hair care : L'oreal hair mask sachet

I found this at the supermarket on my last visit to Jakarta. i just took it. First because it's l'oreal, a known brand, and second because it's in sachet, so convinience to try.. you don't have to buy the big tube to try the product.and as i remember the price is cheap
I've tried l'oreal hair mask before, i bought in the big tube, the yellow one, but i bought it from here and it was made in somewhere.. (this one made in indonesia). so let's see how good this 2 hair mask, and i will start with the yellow one on the right

L'oreal re-nutrition 1 minute nourishing mask 
with royal jelly, deep nourishing for replenished&silky hair

The sachet contains 15 ml of product. For me i can use it twice (my hair is up to shoulder, thin and straight hair)

 from the sachet ;
The new formula, with royal jelly, bathes even very dry hair in nourishing ingridients to replenish the fiber with moisture. Your hair regains elasticity, bounce and suppleness. It instantly feels replenishes and revitalised.
directions for use : leave for 1 or 2 minutes on washed or towel-dried hair. Rinse out easily.

The mask is creamy and thick, it smells like..hummm.. hair product? lol yeah of course.. well it smells cosmetic scent, lovely, nice smell.. i don't know what to compare. The instruction is to leave it on towel-dried hair for 1-2 minutes, but i prefer to apply it before shower, on my dry hair, and leave it for more than 1 or 2 minutes. maybe 5-10 minutes. When i applied it to my hair, it wasn't sticky.. my hair didn't stick all together like a glue. After waiting for 5-10 minutes, rinse it off with water and shampoo, another conditioner.. the result is....
soft, moisturised, not tangled hair.. easy to comb.. just the result i expected and i like. Although of course it didn't last long..both the scent and the effect.. only last for a day.. But still, i like this hair mask and i will repurchase. if you have dry hair, or need extra care or moisturizer for your hair, you can try this!

L'oreal total repair deep repairing mask

with cement-ceramide, deep repairing for strong & healthy hair

from the sachet :
Combat the 5 signs of damaged hair with cement-ceramide ! It keeps your hair strong and healthy by filling in cracks for strengthened and resilient hair as well as sealing hair scales for replenished moisture and ultra-smooth touch with ultra-shiny hair surface. Yor hair will become 1.stronger 2.nourished 3.shinier 4.smoother 5.less split-ends.
directions for use : leave for 1 or 2 minutes on washed or towel-dried hair. Rinse out easily.

The texture also creamy and thick, but the yellow one with royal jelly is thicker. it has the similar kint of scent, but this one in my opinion smells more perfume.
So, how to use this mask is same like before, just apply it evenly on my hair before shower, wait for 5-10 minutes then rinse off.

The result..
i found that the yellow one with royal jelly gave more moisturizer and instant effect for me. While this one maybe just slightly better and richer than conditioner, but comparing to the yellow one, this one didn't give the moisturizing,softer hair effect as good as the yellow one. But anyway this one promised lots more that can't be seen in only 1 time use right, i think you have to use it regularly to see if it deliver that 5 promise written on the packaging. I was just using it once so i can only comment for instant result and not more than that

overall, i will choose the yellow one with royal honey comparing the red one, but i don't mind buying more of these hair mask for both variants since it comes in sachet so you switch for altenatives.

hair care review : L'oreal Hair spa nourishing creambath

More of hair product!! After trying some makarizo hair creambath, now it's time to try other brand. This time i'm trying L'oreal hair spa nourishing creambath. Many big Salon and Spas in Jakarta using this product for their hair spa treatment. First time i tried this was in the salon near my house. i loved the smell. the smell last longer on my hair than traditional creambath. of course, it's more expensive than traditional creambath. In that Salon near my house, this L'oreal hair spa treatment cost Rp.75.000 including wash & blow dry, while for tradional creambath cost Rp.45.000.

