Charles Worthington Texturising Spray: A Disappointment?
There are certain cult products amongst beauty bloggers and texturising sprays are one of them. Most bloggers swear by them, which makes it harder to resist that ‘I need this in my life’ urging thought. One of the most popular texturising sprays is the Oribe Dry Texturising Spray, which is extremely highly praised, but also extremely expensive. There’s a consensus in the blogosphere that the Charles Worthington Texturising Spray is a cheaper dupe of the Oribe one, so being the good ol’ ‘easily influenced blogger’ that I am, I went ahead and got it. Well, sadly, for me it was hate at first spray…
(Sorry, is it just me or the vertical lines being un-aligned on the pictures above are really annoying? #OCD)
The Charles Worthington Volume & Bounce Texturising Spray is meant to give you big, bouncy, textured and voluminous hair. To me, it is basically like an extremely sticky hairspray – it creates volume in two steps: spray & scrunch. So I got the volume, however, the surprising part for me, was that it also left my hair feeling like straw, completely tangled and impossible to run my fingers through – I had to wash my hands with soap to get rid go the sticky feeling! Maybe I’m being completely naive about it and maybe this is exactly what a texturising spray feels like – I wouldn’t know, this is my first one – but this is definitely not of what I expected.
I had an image of shiny, soft and voluminous hair, almost like it was lifted from the roots. I was right about the voluminous part, but totally wrong about the shiny and soft part. You do get volume, but to what end? I was left with sticky, knotty, unstrokable, straw-like hair – no, thank you. That is not my idea of a good hair day, no matter the amount of volume!
I’m constantly touching my hair and to have that uncomfortable feeling every time I touch my hair would drive me insane! With the whole of the world seeking the ‘big and messy’ hair look, I’m more conservative with my hair taste, and I much prefer a tidy hairstyle with a bit less volume and a lot more shine, softness and a bit of bounce. Shine over volume, softness over texture – that’s my kind of hair!
I know I’m probably one of the few that don’t swear by the ‘bigger is better’ and ‘volume at any cost’ slogans. So what the heck am I doing with a texturising spray, you ask? Well, I got sucked in by the #BloggerHype but I didn’t really know what to expect of it. So in fairness, this is not a bad review of the Charles Worthington Texturising Spray because the product does give you volume, but it’s a disappointing one for me because it’s just not what I expected and I don’t like the way it makes my hair feel.
This is not the product for me, unfortunately. If you’re thinking of getting the Charles Worthington Texturising Spray, or any other texturising sprays, consider the pros and cons carefully before parting with your money and make sure you know what to expect of this product. In a nutshell, it will give you a lot of volume, but it will also give you sticky and crispy-feeling hair. If that’s ok with you, then by all means; if not, don’t fall for the #BloggerHype like I did.
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- Product: Charles Worthington Volume & Bounce Texturising Spray
- Price: £6.99
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18 Comments
sarah
completely agree
Le Beauty Girl
Such a shame as it’s a very hyped-up product! :(
Honey Go-Lightly
I’m not keen on this either! It’s more similar to the Oribe beach spray rather than texture spray but way stickier! Definitely won’t be repurchasing. I like Toni & Guy’s matte texture spray or L’Oreal’s one :)
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Le Beauty Girl
I’ve heard about the L’Oreal one and I’m tempted to give it a try, although I really don’t want to waste more money on texturising sprays if you are all going to leave my hair feeling sticky and crunchy!
Amanda
I didn’t like it quite that much at first. But I love it now. I find the trick is to spray it at roots – not ends! – and spray as far away as possible from your head, otherwise you get the dreaded crunch! I did a review too :)
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Le Beauty Girl
Hi Amanda, thanks for sharing you tips. Unfortunately, that didn’t work for me either. It just made my roots very very sticky and tangled. Such a shame as I was really looking forward to trying it! :( I’ll have a read of your review a bit later – thanks for sharing! :) x
JasminCharlotte
Good to know! Will steer clear x
Jasmin Charlotte
Le Beauty Girl
It may work wonders for other people, but it just didn’t work for me :(
Hannah Heartss ❄️⛄️
This didn’t work for me either, I hated the way it left my hair feeling! x
Sandra Rytter Jensen
Completely off topic, but do you have a Goodreads.com account Ysis? Would love to follow you on there! (: x
A Girl and a Beauty Blog
I’m so glad you posted this as I completely agree! I tried this because of the hype and it went straight in the bin. It made my hair a dry mess!xx
Smita Roy
urgghhhh…I completely get the feeling without even trying…hate such sprays :(
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nicolabishop
I like these kinds of sprays when they work!!.. Shame you couldnt get on with this one! I find the VO5 one really good! :)
Nicola xx
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Shari
I feel the same with the Dove Dry Shampoo! It makes my hair exactly like this.
Hate that brands just come out with texturizing sprays just to get on with the bandwagon but dont really kink out the ingredients and the formula so they work across all hair types :| Thanks for the heads up on this one!
hdotxo
I got this and felt the same! Just left my hair really tangled and like you say crunchy. Was not impressed, shame as there was so much hype around it!
http://www.hdotxo.blogspot.co.uk
xo
fiona furtado
the thing with the hair products is quite tricky. which works for someone might not work for us!!
Janki
I found that the spray was really sticky too and hated it, but once I used it by keeping the can further away (but not too far), I got the best results. Now I absolutely love this, it’s perfect for inbetween washes when my hair looks lifeless.
Seema
Thank goodness! Finally someone else who also doesn’t get on with this product. I kept telling myself that I must be doing something wrong as every blogger and it’s dog has been raving about this. My experience has been exactly the same as yours, it just seems like a pimped up hairspray and not much more. :)
Seema
P.S. just discovered your blog and am loving it :)xxxxx