Aliexpress Update.

So I told you guys about my issues with the Aliexpress vendor 7A Queen Hair Store. Those who do not know here's a link as to what I am referring to. Click here.


As you can see the vendor and I have been communicating since late February and this is April 19th and STILL NO REFUND!. The seller was pressuring me to give them a 5 star feedback in order to get my refund. I was totally against it because I don't see why I should review a hair as good when it is not. I wouldn't recommend any of my friends to try this hair unless they want the style for two weeks.

After a month+ of going back and forth and not wanting to give the feedback I eventually caved because I was upset that I paid for that piece of crap hair. The seller told me and this is verbatim "return to you $25 you give me a 5 star feed back right?" This was said on April 3rd. So I gave the feedback on April 11th and you know what the response was "friend, my boss will return to you $15"
All I could do was  just laugh how pissed off I am. Today is April 19th and still no refund whether $15 or $25

I am begging you guys PLEASE DO NOT BUY ANYTHING from these people. I don't see why their rating is so high. I guess its because of people like me who receive crap hair and promise their refund for good rating! Please don't buy and tell all your friends!



<3 Chloe

Product Review: Creme of Nature Detangling Leave-in Conditioner

PRODUCT REVIEW:

 CREME OF NATURE STRAIGHT FROM EDEN DETANGLING LEAVE-IN CONDITIONER

November 10th 2015

Description:

Nutrient packed plant-derived conditioning treatment and a plant-derived repairing oil with conditioning treatments, while strengthens, nourishes and moisturizes hair.  Creme of Nature straight from Eden detangling leave-in conditioner is derived  from coconut, avocado, and olive oils that provides post-relaxer protection against damage and dehydration and rejuvenates hair naturally.

Ingredients:

Ingredients: Aqua (water), cyclpentasiloxane, parfum (fragrance), dimethiocne, PEG-12 dimethiocne, PEG-12 dimethiocne, polyquaternium-6, lactic acid, dimethicononl, phenyl trimethiocne, polyquaternium-16, Cocodimonium hydroxypropyl hydrolyzed keratin, olea europaea (olive) fruit oil, argania spinosa (argan) oil, cocos nucifera (coconut) oil, persea gratissima (avocado) oil, carthamus tinctorius (safflower) seed oil, cocodimonium hydroxypropyl hydrolyzed wheat protein, bambusa vulfaris extract, panthenol, disodium EDTA-Copper, benzophenone-4, benzyl salicylate, citral, coumarin, butylphenyl methylpropional, limonene, linalool, imidazolidinyl urea, yellow 5.

What Really Happens:

I am in love with this product! I first stumbled on this product back in December 2014 while on Hairlista when I was looking for a new leave-in conditioner. I decided to do some research and I have to admit I was a bit skeptical and I always leaned more towards cream based leave-ins. Also too that the products that I have tried that said they had "detangling" propertied never really lived up to expectations. I took the plunge.

This product does not disappoint in anyway. I can remember the first time I tried it, I literally had an hairgasm. This products is amazing, provides so much slip for detangling that you really don't have to do much. This was a bonus for me because it was a time when my hair wouldn't cooperate. I was continuously having knots and y hair just wouldn't budget. I even contemplated just cutting my hair to a very short length. Yeah, I was in a bad state.  I have read other reviews that said that it was sticky and smelled funny but I love the smell and its not sticky at all. I really recommend this product and will continue purchasing as a staple product

Purchase Here:

Amazon: $9.41USD

Texas Beauty Supplies: $8.17USD

<3 Chloe

Product review: Herbal Essence Touchably Smooth Split End Protector

PRODUCT REVIEW:

HE Touchably Smooth Split End Protector( Long Term Relationship Moisturizer)

March 28th 2015

Description:

Stop feeling like you're in splitsville. This is the beginning of beautiful ends. My formula quenches your strands for smoothness and help strengthen them against breakage. Your hair will feel as smooth as silk. Go ahead, touch , toss, or twirl.

