How Can I Choose the Best Hair Products Brand? Finding quality haircare products can be an overwhelming task, with ingredients and backstories that may need deciphering. To cut through this clutter, I consulted celebrity stylists about their top choices for products they use themselves.
Oribe, founded by an esteemed hairstylist, is beloved by professional stylists and consumers alike for its high-performance formulas, tailored for all textures, and signature fragrance.
Oribe
Oribe is the premier hair-care brand for those seeking to achieve stunning locks. Their products utilize natural extracts and oils that offer multiple benefits, including strengthening, shine enhancement and manageability.
Oribe is known for combining years of styling experience from editorial and salon environments with innovative formulations and technology. Their products are suitable for color-treated hair and help keep its vibrancy vibrant – plus, their sleek packaging makes an excellent present!
Kerastase
Kerastase offers products to address every hair type and concern. From moisturizing dry strands to revitalizing color vibrancy, you can find an in-salon or at-home treatment tailored specifically to meet your needs.
If your locks have been colored with dye or bleach, look no further than the Blond Absolu range for help. Packed with powerful ingredients that strengthen blonde hair fibres while neutralising brassy tones for an optimal finish, this range delivers vibrant results.
The Specifique collection provides holistic support to promote healthy scalps by targeting issues such as dandruff and itchy strands, while strengthening hair with essential ingredients that nourish it for enhanced elasticity and strength.
Design Essentials
Design Essentials was introduced in 1990 with a mission of increasing styling success and meeting customer hair needs. Their product selection includes products for all curl patterns and textures.
For flat, fine hair, the Platinum Volumizing Collection provides nourishment and strength for fuller-looking locks with every use – lasting up to 12 weeks of salon treatment!
Our Natural Almond & Avocado Detangling Leave-In Conditioner contains soothing botanicals to soften your mane and facilitate easy detangling and frizz control.
Living Proof
Living Proof’s mission is to offer innovative formulas that address real-life hair issues. Created by both beauty and biotech experts, their bestsellers tackle frizz, increase volume and fullness and maintain healthy locks day after wash.
Perfect Hair Day Advanced Clean Dry Shampoo is a revolutionary dry shampoo, designed to eliminate oil and sweat molecules while leaving hair feeling soft and smelling fresh. Furthermore, this paraben-, sulfate-, and phthalates-free formula ensures safe use in any environment.
Curl Enhancers are specially-formulated products designed for wavy and curly locks that aim to make curls hold their shape without adding stiffness to them. By combining five ingredients, they help strengthen existing curls without adding new stiffness.
Ichikami
Kracie Ichikami is a Japanese hair brand that understands the value of providing your scalp and locks with proper nourishment and hydration from within. Their products include a sulfate-free shampoo and conditioner made of pure Japanese herbal premium extract, non-silicone shampoo made with plant-derived amino acid cleansing ingredients for a gentle yet thorough cleanse, natural oils for smoothing out hair while protecting from damage repair or color-fade protection and more – providing optimal care from within for silky locks! Kracie Ichikami offers treatments to give your locks smooth silky locks!
Ouidad
Ouidad was established in 1984 when Lebanese immigrant Ouidad Wise opened the first salon exclusively dedicated to curly hair. Her expertise led her to develop cutting and styling techniques still used today at her salons as well as an entire product line tailored specifically for curly textures.
Ouidad offers numerous products designed to give wavy, fine and curly hair texture definition and volume, from its Moisture Lock collection to the Ouidad Curl Shaper Out of Thin (H)air Volumizing Jelly. With their blend of moisture-locking mongongo, grapeseed and meadowfoam seed oils containing moisture-locking mongongo oils which hydrate lock-in moisture for bounce, shine and suppleness of curls.
Pattern
Pattern has made waves ever since its 2019 debut–not just due to founder Tracee Ellis Ross (she hails from an impressive hair family!). The line specializes in pampering curly, coily and tight-textured locks while entering luxury haircare markets.
The brand offers styling products to combat frizz and refresh curls between wash days. Glamour editors with different curl patterns tested the treatment bundle of Scalp Serum and Treatment Mask to determine its efficacy.
Olaplex
Olaplex products don’t just hide damaged hair; they actually repair it by rebuilding broken bonds. Their products work to repair disulfide bonds in hair damaged by chemical, thermal and mechanical services to help strengthen and sustain healthy strands for lasting strength and vitality.
This line-up offers both in-salon treatments (No. 1 Bond Multiplier and No. 2 Bond Perfector) as well as at-home products designed to maintain their results, such as No. 7 Bonding Oil which strengthens hair while improving shine while shielding against heat styling and UV damage. Retailers carry this No. 7 Bonding Oil daily use.