 weeks, costing £90.

    We've had it going on 3 weeks now and I haven't used it for that entire time period as I would be very dark by now and look stupid for the day. This past week and half of last week I've been going on the bed for 6 minutes then leaving a day or so gap and repeating. To help prevent my skin from drying up dramatically I bought this. It's a wonderful product, it replenishes your skin wonderfully and sinks in, in seconds leaving your skin non sticky.

    I would use this on my entire body after I was dry from a shower and it works wonders, my skin is not dry in the slightest and it leaves a very nice subtle hint of mango on your skin. The smell isn't pungent and literally lasts an hour or so, if you have dry skin I'd recommend this, it only costs £2.99 for a 250 ml bottle and around £8.00 for a 500ml I believe.

    Fagan x