One day i just thought, i could just buy it. why not? well, of course it won't feel the same like a treatmant in the salon where you could just sit comfortably and someone will massage your scalp, but it will save your money. Because this big tube, contains 500 ml, cost Rp.95.000-Rp.98.000. I bought it with that proce from Mayestik. You can also found this on supermarket, but the proce would be above Rp.100.000. I saw this on one of the big supermarket , it was Rp.115.000.

Anyway,  this is the information about this product.
(from packaging) :

continue your personal hair spa experience with this sensory massage service after the shampoo. The nourishing formula is based on purified water, a cationic agent and conditioningsilicone. The hair gains manageability and softness for healthy-looking hair with beautiful shine. for dual action on hair and scalp : blend this creambath with the approperiate scalp concentrate.
directions for use : blend a generous amount of the nourishing creambath with the corresponding scalp concentrate (1 capsule). apply to shampooed, towel-dried hair. Distribute evenly and massage throroughly into hair and scalp for 20 minutes. comb and leavr for 10 minutes using a steamer or warm towel. Rinse thoroughly and finalise treatment with the energizing scalp lotion.

the inside packaging :

there is another plastic cap to cover the cream inside.

woooppsss i almost finish the whole big tube.

the texture

it's a thick creamy texture.

My experience with L'oreal hair spa nourishing creambath
Actually when i bought this, the Guy in Mayestik who sold this offered me to buy the concentrate/serum too. But  i said no. it's around Rp.8.000 or 10.000 (can't remember) for one use. so if i use this 10 times i have to buy 10? hemmm.. well that time i thought, ok let's just buy thr cream first and see if it's good to use at home.
Reading the information and direction to use from the packaging, it's quite complecated to me. massage for 20 minutes??? if it were in salon it wouls be lovely. but doing it to yourself, massage your scalp for 20 minutes, you would be tired. tried it yourself! because after 5 minutes i got tired already. hehehe.
and i don't really like the idea of having shower, wash my hair, towel dried my hair and body, applied this cream, wait, then back to shower to rinse it off. heeemmm tooooo much. For practical reason, i just applied this on my dry hair before shower, wait then rinse it off while taking a shower. But of course, i tried both ways. I also tried to do as the direction, shampoo - towe dried - wait - rinse it off.
The result ?
Niceeeee... it smells nice... and my hair sooo soft and smooth, easy to comb, felt nourished and moisturised, and the scent last quite long on my hair, until the next day. Not just me, my husband also loved it. he smelled it and he said he liked it and wanted to try. so he tried it, and after that he said he could feel the result on his hair and scalp.
Those big tub could last arounf 3 months, for 2 people! (me and my husband). i used it every week while my husband around every 2 weeks.
in conclusion, i love this product more than my previous makarizo creambath, and i will repurchase this one, in fact i will also look for the shampoo and try the shampoo.
So if you don't have time to go to Salon every week or month, you can just try this. you don't have to follow exactly the direction if you are busy. in fact you can leave it on your hair while you are doing something else like have breakfast, clean your room, anything else.

hair care review : L'oreal elvive re-nutrition nourishing mask

I have mentioned several times before here about how i need extra care for my hair. Fist, i need conditioner after shampoo, and i also need extra weekly care like creambath or hair mask. The weather here is very dry that makes my hair also dry and tangled.  I also mentioned some products i bought in the local supermarket here, and some of them were not good. But this one is definetely a keeper!! so glad that i found this here in Yemen.
so, what is this? well, this is a hair mask for extra nutrition for your hair.

from the packaging:
dicsover the re-nutrition nourishing mask with an "active serum inside" with royal jelly: it intensely nourishes even the driest hair. Results : replenished, your hair regains elasticity, bounce and silkiness. Direction for use : leave in on a washed and towel-dried hair for 1-2 minutes, then rinse.

So, although from the direction i suppose to wash my hair first and towel dry before applying this, sometimes i'm just so lazy to do that. I mean, after washing your hair you have to get out of shower, towel dry, apply the product, wait then back to the shower to rinse off--while your body already dry.. oh, i just hate that. So i just aplly it on my dry hair before shower, then shampoo like usual. And it worked just the same! when i first tried this mask, i followed the direction. shampoo, conditioner, then out of shower, towel dry, waiting and getting cold (specially when it is a winter) then back to shower.. and i found that the result is just the same than when i do it my way. So since then i just applied it on my dry hair, before shampoo. And sometimes i just let it stay on my hair for more than 2 minutes. sometimes 10 minutes.

