:: Bodyshop Shampoo - Not recommended ::

Before Dove, I was using Asience. And I took a holiday trip so I brought along my new travel set of Bodyshop shampoo, conditioner, hair butter, thinking it'll be like spa for my hair during the holiday.

This is the Rainforest Moisture Hair Care Kit.

Same thing, my hair dried up at first use. Neither the conditioner nor hair butter helped restore the moisture. My hair condition got better when I returned home and resumed using Asience.

One thing bad about Asience though, the last time I used it I decided to perm my hair. Never use Asience on permed hair! Because it straightens it out! Haha!

:: Dove Dryness Care - Not recommended ::

I like to experiment with beauty products and I was using Asience Nature Smooth series, then I wanted to try a new product. I googled the best shampoo for Asian hair, Asience is definitely recommended time and time again, with a few rare other brands. One of them was Dove Intense Repair. I went down to the usual store I buy my toiletries, and saw Dove Dryness Care. I thought Dove might have improved their products and this new series alongside Intense Repair would do prove my previous mindset wrong. Boy was I so disappointed the first time I used the product!

I used to be able to comb through my hair with my fingers while washing off the shampoo, but not this time! My hair was more tangled than before! I also noticed I dropped more hair while using a towel to dry my hair, as well as on my pillow.

Pls remind me to never use Dove shampoo again! I'm still hopeful to find a good shampoo for my hair type. Until then, Asience is still the best.

Maybe I'll try Tsubaki the gold colour series next.

:: Victoria's Secret - my purchases ::

I'm never going to order from Victoria's Secret again. Okay, this is a super expired post, but here goes.

I ordered a few pieces of clothes and lingerie from VS last Sep, what I received was far from what was expected. This is just one of the examples:

The bra looked so granny and in such terrible quality! Wearable, didn't break, but materials used look real cheap. The Made in China tags confirmed it. Okay, most things in US are made in China. But this quality is worse than anything I've ever seen!

Thought I found gold when I qualified for the free Gorgeous tshirt, but the material is very thin and lousy.

Then there was a swim suit that didn't have stock for black colour so I chose "sexy little pink". Turns out like some fluorescent light I am too embarrassed to ever wear it.

The bra-top camisole didn't come with padding. It probably didn't mention anything about padding, but my first time buying a "bra-top" from Uniqlo did so I assumed its a bra within a top.

There were 2 simple t-shirt bras that also went wrong. The cutting is such that the middle portion folds tightly INTO the skin. It doesn't just rest on the skin. -_-"

There were only 2 items I don't have complaints about out of 11. Don't know why my friends were raving about VS sale. I mean I've heard abt it so this time I was curious so I ordered some for myself.

** Post update on 31 May: Oh ya I forgot to mention about the box it came in!!! I was expecting a luxurious packaging at least like La Senza, they'd wrap up each item with thin paper, and the box would have VS in gold hot-stamped on... but no, it was a cardboard box that looked like it was left beside a drain for some time and soaked up some drain water! What's worse, there was a lot of space inside the box - I felt cheated of my shipping fees when they could have packed it more compactly!