hair *Bee Mine Luscious Balanced Moisturizer*!
I love the smell, the texture, the shine, but most of all I love how moisturized and manageable it leaves their hair. "Okay so what's the problem lady?" The problem is it's way too expensive!! (after shipping costs) I ordered a 8 oz. size and fell in love! I used it everyday on both girls. I wasn't outrageous with the amount I used, I only applied extra to the areas that needed a little bit more moisture. The 16 oz. jar only lasted us 2 weeks : ( The last day that we used it I decided to do twists in Princess A's pony tail before we headed out to Sally's to find the "replacement". I gathered her hair in a pony tail, spritzed it with a little bit of water applied BMLBM and twisted sections until she had a pony full of oh so shiny twists...Ughhh! "Why do I only have a smidget of my beloved left in the jar!" I thought to myself , actually I probably yelled something along those lines out loud 0_O We got home maybe 3 hours later, I decided to loosen her pony tail a bit, she has finer hair and her sides can't handle too much tension. At this point I decided to unravel her twists too. Can I say *Gor-G-Ous!!* I was so surprised to see her twists so defined after only a few hours, and the shine was crazy!
Okay so on to the "replacement" I purchased a 16 oz. jar of the As I am Double Butter Cream ($24.00 at Sally's).
Still expensive but no shipping costs so I save about $20 compared to purchasing the 16 oz. jar of BMLBM. I opened the jar and liked the smell and thick creamy texture. I put a small amount on the front of Princess A's hair hmmm nice shine, good moisture, I think we have a winner! I decided to add a small amount to Princess Y's hair. She was wearing a banded pony tail that day, so I only added it to the bottom. "Houston we have a problem"--- It made her hair curl AND? You ask...well the problem with that is that I've been stretching their hair lately by tension blow drying, it makes styling their hair a lot easier for me. When I apply the BMLBM to their stretched hair it stays that way, this was not the case with the As I am product. Are we back to square one? Not exactly I loved the shine and moisture it gave, it was very light, it didn't leave any sticky residue on my hands (hate that) I could return it, was very close to doing so but decided to give it a chance. Last night I decided to use it to do a head full of twists on Princess Y's hair. Her hair was pretty well moisturized from the day before. I applied setting foam, and a dollop up of the As I am product to sections of her hair and continued until all her hair was in twists. Great shine! I could tell this was going to result in an amazing twist out. I dried her hair a little with the dryer since she was going to bed. In the morning her hair was still a little moist so I finished drying her hair with the dryer. I put Olive oil on my hands and started to unravel. LOVE! the results! And let me just say Princess Y has a whole lot of hair! I tell her she has 4 heads of hair on 1 head Lol! and I did not have to use that much product to get great results, I'm sure the setting foam helped too, but the shine and moisture was all from the As I am. Her hair still looked great after she returned back home from school, their was a little frizz in the front but that was from her playing the "look how my hair can bounce" game with her hair ♥ I may have found a great product for twists BUT I also remember getting the same results when I tried the Shea Moisture Moisturizing Smoothie and that was only $10 at Walgreens : /
So it looks like we're back to the drawing board. I could just suck it up, go to Bee Mine's Website, purchase their 16 oz. jar for $34.95 or whatever crazy prize it was, pay the $10.00 shipping fee, oh wait I get 10% off with a promo code from one of my favorite hair blogs woo hoo! -_- Hubby thinks I'm being a cheapo, I think I'm being realistic. A product that costs 40 something dollars after shipping can't possibly be a staple product when you have 2 heads to style everyday. And the search continues.....
