L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Colour Protect Shampoo Review

I colour my hair a lot so was looking forward to trying this product out to see if it helped the colour stay in and I was pleasantly surprised. The temporary colours lasted a lot longer than usual and the permanent colour stayed vibrant. The packaging was eye catching in a stand out red and is reasonably priced for the size of the bottle. I won't be using this product again as it made my hair feel very oily at the roots yet dried my scalp out.

OK so I recently coloured my hair red.. and I mean RED! I was excited when I got the invite for the trial because as we all know red hair colour is notoriously hard to maintain and I was hoping this shampoo would be the one.

I had already washed my hair with other shampoos 3 times since colouring my hair so that means it was about 15 days into the new colour when I used the L'Oreal for the first time.

I certainly wasn't expecting the shampoo to foam up red and strip my hair colour but that is what it did on the two occasions I used it. After that I was hesitant to use it again because I had spent so much money and time into colouring my hair I didn't want any more of it to wash out!

Overall I am disappointed in this shampoo. I know red hair is the hardest to maintain but I have never experienced a colour protect shampoo stripping colour before.

Guess it's back to the drawing board to find a shampoo that will do what it says it will do.

This came at a great time as I had just freshly had my hair dyed three days prior to this trial. My color of choice is red with bright red copper highlights. In the first week it made my hair so lovely and soft feeling for the first three washes (not washed every day) but almost I would see quite aa bit more color wash out than I would have liked. Fast forward to the end of the trial time and my hair is dry and the color is now lifeless and dull. So more than disappointed and would not recommend this to anymore who has red dyed hair.

I have been using these products for 2 weeks now, I applied the shampoo with my hands, it smelt great. Making sure to massage it through my hair and onto my scalp, it was easy to rinse. I must say I usually have a slightly irritated scalp. My scalp did not like this product much, it began to itch inbetween the daily washes.. My hair did seem to be more greasy, although it wasn't from left over product ,as I made sure I rinsed it out. Overall I didn't like he product as it irritated my sensitive scalp more.

Again, this product is a supermarket brand, available almost everywhere, and is nice and cheap - around $5.00. It does the trick, smells really nice and lasts well. Nothing spectacular so I wouldn't rave about it, but I would buy it again if I had to, I am trying my best to go organic so would refrain.

The Elvive Colour Protect Shampoo has a lovely scent and lathers well. However I didn't feel it did anything to improve the condition of my hair. My hair errs on the side of dryness and it felt weighed down, dull and dry with this shampoo. My hair colour didn't fade using this shampoo it didn't counteract any brassy blonde tones in my bleached hair so alternating with purple shampoo was a definite requirement.

I was realy excited about trialling this shampoo. I certainly haven't washed my hair *28 washes in the time since I have had it.

I love the bright packaging as I am a fan of red. I also like the shape of the bottle and easy to extract the shampoo.

It was great timing as I just had the roots of my hair re-done.

I noticed less colour rinsing in the water but I don't know if this is because I only had a small area touched up. I have waist length, thick hair.

Unfortunately, I did not like the fragrance and pleased the fragrance did not linger in my hair after.

The shampoo lathers easily to start but felt extemely dry the more I washed. If I felt like having a 'good scrub', I couldn't. Was a birds nest.

My hair felt flat and doesn't look vibrant or shiny.

The Good - I loved the packaging of the shampoo, and the smell was pleasant. It wasn't a harsh shampoo, so for that reason the colour was probably more protected than usual (i.e. wasn't stripping the colour).

The Bad - Whilst it may have been protecting the colour in my hair (not that I saw a marked difference), it felt like I wasn't getting a very good clean. My hair become greasy a lot quicker than normal.

Would I buy again? Probably not. The lack of a good clean out weighs any colour protection benefits.

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.