Ingredients:

Water/EAU, Stearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine, Dimethicone, Glutamic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, Fragrance/Parfum, Citric Acid, Disodium EDTA, Sodium Chloride, Methylisothiazolinone, Zea Mays (Corn) Silk Extract, Rubus Idaeus (Raspberry) Fruit Extract, Hydrolyzed Silk.

What Really Happens:

I am very pleased with this product. It leaves my hair hydrated, softens and add luster without weighing down. For someone with naturally thin hair I am very selective of what product I use on my hair because some tend to leave my hair weighed down. This product does not do this. I used it before like in 2013 and then switched to Darcy Botanicals Lemongrass Transitioning Creme. DB was definitely not for me. It really weighed my hair down, I could never moisturize every day. But now I am back.

This product can also double up as a leave -in which I do air drying my hair sometimes. It can be used daily and leave your hair well moisturized. Overall, its a great product , one o my staple products and I highly recommend it.

Purchase Here:

Amazon : $9.95USD

<3 Chloe

Aliexpress Vendor To Avoid: 7a Queen Hair Store

I  am not a weave person nor am I an aliexpress.com fanatic but I was a bit fed up with dealing with my hair. I was in need in such a break so I decided "what the heck! why not a weave?" Counting this time its the 2nd time I have put in a weave in my 21 years of life. I didnt want to go for those well known vendors like Princesshairshop or Magic Hair Company (After my last experience I would never again) because it would be too expensive for me because I get paid in XCD dollar with a conversion rate of 2.7169=1 USD.

Since I seen aliexpress around already I decided to do more research on deciding what vendor I would choose. I spent hours on youtube looking at hair reviews and blog post to get feedback from other ladies. Eventually I settled on this vendor : 7a  Queen Store Store Here. The reviews looked good, its rated 3 diamonds with 96.8 positive feedback rating, and was affordable compared to other vendors. Sounds good right? Well I was completely wrong. Just sit back and let me to tell u about my exprience.

7A QUEEN HAIR

Let me continue to say I paid  $58USD for this hair so thats like $158 converted to my currency then paid $50 to clear at customs and still paid $80 to install. I got the discounted price because I knew the girl. So  that $288 .. May not seem a lot to you but it is to me for someone who, doesn't work for much, has bills to pay and keep saving to pay for the exorbitant college fees I have to bare soon enough. Direct Link to hair


The Good:

Hair didn't take long to arrive, it was pretty at first sight, and when washed it didn't run and it bounced back. It had a few red and green strands in it. It had little shedding, no tangling at first.How it looked like day 2. I had curled it with my Remmington curling wand. I have to admit it hold a curl beautifully

The Bad:

By mid week 2 then the hair started shedding ridiculously but I didn't pay it any attention. Week 3 now was when I just angry because the hair was just out of control. It was  matting up, very tangled, even more shedding. If I combed, sometimes when the comb would manage to actually go through the hair,  the hair not only would there chunk of hair in the comb or brushed but behind of me there were several strands of hair on the floor. This is how the hair looked

All Matted

Knots and tangles for days

Another knot..Sigh

 After this I thought maybe a cowash would help. I took to my trusty ORS Replenishing Conditioner. That lasted about a day because it went back to the pictures above. Then I thought of the idea of flat ironing because it being curly- its natural state- was doing no good. Imagine that eh?

Well it worked the hair behaved, no overwhelming shedding and tangles although they were some. That lasted about 6-7 days though.. After that all hell of this hair broke loose.

The Extremely Bad:

I couldn't take it any longer and decided to take it to the seller.  I took pictures and sent them to the seller. I was in contact with someone called Obama lee . This is a screen grab of our conversation
Everything was going well until it was actually time to give me my refund. Now they are basically trying to bribe me. Saying if to give rating to get my refund. Are these people serious? I would never buy from thus vendor again and neither should you. Please be CAUTION.

