There are a small list of brands and products that pretty much every single beauty editor I know keeps in their overflowing beauty stashes because they're good. One of those brands is L'Oréal Paris Elvive. The high street range creates some of the best with quality that matches up to high-end products—and there are so many products to choose from.
Incidentally Senior Beauty Editor, 's favourite range is Hyaluron Plump, which she says hydrates whilst simultaneously brightening her blonde like one of the . Executive Beauty Editor, , loves the as it's the first one she's ever used that tackles both dry ends and greasy roots. Because there is so much to choose from, it can get a little confusing to know what to try first, or what to add to your routine.
In total there are over 10 different Elvive ranges, so to help you on your next shopping trip, I've broken down five of the best and spotlighted the best products from each. 2024 has been the year of and earlier this year L'Oréal Paris dropped its own range to help you achieve this look for a lot less. Glycolic Gloss uses, you guessed it, glycolic acid to add strength and shine to the hair.
Using an acid like glycolic isn't particularly new to the industry, other brands have done it previously with similar ingredients, however, this collection from L'Oréal is one of the best to have done it at a much more affordable price tag. It's a close call but I think Dream Lengths is my favourite range out of them all. It's one of the few products that lives up to its name.
I swear by it for keeping my lengths looking healthier for longer ahead of my next salon trip. It's not a replacement for getting your hair cut regularly but it absolutely keeps your ends looking better for longer and prevents hair looking frazzled. are all about fixing those broken hair strands from chemical and bleach damage.
This isn't a range you need to use if you consider your hair to be relatively healthy (for example, virgin hair (not dyed) without any chemical damage) so stick to hydrating products (more on that below) if you're not dealing with severely damaged hair. Now we've cleared that up, if you are in the 'my hair needs serious TLC' camp then this is a fantastic range that visibly improves damages hair—at a fraction of the cost of others on the market. Hydrating products like these are fantastic no matter your hair type.
They're all-round brilliant products to use whether you want something reliable and hardworking to use regularly, or to use in between more targeted treatments. This range helps keep my hair clean and hydrated and there's not much more I could ask for on a day-to-day basis. Colour your hair? You absolutely need some Colour Protect heroes in your routine.
This helps preserve and even extend the life of your colour while it deeply cleanses so that you get a healthy scalp without compromising the colour you (or your colourist) no doubt worked hard to achieve..
