L'Oréal Paris ELVIVE Colour Protect Shampoo Review

I have salon dyed blonde hair and so I need a good colour protect shampoo to keep my hair healthy and radiant. To me, this shampoo did nothing of what it said it would. It made my hair feel flat and dry like it hadn't been washed and needed to wash it again. It didn't leave my hair looking radiant or smooth like it said it would on the bottle. Because the retail price is only $8.99 you wouldn't expect a lot from this shampoo compared to other - more expensive - shampoos but you would still expect to see a little bit of a difference. I get my hair died at an expensive salon and after testing out this shampoo, I would not rely on this product alone to protect the colour of my hair - I would prefer to spend more money on better quality shampoo. Even the smell of this shampoo isn't very appealing to me as it smells like cherries. For the last few days that I trialed this shampoo, I mixed it into my usual more expensive shampoo that I use just so I wouldn't have to use as much of my expensive one and I actually liked the results. My hair was radiant and smooth like it usually is when I just use my expensive shampoo on its own, so I can use these two shampoos mixed together to save money.

I brought this because it was on special and I had never tried it before and I love trying new products also I couldn't be bothered going to the pharmacy to buy my regular shampoo and conditioner.

I love the bright red of this bottle it wants you to buy it, it wants you to notice it but... This is about where the love stops.

The shampoo has more of a thinner consistency than other shampoo and I didn't find it lather up too much. The scent has a sweet scent but it is very subtle. It's an opaque shampoo with a shimmer through it. I have dry hair that gets dyed frequently so I need a good shampoo and conditioner

I also brought the matching conditioner and found it quite hard to tell the two bottles apart the only difference was the conditioner sits on its flip top lid but several times I had gone to use them and the kids had been in the shower before me and the bottles were just laying on their sides so I found myself fluffing and mucking around trying to find the right one. As for keeping colour I wouldn't know I only got a couple of washes out of it I felt like I had to use a lot to get it to feel like it was washed. I was a bit disappointed because I usually like Loreal products.

I found this shampoo quite drying leaving my hair Thin and straw like . It irritated my eye lids no end So if your sensitive then this isn’t for you

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.

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.