L'Oreal Paris Feria Hyper Platinum Advanced Lightening System Hair Bleach, Lifts Up To 8 Levels, Includes Anti Brass Purple Conditioner, 1 Hair Dye Kit

This does exactly what it says. Lifts at least 8 levels with NO damage. I use this as a base for my color routine. I make my hair light bright silver. Natural color very dark blonde aged from natural very light blonde. Everything I read recommends this or that bleach and that developer but I got tired of the process. Boxed-colors have a reputation for looking cheap but I've always found they leave my hair in better condition than my own combos, especially if I'm messing around with 30 volume developer. I'm not a pro, just cheap and hate the wasted time at the salon. If I mess up, well, hair grows back. Using this along with the toning products I use leaves my hair in great condition and a lovely shining, true silver color. Probably cost several hundred dollars and maybe more than one visit to the hairdresser if I went that route. People tell me all the time I have beautiful hair. If there's slight damage to the ends I don't notice because after coloring is when I thin/trim it with a manual razor comb. USE A LOT. I'm in my 50's with strong coarse heavy hair. I keep it short, kind of a long loose pixie/ layered above the shoulders and use the razor comb to thin it a bit so I have some lift and wave/ slight loose curl. Lately I've just been scrunching with mousse and texturizing spray rather than blow dry and style. I use TWO boxes for that small amount of hair. I mix both and put it all over my head rubbing it in to the new growth (I let it grow out 4 - 6 weeks), making sure it is all thickly covered. No clips or separating, sometimes I'll use a brush on an area but usually just gloved hands. Not the proper procedure I know. I try to avoid the *very* ends but it still thickly covers hair that had been previously bleached. Leave it in for max time no covering, cold room. STLL NO DAMAGE. Of course I use a lot of strengthening and smoothing products between treatments. All silver needs upkeep. 1 drop of silver (purple) toner rubbed all through and left in rather than rinsed out every day out works perfectly. Hope this is helpful. I don't really know how it looks and keeps on its own. Gets mine to the inside of a banana peel. Have fun!

This is pretty much the only hair lightening kit I'll use. I have fine, straight, dark hair and this gets it to a beautiful pearl white shade. I will admit to using purple shampoo as a toner along with their conditioner, but nothing else has gotten my hair to the right color with as little damage as this does. It's really easy to use the kit as long as you follow the instructions, and it comes with a pair of gloves (though I use my own nitrile gloves). Everything you need is there. If you have longer hair, you're going to need quite a bit of this stuff. To get my desired lift, I use one whole bottle on my hair, then do a second round using another whole bottle. It does have that bleach smell- so if that bothers, you, you may want to look into alternative lightening options. But if you're going for that really clean platinum look- this stuff works without destroying your hair.

This review is for the Absolute Platinum color. If you have any experience doing platinum blonde yourself with bleach powder and developer, you'll know that it's messy and kind of tricky. Nothing gets your hair whiter than doing it yourself and applying the Wella White Lady toner, but it's a rocky process such that it's easy to fry your hair, have uneven spots, or even accidentally tint it purple. Salons in NYC charge you upwards of $200 for just roots and most of the time I'd leave with yellow hair I'd still end up having to fix myself. Enter Feria Platinum. I wasn't too sure about this at first, but decided to give it a shot and I love it. I am totally back to platinum thanks to the ease of use, the cream spreads really well so you get good coverage, and it didn't fry my hair. For truly white platinum you'll need to get a different toner than the conditioner in the package, but overall this is great stuff. Each time I've gone platinum it's been after having dying my hair red or black. I used this product most recently after dying my hair red (also with Feria) and I'll share how I got my results. My recommendation for doing it with this product is to first start gradually lightening your hair with a golden blonde color. If you're in a hurry, do it once a week. If you're not in a hurry, do it when you you touch up your roots, and gradually go a shade of blonde lighter. The last color I did was the Bleach Blonde which ended up making my hair pretty yellow, as expected. I wore a hat for three days and didn't wash my hair. Today I used the Platinum, putting it first on the darker strands of hair that were still holding onto the old red. After 20 minutes, I worked it into the rest of my hair, then let it sit for 20 minutes. Total time was 40 minutes. I used a disposable shower cap to cover it to prevent the color from drying out and to keep the hair "warm" from the heat from my scalp. My hair is not perfectly white on the ends, nor did I expect it to be, because of the previous red dye. It is pretty light though and only slightly yellow. I plan to use some of my Wella White Lady toner on it in a week after my hair has had some time to recover. The most important thing to remember with bleaching your hair, you need to give your hair time to get some of the oils back and to recover. Have a back up plan for how you'll wear your hair (hat, scarf, etc) while you're letting it do so, in case it's in an awkward state. If you do not have experience with bleaching your hair and your hair has been chemically treated, I highly recommend you do not use this product and have a professional do the initial lightening on your hair. If it's not light enough, that's ok, give it time and then try this product to get the final lightening once your hair has recovered. If you have really dark hair, you might need to do it twice. I'd recommend doing a test strand to see how long it takes to lighten your hair and how light you can expect this product to get it. For really even coverage in the past, I've used a full head hair dryer (one of those things that you cover your head with a cap and warm air circulates). I have naturally dark blonde hair that is somewhat fine and very oily. I like having it platinum because then it's not oily by the end of the day, and it gives my hair some texture and body (where normally it just kind of lies flat). I had given up on keeping it platinum because the upkeep was just too much for me, but since discovering this product, I'm back to platinum and happy I can finally maintain it without the disappointment of expensive and inconsistent salon results.

