L'Oreal Paris Casting Creme Gloss Review

I was chosen to trial this and unfortunately didn't receive my box, so being the curious creature that I am, I popped out and picked one of these up in the color Ebony. I have waist length, thick (ish), heat/colour damaged hair and am always on the look out for a dye that has no amonia in it as I can't stand the smell. I found this product to be OK but not amazing. Yes it covered my evil greys, yes it smells nice, yes it colours your hair, however I don't think it gave my hair that glorious glossy I've just dyed my hair look that I love! I'd use it if I didn't have anything else but there are other products on the market without amonia that I'd rather use.

I'm pretty happy with this product! I don't like to dye my hair too often, my mum says it can cause cancer (lol) but I was excited to try this new colour and lighten my hair a bit for summer. I can't comment on the grey coverage (:P), but it did my roots really well and blended with the colour I already had in my hair. I found it pretty easy to apply and I really like the packaging. My hair feels soft and silky. I'm pretty happy with the shade, but I would probably go a bit lighter next time because my natural hair colour is darkish blonde. I haven't gone through 28 washes yet but the colour seems to be lasting. I'm pretty happy!

I Lovvvveeedd the Caramel, it looked gorgeous...for a few days. Really bummed out but maybe my hair isn't in prime condition? Not too sure, I left it on for the required time as I always do( dye my hair a lot as I get Bored)

Just as easy to use as any other brand- I didn't find anything too special about it.

CONDITIONER REALLY HARD TO GET OUT OF THE LITTLE BOTTLE

I have always coloured my hair at home, fortunately without fail. I have tried a couple of colours in this particular range, but I decided to try the nice caramel colour as I didn't want to darken my Hair I just needed to put some life back into since it's been 6ish months since I've coloured it. I was quite disappointed with the size of the gloves, they were quite a tight fit so I wouldn't be able to use them if I had hands slightly bigger. The colour was easy and straightforward to mix together and apply. I loved that te processing time was only 20 minutes rather than 40, it wAshed off easy in the shower unlike some colours that take ages to rinse off. I loved the finished product, my hair smelt great and it felt fantastic and it still does, 2 weeks later!!

This product was fantastic. I tried the Colour 500 - Medium brown. It was really easy to mix and apply to my hair. I have shoulder length hair and it talk about 15 minutes to apply. The waiting time was 20 minutes, it rinsed out really easily. There was a really nice conditioner for my hair after I rinsed it out. In fact there was enough conditioner left over to use a few more times. And it smelt great. My hair looks great, really shiny and healthy. And a rich brown colour. I coloured my hair on 31/12/14 and I have had to wash it every day as I have been swimming every day. It still looks really good. I would definitely use this product again and I would recommend it to my friends.

Great coverage, nice even uniformed colour. I had highlights and they went the same colour as the rest of my hair. Very east to use, instructions straight forward and simple. Loved the Royal Jelly crème in the bottle. So much easier to use than in a packet and there was enough for a couple washes! Great that it has no ammonia in it, smells good too. My hair is very shiny and healthy looking now - lots of comments on my new colour too. Will definitely use again!

Whilst I thought the application process was very simple and the instructions easy to follow, I didn't feel the color lasted the 28 shampoos as promised, I almost felt by the 10-12th shampoo it was losing the shiny bright color that a dye job brings.

The color after completing it was lovely and fresh, looked really good with coverage all over (which surprised me as I often buy 2 boxes because I scared I will finish the first and still have hair left over). The conditioner in the box is lovely and makes your hair feel truly amazing!

I don't think I would recommend this product simply because I'm not really a semi permanent girl (it's permanent or nothing for me!) but it does what it says it will and I didn't have any hassles with the application.

I would consider and recommend buying the permanent version of this.

First of all I thought I would tell you about my hair. I have very long hair (all the way down my back) and it's very thick. My natural hair colour is brown which tends to get lighter in the summer.

I usually get a full head of blonde high light. The last time I coloured my hair was a year ago as I fell pregnant and don't like to colour my hair while pregnant.

I got on the trial team for the L'Oreal Casting Creme Gloss and I chose the colour 1021 very light, pearl blonde Permanent colour. I thought by choosing this colour I could freshen up some of my high lights and try diy ombré effect, as my roots are dark again from not dying it in a year.

The product: The packaging seemed to be very flimsy, not sure it that was just from going through the post or not.

The instructions where very basic and short, a lot of foreign language instructions. The labelling on the bottles were just numbers, it didn't say the name of each product. But if you have done at home hair dying before you would know which is which. The gloves were so tiny and tight I had to squeeze my hand into them so it was quite uncomfortable.

The dye smelt nice not to chemically which was good, it mixed together well and applied onto my hair well also.

It suggested to do a patch test which I did on a darker piece of hair after I had left it for the required time I rinsed and dried. It had lightened it so I thought I'd get stuck into the rest.

As I said I wanted to try the DIY ombré effect so I just applied to the mid section and a lot more to the bottom section to really lighten them (they were already quite light from my previous high lights) the dye was so easy to use.

After the required time I washed it out and then applied the conditioner supplied, which smells very nice and is a thick conditioner. Good for my hair type. After I washed the conditioner out I blow dried it to see the colour change.

I was very disappointed :( instead of lightening my already light ends it turned them a caramel colour and the same with the mid section. Which I was very surprised about because on the side of the box it has the picture of what colour your hair should go depending on what colour it already is. Mine was light blonde (where I was dying) and the pictures showed an ever lighter colour when dying already blonde hair but unfortunately this didn't happen for me.

Wouldn't use this again.

I used the Amber colour on my ginger hair and unfortunately it went brown.. like a reddy brown. Not the colour on the box at all. I am pretty disappointed to be quite honest :( it took me a long time to get the black out of my hair and to a beautiful ginger. I really regret doing the trial.

Apart from the colour I liked the application of the dye, it went on very easily and made my hair very soft. There is a good amount of dye in the bottle and the smell isn't offensive.