L'Oreal Professional Series Force Vector Shampoo - Review

What it Claims: this Shampoo reinforces weakened, fragile and brittle hair by depositing a super charge of Incell. Hair is left feeling stronger, softer and shinier.

Formulated with Glycocell, a combination of Incell and royal jelly extract, Serie Expert Force Vector Shampoo works to fortify and protect the hair fibre. Used in conjunction with the accompanying masque, you’ll not only feel, but also visibly notice the difference that the advanced technology from L’Oreal Professionnel makes. Distressed, weakened hair will be left with strength, health and vitality.

Directions of use:

• Distribute evenly throughout wet hair and lather.
• Rinse out thoroughly.
• Repeat the process if necessary

Price: Rs. 400 for 250ml bottle

Available at: All L'oreal Enrich Salons, Alfa (Irla) & Beauty Centre (Khar)

Pros:
1.  This is a clear gel like shampoo that leaves my hair so soft, so supple and very smooth. I have been using this for 2 months now and have noticed that my hair is looking better. It appears more thicker, has more volume and bounce too. I could feel the smoothness of my hair right from the first wash itself.

2. Hair fall has decreased a little bit since I began using this. Not a lot, but there has been some reduction. But I suspect my hairfall has more to do with the pollution of this city rather than anything else. So unless I move to the countryside, I will have to make peace with losing some hair.

3. Split Ends too have reduced drastically in number.

4. I have very fine hair, on which I very reluctant to use conditioner as it weighs it down. Most shampoos I used earlier would strip my hair of all moisture leaving it dry, frizzy and I would then *have* to use a conditioner to tame my tresses.

Not with this shampoo. I generally use this shampoo in my second wash of hair. (I'll explain why in the Cons section). I lather my hair up and leave for 5 mins, post which I rinse. So basically I have been using this as a conditioner, and it does the job well. Leaves my hair clean & hydrated. My hair is no longer as frizzy, even in this super humid monsoon season. It falls well and also appears healthier.

5. It smells really nice but it does not linger for long in my hair.

6. Not really a big deal, but I like the packaging - the berry red see-through bottle with grey flip cap. Quite elegant.

Cons:

1. This is not a very good first wash shampoo. I have noticed it does not lather at all on hair that is even mildly dirty. The first time I used it I kept adding more and more to my hair - with no lather. I finally concluded that maybe this shampoo does not lather at all. One of those novel, new age, foamless shampoos. It was only during my next wash that suddenly with a 50 p size amount of shampoo on my hair - there was like a bucket full of lather.

So now I do my first washing of hair, with some regular, cheaper shampoo like Biotique or L'oreal 5 Repair to remove the dirt and then use this shampoo so that it can work its magic on my hair instead of getting wasted on remving dirt because this is an expensive shampoo.

I would feel wasteful if I used this just to remove dirt.

2. Like I mentioned, Expensive.

Would I repurchase: Yes.

This is the first shampoo that has managed to get my hair to behave and look good too. I quite like it and might pick up the mask too in this series, once I finish the Repair 5 one.