I remember the days filled with crooning along to my Jagged Little Pill album, while riding to school in my old Ford Ranger thinking I was so very cool. At the time I pretty much pegged Alanis Morissette for a one hit wonder who would soon melt into oblivion and never be heard from again. Thankfully I was very wrong.

The former fiancé of Ryan Reynolds has always had a signature long and wavy do that I tried to replicate time and time again. You can’t go wrong with length and waves. However, if you are like me then you battle the dry ends mixed with an oily scalp. I tried every combination to combat the oily scalp and then attend to my dry ends. It was a teeter-totter of moisture then cleansers.

What I didn’t realize at the time was what my hair was naturally trying to do for itself. My hair needed the oil but it wasn’t getting to my ends, my scalp needed the high powered cleansers and I was just making the problem worse. I’d fix one problem on to circle back to trying to fix the other. My hair needed a balance.

What I use now is Aussie’s Cleanse and Mend line. It’s affordable and focuses on those of us with hair drama. There is a balance that cleanses it where we need it the most and hydrates those thirsty strands of hair. Long hair do’s will rejoice at the combo.