Product Review: Ouidad Vitacurl Styling Gel

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In this post, I will be reviewing Ouidad's Vitalcurl Tress Effects Styling Gel which I received for free through a giveaway.

Ouidad VitalCurl Tress Effects Styling Gel

(I took this picture! yay me! :D)

Price: $26 for 8.5 oz

Ingredients: Water (Aqua), Glycerin, Polyquaternium-11, PEG-75 Shea Butter Glycerides, Polyquaternium-10, Hydrolyzed Collagen, Panthenol (Provitamin B5), Pectin, Polysorbate 20, Citric Acid, Disodium EDTA, Caprylyl Glycol, Hexylene Glycol, Phenoxyethanol, Fragrance (Parfum).

My Experience

Honestly, my first impression of this gel isn't that great. It has a pretty strong smell that I can't place my finger on what it smells like. Maybe apple cider-ish? It smells like this tea that I drank once; it was called Christmas blend or something like that. (It didn't taste very good.) It pretty much smells like different spices and chemicals. Not a smell I like very much. Also, it has a kind of sticky feeling to it.

The first time I used it, the gel didn't impress me. For one small section of hair, I followed their directions of the "rake and shake" method where you rake the gel through the hair and shake it to bring back the curls, but my curls were too weak and raking gel through them made that section lose most of its curl. For the rest of it, I just scrunched in the gel like I usually do. It wasn't too bad, but it was very frizzy, and the smell lingered all day (which would be fine if I liked the smell, but I don't). Here are a couple of pictures showing what my hair looked like using only this as a styler.

Not sure if you can even really see it in the pic, but my hair was pretty frizzy. Some of the curls closer to my neck under the rest of my hair were nice-looking and defined, but the rest of my hair just didn't look great. It also seemed to take longer than usual to dry.

The second time I used this product, I got pretty much the same results, but it was a bit less frizzy since I just scrunched it in rather than followed their application directions. The scent of the product did fade away eventually, but I still caught a whiff of it every now-and-then (which would be fine if I liked it, but again, I don't). Over all, in my experience, this product didn't work well for me & has a really strong scent that I dislike. I would not re-purchase this product.

So, to sum it all up...

Pros:

-It defined (some of) my hair decently

Cons:

-Strong chemical-y/spicy scent

-Didn't tame my frizz

-Sort of sticky

-Made hair take longer to dry

-Pricey

As you may have guessed, I would not recommend purchasing this product.

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-CK