- I'm really pleasantly surprised by this.
Obviously- (sighs)
You know like-
(brushing)
(sighs in delight)
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Hi, my name is Pip,
and today we are gonna be using Lush's new
Afro hair care range.
- Lush has been around for years.
It's one of those places that you go to
for Christmas presents, gifts for your mom,
gifts for friends and family
when you can't think of anything
except them washing, you know?
So they do soap, they do bath bombs,
they do body care, they do hair care.
- They are, you know, really focused on being ethical.
So they're against animal cruelty.
- This is all recyclable.
All of their jars that they are using plastic
are recyclable jars.
This, the packing peanuts, dissolves in water, okay?
Eco (kisses) 100.
- A lot of my friends have lauded their haircare products.
And I've never really been able to try it
because as we know,
what's good for the goose isn't always good for the gander.
- I've never really thought of Lush for doing hair products.
But it makes sense because they use like natural stuff,
so, like it would be good for hair.
- I love Lush hair products.
The only thing for me is the price.
I have used a Lush hair product before,
actually I've used two.
They usually smell very nice 'cause it's Lush, obviously.
- So, let's get into it.
This is the range.
It says it focuses on every Afro hair type,
so from like 3B to 3C to all the way up to 4C,
which is like the most coily.
- I, today, will be washing my hair as usual
and then basically trialing
their liquid, oil, and cream products.
In terms of liquid,
Lush have got this Super Milk conditioning hair primer.
In terms of the oil part of it,
we've got Renee's Shea Souffle.
And then I finished that up with like a curling cream,
which this is Curl Power hair cream,
celebrate your curls and coils
with this enriching blend of fair trade
organic cocoa butter, argan, coconut, and jojoba oils.
- I'm gonna be trying Power, which is a conditioner.
It says it's a smooth operator
that gets to the root of your hair's moisture must-haves,
packed with hydrolyzed wheat protein for strength
and Ethyl Macadamiate to help your curls beat the heat.
My hair is dry so, hopefully this is gonna be good.
- I have this, called Glory.
It's a conditioner.
With okra and coconut cream and olive oil.
I'm excited to try this because
I think it'll save my hair
from what I've done to it in the past.
- I'm gonna use Avocado Co-Wash.
I'm going to use the Renee's Shea Souffle, for my scalp.
And the Super Milk, which is gonna be great.
It's gonna be great.
- So, as you can see, I'm all washed.
Shrinkage is so real.
I'm just gonna use the LOC products,
as I would use my products usually.
I would start off by using a leave-in conditioner,
or in this case, the conditioning hair primer.
Which is called Super Milk.
So this says, a triple whammy of conditioning almond,
coconut, and oat milks delivers essential rehydration
for all kinds of hair,
whether that's on the go or on day three of your style.
Apply through wet hair, as my hair is.
So yeah, I think with leave-in conditioners,
I'm like, relatively liberal.
Sick.
(water rushes)
- Ooh.
Don't know if you can see, but,
I feel like the flakes have kind of been washed out.
Me scalp feels a lot less itchy, and it smells good.
- Okay, so my hair has been shampooed.
It's super dry right now.
So I'm gonna put the Power to the test.
Kinda looks like peanut butter.
It does smell like sweet potato, but in a nice way.
Oh, but it's good!
Ooh, yeah.
It smooths onto the hair really nicely,
and I can actually kind of almost feel it
melting away the tangles.
Very good for detangling.
It just says, let it sit and work its magic.
- Okay, time to put it on.
No idea what color my hair's gonna be by the end of this.
I may have picked up too much, which is surprising.
This is how much I've used.
So like, a good fifth?
I think it's coated my hair pretty well.
Hasn't sucked it in, how it does with like,
other conditioners.
You know when you put conditioner on your hair,
and it just looks dry straight away,
and you just keep squeezing it on?
Not this time.
Okay, I'm gonna go wash it out.
Oh, this smells so good!
- We're back, and we're sort of sectioned.
This is Renee's Shea Souffle.
So it's like a hair and scalp oil,
and it says enrich hair with moisturizing avocado
and almond oils plus coconut oil for shine.
Ring that bell because a great hair day has just arrived.
