My Last Purple Shampoo
Happy Tuesday, Belles & Beaus!
Less than 24 hours until my birthday and I thought this might be an awesome way to start pre-celebrating. I found it. The holy grail purple shampoo for my hair! I’ve used this shampoo a total of three times – so it’s more like a first impressions review – but this stuff has not once grabbed my hair in those three times when I still have that problem with my Joico shampoo on occasion. I’m hesitant with the matching conditioner as it’s the same color as the Pravana conditioner – though with no sulfate in it.
Disclaimer: I am not a hairstylist, but a good deal of this advice comes from personal experience of transitioning from a Sulfate Shampoo to a Non-Sulfate shampoo. If you take the time to take care of your hair, then you usually won’t have a day of trouble with it.
So I do want to warn that the reviews on Ulta’s website are not forgiving for this product. Please remember, I have been using sulfate free shampoo for a year so my hair has become accustom to that. If you are just switching from a sulfate shampoo to a non-sulfate one, then you’re hair is going to go through a process of being dry and coarse. This does not mean stop using it. It will take your hair quite a few wash cycles to get used to the product. If this bothers you, then please look into a hair mask for your hair. You can shampoo first and then put the mask in. Let it sit for a minimum of ten minutes before rinsing. Your hair will thank you in the long run, especially if you color because sulfate is the main ingredient that will strip you hair of the colors and strip too much of the natural oils from your hair.
So the upsides of this shampoo are pretty much the most awesome. Unlike most purple shampoos I have encountered, the AG|Hair’s does not suds purple. What I mean by this is the bubbles are white, not purple. Which I surmise from past experiences is the main reason my hair grabbed the color so badly. For a sulfate free shampoo, you get the really good suds action from a very small bit of shampoo. I was completely shocked last night when I tried my new big bottle of it.
On Ulta, I noticed that people complained it did not tone. I argue that they most likely didn’t really try it for a long time. For purple shampoo to work, you really have to use it often. I don’t follow the rule of every third wash because my hair tends to get dingy via city water. Now the spring water at my mother’s tends to keep this from happening. I know every stylist that might ever read this is going to shake their head at me in shame, but my stylist keeps telling me do what works to preserve my color! So I’ll keep on trucking with the every wash of purple shampoo.
But back to the original point of people said that it wasn’t toning. I don’t know what they’re talking about to be honest. In the three times I’ve used it, it has stripped all the excess purple tones from my hair and given me my khaleesi back. Go reference Game of Thrones if you are unsure of what I mean by that. But the point is, my hair stays the color we’ve colored it pretty darn well with this stuff, so I don’t get where other people are saying it’s not toning their hair. To me, this is a “you’re not using the product enough/correctly” type situation. But that’s my personal – most likely unpopular – opinion.
It’s not really all that drying, at least not for my hair. It have no issues with it being too drying on my hair at all which is shocking because I always feel like post shampoo my hair feels extremely dry. Now I did not do my hair mask on my hair last night and I’m still loving the feeling of my hair. I’m sure when I use my coconut deep conditioning hair mask that it might feel even better if that’s possible.
Essentially this shampoo is pretty darn awesome. I know that someone on Ulta questioned about it having a coconut sulfate in it, but let’s be honest: coconut is good for you hair. So a coconut sulfate is less likely to be damaging to you hair than the normal sulfate found in shampoos.
Do you have a favorite shampoo that just seems to do all the right things to your hair? Share it down in the comments!
XOXO,
Trula Marie
