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7 products to boost red hair

These buys can brighten your fiery shade

By Iantha Yu

Beauty Crew Beauty Editor / July 03 2018

Dyed red hair may look amazing once it’s freshly coloured by a professional or even when it comes from an at-home box kit, but this brilliant shade certainly comes with downfalls. Besides the damage that comes with dyeing hair in general, red hair colour can fade easily, even after just a few washes. While both issues are inevitable, there are ways to counteract the colour concern - here are eight solutions to boost the vibrancy of red hair.

Davines Alchemic Shampoo Red

Enhancing the colour of red hair starts in the shower, which is where Davines Alchemic Shampoo Red comes in. Featuring hydrolysed milk proteins to strengthen and condition, pro-vitamin B5 to moisturise, and surfactants to cleanse, this hard-hitting buy also contains tiny pigments that can deposit colour back into the hair shaft - useful for when you want to extend the time between hairdresser visits.

Fudge Paintbox

If you’re looking to refresh your colour at home, then Fudge Paintbox in Red Corvette could be best for you. The semi-permanent formula can be used on its own on dry hair (with results lasting three to 30 washes), or mixed in with a dollop of hair mask for a customised treatment.

Evo Fabuloso Colour Intensifying Conditioner

Evo Fabuloso Colour Intensifying Conditioner in Mahogany is perfect to use on red hair as it contains colour boosters to extend the life of the hair colour and smoothing ingredients for a more polished effect all over.

L’Oreal Paris Colorista Wash Out

Caught out between hair appointments? Pop a layer of L’Oreal Paris Colorista Wash Out in Vivid Red into your hair to temporarily deepen your red hair colour. This product will last between two to 15 washes, and features conditioning agents to soften.

Schwarzkopf Live Colour Refresher For All Red Shades is an all-over mousse that can be used weekly or even daily to provide a boost of colour to red hair. It can even coat grey hairs with colour.

REF Colour Boost Masques

REF Colour Boost Masques bring together a blend of nourishing ingredients like avocado oil, argan oil and shea butter to hydrate and soften. Our top pick is Radiant Red to boost the vibrancy of red hair, or go for Intense Copper if your hair colour has more of an orange base.

HIF Red Hue Support

HIF Red Hue Support is an in-shower conditioner that’s perfect for red hair, and contains exotic oils, hyaluronic acid and precious rock extracts (such as iron rose crystal extract) to bring red hair to life.

If you’re looking to update your hair colour, check out our guide to the season’s hottest shades.

Do you have a favourite product to care for red hair? Tell us in the comments below.

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Iantha Yu

Iantha is BEAUTYcrew's Beauty Editor, and has been part of the team since the site launched in 2016. Besides pinot noir, she has a healthy obsession with fake tan smell, wispy false lashes and CND Shellac in the shade Romantique. Her words and styling can also be found in previous issues of SHOP Til You Drop, Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health.