I have a confession to make. A slightly strange one for a beauty writer: I don’t use conditioner. Not ever. You won’t find a single bottle of the stuff on my bathroom shelf. None. Zilch. 

Instead, what I do use is a hair mask. Once a week. And I have lots and lots of those to hand. Pots upon pots of the stuff, some heavier ones for the biting cold winter months and some lighter two minute jobs that are easy to comb through in a hurry. 

My trick is to use a really nourishing mask once a week and you can forgo the hassle of having to apply conditioner every single hair wash. It’s time-saving at its best.

So for me it’s just shampoo and go and a once-a-week mask to indulge hair and fight any split ends or breakages. Occasionally my hair meets its match in a new serum or hair oil  I might try, but really the magic lies in the mask alone.

Go on, try it. You might like it. These are the only 11 hair masks worth fussing over.