I was late to dry shampoo, as I am late to absolutely everything except actual appointments or parties, for which I am consistently five minutes early. Okay, twenty minutes early. I was once so early for a party that my host was still out, buying crisps. “It’s a bit rude to be so early, you know,” said another host, at a different party, who answered the door in a bathrobe.
My answer to this is that they ought to put 9pm on the invitation then, not 7pm. But it’s also true that if you invite me to something that starts at 9pm, I won’t go at all. Which I suppose is another benefit of putting 9pm on your invitation. God, I’m starting to sound like Fran Leibowitz. I mean that pejoratively.
Anyway, dry shampoo. I tried many and declared each successive one the Ultimate Dry Shampoo and the Best Thing Ever. But forget all that, because I really have, now, found the best dry shampoo. I had thought for a long time that dry shampoo ought to actually make your hair feel washed, as if it is clean. This is not the case. Dry shampoo only takes the absolute worst lank greasiness out of your hair and allows you on day three or four of a hair wash to truss your hair upwards in a pleasingly stiff topknot or other up-do incarnation. When my hair is very long I enjoy pinning it hither and thither so that it looks a bit like I am wearing my own hair as a fascinator.
The downer about dry shampoo is that it makes your scalp itchy AF. “A small price to pay for convenience,” I used to tell myself, through gritted teeth. But you no longer have to do that because not only is Ouai dry shampoo non-itchy, my friends, it also smells actually nice. Not fake nice, like Batiste, but actually nice, nice.
The downside is, of course, that it costs £20 per bottle, I bought mine from Cult Beauty. I decided to buy two bottles and just forget I ever had the money. I bought them quite a long time ago - like more than 6 months - and the first bottle is yet to run out. I call that good value.
Duly purchased & can confirm it’s a good one - and smells divine. I gave up trying to read the small print on labels years ago but thought I had better photo and scroll into the directions for the dry shampoo (brush out, don’t brush out? etc.). First is to “shake the can like you have raging pms” - no further instruction needed! 😂Thanks as always 👍🏻
Thank. the. LORD!!
I’ve tried them all, every single bloody one of them. All terrible. All stinking and depressing.
I read an interview with Nigella Lawson once which asked her what her three ‘make up must haves’ were. She said IT cc cream (agreed), cheap mascaras and a particular dry shampoo called Kevin or Philip something.
Considering the woman taught me to cook (Nigellissima) and there after changed my life a bit, I ordered it immediately. Nigella specifically mentioned how she loves the smell. Thank god I thought, one that doesn’t smell horrific. When it arrived I waited patiently until bedtime (N says that’s the best time to apply dry shampoo), had a go with it and…it was absolutely vomitus! I was heartbroken. It was pricey yes but more than that, I thought I had the answer.
Anyway, maybe I have…now. Ordered it Esther. Don’t let me down babe x