Wella Professionals Ultimate Repair Hair Mask for Damaged

This hair mask is brilliant. My fine hair can get quite frizzy, and this product has made my hair much smoother, softer and easier to brush. It’s easy to use, just needing to leave it on for 5 mins in the shower. Overall a great product.

This product was sent to me to review, as part of Amazon Vine. Below is my own real-world experience of using it.

As someone who has very long, thick and wavy hair, I can never have too much conditioner, but it has been a challenge finding one that can truly tame my frizz, so I was interested to see how the Wella might fare.

I found it easy to apply – it has a nice viscosity that is not too runny, making it simpler to apply to the hair without dropping it all in the shower. I decided to apply it to my mid-lengths and ends, whilst using a wide-toothed shower comb to evenly distribute it. There was a fairly sweet scent, though I wouldn’t say that it was strong (and, I couldn’t really smell it in my hair, once it had dried). After waiting a few minutes, I rinsed it out with no issues.

As I would usually, I allowed my hair to air dry. The result was soft, shiny hair that definitely felt more hydrated – especially in the ends. My hair was not completely frizz-free, but, there was a noticeable reduction.

In summary, a mask that makes a nice occasional treat for the hair. Recommended.

This is one of those hair mask creams that feels like a regular conditioner rebranded and put into a tub to make it more premium and advanced than it really is. The bright white colour looks like dozens of conditioners, and the very mild scent would certainly make you think it’s a normal, everyday conditioner.

I’m perfectly happy with the results, as far as conditioning goes. It’s a very thick cream, which makes it easy to control but a little difficult to tease through a large amount of hair, and I was finding I wanted to use quite a lot of it to get good coverage, with each wash using several quid’s worth of product. But despite being thick and feeling quite heavy whilst on the scalp, once washed out it leaves my hair feeling a little bouncier than I expected, with a look that’s nicely natural and not too wet-look-flat-and-sleek, which is a look that really doesn’t suit me.

But ultimately I feel like I get very similar results from some other conditioners that I buy, many of which are less than half the price by volume than this product, some of them especially so. In the ‘before and after’ product photo on this product, the ‘before’ photo shows hair that has been shampooed but not conditioned- which to me feels like a bit of a confession than this is really just a conditioner in a small expensive tub.

With a tub that’s almost small enough to be airline-friendly, the current price tag of over twenty-four quid is absolutely not justified for this little pot of conditioner, sorry, mask. But because my hair feels reasonably nice from it, I’m giving it four stars despite the price tag.