topic Re: WEN Recommendation Needed in WEN

WEN Recommendation Needed

quakerette — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:20:57 GMT

Although I bought Wen's Winter Vanilla Mint Cleansing Conditioner on auto-delivery a few months ago, I just started using it this week. I also use Mandarin Fig styling cream and mousse. So far, my hair looks great.

Now it's time for my next shipment. I need to decide if I should get Winter Vanilla Mint Cleansing Conditioner again or try a new scent. I'm a little nervous about ordering one that won't work with my hair type. I have chin level layered hair. It is fine, curly (loose), and color treated. I prefer to let it air dry. Of course, I don't want to buy a cleansing conditioner that might weigh my hair down.

Any suggestions?

Re: WEN Recommendation Needed

Drythe — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:54:11 GMT

@quakerette wrote:
Although I bought Wen's Winter Vanilla Mint Cleansing Conditioner on auto-delivery a few months ago, I just started using it this week. I also use Mandarin Fig styling cream and mousse. So far, my hair looks great.

Now it's time for my next shipment. I need to decide if I should get Winter Vanilla Mint Cleansing Conditioner again or try a new scent. I'm a little nervous about ordering one that won't work with my hair type. I have chin level layered hair. It is fine, curly (loose), and color treated. I prefer to let it air dry. Of course, I don't want to buy a cleansing conditioner that might weigh my hair down.

Any suggestions?

@quakerette

Personally I'd stay with the one that's working for you.

To me WVM is moisturizing - your hair must like it. Mine loves that kick of moisturizer I get from WVM.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of Wen.

Re: WEN Recommendation Needed

sonechko — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:42:51 GMT

This is so great, @quakerette, the WEN you are using works well for you! The other great Winter CC choice, in my opinion, is Winter White Citrus. I do not know about the third winter choice, I have not tried it.

But, again, it's hard to say which CC would work better or worth, unless you try it for yourself.

I'll tell you this - if you are very-very happy with WVM, why take a chance to change at this point? Of course, you may return a new scent order, or exchange it, if you won't like it, but it's a hassle, and I am not sure, if they have a stock of out of season products.

The best time to try new for you scents is in December, when WEN comes up with 5-piece CCs VARIETY Kits before Christmas time.

Usually this TSV is posted in Insider's Magazine, and available to purchase even earlier at great discount price.

The price historically is so good! Last year price came to $17 and change per 16 oz bottle of CC, including shipping and tax!

Such Kit would allow you try Five different CCs in comfortable 16 oz size, to put them through a good trial period, and allows you personal experience with each scent, to see if you like the fragrance and performance.

With personal experience of CCs, next time, when you see a good special on the ones you favor, you may have much greater confidence buying it and stocking up.

Re: WEN Recommendation Needed

ChynnaBlue — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 19:43:36 GMT

If you ordered a seasonal on auto-delivery, I would stick with the one you ordered. Cooper, a woman who works with Chaz, has said that if you switch your AD fragrances, you can wind up getting the scent reserved for someone else. Seasonals are limited production, so when they are out of production, they only have enough for the orders already placed. If you switch to Winter Cranberry Mint and your ship date is the first of the month, you may get the Winter Cranberry Mint that someone else ordered with a ship date of the tenth of the month and that person won't get what she wanted.

You can do it with core items (i.e.: Remoist, 32-ounce core, core styling cream scents), but I wouldn't do it with a limited TSV set or a seasonal.

Re: WEN Recommendation Needed

quakerette — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 21:14:36 GMT

The variety kit is definitely something I will get. Thanks for the tip!

Re: WEN Recommendation Needed

CamilleP — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 04:05:24 GMT

Hi, quakerette, I'm not new to WEN, but I am definitely a Winter Vanilla Mint lover. I've tried one of the other winter formulas, and while I like the Winter Cranberry Mint scent, it's a little more moisturizing and I find it weighs my fine, straight hair down a bit. If I've been heat styling and my hair is a little dry I'll use some WCM, or Fig or Fall Ginger Pumpkin to remoisturize it a bit, but I can't use them on a daily basis or my hair starts looking a bit stringy. Winter Vanilla Mint is a better balance of cleansing and moisture for my hair. I haven't tried Winter White Citrus yet, since my scalp didn't like Fall Tuscan Pear I was not motivated by scent alone to try the winter formula in that year's sequence. I love lilacs, so I did try the Spring Honey Lilac, the third formula in the sequence, and my scalp hated that even worse than the FTP, so I avoided the summer formula in that year's selection, as well.

My experience with WEN leads me to suggest that you stick with WVM, since you already know it works well, and then either try some of the discovery kits that QVC offers now and again, or wait until the next December TSV to get a wider variety of formulas to try. I think that this past year there was a choice of the "regular" formulas, seasonal formulas, or rice-based formulas, with five different kinds in the first two choices and and three kinds (two BGT, two MIF, and one FF) in the rice choice. If you ordered one of each of the TSV's you would get thirteen different formulas to try, that's a lot! If you don't want to spend that much money all at once, you could just try the seasonals, since they are all soy-based and you already know WVM works well for you. I do find differences between the seasonals for myself, but if your scalp is not sensitive, you can probably use all of them, and if one is more moisture than you need most of the time, you can save it and just use it once in a while, like I do with the WCM or FGP.