This is how the mask look like. The texture is creamy, and it smells just like other l'oreal hair product but stronger scent.
i use this once a week before, but since now i have makarizo creambath, i use this once in every 2 weeks. So, saturday is like my hair care day. either with this hair mask or makarizo one.

the result :

Soft hair, smells nice all day. extra nourished, and all other nice benefits you could feel from a hair mask. For me, it really helps nourish my dry hair. so yes, it is recommended!

skin care review : L'oreal derma genesis pore minimising smoother

first of all, welcome back to my life L'oreal! yup, l'oreal was one of my fav product, in fact i was quite loyal with l'oreal. around 2-3 years maybe? during my working days (after graduated from college) until i got married, i used l'oreal set (cleansing-toner-cream) white series or hydra series (forgot the name of this set but it's the green one). when i read l'oreal launched this new line, i was tempted to try if they are still as good as i remember or even better.

anyway, the story began when i read a review of this product on http://fashionesedaily.com, one of my indonesian beauty/fashion website. in fact, not just l'oreal but i also bought some other products recomended, tested, reviewed by them. So, when i travelled to jakarta, i knew that we would spend more than a month there, so i thought, i'll just buy a set of skin care to use there. besides, i didn't want to open my korean products because it's better sealed or it could explode on the plane during the flight. so i bought this, and i'm glad i did. ok now let's jump to the review.

cleansing scrub

it's a tube content 100ml. at the back of packaging there is some information that they translated into bahasa and stick it there, you can see or even read it here;

the texture :

it's thick and creamy with tiny-little scrubs. you can't really see the scrubs from the picture because it is reallly tiny.
performance :
what it promises on the packaging : smoothes, refreshes, brightens
i didn't notice all that promises before, but i noticed after some days, every after i washed mt face with this, somehow i felt my face smooth. i was surprise actually. i didn't expect my cleansed to smoothes my face. i thought cleanser only well, to clean your face. that's it. as long as it cleans my face well without making it dry, that's good enough. but this one, i got extra bonus, which is it smoothes my face after i cleaned my face and wiped slowly with towel. nicee!!
and yes, it is a scrub cleansing foam, but it is mild, not too hard for my skin. i have been using this for almost 2 months, twice a day (day and night) and so far it's been good, not giving me any breakouts, harsh, dryness.it also cleans well, and it does refreshes too, and as for brightens i can say yes it does brighter, not whiter though.

toner:

transparant plastic bottle, just like other l'oreal toner packaging. the scent also similar with other l'oreal toner. not something lovely. smells just like.. hemmm.. toner? lol. seriously. it smells just like any other toner from supermarket like viva, nivea, etc.
what it promises on the packaging : smoothes skin refines and tightens pores.
as for the smoothes skin, i can't really feel it anyway. it's not as good as skin food peach sake toner. with skin food peach sake toner i could really feel after toning my face became smooth and my pores somehow feels tighter, but with this i just felt fresh and ready for the next step which is the cream. but it is still good toner as it doesn't dry my face.


gel cream

a pump bottle. i like it!

texture :

performance :
normally i don't rally like gel cream because it didn't give me enough moisturiser. i need creamy rich cream extra moisturiser in yemen. well, it turned out that this gel cream is rich! i thought it will just works good in jakarta, but heyy.. here i am back in Yemen, it's been 3 weeks and this gel cream works good too! i can feel my hands, my legs started getting dry as the winter just started, but my face still not feeling dry and moisturised. nice...

overall :
 this set of product is called pore minimising smoother. and yes, it is been awhile i didn't reach pore nose strip, and yes, i can really feel my nose smoother than before, which means it does minimise and smoothes my pore.
nice job, l'oreal! and the good thing is, the set cost me less than rp.300.000.