L'Oreal Paris Magic Retouch Review

First time I try Loreal Magic Retouch, and I’m converted! I tried it on my hair regrowth, and instantly it covers all the grey hair. Not much effort at all! I will definitely use it again. Very good for people in a hurry and don’t have time for that hair salon appointment or diy hair colouring at home.

Very easy to use!

The can has a long nozzle for precise application. Spray your hair before you apply your make-up as you will get some around your hairline and simply wipe off with a wet flannel. I trialed brown which blended in nicely with my medium brown colour. Once I sprayed the colour I allowed for it to dry and then brushed and styled my hair where I also found that it kept some of the style. You would really have to give your hair a good rub for any transfer to occur and I left it in overnight and none transferred to my pillowcase either. I rinsed my hair and no colour came out till I used shampoo. If only you could dye your hair this way it would be so quick to do hint hint L'Oreal.

I really like this product and it is perfect to use between colouring :-)

My hair is a dyed dark cool brown colour that has grey regrowth within a week of leaving the hair salon and the instant root concealer spray magically matches my hair colour perfectly ... and it really works! I sprayed it on and my grey regrowth vanished before my eyes and it did not reappear until I washed my hair ... so great! It dried quite quickly and did not transfer onto my clothes whilst dressing and undressing and did not transfer onto my hand if I ran my fingers through my hair. It comes in a small sized bottle for ease of holding and has a thin nozzle that feels like it should have given me real accuracy when spraying however I felt like I had to push down quite hard and then it all comes out quite quick defeating the whole purpose of a precise application. It also mentions holding it 10cm away from your roots and doing it in a light stream but by doing that I ended up with brown spots all over my forehead which are easy to wipe off with a makeup wipe. I did find it much easier and tidier doing it in small spurts and closer to my head. I thought I had finally mastered the spraying technique, as I was only getting a couple of tiny spots on my forehead, but then I turned to my cream wardrobe door and it was covered in a million brown spots of all different sizes ... luckily they came off with some heavy handed pressure and a makeup wipe. Makes me wonder where else the spray is ending up - all over my clothes? on the carpet? Once the colour had been applied and I no longer had any visible greys I was very happy. It did make my root area feel quite stiff and by touch it was obvious there was some form of intense product in there but to have my hair looking like its been freshly coloured all the time I am definitely not going to complain. So ... I have a love hate relationship with Magic Retouch - I absolutely love it for the end result and will continue to use it but it makes a surprising and terrible mess on furniture etc. So into the garage I now go to freshen up my hair a couple of times a week over the 6-8 week period in between hair salon appointments.

I was pretty excited to be chosen for this review team! My hair is transitioning from darker to blonde due to gray/white hairs and I'm forever battling the regrowth grays in between colours!

I have used retouch spray before, however they didn't have this light blonde and I used a dark blonde but it was too dark for my hair. So the bottle was what I expected, a good size which you can pop in your purse for emergencies :) it has a little spray nozzle which is good as it stops it from being too big a spray, especially when you have a smaller area to cover.

I like the colour of the bottle and it shows the colour on the front clearly so you know what you are looking at. I only wash my hair about once a week so I washed my hair and that showed just how gray my roots were haha! I dried and styled as normal then tried applying the root spray. It was easy to apply, I found applying in smooth strokes was the best for coverage etc but in shorter bursts.

The retouch seemed to cover the grays well, it blended in well with my hair colour too which was pleasing. The only thing I found which I didn't really like was that the colour was quite yellowy or brassy, but it seemed to get worse if you applied more spray over the stuff you already had on (layering too much?).

I haven't washed it out of my hair as yet but will be doing that in the next day or 2, I'm sure it will wash out ok though.

I'm very happy that it is free of ammonia, peroxide & synthetic dyes. One thing I do not like about L'Oreal however is that they are not Cruelty Free I have just seen online :( I love L'Oreal products but didn't realise this fact about the company, so could make a difference to me as to whether I purchase again or not.

All in all though this is a good product that does a good job of covering grays!

