I wasn’t in the mood to blog about beauty products for the past three weeks because it felt frivolous in the light of what happened to Japan. Though I think it’s appropriate to be more austere in saving electricity because there is a shortage of energy resources in eastern Japan, I believe that we should get back to living life as normally as possible. That includes injecting some much-needed moolah into Japan’s ailing economy…so I’m determined to shop as usual — nuthin’ is stoppin’ this beauty junkie.

I have a love-hate relationship with Japanese haircare products — the conditioners always work great, smell fabulous, but the shampoos are usually too rich and cause residue build-up quickly. I kept switching around — Shiseido Tsubaki Golden Repair (white), Shiseido Tsubaki Shining (red), Shiseido Tsubaki Head Spa (gold), Ascience, Shiseido Super Mild, H & S, Lux etc. They all worked well in the first two weeks but my hair felt dull and flat beyond that time frame. I still use the Tsubaki Golden Repair Treatment because it’s truly moisturizing and smells lovely.

So my latest “love” is Nudy Aura which was number one on Ranking Ranqueen three months ago. Yes, I used this consistently for three months before I came to a fair conclusion.

I was won over by the conditioner (I bought that first) but wasn’t so sure about the shampoo so I bought some sample packs to try while I went travelling. I used these packs three days in a row and my hair felt and looked great.

At first I thought the samples were too small for my long hair but the shampoo lathered very well so I could spread it out through my hair evenly and it felt clean despite a small palm sized amount. The conditioner was very moisturizing so a bit went a long way.

The key to what makes this a fab shampoo is that it says there is no silicone which typically weighs hair down with build-up after a while.

The conditioner has a slew of great ingredients — collagen, keratin, hyaluronic acid and so on so this works great on my thick, slightly wavy hair.

After I tried two packs of the samples (six in all), I bought a full-sized set and have been using it almost daily. I have no issues with build-up but I still use a clarifying shampoo once a week just to brighten my tresses. For the previous Japanese shampoos I tried, even using a clarifying shampoo once or twice a week didn’t get rid of the heaviness and dullness — what I mean by this is that when I used the clarifying shampoo, my hair went back to looking shiny and feeling light but once I switched back to my regular haircare products, my hair felt weighed down immediately. How in the world did I finish those shampoo/conditioner sets I didn’t like? I forayed into what the organic natural world (eg. Nature’s Gate) could offer me but they weren’t great in terms of giving shine and smoothing my slightly frizzy hair and alternated among three or four different brands in any given week.

But now I’ve pared down the number of haircare products in my bathroom to just Nudy Aura, The Body Shop Rainforest Balance Shampoo, and a tube of Shiseido Tsubaki Golden Repair Damage Care Treatment. Before blow drying my hair, I shake two drops of Oshima’s Tsubaki Oil and run my fingers through my hair. So far this routine works for me and I’m happy my bathroom is less cluttered.

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