L'Oreal Paris Frost and Design Cap Hair Highlights For Long Hair, H85 Champagne, 1 kit

Perfect kit if you're wanting to go really blonde! I've used this kit so many times and it (almost) always turns out great! I prefer it over any other at-home highlighting kit I've tried. It gives me the best cool blonde color, comes with a toning solution, and has a sturdier metal hook (so much better than the flimsy plastic hook in other kits). Here's a few tips for the best results: - Kit has enough for short to medium length hair. If you have long or thick hair, I'd recommend getting 2 kits so you have enough solution. - The cap that comes with is a bit thin and flimsy, so use a better cap if you happen to have one. Otherwise, it works just fine as long as you pull the hair thru carefully. If you're too rough when pulling or digging around with the hook, it will tear a larger hole in the plastic lining. This can lead to bleed marks (a splotch of color where the bleach leaked thru). Basically looks like an uneven area of color amongst the rest of the highlights. It's honestly not too noticeable unless you're a hairdresser and know what it looks like. Just a risk you take with these at-home kits. - Use latex gloves when applying solution if you have them handy. The kit comes with gloves but they're huge and awkward. The instructions suggest using the spatula to apply the solution, but I prefer to apply it using gloves so I can work the solution onto the strands more evenly. Be sure to apply it at your roots, but don't glop it onto your scalp - this could cause excess solution to bleed thru holes. - Follow the instructions and pay close attention to your timer so you don't overprocess. I have medium brown hair and it usually takes about 40-45 mins for me, but everyone's hair is different! Set intervals so you can check on it. - The purple toning rinse says to apply it after you've showered. Trust me when I say - do this step in the shower. It's very liquid-y and will splatter/run all over. - Get a good purple shampoo/conditioner to use for further toning if it turns out too brassy. Use it a couple times a week to maintain a bright blonde! Best of luck ladies, I hope your hair turns out amazing! :)

While everyone's hair is different, this formula always works for me. I used it on my own hair during winters when I was young, used it on my daughter's hair in exactly the same way, and recently, when I noticed my roots getting inexplicably darker than ever in late life, I came back to it again, for the first time in twenty years, hoping I'd get the same results. I did. That said, I didn't use the plastic cap that came with the kit. I ordered "Pre-punched with Holes Silicone Highlight Cap Hair Color Set Professional Reusable... by RJMBMUP also from Amazon. I found this cap easier to use. It doesn't rip like the plastic, prevented any bleed-through, allowed me to get the highlights closer around my face, and the other tools were really helpful too. I used the hot pink comb to get any little hair-loops out of the holes and I used the black brush to brush on color like a stylist, instead of just glopping it on with the plastic spatula--this saves product if you have long hair. I also used my own fitted latex gloves because the ones included in the kit are big and make my hands feel clumsy to me. Other than that, I followed the directions, using L'Oreal Paris' color, shampoo, and leave-in toner, and I'm happy with my results. Again, everyone's hair is different, but if it helps, I take a washcloth and check one of the last strands of my hair to get color. If it's not ready, I brush color back on it and wait a few more minutes, then check again. When it looks like the inside of a banana peel in color, that's when I know it's ready--it's platinum. For me, that usually takes 20-25 minutes. Happy blonding!

Since my hair grew back now that i stopped chemo for a while, I wanted to lighten it because it grew in darker, actually much darker than before. I first colored my hair blonde again like it used to be and while I got the color close it was just that one color. It needed some highlights and this did the trick. It comes with the head cap which you need to poke through the hols first to get al the plastic holes open and its much easier to do when it’s not on your head. Then you pull hair strands through the cap. You put the mixture which is somewhat dryer than the color that I had put onto my hair propr to this. I chose to put some watere on it, warm an very lightly for the last 15 minutes and took the cap off and pulled my other hair with a wide tooth comb through with the other hair that had the product and warm water on. It loosened up the product and I feel for my hair personally it needed that little bit of extra umps to ramp it up. I hate my fat face from the chemo drugs so I am not showing a picture and I couldn’t figure out how to take a picture of the back of my hair holding the phone and a mirror so you will just have to picture it yourself. It really did come out very pretty and natural. I hate the smell but its to be expected with hair lightening products. Even when they say it doesn’t have ammonia or other harsh chemicals in it that smell like rotten eggs but sadly they all do . This included but my husband put on the kitchen exhaust fan and the bathroom one that are hooked up to our outside exhaust and it really helped with getting rid of the smell. We then boiled water in a frying pan size pot and allowed 3 sliced up lemons to sit in it for almost 2 hours. That really dissipated the smell. I may just be sensitive to this type of smell because people work around this all day and it doesn't seem to bother them. After all that being said I really feel my hair came out great and I will use it again in the future when this grows out. The price on Amazon plus the fact that its delivered overnight was very reasonable.

