We live in an era of dry texturising sprays, hair styling oils and vast number of other products designed for hair styling. On average we own at leas five basic hair care products (shampoo, conditioner, hair mask, leave in conditioner, dry shampoo to name the few), two hair styling tools (blow dryer and a brush are mere basics) and not to mention flat irons, curling irons, tangle teezers, teezing combs, etc. This is all if you don't count styling products. Add them and you come to realise your hair care collection is bigger than skin care and body care collection combined. Well, maybe I am exaggerating a bit, but you get the picture. Recently I was thinking about all hair styling products I own and how much I actually use them on regular basis. And I realised I only need two hair styling products to style my hair perfectly:

-Hair spray A crucial part of every neat and long lasting hair style. You basically can't do any kind of decent looking up do without hair spray. Also, casual hairstyles like waves or curls need hairspray to secure all the hairs in place and make them look polished and flawless. My all time favourite is L'Oreal Elnett hairspray, I've never tried a better hairspray in my life. Other good one is Nivea Diamon gloss Styling spray.  I ran out of Elnett and I needed a hairspray to finish my look, so I borrowed this one from my sister and I liked it a lot so I got it for myself. If you are looking for a nice hairspray I recommend these two.

-Hair mousse If you have curly or wavy hair, hair mousse is your best friend. I use it on damp hair, then blow dry the hair and I get the most incredible waves. Bare in mind this only works for wavy of curly hair if your hair is super straight this method won't give you nice looking results. However, hair mousse has other uses and that's why I think you need it in your beauty cupboard. When you are curling your hair with a curling iron, you can apply the mousse on the hair and it will give you curls that last longer and are more defined. Other great thing about hair mousse is you can use it for hair setting that is more delicate than the one you do with hairspray. For example if you have just couple of stray hairs and you spray those with hairspray the will become too stiff and look unnatural. Instead you can use a tiny bit of mousse to gently slick them back and you will get a natural result. You have to be careful when you are buying a hair mousse, thought. If it has a bad formula it will leave your hair sticky, crunchy of worse. In my experience the best hair mousses are those from Nivea. I tried others but I never liked any other than the ones from Nivea. They have some special formula that makes the greatest hair mousse. Right now I'm using their Flexible curls Styling mousse, it really doesn't matter which one to pick, they are all equally good. When I'm buying Nivea hairstyling products I usually get number 4 (extra strong) because I think it works the best for my hair.

I honestly think you can work all the hair magic with these two in your hand. What do you think, can you narrow your hairstyling products to just two products (tools and brushes excluded)?

Want to read more? Click here for my post about stronghold hairsprays and here to find out how I style my wavy hair.



Živimo u doba suvih sprejeva za teksturu, ulja za stilizovanje kose i ogromnog broja drugih proizvoda koji su dizajnirani za pravljenje frizure. U proseku imamo bar pet ''osnovnih'' proizvoda za kosu (šampon, regenerator, maska, leave in regenerator, suvi šampon, samo da spomenem neke), dva alata za sređivanje kose (fen i četka su osnovni, a da ne spominjem prese, figara, četke za raščešljavanje, češljeve za tapiranje... I ovo je samo ako ne računamo proizvode za fiksiranje frizure. Dodajte njih i shvatićete da imate više proizvoda za kosu nego za kožu lica i telo zajedno. Dobro, možda malo preterujem, ali shvatate poentu. Skoro sam razmišljala koliko proizvoda za kosu imam i da li ih zaista redovno koristim. Shvatila sam da su mi potrebna samo dva proizvoda za stilizovanje da bih savršeno sredila kosu:

-Lak za kosu Ključni deo svake uredne i izdržljive frizure. U principu ne možete da napravite nijednu pristojnu podignutu frizuru bez laka. Takođe, i opuštenim frizurama kao što su talasi i lokne potreban je lak da ih drži na mestu i da učini da izgledaju besprekorno.Moj omiljeni lak za kosu je  L'Oreal Elnett lak, nisam probala bolji lak u životu. Drugi koji je jako dobar je Nivea Diamon gloss Styling spray. Potrošila sam Elnett i bio mi je potreban lak da završim frizuru pa sam pozajmila ovaj od sestre i dosta mi se svideo pa sam ga kupila i ja. Ako tražite dobar lak za kosu, ova dva su za svaku preporuku.

-Pena za kosu Ako imate kovrdžavu ili talasastu kosu, pena vam je najbolji prijatelj. Ja je koristim na vlažnoj kosi pa osušim kosu i dobijem neverovatne talase. Imajte na umu da ovo radi samo na talasastoj i kovrdžavoj kosi, ako vam je kosa jako ravna ovaj metod vam neće dati baš najsjajnije rezultate. Ipak, pena je dobra i za druge stvari i zato mislim da svako treba da je ima. Kada uvijte kosu figarom, možete da nanesete penu na kosu pre uvijanja i dobićete lokne koje su više definisane i traju duže. Druga sjajna stvar kod pene je to što može da se koristi za delikatnije zadatke i tu je bolja od laka. Na primer, ako imate samo nekoliko dlaka koje iskaču od frizure ako ih naprskate lakom postaće čvrste i izgledaće neprirodno. Umesto toga možete da iskoristite malo pene da ih nežno zaližete i dobićete prirodniji efekat. Pri kupovini pene treba biti pažljiv, ako ima lošu formulu kosa će vam biti tvrda, lepljiva ili nešto još gore. Po mom iskustvu najbolje pene za kosu su Niveine. Probala sam druge ali mi se nijedna nikada nije svidela osim Nivea pena. Imaju neku posebnu formulu koja daje najbolju penu. Trenutno koristim Flexible curls penu, ali stvarno nema razlike koju god da izaberete jer su sve jednako dobre. Kada kupujem Nivea proizvode za stilizovanje kose ja obično kupim broj 4 (extra strong) zato što mislim da su najbolji za moj tip kose.

Ja iskreno mislim da možete sve moguće frizure da napravite sa ova dva proizvoda. Šta vi mislite, da li možete da smanjite proizvode za stilizovanje kose na samo dva (bez četki i ostalih alata, naravno)?

Želite da pročitate još nešto? Kliknite ovde za post o jakim lakovima za kosu i ovde ako želite da saznate kako ja sređujem moju talasastu kosu.