Striving4Zen

“Salon quality” is a meaningless term on many levels, but primarily because salon hair-care products are not automatically superior or even preferred over drugstore brands. You can find both good and bad hair-care products at the salon and at the drugstore. Most significant for your hair and budget is that there are brilliant hair-care products at the drugstore and there isn’t a reason in the world to spend extravagantly on any shampoo, conditioner, or styling product. Quite often what you’re paying for in salon products is the status of the hairstylist who is selling the line, or some exotic ingredients that seem impressive but don’t affect hair in the least.

Stylists will elaborate the most serious explanations for the ways salon products are indeed better formulated than their inexpensive counterparts, but the truth is that most hairstylists have no idea what is in the hair-care products they use and what makes them work. They may know how to use the products to make hair look fantastic, but skill in that regard can go a long way toward masking a mediocre or even poor hair-care formula.

Labels: hair-care, on the cheap, salon