Ooh, ooh!
This smells really nice.
This feels really nice.
Do you know what?
I'm just gonna, just go for it, Philippa.
There's a nice shine!
- I'm dressed like this so I can pretend I'm at a spa
instead of my house.
Let's try Super Milk.
Because this spray is a spray, you know?
But it's like dispersed.
So as I spray it, it goes straight onto my scalp,
'cause you can see obviously how pale it is.
Let's not talk about it.
As it goes through, it is quite nice.
It does smell very strong.
Not in a bad way.
It's just very potent.
I'm still not in love with the way this disperses.
The way my hand fits, and-
(sprays)
The force.
- Okay, so I've just rinsed it.
And, I mean,
nothing noticeably special.
So I'm just gonna put my leave-in in,
and twist it so that it dries, stretch it out.
I will say my hair felt very manageable.
I didn't have to like, wrestle with it,
when I was getting it into these braids.
But the true test will be when it's dry
and if it maintains the moisture that it's got.
Another thing that I wanna wait and see
for when it dries is if I still smell like this.
It's not an unpleasant scent, but it is noticeable.
Right now, at least.
So I'm gonna wait for this to dry,
put my twists in, which will be the true test,
and then come back.
- Gonna put a scarf on
and see how it can flatten my hair.
This is a look, man.
Do you know what?
If this don't work, this is how I'm going out the house.
- Finally, we have this, the curling cream,
which is Curl Power.
My hair feels really, really soft.
I'm really pleasantly surprised by this.
Obviously (sighs)
You know like?
(brushing)
(sighs)
It feels so moisturized.
And it's not sticky.
It looks good, and my hair smells great,
like, this smells like a smoothie.
It smells so nice.
- They're a lot flatter than when I started.
Now we're going to moisturize my scalp a bit more,
with this hair and scalp oil.
This does smell good.
The consistency is nice.
The way it rubs in, so it feels more cream-based,
than it would be, like, an oil.
My flakes have definitely minimized.
- From like, first impressions,
my hair is very soft.
It's not as straight flat it usually is.
It just feels less rough.
It's more fluffy-ish.
It feels like I deep conditioned.
Very interesting.
I'm gonna try to properly bantu knot it
and see how it is tomorrow morning.
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- Look at me in a headscarf on Buzzfeed.
I remember the first time I did a video
and I said it would never happen.
And here it is.
- It's a day, a couple of days after using the conditioner.
And I will say it was really, really good.
My hair doesn't feel greasy, it still feels clean,
and the sweet potato smell kind of went,
it left a kind of woody, sweet scent.
- This is the final result, and,
I really like, as I keep putting my hands through it,
the way that my hair feels,
and I quite like the way that it looks as well.
- It's not an immediate drastic change,
because these are knotless braids,
they were always flat against my head.
My aim for when using the products
were to just revamp and refresh.
I wasn't expecting miracles like my girl just did my hair.
- When I came to do the parting of my hair,
I could just put the comb through like that.
So it definitely helped to like,
detangle and then stay detangled.
- My hair is insanely soft compared
how it was over the past few weeks.
'Cause of all the bleaching.
Usually it takes me about like an hour or two
to detangle my hair and like, put it into bantu knots,
but this literally took like, one New Girl episode.
Without heat!
There was no heat.
Usually I use the heat blow dryer
and just go like, at it.
This was just like (makes whooshing noise)
So it definitely did feel like
I used a deep conditioner instead of just a conditioner.
- I still have flakes because the range again
doesn't have a shampoo.
And the avocado co-wash that I used was good,
but it only slightly reduced
the flakes that I had in my head.
- My hair smells really nice, like a Lush shop.
I miss smelling like this.
Yeah.
Love it.
- I would definitely recommend buying it.
I would definitely buy it again.
- This was good. This was good.
Eh.
- The Lush Afro LOC care range is a win for me.
And I'm really pleased for that actually,
because the more mainstream opportunities there are
for black beauty and haircare,
the more people will invest in it
and more options there will be for us.
And that's only a good thing.
But let us know what else you want us to try.
- Thanks so much for watching, my name is Ayesha,
and drop a comment below.
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