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Hi guys. I'm Amelia.
I'm from the customer service team
here at Adore Beauty, and I'm here to talk to you
today about conditioners, where you would choose them,
why you would choose them,
why would go for one over the other?
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So before we start, I guess I kinda want to go
back to basics. So what is conditioner?
What does it do for your hair and why do you need it?
Conditioner is the second part,
obviously to your shampoo.
What the shampoo would do for the hair
is open up the cuticles.
So say your normal hair cuticles are like this.
The shampoo kind of frictions them up a little bit.
If you just shampoo your hair and you leave it,
your hair is going to feel like a little bit dry.
Those cuticles are going to be open and damage can happen.
What conditioner does is actually goes in,
it seals those little bonds closes off the hair,
keeps your hair nice and strong.
It doesn't allow like pollutants or
anything like that to get into the
hair and actually damage it.
I always start with about a five to 10 cent piece.
I work it into my hands.
I'll start from the ends.
You'll kind of run your hair through it,
and then as you start to get less
and less product on your hands,
that's when you can start to bring it up.
Comb it through like this.
And I pull it away from the face.
Some, of course, is going to get a
little bit on the scalp. That's okay.
It's just important that you don't put it
flat bang on your scalp. I think a lot of people
you know, you might get a glob of conditioner
and just like, eh, and then, you know,
you've got this part, that's all conditioned.
And then this part's like, hello,
I'm dry down here. So if you have the time,
you can leave it on for two to five.
If you don't, you know, 30 to 60 seconds
is more than enough.
It's all just about kind of the feel of the hair.
So with conditioner as well, you just want to
make sure that your hair is not absolutely
sopping wet. If your head's sopping wet,
the conditioner is pretty much
just going to go with the water
and rinse straight off, grab the ends of your hair
and kind of bring it out a little bit.
Just to get that excess.
You still want your head to be damp.
You just don't want it to be sopping wet.
Depending on how often you wash your hair,
Like for me, I wash my hair twice a week,
which coming from a gal who used to
wash her hair every day is huge.
And part of that is choosing the right
conditioner and choosing the right shampoo.
But it's also about personal preference.
I of course use conditioner every time.
And then every third wash, I'll do a mask
or I'll do, a blond protector cause I'm blonde.
So that's where you would slot that
into your conditioner routine.
So some people, of course, don't like to use
conditioner and that's completely personal
preference. Sometimes they might use, you know,
conditioner every second time
just because they find that their hair
works a little bit better.
Men in general have like thicker kind of
coarser hair sometimes, you know,
they're fine to just use like a
three in one product, whereas that just
makes me go, Oh no, thank you.
Sometimes for shorter-haired people,
people who they haven't ever colored their hair before,
or they prefer that really like gritty kind of texture.
And they find that if they use conditioner,
it makes their hair too flat. That's completely okay.
Let's get into where you would
choose one over the other, and I guess some
little pointers that can help you choose.
In every single price point, there's always going
to be a perfect conditioner for someone somewhere.
So for me, on the days where I feel like
my hair super yellow, I just, I need a bit of a refresh.
I'm actually going to go in with
the Purology strength cure blonde.
So this one is literally one of my all time favorites.
I love Purology as a brand,
the shampoos and the conditioners are all
essential oil based, so they smell incredible.
So it is a, it's a violet tinted, conditioner,
and it's actually super, super, super strong
without making your hair ash or overtone.
So not only is it going to help negate
those tones that I don't like those yellow tones,
the really warmer tones it's going to help
keep my hair nice and strengthened.
It's going to help keep my hair in the best condition,
but it's also going to keep my hair looking its best.
So it sits around that $40 Mark, which is,
it's kind of you're investing in your hair,
but you're not overdoing your budget.
I guess, for like the client or the customer
who comes to me, and they're like, you know,
I don't really have a hair concern. I just want
my hair to feel good. For those kinds of people,
I would usually lead them towards more of
like a general conditioner.
So there's something that's a little bit hydrating,
you know, it's not super strengthening.
They don't have blonde hair.
