Sandy says…Talk to me about these new hair color glazes on the market. What do you know? Do you like ‘em?
The Right Brain replies:
Hair color glazes are all the rage these days. We here at the Beauty Brains have taken a look and even tried them and have the following observations.
What’s in there?
Here is John Frieda’s Brilliant Brunette Luminous Color Glaze. It’s interesting to note that except for the color of the formulas, the Brunette, Red head, and Blonde formulas are pretty much the same.
Water, Propylene Carbonate, Alcohol Denat., PEG-12 Dimethicone, Dimethicone, Citric Acid, Hydrogenated Polydecene, Xanthan Gum, Dimethiconol, Oleyl Alcohol, Sodium Hydroxide, Propylene Glycol, Methylcloroisothiazolinone, Methylisothizolinone, Pearl Powder, Fragrance, Iron Oxides, Mica, Titnaium Dioxide, Orange No. 4, Yellow No. 10, Ext. Violet No. 2.
The first three ingredients are just solvents that just make the product easier to use. The next two are silicones that condition the hair and coat it with a thin, slick film. These are the things that provide the product`s main benefits. The rest of the ingredients are thickeners, solvents, preservatives, adjusting agents, and colorants.
How do they work?
The instructions tell you to put it on AFTER you’ve shampooed and conditioned your hair. Leave on for three minutes and rinse. Essentially, this product coats the hair with a slick film that doesn’t easily rinse out. As an aside, the 3 minute thing doesn’t really matter. As soon as you put this product on your hair it`s done all the work it will do. 1 minute, 3 minutes, 20 minutes, it doesn’t really change anything even though it seems like it does.
The Beauty Brains bottom line
Are they worth using? If you are already using a good conditioner (one with silicones) then you won’t see much extra benefit from these products. One Beauty Brain affiliate tested the product and could see no difference at all. The truth is the extra application of product and rinsing will actually contribute to hair color loss. If you want extra shine, your best bet is to use a shine spray that you put in your hair after you get out of the shower. These will work better and are generally less expensive.
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I think this product make hair shinier than most conditioners because of its acidic pH because of citric acid and propylene carbonate which is high on ingredients list.
I am surprised to hear that this isn’t much better than shine spray. My mom always uses a silicone product before she blow drys. But I had her try the Halo shine glaze (pretty sure that is the same thing, just no color in it, right?) and I swear her hair looked awesome shiny after that and it made her color pop.
Maybe her original product wasn’t working very well in the first place …
I use the John Frieda Brilliant Brunette Glaze, and I also have found that its conditioning effect is no better than that of my silicone-containing conditioner. However I use it to, hopefully, boost my hair color. I don’t do any coloring, and I think that the Glaze’s colorants partially cover my smattering of gray hairs, and livens my overall color. The effect, if there is one, is subtle, and I wonder if I am just seeing what I want to see when it really isn’t adding any color.
I have to respectfully disagree. I use it between shampooing and conditioning and have found that my hair is much shinier. I know my anecdotal trial doesn’t account to much, but I find that it works very well and it helps detangle and make my hair look and feel very shiny. It’s also very obvious if I miss a spot.
I’ve gotten the JF glaze for blondes when I saw it for cheap at the close out store Big Lots. Didn’t do diddly squat. If anything all it did was make my hair harder to detangle afterwards and feel sticky.