We have been communicating since March 17th and no refund and its now the 28th. Don't buy from this vendor! I wouldn't ever again and you shouldn't either. I don't honestly believe that all the vendors on Aliexpress are like this but this is how they were with me. I am just sharing my experience and it was awful. The wanted a 5 star rating well they got a rating but just not 5 star.

<3 Chloe

Product Review: Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair Day and Night

Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair Day and Night

For those who read my blog posts, you guys know that I have been trying to find a way get rid of my post acne scars. I am very unfortunate because I have had these scars for over a year  now and still have most of them. Here's where Neutrogena Rapid Tone Repair (NRTP)comes in...

My mom had the Neutrogena Rapid tone repair night and I really liked it so I  decided to buy my own and seeing that I am a believer of sun screen I purchased the Day cream to work in conjunction with the night. Plus they do say that products in pairs work best together so I gave it a go.

My Assessment:

Stars: ***

These products boasts to have the fastest working retinol available with vitamin C. Also claims to brighten skin tone,rude fine lines and wrinkles, reduce the look and dark spots and improve the skin's clarity and radiance. All this in one week. Really? .. I must test this.

Unfortunately, I was extremely disapponted. All this beautiful stuff they said I never experience. Only thing that I could say was the radiance. The texture of my skin and incredibly increased and my skin is much more smoother and softer.

I first started using these products on July 19th 2013 and stopped using the Night October 13th 2013. I would say I gave them a fair shot of working. The only reason I am still using the day formula is because of the sun screen. I am currently on the lookout for a new sunscreen. Any suggestion for an oily skin gal? .. Anyway back to the product. I love the consistency of the product. Not to thick or runny and there isn't any awful and unbearable smell.

Rapid? I think not. I used this product for almost 3 months and don't see much difference in the acne scars. Probably like 15% of the scars has faded. I am somewhat disappointed though. As I say though my skin is much more smoother.  Won't be repurchasing this product and I am patiently waiting for the day cream to finish so I can move on to something else.

<3 Chloe..

Magic Hair Company?? Never Again....

 Magic Hair Company

So... I always wanted to try virgin hair and had been doing a lot of research and watching reviews since last year. There were so many companies such as Princesshairshop.com, Rebellechicextension.com even Aliexpress.com ... Urghh, but I eventually settled on MagicHairCompany.com  Well... Seems as if I should not have done that.

I decided to try the clips ins first and then if I liked them I would proceed to purchasing wefted hair that would be installed as weave. The company had a discount going on and it wasn't working so I emailed them telling them what exactly I wanted, color and length and they created an invoice. Upon receiving the invoice paid through paypal- The order was a total of $154.76US which is 435.27XD my currency which is a lot for someone who just started working and for not much.

Well I am highly disappointed. It appears as if they took no consideration into my order. First off I received the wrong color. The colour I received was more of a #2 not #1b. The thing was so BROWN that it couldnt be blended in my hair in no shape or form. Here a look and see ..

Urghhh!

What did I do you ask? I decided to contact the company because this was a major oversight. They first told me to send it back so they could exchange but that wasn't possible for me. I had it sent to my sister who was on vacation who then brought it home for me. I did this in efforts to escape pay $500+ (my currency) to customs since I would be importing. They seemed to have understood but I must have be wrong because "out of the blue" I stopped receiving emails from them. I waited a week and then prompted to email them again asking what's going on and why there was no reply to my email. The person said "Not sure why you feel we arent communicating with you I see a reply to all of your messages" When that certainly wast true! They HAD stop replying to my emails and if I never sent another there would not have been a reply.

When the communication started again she said that they wanted to send me a #2 closure but I didnt want that. Now after I replied to that email.. they have once again stopped replying to my email. So I am wondering why MHC is is not treating me as a customer so well? As someone who was anticipating their products after all the good things I heard from youtubers like ULOVEMEGZ. I mean not even like $10 back or 10% discount code on next purchase..nothing!.