They don't need any like damage control, things like that.
You would go for more of like your hydration base.
I love 11S and I love that it's Australian
and I love that it's super affordable.
I also really loves that they keep it really simple.
I quite like the hydrate my hair moisture conditioner.
Good for anyone. It's great to kind of have
just in the shower as a backup,
it's also super affordable. So if you're like,
okay, I want to step it up.
I don't particularly want to use supermarket
products anymore. My hairdresser recommends
something going up, I guess on the scale,
if you wanted to maybe spend a little bit more
than 11, I also really like Evo.
I think the packaging is super cute similar to 11
They really, they're quite humorous.
So they've got that kind of Gen Z/millennial kind of
taglines. If you saw it in your shower,
you would kind of stand there and be like,
Hey, good one. They have their time
and they have their place and they have
something for everyone.
So we've talked about blonde shampoo and
conditioner, right? And then you're like,
okay, well I don't have blonde hair,
but I've got foils in my hair and it goes,
brassy. Purple doesn't work for me.
Purple just makes it look muddy.
I want something that's actually going to help to tone it.
This is one of my Holy grails. It's the Brass Off
conditioner from Matrix and with toning shampoo and
conditioner, you don't absolutely
have to use both to get the best turning results
maybe, but if you just need like a
little bit of, you know, if you just wanted
to use like a toning mask or toning
conditioner every now and again,
just to take the edge off, I always find
that the conditioners are usually more pigmented,
but so the conditioner is like blue tinted.
It smells amazing as well.
I really, I really quite like it. It feels really good.
I think when the hair like really makes the hair feel,
like super soft and silky, that would be for,
say if you have like dark brown hair or
you've got like darker roots and you've got more
of like a caramel kind of baliage,
but you just want to take the edge off it.
The Brass Off is, chef's kiss love.
They are also super affordable.
I want to say it's $21.
- Really?
- Yeah. So you're not breaking the bank
and you're still getting really good
salon quality products. If you say to me,
cool, I don't really have a budget.
I just want what's best for my hair.
I want a brand that goes into every
single hair type and has something for, you know,
specific hair types. Cool. I'm going to lead you
to three brands. These are my top three.
These are just my personal preferences.
I am obsessed with them.
And if you've seen my Kerastase video,
you'll know that of course, Kerastase is in here
So the Kerastase conditioners,
although they are quite scary,
you look at them, they have really funny names
and you're like, I don't even know what that is.
Is it a conditioner who knows?
All of the bottles that are shaped like
these ones are conditioners.
With the funny names is because obviously
they're a French brand. If you do get confused,
please feel free to reach out.
We're more than happy to help.
Otherwise the main thing yeah,
with Kerastase to remember is that they run in families.
So resistance is strengthening, within the
resistance family, there are 3 tiers of strengthening.
So in our other YouTube video, How Kerastase
Saved my Hair, that was the level three,
like I need the desperate help,
like SOS call the fire brigade of haircare.
And so the kind of Tiffany kind of blue color
is like your level one.
So it's your entry level.
You've had lightener in your hair, and you're like,
okay, well I need just something to keep it nice.
Keep it feeling good, keep it feeling soft,
keep it feeling strengthened. You'd go here.
And then if you need that kind of step up,
the exemption East is amazing as well.
And I just love.
A lot of people kind of shy away from the
yellow range, which is the Hule sublime.
And it's also the Elixir all team.
So it's an oil-based conditioner,
which I think a lot of people will be like,
Hmm, no, thank you, but it really does make
the hair super, super, super soft and super silky.
It is a little bit runnier than like
your normal conditioner. So you're going to find
a: use less and b: it goes further.
It just makes the hair feel amazing.
It feels like silk, just feels really incredible.
Most people are like, cool. Why is it so expensive?
With all of like the higher price
brands, you're getting better quality ingredients,
you're getting top formulas,
some of them are dermatologically tested Kerstase's,
specifique ranges, are all dermatologically
tested and you've got facts running
behind it. But not just that, it's a full experience.