LOVE this stuff. I don’t use the cap- too annoying. I just paint it directly onto my hair for a fully blended blonde look, then finish with the toner afterward. Also, my hair is SO MUCH HEALTHIER ever since I stopped going to the salon.

HOOOO lord. This was my first foray into a box kit, something my mother made me swear never to use from the moment I emerged from the womb. Then came the coronavirus. My hair was getting dark, and so was my spirit. I felt like I could fully embrace the statement "It's just hair," so I bravely ordered this L'Oreal kit. I watched a couple of YouTube tutorials in anticipation of the kit's arrival. I felt ready. The cap method is tried and true, and it's pretty foolproof. If you have thick hair, it will take a long time. I got so tired of the process that I didn't do enough of the back of my head (and that's on me). It can be a little uncomfortable pulling the hair through the cap, and I definitely pulled some of my hair out. However, looking at the placement of my highlights after the fact, I can attest that the method is worth it if you are forced to do this at home. Do a test strip like the instructions say so you know exactly how much time your hair needs! Note that this stuff starts working fast. In a salon, they take their time placing the highlights, and it's all good. A home kit is different in my experience. This kit starts working RAPIDLY the moment you apply bleach to the first strand, so don't waste time massaging it into all of those hairs you've plucked so you can get that timer started ASAP. For background, I've gotten my hair done professionally since high school with no exceptions, and I've used top shelf hair care products for a while. Thus my hair was very healthy going into this. My hair handled it like a champ, but there is no question that this bleach was harsher and more drying than what my stylist uses. But the results were so bright and vibrant so I feel it was really worth it. I've since done some deep conditioning and I gave myself a trim, and I think that's helped. Bottom line: if you're a salon regular, a box kit might not be for you. It's not for the faint of heart! I feel like this kit was high risk and high reward though, and I am very picky. My mother reluctantly agreed over FT that my highlights look great. I cannot imagine doing this twice in a row. Maybe some people with thicker/more coarse hair can handle it, but I doubt mine could. I am so glad I did this. I would do it again but only if/when there is another pandemic.

I buy this highlighting kit regularly. I dye my hair brown first then I do these highlights and it gives my hair great results. This one is 100% better than the other popular brand. I highly recommend it.

My fav highlighter. Wirks effectively even on color treated hair.

Let me preface this by saying that I've gotten my hair professionally highlighted for about eight years. I've been blonde almost my whole life because of that. This past year, due to my starving college student status and my mom not paying for my highlights any longer, I went and had my hair dyed back to its natural color. However, this summer, not even six months later, I started to miss the blonde. At home highlights scare me to death. The whole reason I started getting my hair done professionally is because of my mom experimenting with at home highlighting kits on my hair with disastrous results. This on the other hand turned out great! It was slow moving at first. I wanted all over highlights, so I was pulling hair through all of the holes with the grey circles around them. When I got to the back of my head, I had to enlist the help of my boyfriend because it was impossible to see. I think anyone who says they do it by themselves is amazing or lying. I put most of the bleach on there (Waste not, want not), and let it sit for thirty minutes. When I checked on it, I worried that it was still too golden, but I knew that if I left it any longer that I would be Playboy Bunny Blonde, as I like to call it, so I went ahead and washed it out. Pulling the cap off in the shower? Scariest thing ever. All I could see was a big layer of cornflower yellow and then a dark layer of my natural color. After using the shampoo provided, though, it toned down to a pretty white blonde. The toner helped even more to take out the rest of the gold color. The real results showed up when I got out and brushed my hair. This got the highlights where they need to be as opposed to one solid layer of blonde on the top. They look great! They are evenly distributed and are a beautiful shade of blonde. :) My only complaint? When I tried to comb out my hair after I took the cap off, my hair was one solid knot. It took me fifteen minutes just to get it brushed out. Other than that, it was great!

I love love love this product!! Every other blonde hair dye I've tried has turned my hair brassy thanks to my red undertones. This is the only one I'll use from now on!! Pictures are a before and after of using it!

Amazing product!! I cannot say enough for this product! I have been searching for a DIY cap highlight kit for ages and finally came across this one on Amazon. I read all of the reviews before deciding to order and I am so happy I did! It was pretty easy to hook my own hair which I was pretty uneasy about going into it.. but I got the hang of it pretty quickly. They colour came out a really nice natural colour because of the blue toner after colour they provide. It really sets their product apart. It eliminates that brassy undertone a lot of blondes, which can make your hair look orange. Fantastic but and will definitely order again!

although it seemed pricey...if you are just keeping up with your highlights..you actually will have treatments..just need another cap- the color is good-but always use the blue shampoo to take away brassiness Will buy again

Did my hair with this. I have medium brown hair and this didn't leave it brassy or orange. Love it

Good product. I would buy again