Booty Full

I heard recently of a black guy with white parents who all his life thought he had a rare skin melanin gene condition, only to find out on his eighteenth year that in fact his mother had had an affair with a black guy, not her white husband. Revelation rating: 10/10.

I also heard recently that my hair all my life I'd thought was thick, was in fact "fine-but lots-of-it”. Revelation rating: 1/10.

But nevertheless it has got me thinking, and so I am the perfect candidate to try out Redken Body Full for both fine and flat hair; a reformulation of Redken’s popular volume range now with twice the volume designed to give lift.

Hannah of Stephen Marr when I was in having a Sans blow wave and infusion treament at The Department Store recently, said that side parts are out and centre parts are in, which can make my own hair look a bit limp falling about my forehead. Hannah taught me a technique of using ghds across the crown rather than on each side of the parting. I tried it with the Redken Body Full to great result.

The shampoo was more herbal than I expected, a grassy smell rather than a chemically smell. The conditioner comes out fainltly green. My favourite product was the mousse which is liquid in the clear bottle and has a non-aerosol hand pump which comes out as a deliciously light mousse reminding me of eating molecular gastronomy sea water foam.

So now my fine-but-lots-of-it hair is booti full with body galore.

The range includes:

Body Full Shampoo 300ml ($31) – a clear shampoo that gently cleanses and detangles while plumping strands and rinsing away styling products and deposits that weighs hair down.

Body Full Light Conditioner 250ml ($33) – an ultra-light, rinse-out gel/lotion applied from mid to end lengths of hair to detangle and provide weightless moisture to every strand making it easy to build volume even on the finest of hair types.

Body Full Volume Amplifier 150ml ($33) – a feather-light plumping primer is applied to the roots and throughout the lengths of the hair to deliver all-over, touchably soft fullness while leaving strands perfectly detangled.

Body Full Instant Bodifier 150ml ($33) – a liquid-to-foam volumizer delivers body and structural support while protecting fragile, fine hair from heat styling damage and mechanical breakage. Hair is plumped inside and out for a visible thickening effect that can be seen from root to tip.

All are available March from Redken salons nation-wide.

Megan Robinson, 9 February 2010