Poofy Hair! +Aveda Hair Potion Review

My hair is naturally straight, but I usually get it straightened when I can because it's also grows pretty thick. Recently, I cut my hair and did a lot of thinning, so my hair is a lot lighter and easier to manage. Because it's much thinner, though, it sits pretty flat on my head, so I wanted to try something volumizing or texturizing. Enter Aveda's Hair Potion from their Pure Abundance line. This is a powdery product that's supposed to go from a powder to a lotion that texturizes and thickens hair (by 17%, haha). It's supposed to have a matte texture, to give your hair the gritty feeling it sometimes gets the day after a shower.

Here's my hair with no product, kind of flat and still nothing exciting even if I try to fluff it up. When I use the hair potion, I just put in one or two taps on the right, middle, and left parts of my hair and roughly floof it in with my fingers.It sometimes feels a little cold on the scalp, but absorbs in pretty quickly. Afterwards, it's pretty easy to create some quick, dramatic volume just with my fingers.You can also create cleaner, sleek volume-y looks. This product does work pretty well at volumizing right away, but I wouldn't say it's an all-day fix. I think it's best quality is the texturizing part more than the instant volume part, because I found from using this that while the volume from the potion didn't magically last all day, the matte texture at the root of my hair made it easy for me to pump up the volume again throughout the day, and even into the next day.

Thumbs up :)