When you wash your hair, you get that really
scent to the shampoo and it ties in with
the conditioner and everything just gives you that full
spa-like experience. So that's why you do
pay that little bit of a higher cost with some brands.
So with conditioners in general,
my big rule is that a thicker conditioner
is kind of better for thicker curlier hair,
where they might need something really like,
you know, heavy duty versus like your
light conditioners are better for finer hair.
It's not to say that either or can't use either.
It's just to say in general,
usually we would see better results.
Sometimes you might feel that you're like, cool.
Well, my hair is fine. It's frizzy.
I actually don't have a lot of it, but I need hydration.
And all of the hydration products are based for thick curly
hair.
There's the Bain Satin One, they say 'bon' technically,
but you will be like bain, then if you're Australian,
which, okay.
Then another word that Kerastase really liked to use
for conditioner is fondant.
The fondants are incredible.
There's the nutritive, there's is le vitale.
which is just the most beautiful, lightweight,
hydrating conditioner.
It's perfect if you've got finer hair.
It's perfect if you've got medium hair.
It's perfect if you find that you might get
oily roots, but your ends really dry.
So you need something that's going to
really like help to suck it on the ends,
but you don't want it to touch the roots.
For the curly head, for the thick head,
for the super, really dehydrated hair,
Kerastase has a range called Magistral.
Magistral makes your hair feel like silk.
My hair's a little bit too fine to use
the conditioner, but I'm fully obsessed with it
and I'll use it even as a mask.
Your hair's like super thick, super dehydrated.
And you're just like,
I need like an army of hydration right now.
And they just need to like drench me in hydration.
Magistral is going to be your best friend.
If you're finding that your is, it's more thick,
it's more curly.
I would always say to go for like
a more hydration based conditioner,
unless your hair is lightened.
I would always find to go for a strengthening
conditioner versus hydration,
because if the hair is damaged and
you're giving it moisture, it's not really
going to do anything.
My other really favorite, favorite brand, I guess,
and favorite really formulations as well as Kevin Murphy.
So they are Australian designed, Australian formulated.
It is made offshore.
It's also sulfate-free, paraben-free and
free of all of those chemicals that some people
are a little bit more concerned about,
but it's also, it doesn't break the budget.
I believe they sit around the $40 Mark.
So it's still a higher kind of price conditioner
and a higher kind of price brand.
In that kind of realm,
I would always go with your shampoo.
You want to worry about your scalp.
You want to worry about the hair that's closest
to your scalp. So I go for a shampoo
that's going to help control the oil,
And then my conditioner would help to look after ends.
And now we have the bougiest of bougie.
So I remember the first time that I ever
saw this brand and I was like,
Oh, Alvay, what's that?
And then one of the girls was like, Oh, it's Alvay.
Sorry.
The great thing about these, they are at a higher cost.
Can I get a price check?
- Yeah
- Alvay is not the kind of brand for
our bargain babes, because the conditioners
do range from around $60 to about $70
and then even upwards.
So once you want to go for a liter,
you're looking at least in the 200 Mark.
So it's definitely not accessible for everyone,
but if you can afford it, they are beautiful.
Of course there's other options,
but they do just feel really good. And I hate that
I even have to admit that because my wallet goes, no.
The Go Less repair and restore. I really like it.
I feel like it's really great for everyone.
It's one of those super thick conditioners.
Like when you look at it, she's, she's thick and juicy.
It smells amazing. It's
the packaging is beautiful.
The price you do pay for ingredients,
you pay for packaging, you pay for the brand.
You pay for the name.
In summary, if you've gotten this far
for those who, you know,
you might have a couple little concerns..
I find that some brands do have conditioners that have,
you know, it has a little bit of frizz protection.
It has a little bit of hydration and it might have a little
bit of strengthening.
It's all about finding the right one for you.
It can take a little bit of research.
That's pretty much my hard and fast rule
is that thin hair, finer hair: lighter weight
conditioners.
Medium to thick hair: You want something pretty natural,
thick hair too, like thick curly hair,
You want something a little bit more heavy duty.
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