L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Colour-Protect Shampoo & Conditioner

I loved this shampoo and conditioner! It made my hair so soft and silky and I truly believe it made the coloured blonde in my hair stand out more and look fresher. Highly recommend.

I am a huge fan of loreal shampoos and this was no exception. I have used quite a few in their range and never been disappointed. This one I would use again.. but I have a new fave so that's the only reason I have bumped it down just a tad.

The dream lengths set is amazing BTW!

I love this range and the price - always comes up on sale at pack n save and is readily available.

I have colour in the ends of my hair and that can be quite drying and this is a nice shampoo to stop the tangling that comes with the dryness that colouring does to my hair. I love the UV filter so its perfect for summer and preventing further drying and ratty hair. Its a really smoothing shampoo and detangles making it more manageable, I still use the conditioner which helps a lot too but you might get away with just the shampoo if you have short hair that's not too shabby. Or vice versa just the conditioner.

So definitely prolongs the colour in my lengths by keeping it tidier and smoother meaning less cuts and fade.. but doesn't help with brassyness so I still have to use a blond conditioner occasionally. Keep that in mind.

Love this shampoo and conditioner. I suffer with a very sensitive scalp and get dandruff constantly or just an itchy scalp this product does not give me any of that it makes my hair soft and silky not frizzy and dry and it protects the colour. Good value for supermarket prices.

I rarely spend a lot of money on hair shampoo's/ conditioners and if I do its on a deep conditioning treatment that has great reviews so I don't really expect too much from supermarket shampoos.

It smells great, has nice packaging and is affordable.

It isn't anything amazing as I expected but for the price it's worth a try.

I have been using this over the last week and have found this enough time to come to my verdict on both the shampoo and conditioner. It’s not bad but I wouldn’t use it all the time as it’s not really adding anything to my hair condition that my normal shampoo/conditioner combination is, if anything it’s made it a little bit drier and frizzy.

Shampoo – I do love the design of the bottle and its pretty intense red packaging its lovely and bright in the bathroom, the bottle is easy to grip hold off which is great for in shower use, no one wants to be dropping it and then playing chase the bottle around the floor. Its formula is a nice even thick consistency that doesn’t run out excessively so you don’t use too much at once, it does foam up quick and easy too. It has a soft understated fragrance that isn’t overpowering. After rinsing out my damp hair does take on a slight straw like texture and had found that I was left with tangles of my hair in my comb that I use in the shower. As for colour protection if anything I feel as if my roots have become more visible over the last few days where I wouldn’t normally see them until a week out from retouch time, I’m still 2 weeks away from that! So its claim to hold the colour in your hair for longer never really came to light on my thick mane.

Conditioner – Again the design of the bottle is great and has matching packaging/labels as the shampoo, but as it stands on its lid it isn’t very hard to tell if you’re picking up the shampoo or conditioner bottle, which is handy! The formula is extra creamy and thick that it splattered into my hand first use, but I got used to this and found that only a 50c piece was enough for my thick hair. It worked through with a comb really easy and put pay to the straw hair effect left from the shampoo. As with all conditioners I left it in for about 5 minutes as I took care to other matters in the shower then rinsed it out, after a squeeze through the towel it seemed to be ok, but as the day went on and it air dried it did get very frizzy even with the use of my normal styling products.

Overall it’s a good fill in shampoo and conditioner combo but I won’t be making the permanent change to this from my normal set, it just doesn’t suit to my hair type I guess my mane is posh! Lol