Description
Highlighted Ingredients:
– Bond Cure Technology: An innovative complex that targets the most abundant bonds in hair.
– Plant Butters: Mango butter extract, borage oil, and shea butter loaded with vitamins, minerals, and five fatty acids.
– Ultra-Violet Pigments: Counteracts yellow and brassy tones.
What Else You Need to Know: Bring blonde back to life with this luxurious, ultra-hydrating mask that’s clinically shown to intensely brighten, tone, hydrate, strengthen, and repair hair with bond cure technology, plant butters, quinoa protein, and ultra-violet pigments. After one use, hair is less prone to breakage and more manageable.
Clinical Results: In a clinical test with volunteers, after 1 use, results included:
– 2.2 times more strength.
– 56% reduction in breakage.
– 8 times more conditioned.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
Directions
Note: amika suggests applying the Bust Your Brass products on a test strip of hair at the nape of the neck before settling on a routine.
For Platinum Blondes:
– To maintain tone, use Bust Your Brass Shampoo and Conditioner every other wash.
– amika suggests alternating Bust Your Brass Shampoo and Conditioner with the Kure Shampoo and Conditioner and Multi-Task Repair Treatment (sold separately).
– Use Bust Your Brass Repair Mask one time per week in place of conditioner.
– If you notice pesky brassiness pop up, use the Bust Your Brass System every wash until desired tone is reached.
– Keep track of your tone: if you’re loving your tone, keep up your routine as is. If you notice brassiness peeking in, increase use the bust your brass mask an additional time per week. If you are a little too icy and nearing a violet tone, cut back on the bust your brass routine for a week or two.
For Highlighted, Balayage, or Natural-Looking (Colour-Treated) Blonde Hair:
– Use Bust Your Brass Shampoo and Conditioner every other wash.
– Assess hair’s tone and pivot (increase or decrease usage) as needed.
– Those with naturally dark hair should use the Bust Your Brass Intense Repair Mask one time per week in place of conditioner.
– Please note: naturally darker or brunette hair will fight to return to natural hair colour; in this case, increase the usage of system.
Ingredients
Water/Aqua/Eau, Cetearyl Alcohol, Cetyl Alcohol, Isopropyl Myristate, Behentrimonium Chloride*, Dimethicone, Glycerin, Panthenol, Hippophae Rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn/Argousier) Fruit/Seed Oil, Borago Officinalis (Borage/Bourrache) Seed Oil, Mangifera Indica (Mango/Mangue) Seed Butter, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea/Karite) Butter, Hydroxypropyl Guar Hydroxypropyltrimonium Chloride, Hydrolyzed Quinoa, Tocopheryl Acetate, Cetrimonium Chloride*, Magnesium Aluminum Silicate, Butylene Glycol, Bis-PCA Dimethicone, Disodium PEG-12 Dimethicone Sulfosuccinate, Aminomethyl Propanol, Chlorphenesin, BHT, Ethylhexylglycerin, Citric Acid, Phenoxyethanol, Isopropyl Alcohol, Benzyl Alcohol, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Fragrance/Parfum, Benzyl Benzoate, Hydroxycitronellal, Limonene, Violet External 2 (CI 60730).
*Antistatic agent.