L'Oreal Paris Magic Retouch is a wonderful little pocket product that takes away the stress when you look in the mirror and find your natural highlights (grey) or roots (eeek darker than blond) have reappeared overnight,

It comes in a small, compact size aerosol spray with a nozzle that allows you to be very precise in applying it to the hair part or roots that need that extra attention. One application and voila those roots were back in line with the rest of my hair. It covered the darker roots with ease and was very easy to apply resulting in a blended coverage result.

I found that it worked well but made my hair feel a little bit crunchy - which is to be expected when you are putting a paint on product on your hair. There wasn't any colour transfer to my towels when washed or my bedsheets/pillow when sleeping.

I found this a good product, that does what it states it will (cover greys) and it was easy to use. The compactness makes it an easy add to the handbag or travel bag to ensure that when the moment comes that all of a sudden there are greys popping up there is a solution to get through until the next hair appointment or something more permanent can be done.

So my biggest problem is its not really that easy to spray and not end up with a brown scalp and therefore looks fake, and if you try wipe the scalp, you wipe colour off the hair. It makes your hair feel like straw, but thats just a temporary thing, once you wipe, wash, brush, your hair goes back to normal. And last negative is that if you touch your hair a lot like I seem to, it just wipes off. On Greys it does take the edge off them, but they do look less shiny bright. I guess for its cost its ok doing what it said it would do, but not for me sorry.

It was great to trial this little magic retouch. Comes in a bright turquoise can, small enough for travel and to go into your purse if needed. Doesn't have a smell at all. Shake well before you spray and don't hold the can too close to your hair. Did a great job of covering up my greys and blended well into my hair. Be careful when spraying that it doesn't get onto your face, rinse off straight away if it does. Stayed in my hair until the next wash, two days and was perfect for between colouring appointments as just go grey along my part on top of my head. Would use again,.

This Magic Retouch is essentially a long lasting colour hairspray.

I've not used these sort of products much, in fact only once before, many years ago. So in comparison to that, I thought this was an improvement but still not fantastic.

My hair is a bit salt and pepper in colour, I do have to dye it, as I'm not ready to be grey yet! Budget calls for home dye, to cover the grays and regrowth is a pain. It's especially noticeable around the temples, hence it would be useful to have a quick fix to this, without having to put all of my hair through the dying process as often as I do.

My hopes were in this product to save me from that and it is quite good, the colour match/blend was spot on. I used the Auburn shade, which blended well with my natural colour, dark brown and the Auburn/Chestnut colours I dye it and the grey coverage was impressive.

The application wasn't too bad either, with its directional spray. It has a longer more precise nozzle, but I still managed to get some on the top of my ears and a few spots on my forehead, so it's not perfect but it cleaned off quite easily with a damp cloth. You'll want to hold the can relatively close, say 5cms to your hair so as not to get it on your clothes.

I used it to cover the most noticeable areas around my temples and on top of my head and that used up about half the can! Why is the product so small? It felt pretty cold as it went on but didn't take long to dry and then didn't notice it but it did make my hair feel sort of waxy and sort of powdery at the same time? To be honest it made it feel dirty and as someone who loves the feeling of clean hair, I actually couldn't cope with the 'dirty build up' feeling. Also, I do tend to touch my hair (more than I realised actually) and found that the product came off onto my nails and hands more easily than I would like. It did also transfer onto material relatively easily, so you wouldn't want to go to sleep with it on as it'll be all over your pillowcase or rest your head on anyones shoulder! It also dries quite matte looking, so if your hair is naturally quite shiny, it dulls it down quite a bit, which isn't great.

In the shower though I did notice just the water didn't make it run, which is a relief if you were to get caught in the rain you'd be ok! Once I put a a tiny bit of shampoo in, it began to come out very easily, but it took a couple of washes to get it all out.

I also noticed, due to the silicone in it, it's not 'Curly Girl' friendly (which is what I try to be most of the time, as I have curly hair) so it was a bit of a bummer that I had to use shampoo to get it out, thankfully it didn't ruin my curl pattern.

