L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Colour Protect Shampoo Review

I was really excited that I got on the trail for the L'Oréal Colour Protect Shampoo & Conditioner as I get blonde highlights in my hair every 8 weeks or so.

I can't really tell if either product made a difference with protecting my colour, the product may have even slightly darkened the blonde. I’m one of those ladies that washes my hair every day (don’t judge me) so this could have been due to the product building up or overuse?????

The smell is pleasant and my hair was left feeling fresh and clean. You can’t miss the eye catching bright red bottles either.

Chances are I won’t be buying the shampoo again but will continue on with the conditioner as I usually have a tough time with tangles however after using the conditioner my hair was way easier to manage, soft and smooth.

This shampoo smells awesome, unfortunately has to much fragrance for my sensitive scalp gives me itchy scalp and dandruff. Does wash out really well and make my hair feel good just not so great on the head. I wouldn't say this shampoo is any better than any other brand and I would definately not buy at this price

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,

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.

I have been using this product for the past 3 weeks every 2-3 days along with the conditioner

the packaging is nice to look out but I found it slipped out of my hands while in the shower the labels have too much writing on them making them less interesting to the eye.

the smell is nice, it's tangy but not a fruity smell.

the texture is what you would expect in a nice pearl colour.

I found after using this with the conditioner my hair ends were super frizzy.. which was disappointing.

I also read on the back packing for the 28 day trial of washes it is using the extraordinary oil as well which I did not use.

My coloured hair has faded over the use of using this, it is not as vibrant as it normally is and feel very straw like not nourished at all.