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When it comes to my hair care routine, I tend to be carefree and don’t spend a significant amount of time or money styling and maintaining my hair. In reality I probably only get my hair cut three times a year because I want to grow it out. Now that my primary objective is to have long and healthy hair I have spent more time on my hair making sure that it doesn’t break off any more than it needs to. For as long as I can remember I have washed my hair twice a week as a way to allow my natural oils to moisturize the ends of my hair. I want to start only washing my hair once a week, but I always end up caving once I jump in the shower. Since I highlighted my hair in the spring, I have been on the hunt for some quality hair products that can protect my hair and help it grow long and healthy. I have been using these amika products for a few months now, and they have lasted forever. I am pretty sure I would only have to purchase them once a year especially since I only wash my hair once or twice a week.
What I love about Amika products is that they are vegetarian-friendly, cruelty-free and free from* sulfates, MIT, MCI, Phthalates and artificial colors.
AMIKA Perk Up Dry Shampoo
The Amika Perk Up Dry Shampoo has been my go to dry shampoo for my daily hair care routine. I use it every day on my bangs and my roots between washing. It blends perfectly with my dark hair, so I don’t have to worry about visible white powder.
What it is:
A dry shampoo that instantly refreshes hair by absorbing excess oil and adding volume with natural rice starch.
Key benefits:
– Naturally, cleans and deodorizes hair
– Adds instant volume
– Cools and refreshes scalp
If you want to know more…
Perk Up Dry Shampoo is your secret weapon to maintaining your style. Enriched with natural rice starch, which immediately works to absorb excess oils, it is one of the only dry shampoos on the market formulated without aluminum starch or telltale, chalky talc. Whether you’re in need of a quick no-wash cleanse or an extra boost of volume, a swift mist of this sea buckthorn berry-infused formula leaves hair instantaneously soft and refreshed, while a spray to the roots adds instant amplification.
What else you need to know:
Perk Up Dry Shampoo is a New Beauty Choice Award winner. It is cruelty-free, safe for color-treated, Brazilian-treated, and keratin-treated hair, and formulated without talc, aluminum starch, artificial colors, petrochemicals, sodium chloride, gluten, and MCIT. For best results, use Perk Up Dry Shampoo to absorb excess oil and add volume at the root, and Silken Up Dry Conditioner to lightly condition the lengths of hair. This dynamic duo delivers the ultimate freshly washed look and feel.
AMIKA Silken Up Dry Conditioner
I love using this dry conditioner in combination with the perk up dry shampoo. It helps get rid of flyaways and static. I also find that it makes my ends feel super soft and it helps to minimize split ends.
What it is:
A dry conditioner that weightlessly smooths, detangles, and restores softness and shine without water.
Key benefits:
– Weightlessly conditions and smooths hair
– Detangles and restores softness and shine
– Instantly eliminates static
If you want to know more…
Silken Up Dry Conditioner weightlessly conditions tresses with an antioxidant-packed, dry formulation that will never dampen a style. Softness and glossy sheen is restored, static is cut, and tresses detangled. Use on clean hair for lightweight nourishment and silkiness or use on second-day hair for a freshly washed look and feel.
What else you need to know:
A perfect partner to Perk Up Dry Shampoo, use Silken Up Dry Conditioner to lightly condition the lengths of hair and Perk Up Dry Shampoo to absorb excess oil and add volume at the root. This dynamic duo delivers the ultimate freshly washed look and feel. This product is cruelty-free and formulated without gluten, artificial colors, petrochemicals, and sodium chloride. It is safe for color-treated, Brazilian-treated, and keratin-treated hair.
AMIKA Un.Done Texture Spray
This texture spray is a perfect pick me up when your hair is feeling flat and lifeless. I used it all the time in the summer to create that loose beach wave looks with my hair. It also works well on your roots as a dry shampoo.
What it is:
A salt-free texturizing spray for instantly sexy, tousled, undone hair with a matte finish.
