Trying Garnier Fructis 1 Minute Hair Mask (Damage Reparing)

Last weekend, I got to try Garnier Fructis' 1 Minute hair mask in papaya. I had mentioned it for the first time in my post on trying the mask in banana and coconut. Since I already talked a bit about these masks in my first post (see aforementioned link), I'm gonna jump right into using the mask.

As with the other two masks, I applied roughly half of the jar after the shampoo and rinsed out the mask after washing my body. My hair didn't feel tangled at that point, so there was no need to add conditioner, although it didn't feel smooth either. This may be because of the Tresemme shampoo I'm using right now. It's the Clean & Replenish one (blue bottle) and it gives my hair a strange texture. My fingers don't glide easily on my hair following the shampoo and even conditioner can't fix this. Thankfully, this weird feeling disappears after the shower, once I unwrap my wet hair from my cotton shirt. I don't really understand it because I've bought this shampoo before and I don't recall having this problem. Anyway, I'll make sure to not buy it again.

Following the shower, I wrapped my hair in my cotton shirt and waited a while before unwrapping it. Then I applied Moroccanoil on my roots and my ends. I normally wouldn't apply Moroccanoil after a hair mask to avoid greasiness, but my hair didn't feel fully detangled and I didn't want to risk breakage and snaps.
I felt a bit sad to suppress some of the papaya scent with the Moroccanoil because it smells wonderful. I don't usually buy hair products with a "fruit" aroma, but this one has just enough sweetness.

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My hair fully dried after having been brushed

I love the state of my hair in the pictures above. Unfortunately, as I mentioned before, the thickness and fluffiness doesn't stay for long and using this mask made no exception.

This was my hair in the evening (day mostly spent doing errands and cooking):

Hair strands gathering together giving the appearance of oily ends

Digressing briefly since it's been a while I've made an update on my hair. When I wrote the review about Garnier's 1 Minute hair masks in October, I mentioned I had been recovering from an important hair shed. Around the time I posted the review, the hair shed resurfaced and thinned mostly the ends of my hair. You can actually notice the difference in thickness with the pictures taken in October vs the picture above here. I'm thinking causes might be stress from work, no trimming and hair knots (I had tried to part myself from using Moroccanoil at that time, and I remember my hair being more tangled after showering.) This relapse made me go back to using Moroccanoil again and I'm still using it today. I think the hair shed is not so bad right now...

Back to the hair mask. At the end of the day, I did notice my hair being a little oilier than usual, but that was expected since I applied the mask from my roots to my ends. I'd imagine you need to use this mask regularly to see any results, and since this is only my first time using it, I can't say much about it in terms of repair. But overall, I'm not impressed by this papaya hair mask. Although I wasn't expecting a repair miracle, it would have been great for it to at least make my hair smooth and silky, especially after that shampoo. I really don't know whether this mask has a positive impact on my hair (other than the smell), but to me, it's not worth buying it again to gauge the effects long-term.