I'm never buying anything from that site again as they have left a bad taste in my mouth. I am just annoyed right now. Afterall I paid my money and I should have gotten what I asked for and then to add no appropriate compensation was given. Now I just have to try to dye the clip ins to the color of my hair as accurately as possible but this means paying someone to do all this as I own no dye of my own. Smh...

Rating: 2/5 stars

Chloe<3

Product review: Paul Mitchell Awaphui Wild Ginger Moisturing Lather Shampoo

Paul Mitchell Awapuhi Wild Ginger Moisturizing Lather Shampoo

 What is it:

PM Wild Ginger is a sulphate free shampoo that works for any and all hair types.

Ingredient:

The key ingredients are Sodium cocoyl isothionate, awapuhi wild ginger extract, and keratin.

My assessment:

I absolutely LOVE this shampoo. It works so well on my relaxed Afro-Caribbean hair. I was once one of those people who thought those Caucasian branded products would work well for "black" hair but..Boy was I wrong. Lol. This shampoo cleanses my hair so well without drying it out. It always leaves my hair well condition and moisturized. Its an ultimate staple for me. 

However, I don't use this shampoo that often as the Paul Mitchell Super skinny shampoo is my regular. I use the two in rotation. With this shampoo, a little goes a long way.Man! Can this shampoo lather up One can use a little as a dime size and it lathers to shampoo the entire head. It is white in color and of a very creamy consistency. Sometimes if I'm not careful it slips through my fingers and falls to the floor before I start rubbign my hands together to lather . Its amazing! .. trust me and the smell is unbelievable too :D

I dont think I will ever sstop using this shampoo. I'm glad I decided to give it a try. It as worth the try. 

5 STARS all around! *****

Chloe<3

My Experience : Paul Mitchell Supercharged Moisturizer

PM Supercharged Moisturizer

In my latest post I talked about the new products that I purchased and I will be trying for the new year.  A reader was interested in purchasing one of the products as a DC and asked my to try it out that way and I did. Here's my assessment.

Product claims:

PM Supercharged Moisturizer is formulated with Panthenol, soy proteins and vitamin E provide added conditioning and protection and aloe, chamomile, rosemary and jojoba leave hair super shiny. This moisturizer provides an intense dose of moisture for dehydrated hair,boosts shine and improves elasticity and makes hair healthier and more manageable.

Price:

$12.38 USD/$33.64XCD

From Ebay.

My Experience:

Initially, I bought this product not as a DC but to coat the length of my hair while I am relaaxing. However, since a reader requested that I try it because they were seeking a PM DC .. I decided "Heck! Why not!" Lol. Anyway.. Satturday I washed instead I peproo my scalp and hair with HTGE for about to hours. I was cleaning my room so I dont remmeber exactly how long it took me could be more than two hrs. It was my day for hard protein (egg+ light protein conditioner) for 30 minutes. I have to say I dont hate it but I kind of dont like it. It did soften and made my hair manageable which is what I wanted since doing hard proteins leave my hair HARD. It wasnt that **OMG! my Hair is so soft hairorgasm kind of feeling** I think that can be blamed on the fact that I didnt use enough because I was so ready to get done with this hair washing business. Basically, It does what it says it will. I don't know about the added shine cause my hair is all shiny on its own. I will try it again though and see if it gives me that feeling :).. This time I'll use enough! haha.

Star Rating:

*3.5/5 * * *

Chloe<3

My experience:Elasta Qp Mango Butter Moisturizer

This product:

Moisturizing Butter of Mango and Olive Oil creates this intensely rich thermal protecting treatment. Use Olive Oil & Butter Moisturizer daily for softer fuller looking hairMoisturizing Butter of Mango and Olive Oil helps strengthen and protect hair against breakage, split-ends and dryness

Directions:

Apply daily to target dry ends and prevent breakage. Use Olive & Mango Butter Moisturizer after application of Breakage Control Serum.

