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I just had my hair colored with a color system that uses no amonia to deliver the color. It’s called Inoa from L’Oreal Professional (review coming later this week). As far as color goes, I decided to go with the color of the season, copper. And I love it! It looks just like this color model Lydia Hurst has on the March 2011 cover of Elle Mexico. Gorg! Anyway, with a new head of hair color, comes the time to assess the latest shampoos, conditioners and hair styling products to keep it lush and vibrant.

KERASTASE Chroma Sensitive ($43/6.67oz @ kerastase.com) – this one is one part cleansers and three parts conditioner. Even if you use a color-safe shampoo, this one doesn’t strip the color as much as even those. Use this one the first three shampoos after coloring and then alternate each time with your color-safe shamp.

For shampoo and conditioner, I’ve been all over OJON’s new Color Sustain Color Revealing Shampoo ($22/8.44oz) and Color Sustain Color Revealing Conditioner ($23/8.44oz) that will help maintain your new vibrant color from water-induced fading for up to 40 washes. Tah-dow! Water and any kind of cleansers will fade color fast so if you can cut down on how often you clean your strands and use something like this duo to gently clean them, you will save some money and time in the end.

And they also have a Color Protecting Cream ($24/4.2oz) and Gloss Finishing Hair Spray ($23.50/7.4oz) as part of the collection so if you’re really serious about your investment, invest a little further. All @ ojon.com.

Disclosure: Samples of these items were provided for review purposes.

There’s nothing worse than trying out a hair mask and it … well, sucks. I pretty much know that any product from the KERASTASE will not disappoint, so I was excited to try this one out. The Oleo-Relax Slim from the Nutritive Collection ($58/6.8oz @ kerastase-usa.com) and is made for those with thick, dry and hard to manage hair. Not really mine but I can’t resist a good hair mask! It’s contains their own CERA-TRIOLEUM COMPLEX technology, which is a cocktail of three natural oils – apricot, camellia and Pracaxi.

Yes, this is probably more than you should pay for a hair mask but it works, so think of it as an investment where you already have the guarantee. 

Disclosure: A sample of this item was provided to Cybelesays.com for review purposes.

How hard are you on your hair? Just brushing itself can hassle strands so I’m glad I picked up KERASTASE Ciment Thermique Heat-Activated Reconstructor Milk for Weakened Hair ($36/4.8oz @ drugstore.com). I mean, I color, flat iron, tease, blow dry and lately use a curling iron on my hair weekly. So you can imagine that my hair needs some sweet lovin’ sometimes and I didn’t really know how well this one would boost the overall look and feel of it. It’s heat-activated and contains the patented ingredient Vita-Ciment that goes to the core of the strand to repair and Vita-Topseal that replicates the protective layer of the hair fibre. Think of this as a hair mask that works while you use the heat of a blow dryer or styling iron! And they claim that it’s results lasts up to 5 shampoos. Big Recommendation.

We’ve never claimed to be experts and we too are learning all the time. Here’s a perfect example - I thought that simply banishing SLS’s from your shampoo was the main thing to do to keep your hair color fresh. Not true. Why would I think this? Who knows why women get different things stuck in their brain! The fact is, you do need a color support product to help keep it from fading as these contain ingredients that will keep it fresh. Armed with this bit of info, I picked up the new KERASTASE Bain Miroir – Shine Revealing Shampoo for Sensitized, Colour-Treated Hair ($32/8.5oz @ kerastase-usa.com). It’s the latest from the hair care giant and it has the latest in technology weaved inside the formula. What I like about this one is not only the obvious, but it also works as a clarifying shampoo to keep each strand vibrant and fresh for as long as possible.