Key benefits:
– Creates instant tousled, beachy texture
– Creates long-lasting volume
– Leaves a matte finish
If you want to know more…
Un.Done Texture Spray utilizes an invisible and dry formulation that delivers beachy hair with a perfectly tousled with undone, matte texture—with no sodium chloride, period. Zeolite, a natural mineral, builds unbelievable volume for full-on sexy hair.
AMIKA Velveteen Dream Smoothing Shampoo and Conditioner
I love this shampoo and conditioner because it is super lightweight and leaves my hair soft and weightless and it smells incredible. You barely need any of the shampoo, and it foams up nicely. I always end up using too much because I forget how much it foams up. The conditioner is also very lovely and rinses easily, but my hair is still very tangled when I get out of the shower, so I have to use a special brush for untangling my hair. I also find that it is not moisturizing enough for my hair and I have to add some extra hair oil or leave in conditioner to make my hair smooth and soft. I think it is because my hair is dry, so it tangles easy. If I had shorter unprocessed hair, the conditioner would be amazing.
What it is:
A smoothing shampoo and conditioner to eliminate frizz and keep hair smooth, silky, and soft all day long.
Key benefits:
– Protects against humidity
– Reduces frizz and flyaways
– Smooths split ends
If you want to know more…
This luxurious, time-released formula provides the ultimate defense against humidity for hair that’s silky-smooth and ultra-hydrated.
What it is formulated WITHOUT:
– Parabens
– Sulfates
– Phthalates
What else you need to know:
This product is free of artificial colors. For the best results, pair with the amika Velveteen Dream Smoothing Conditioner.
AMIKA Nourishing Mask
This hair mask is so good for dry and damaged hair. I sometimes use it as my regular conditioner if I want that extra boost. I also like to leave it on my hair overnight and then rinse it off in the morning. I got this new vintage hair dryer that looks like something out of a 1950s salon. I am excited to set it up and then put my hair mask on and sit underneath with a plastic bag on my head.
What it is:
A luxurious treatment for daily or weekly deep conditioning to completely restore and repair dry, damaged hair.
Key benefits:
– Deeply conditions and hydrates
– Repairs damaged hair
– Improves softness and shine
If you want to know more…
This Nourishing Mask deeply conditions and hydrates from the inside out by delivering nutrients into hair’s cortex. The luxuriously thick yet lightweight formula lets thirsty hair of all types drink up the exact amount of hydration needed without being weighed down for long-lasting softness, shine, elasticity, and manageability.
This mask gets its power by harnessing the unique properties of the super fruit sea buckthorn berry (also known as obliphica), which naturally contains over 190 biologically active compounds including vitamin E, vitamin A (three times that of a carrot), vitamin C (15 time more than an orange), and high concentrations of the rare omega 7 (making up 40 percent of the berry). Typically the omega found in fish oil, omega 7 is used to keep free radicals at bay and aid in the production of collagen—a key building block for skin, hair, and nails.
AMIKA Bombshell Blowout Spray
This spray is suitable for heat protection and added texture. It also works well as a lightweight hairspray to had a soft hold and texture to your hair. It is not suitable for dry and tangled wet hair. I like to use this in combination with other products otherwise my hair still feels dry and coarse once it drys.
What it is:
A lightweight, volumizing blowout spray with heat protection for massive, long-lasting volume, body, and texture.
Key benefits:
– Creates volume, body, and texture
– Provides heat protection
– Returns moisture to hair
If you want to know more…
Bombshell Blowout Spray delivers incredible volume, texture, and body to hair for the ultimate blowout. Bombshell Blowout Spray uses lightweight polymers to plump hair and provides body, minus the extra weight or stiffness. Use before blow-drying to create extra texture and lift while providing a weightless layer of heat protection or on dry hair, as a re-styler. Lightweight, touchable hold with massive volume is the result.