In closing, it is a good product. It covers and blends well and it lasts relatively well. It's what you want in the cupboard for those 'emergency' occasions when you need to look good for a short amount of time but haven't had the chance to sort those roots! Also due to the size and price would say use only in emergencies!!

I'm relatively grey around my face and on top of my head, so needless to say I'm touching up my roots often.

I trialled the L'Oreal Paris Magic Retouch spray, in a light brown. My hair tends to be light brown with a tinge of auburn at the moment, so it seemed like the best match.

The spray itself has a nice narrow nozzle for accurate spraying where needed.

Using it, I found it a little messy and found droplets in the sink where I was applying it - maybe I held it too close to my head, but to get a level of accuracy when applying to my roots I needed to hold it relatively close. It also felt incredibly cold too apply, and really 'blasted' the colour out. For me, the colour seemed to have a green tint to it, and while it blended okay with my hair colour, around my hair line it was too obvious, and too green. It felt like I'd painted hair colour on badly rather than lightly touching up my greys/roots. In my parting, the coverage and naturalness was much better, but that may be helped by the fact that I can't look too closely at the top of my head. The husband thought it looked 'okay' though.

Assuming you get the right shade, it definitely covers the greys well, and doesn't appear to come off on my hands or clothing through the day, so it wears really well until its washed out.

I tend to use 'mascara' touch ups rather than a spray, but the green tint in the Light Brown shade I received was really off putting for me, and the product dispersed in quite a heavy manner, which also wasn't to my liking. Any attempt to spray lightly resulted in the splatters of product in the sink, so it seemed to be an 'all or nothing' kind of application.

Not the product for me unfortunately.

I received this Loreal Paris Magic Retouch hair concealer spray (in the new, improved blonde shade) in the post on Saturday (thanks BR team & love your eco-friendly, compostable bags that you use to send out products in btw, big thumbs up there! Eco-warrior Greta Thunberg would be singing your praises right now!).

You might be wondering why I tried this product out pretty much as soon as I got it and the answer is: ‘sheer desperation’! I am flying out to Wellington today for a mini-break, so I wanted to review this before heading away. I’m also incredibly overdue to re-dye my hair so this product came at just the right time for me and I was super keen to give it a go (I hate grey hairs and dark regrowth - not a great look!).

Firstly, it comes in a nifty little spray can that’s cute and easy to use. I got to work on my roots straight away, spraying it 10cm away from my hair and holding the can upright, as per the instructions. I didn’t find it messy to use at all and it didn’t leave any streaks/drops of colour anywhere in my bathroom, which is great. It also doesn’t contain ammonia or peroxide, so it’s not harsh on your hair or scalp. I haven’t had any reaction after using it.

Unfortunately though, despite my desire to have nicely-blended roots with this product, my roots remain very dark. I’d love to be able to tell you otherwise because it looks like I’ll be getting on the plane today with regrowth intact (ugh!). However, my hair colour is naturally quite dark, so perhaps if you have lighter natural hair-colouring than mine, then this blonde shade might work better? It was possibly the wrong shade for me - perhaps I need an even lighter shade to make much of a difference). I dye my hair quite light blonde, so this product DID have its work cut out for it in trying to blend my natural hair colour to the rest of my dyed hair!

On a positive note, although this product doesn’t lighten my roots much, it DOES cover grey strands quite well - wrong shade or not! So that’s a massive plus, particularly if you have quite a few cheeky greys poking through. I don’t have heaps of them yet thankfully, but I can’t stand having any! So I was very pleased with how well it worked for me in that regard.

On balance, I give this product three kisses. It does what it says it can do in terms of providing grey coverage and that’s why I don’t believe it deserves a rating of less than three kisses. It achieves its main goal. However, I was disappointed that it didn’t appear to lighten my regrowth at all. L’Oréal though have specifically marketed this spray concealer as providing ‘temporary grey coverage’, so they are on point there. It just couldn’t cope with lightening my naturally darker roots at all, and perhaps it was wishful thinking on my part to believe it could.