I got theL'Oreal Paris Hyper Platinum Advanced Lightening System wanting to do a full head of highlights. I made up about half of the beach and pulled my strands thru highlight cap. My hair is long it comes about to the top of my armpit and it untouched in terms of dye or bleach right now. It's been a couple years since I've done anything to it. So I was excited to add some dimension to my blah hair. I liked that this box came with the bkeach, toner, developer, and a purple conditioner to use afterwards. I pulled a lot of my hair thru the cap. My hair is fine and I used to have a whole lot of it but as I've gotten older it has thinned a little. Still I was hoping to be able to use half the solution today to check out the results and then have half left to do any touch ups or spots I missed or where it might have leaked thru the cap or whatever calamity was probably going to happen to me. I was able to use the 1st half of the solution and it absolutely covered all the highlight strands I pulled and I was able to thoroughly coat them. I wrapped my head in a plastic bag to keep the heat in and I started checking every 10 min. I didn't want to fry my hair since it was virgin hair, I was afraid it would break or fry , knowing my luck both lol after about 30 minutes it was a brassy color and I let it sit through that. Then at about 50 minutes it was pinky color. Each time I checked it I felt it to make sure it wasn't clumping up or matting/melting together and each time inwasnpleasantly surprised by how soft and healthy my hair felt while being bleached. About 65 minutes in I went to get the bathtub ready to rinse my hair and take a bath since you have to let the purple conditioner sit for 5 minutes. The bleach easily rinsed out, I pulled the cap off and rinsed the rest. And wow was it brassy blonde but it was blonde. I was sure this was gonna be several stages to get it to blonde. So I used the purple conditioner and they give you a decent size tube of it. You def get more than 1 or 2 or even 3 used put of this tube unlike some brands that want to send you a packet. After 5 (or more minutes) I rinsed the purple conditioner out of my hair and towel dried it. Even wet you could see how big of a difference the purple conditioner made and also how blonde I was able to get my dark brown hair on one try. It's amazing. I did do lots of thin strands pulled with some thicker strands so it looks real natural but I have plenty of bleach left so in a week or 2 I am going to do this again and make them chunky highlights. This bleach does bot have the normal bleach smell to it. If you are going to do allover highlights and you have long hair this is the one for you!! I read so many reviews and had a hard time finding people who would recommend their product and at the same time have enough product in 1 box to be able tondo a whole job.

Used it for some peekaboo highlights that I wanted to create. Followed instructions perfectly, and I ended up with not as light as the box’s color but definitely a level 7 at least. For context I had virgin black roots, and semi lightened mids and ends. I am intending to put blue hair dye on top so it’ll work out fine for me but if you need the exact shade on the box I would recommend using foils with constant supervision. the purple conditioner helps remove a bit of the yellow from the blond, but don’t rely on it too much. My hair also doesn’t feel extremely damaged from the process, so I wanna give it props since other bleach powders have made my hair split more and become much more dead. This is really solid for the price if you want to go the DIY route and you’re aware it won’t look as perfect as in salon.

I liked the color I got with this bleach — it’s very light and vibrant at first. However, after about a week my natural hair color started showing through, so it doesn’t seem to be very long-lasting or highly effective for maintaining the platinum look.

I started out using this for bleach highlights and then would do Wella T18 toner all over. I basically followed the instructions for the strand test and could get several uses out of one box. My highlights were level 7 to 9, and my regrowth was about a 6. I pull very red because I was strawberry blond as a child. After about two years of doing this, I decided I was ready to do my whole head. I was able to achieve an eventual all over level 9 and 10, but I needed a lot of other products to get there. If you have dye in your hair you may not be able to get those pigments out, so be aware that it's possible, but I've seen plenty of hair fails from people that went from dye to bleach. I started with 2 boxes of Hyper Platinum and it wasn't enough. It's actually a good product, it's just not going to be adequate if you have long, thick hair. I ended up with a patchy result because I ran out of product. In retrospect, 6 boxes in 2 sessions might have done it for me. Don't forget to mix in all three ingredients. I gave my hair a week to rest, then I moved on to Blonde Me by Swartzkopf with their 20 Volume developer (also on Amazon) to fix it, which was evening it out. Then I did an additional bleaching that same day, doing the roots last. I toned with Wella T18 with 20 volume because there was still some lightening needed, (also available on Amazon) and viola! Pale golden blonde, which is the color that I was going for. 3 different hairdressers have failed to do what I finally did.! Don't freak out if you see orange. You've got to keep going. There is a lot to know about bleaching your hair. It's best if you have someone helping you. Watch a ton of YouTube videos from Hair Buddha and some of the others so that you can learn from others' mistakes as well as expertise before you start. If you end up with orange hair, you need to bleach again, but I would recommend waiting a few days to avoid too much damage. Wear a hat or a wig. It's better to bleach for 30 minutes twice than to leave bleach on your hair for an hour. You need to know when to do the lengths and when to do the roots. There is so much to know, that's why this is one of the most difficult services in hairdressing to master. Does this product work? Yes, it does. It allowed me to dip my toes in before diving into bleaching. It deserves 5 stars for use in at home highlighting or 3 stars as an all-over bleach.

Been using this for 8 years and it’s the #1 compliment I get EVERY SINGLE DAY when I go out! People ask where I have it done, and are SO SHOCKED when I show them L’Oreal box dye lol. It’s honestly saved me thousands on hair salon trips.. I used to spend a good $250 every 2 months.. and took over 3 hours (I have very long hair).. one day I just decided to try this, and I only use it for Roots every 2 months. ❤️ I’m a natural brunette :,) shh don’t tell anybody that.