My Assessment:

Well, this was the first moisturizer that I ever used and I absolutely adored it! My hair always felt moisturized. . I used this product  for about 10 months until I decided I wanted to go for a more water-based moisturizer (HE Split-End Protector). The only problem is I didnt like using it on my hair when it was freshly relaxed to 3 weeks post. It would make my hair feel a bit oily. Even more so now that my hair feels weighed down  and its not possible to moisturize daily. All in all, I really do like this product. I have more of it and I still use it but its not my main moisturizer.

Chloe <3

My experience: Neutrogena Triple Moisture Silk Touch Leave in Cream

When I first start my hair journey this is one of the products that I first bought. This means that I have had this product over year but I haven't used it for my entire journey. Matter of fact just yesterday February 4th 2013 I finished it (Not really cause I still will cut the bottle in half and get ALL that product. This girl is getting her money worth!)

Neutrogena Triple Moisture Silk Touch Leave in Cream

Product Promises to:
Melt effortlessly into strands, improving smoothness and manageability while diminishing fly-aways and frizz.This silky daily cream spreads evenly, absorbing quickly to instantly soften, smooth and condition extra dry, damaged strands. Three naturally derived extracts work to defy dryness. Olive penetrates to the center of the hair strand, Meadowfoam Seed helps moisturize the middle and Sweet Almond wraps the surface. It also contains UV filters.

  Directions:
Apply to damp or dry hair. Shake well before using. Dispense a small amount of cream into your hand. Spread between palms to form a thin layer. Gently work cream downward throughout your hair, concentrating on ends and outer layers. Do not rinse. Style as usual.

My experience:
Some ladies have sworn by this and maybe it has worked for them but it did nothing for me :(. I probably used this product every method that I could think of. First as a leave-in, but when my hair was completely dried it felt just coated with product, as if the product didn't penetrate my hair shaft and it just sat on top. Then I tried it as a moisturizer and my hair never felt moisturized when I used it. It this product for 5 months like this with no luck. Recently, I started using it as a new growth moisturizer as a result of my clearing up my stash and using off products. Urghh! my new growth drank that stuff and it never felt satisfied. So thats it! This product is not for me. No matter which way I turned it this product never worked for me. I am glad for those ladies have had success with it- It was a BIG No No. 
Chloe <3

My Experience: Gro Aut Oil

Gro Aut Oil... I first heard of it from a group on hairlista which I am a member. I wanted something that I could oil my scalp with so I did my research and stumbled upon different products but settled on trying this oil.


This oil claims to :

"Promotes hair growth by penetrating the hair shafts driving herbal nutrients into the hair follicles. Customer reviews reveal that gro-aut oil "Fills bald patches, reverses hair loss, or simply grows the long hair you have always desired". With use of this herbal oil and our Gro-Aut shampoo, hair appears to 'grow out' overnight! You'll see noticeable results in as little as 7 days. For the best results, follow our hair care regime."

Here's what I got:

I did not follow their regimen as I had one of my own an also there a tons of ladies who have used this oil and do not follow the regimen and has received great results. I have been using this oil for 7 months and throughout those months I've ordered two 4 oz bottles. My second is still about 2 oz. I used this oil every other day and most of the times on a clean scalp.

Pros:

• Nourished my scalp
• Thickened new growth 
• Made my hair somewhat stronger
• Love the smell (Some people don't like it)

Cons:

• Shedding was too much to handle
• Didn't increase my hair growth

..So I really liked the way it thickened my new growth and my scalp is thanking me for it but I will not continue using that as a staple to oil my scalp. Yes, I really like it but I will not be buying it continuously so that I don't run out. Maybe I will use it once in a while. I did not like the fact that it didn't do what I want- promote my hair growth- and the shedding is unbearable. So I am back on my quest to find something that will help promote my hair growth because I am such a slow grower.

Give Gro aut oil a chance though. It may not have helped me the way I wanted but its a good oil and it may work with you. Here is the link so that you can check out the oil and other products. Gro Aut