Tuesday, January 8, 2013

LUSH review: Cynthia Sylvia Stout shampoo

I told all of you I would be doing LUSH reviews! Being a LUSH junkie has been a hobby of mine for about a year now, if I'm not mistaken. It's evolved from "oh wow I like this" into a sick obsession, where I find myself in a LUSH store any chance I get to try out new products.
One of those new products I'm absolutely loving:
Cynthia Sylvia Stout shampoo!
For those of you that don't know me/what I look like, here's a quick picture.
That's my natural hair. It's insanely curly, and usually very, very frizzy. (I guess I was having a good day, since this was before I started using this shampoo)
So here's my story:
I walked into LUSH with my typical list of things I'd run out of, grabbing a few things around the store here and there, until a salesgirl approached me asking if I needed any help. I mentioned that I'd never used their hair products before, so she pulled me over to the table eager to help me out.
She saw my hair situation, and suggested Curly Wurly (which I have been using, I'll review that next!) so I had told her I'd used that, and this was her next suggestion.
I wanted another shampoo because Curly Wurly is a conditioning shampoo and more of a weekly treatment, and I wanted something that lathered better.
Enter Cynthia Sylvia Stout, the most magical product I've ever applied to my hair. The smell is a little bit off-putting, it is a beer, cognac and lemon juice shampoo (weird, I know) after all. If you're into that kind of smell, you'll love this. Personally, I didn't love it, but I gave it a shot because there's yeast (which promotes hair growth) and the beer and cognac gives hair weight and reduces frizz, and lemon juice for shine. It detangles my knots, and makes my hair fabulously bouncy.
It does everything it says it will do. I use it with American Cream conditioner, which takes the smell of the shampoo out (and then my hair smells like vanilla...mmm.)

I would definitely recommend this shampoo to anyone with curly/frizzy hair in need of a pick-me-up, I'll never go back to another shampoo. I love this!
Hope this was helpful. I can do an update as I use more of it, but I figured I would post an initial reaction. Stay gorgeous!