L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Colour Protect Shampoo Review

This product came at the perfect time for me, as I had just had my hair coloured blonde Ombre a week before it arrived. (im a natural brunette). The first thing i noticed was the bottle shape & design, this might sound silly but its nice to have a slender bottle so it doesnt take up so much room in the shower! The smell was amazing too, a real clean smell, not overly floral or sweet. The shampoo was great, didnt matt my hair which some shampoos tend to do. the blonde tones have stayed nice and golden, no brassy notes have come through and the colour is nice and even. I will definitely be purchasing this myself to continue using the product! I love the way it makes my hair feel too, like ive just had a wash at the salon, every time!!

I have just recently (for the first time) had my hair highlighted 5 weeks ago from natural Brunette to Blonde highlights. So this trial came at a perfect time.

I have shoulder length hair, and only shampoo'd every second day as my hair doesn't get very oily. I used the Shampoo along with the Colour-Protect Conditioner.

I love the colour and shape of the bottle it is a great size and doesn't take up to much room on the shower shelf which i like. It has a nice creamy consistency and a great smell that is not to over powering. I did find that when i used it i didn't need to use very much to get a good lather on my hair, but the more I massaged it in the more my hair become like straw and was hard for me to massage my fingers through which was very frustrating. I haven't really been able to tell if my colour has faded or not but i have noticed it does appear to be going ever so slightly brassy in my opinion but everyone around me says it isn't so i'm not to sure. I think this product might not be good for bleached blonde hair as i think this is why it was causing my hair to go straw like perhaps? I most likely won't use it again as it is just so hard to massage it through my hair,

This shampoo arrived just in time as I had left my other shampoo and conditioner in Wellington. I found the shampoo lathered well with a small amount which is a bonus. My hair definitely needed the conditioner after the shampoo though.. The fragrance is subtle and pleasant. I must admit I do get confused about which bottle the shampoo and conditioner are in with one being up the right way and the other upside down and was always grabbing the wrong bottle first. Pays to check before you pour it into your hand as otherwise its a wasted pour. My colour done three weeks ago is maintaining its caramel colour and not going brassey which is good. I would use again, good shampoo at a good price.

I was a bit unsure of this product, as I dye my hair all sorts of weird colours its hard to find something that works. This product worked as well as I could have expected. It didn't hold all of my colour (although I am semi-permanent blue right now so I didn't expect it) but it kept it looking vibrant and not faded at all, unlike other shampoos I have tried. The smell is amazing as well, very floral/fruity.

I had the opportunity to review this shampoo along with the conditioner. The packaging is nice and bright and the smell was simple but pleasant. I used this shampoo to wash my hair over the last couple of weeks. I was not overly impressed with the way it made my hair feel. It did not seem to feel completely clean and no matter how much I rinsed felt like there was still some residue. It may just be my hair but I felt I had to use a different product every second wash to bring the shine back as this product seemed to make it feel limp and greasy. Did it do what it says it will? Well I don't think I can fully comment as the trial period was not really long enough and I had nothing to compare it to. It does claim on the bottle 80% of colour preserved after 28 washes - not entirely sure what they mean here as for me personally 28 washes would take about 9-10 weeks and most colours have begun to fade in that time anyway. I want a product that preserves the colour and shine from day one!

After using this shampoo for just over a week, I found this shampoo did not meet my expectations. It left my hair dry and looking drab rather than fab. It has a nice smell but it doesn't do anything to your hair as what other shampoos from the supermarket do. I was disappointed that this shampoo did nothing for my hair.

Loved the bright red packaging and the overall look is of a product that is a premium one. But sadly that's where it all ended for me. My hair has a significant amount of gray around the temples and it is regularly coloured with blonde highlights and foils. Gray hair tends to be porous and lose colour quicker than hair that maintains its pigment so I was keen to trial this product. If anything is going to work on maintaining colour on hair like mine I thought this might. As I only wash my hair once every two or three days I don't think the trial was long enough for me to judge whether it preserved my hair colour or not. It states that 80% of colour is preserved after 28 washes and my tally was nowhere near that level. I certainly didn't notice any change or fade in my hair colour but I did notice that my hair appeared darker and duller than it normally does. It was almost as if a film had coated my hair deadening its overall look. A bit like when your hair needs washing. The product is like all shampoos with simple instructions for use and a pleasant enough fragrance that leaves hair with that lovely "just washed" smell. It did not leave my hair with the smoothness or radiance as promised on the bottle. My hair was more unruly and flyaway than normal and I felt like I had a birdsnest on my head for most of the time. The conditioner did not seem to help with this issue. I used the conditioner every second wash to see how the shampoo performed on its own and with the conditioner. There seemed to be little difference. I did not notice any particular improvement of tone in my hair but rather it felt more brittle and looked coarser than normal.

hi girls

so i did my test with this lovely shampoo i actually couldn't really find a fault with it apart from the fact it sort of game my hair a bit of flatness.

Packaging was great was easy to squeeze out i find some shampoo bottles make it so hard for you to actually get any shampoo out of the bottle.

SMELLT amazing fruity and yummy left a lovely smell around my room when blow drying

All round great product would love to use it again

I really liked the smell of this shampoo, and I hoped that I would like the actual product, but it doesn't blow me away.

Instead, it makes my hair frizz - which is quite weird and it doesn't really live up to it's name. My hair feels drier than usual and even with the conditioner, it has become quite unruly.

The packaging is user-friendly, you get a decent amount out of each bottle, and it feels heavenly when you wash it, but that's it.

As for the colour protection aspect of this product, I haven't really noticed a difference yet.

I really like that this shampoo is formulated to protect the colour of your hair. My hair is bleached and toned with a bit of a chocolate brown shade ombre.

I haven't had any experience of damaging so far since i cut my hair so i can't really say much damage wise, but i did notice my hair colour is a lot more vibrant. Im not sure if i like that or not because i like my hair cool toned and this kinda draws it into the warm side.

Upon washing, my hair is so tangly and this doesn't seem to help with. I also noticed after shower that my head felt heavier and that my hair took so much longer than usual to dry.

I probably won't purchase when i run out..