Recently relaunched OSIS is one of the styling brands under the huge Schwarzkopf Professional banner, and is a top salon styling brand. The products fall into 3 main categories Style, Texture and Finish. In the Style range of products there are products for Sleek, Curl and Volume - I was sent a product from the Sleek range.
OSIS+ Soft N Straight - Smooth Straightening Emulsion
As you all know if you've followed my blog for sometime one of my biggest hair issues are frizz, flyaway, and generally unmanageable hair. Without my straighteners I am nothing, my hair has such flyaway tendencies it untrue and I'm always looking for something to tame it. This product from OSIS+ makes big claims - "sleek smooth hair all day", "light movable hair", "works to prevent spit ends and hair breakage", and "protects from mechanical heat" but what did I think?
First of all the packaging itself, in a 150ml bottle it comes with a rubberised button press flip top cap - the product dispenses easily by squeezing the bottle
The styling emulsion itself is a slightly runny lotion type consistency
It has a really interesting but pleasant smell sort of fruit, floral and violets, which lingers slightly on the hair. To use it I applied it to damp (freshly washed), hair and styled as normal.
I found the product applied well through the hair, with very little stickiness, or hardness even when the hair was dry you could still run your fingers through it (this is a 2 Medium hold product) My hair did stay pretty frizz free, and pretty sleek as you can see here but I felt my end needed something a bit stronger - I did find though that the product worked better when I dried my hair either by blow drying, or drying with my Remington Wet to Straights. Would I buy this product probably not - as much as I loved the smell, and the lack of stiff and sticky texture it probably didn't do enough for me and the lack of frizz probably didn't last as long as I would have liked. The OSIS+ Soft n' Straight Sleek Smooth Straightening Emulsion retails for around £10.50 for 150ml.
OSIS+ Dust It
I was also sent a product from the OSIS+ Texture Category, the OSIS+ Dust It Mattifying Powder. Designed to texturise, separate, and mattify this product comes in a sweet pepper pot style shaped dispenser and applicator I have to say I have never used or seen anything like this before
This product is in essence a white powder that you sprinkle into you hands - it has no discernible smell but the real magic is when you agitate the powder you get an almost liquidy feel,
I used this product on dry hair, rubbing it in to my roots and in particular into my fringe - I found that this product helped to lift up, texturise and volumise my fringe, as well freshening the roots - you can't really see any difference here unfortunately
Before
After
On the right hair type I think this would be a quirky, and really useful product - on a choppier, layered, shorter or more textured hair style I think would be ideal. On my longer hair however I couldn't really get much use out of it bar using it on my fringe so unfortunately I wouldn't repurchase. The OSIS+ Dust It Texture Mattifying Powder retails for around £11.70 for 10g
I was sent this products for review purposes but this hasn't affected my opinion in any way. For more information including stockists of OSIS products please check out their official website here. OSIS+ products are also available from Adrian Allens online store here. Any questions or comments please let me know xx
