Polished London dry shampoo in Blightly Brunette review

Today's review is on another dry shampoo . . . as you can tell from the title.

taken from Priceline website

    These are the cheapest dry shampoo (by size) in Priceline and I really wanted to try them especially since they clearly had 3 colours instead of just light and dark hair. However I hesitated as it was a large can and I didn’t want to get such a large can of dry shampoo when I wasn’t sure if I wanted dry shampoo at all. So after being unimpressed by Cedal dry shampoo for dark hair, I bought blighty brunette because I have almost black hair, so the normal ones were unlikely to match. 


    The colour of this dry shampoo was a good darkness, though a tiny bit light for my hair, it would probably suit most brunettes. I would say the colour was neutral to cool, though one of the reasons I noticed polished London dry shampoos was because they had a dry shampoo for red shampoo, so if you have auburn hair you have that option instead of blightly brunette. 

    In terms of what dry shampoo is actually meant to do this one was about the same as the Cedal dry shampoo for me though. It didn't get rid of the oily feeling and didn't add lift. If I sprayed a little it didn't do anything, and if I sprayed a lot, my roots would feel slightly sticky. I did feel like it got rid of the greasy feeling when I’d sprayed to the point of stickiness, but why swap one uncomfortable sensation for another? Unlike the Cedal one, I really didn't like the smell of the Polished London dry shampoo; I don't know how to describe it, it was just one of those weird chemical smells that your nose instinctively wrinkles at, not like cleaning chemical smells but more like "what is that funk?!". Thankfully the smell didn't really cling to my hair, but it stayed in the bathroom air for more than an hour. 

    Another thing is that for such a seemingly large bottle this dry shampoo lasted about as long as my mini Cedal bottle i.e. not very long (I don't use dry shampoo regularly so I can't really give an estimate).

    I’d recommend this dry shampoo to people who want that grit/stickyness in their hair for better styling (apparently, as my hair type isn't the kind that benefits from grit). Sharon Farrell on Youtube for example listed this product in one of her monthly favourites for that reason and I suspect that this would best work if you have soft, fine (as in thin), not shiny hair, a bit like cotton. I’ve only seen this hair type among Caucasians, and since my hair is nothing like that, (thicker individual strands, naturally smooth) this product does nothing for me and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone with a hair type similar to mine.

Effectiveness: 4/10

Feel: 4/10

Packaging: 6/10