Bust Your Brass Cool Blonde Purple Intense Repair Hair Mask

What it is: A moisturizing and toning mask that results in significantly brighter, healthier hair that is eight times more conditioned and two times stronger with 56 percent less breakage.

Hair Type: Fine, Medium, and Thick

Hair Texture: Straight, Wavy, Curly, and Coily

Hair Concerns:
- Brassiness
- Damage/Split Ends/Breakage
- Dryness

Key Benefits:
- Tones brassiness
- Moisturizes dry, brittle hair
- Strengthens and reduces breakage

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.

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.

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

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-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.

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.

Clean at Sephora products are formulated without the following banned or restricted ingredients (please see Clean at Sephora landing page for full list of specific restrictions and allowances by category – this is not an exhaustive list):
Acrylates, Aluminum Salts, Animal Musks/Fats/Oils, Benzophenones and related compounds, Butoxyethanol, Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), Butylated hydroxytulolene (BHT) under 0.1% , Carbon Black or Black 2, Coal Tar, Ethanolamines, Formaldehyde and Formaldehyde Releasing Agents, Hydroquinone, Lead and Lead Acetate, Mercury + Mercury Compounds (Thimerisol), Methoxyethanol, Methyl Cellosolve, Methylchloroisothiazolinone and Methylisothiazolinone, Mineral Oil, Nanomaterials (restrictions for specific nanomaterials only), Oxybenzone, Parabens, Petrolatum and Parrafin (USP grade only), Phenoxyethanol under 1%, Phthalates, Plastic Microbeads, Polyacrylamide & Acrylamide, Resorcinol, Retinyl Palmitate, Styrene, Sulfates, Talc (no detection of asbestos) , Toluene, Triclosan and Triclocarban, Undisclosed Synthetic Fragrance (under 1% and formulated without Acetaldehyde, Acetone, Acetonitrile, Benzalkonium chloride, BPA, EDTA, Methylene chloride, PTFE, PFOA), 1, 4, Dioxane (ingredients must comply with impurity thresholds), Octinoxate, PFAS compounds, Nitromusks and Polycyclic Musks, Ethoxylated Ingredients (including PEGS or polyethylene glycol must meet contamination limits for 1’4 Dioxane and ethylene oxide), Cyclic Silicones, EDTA and derivatives (allowed if no technical substitute under 0.2%)

Suggested Usage:
-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 Natural Blondes (Not Color-Treated):
-In the summer months (when hair is more likely to become brassy), use The Bust Your Brass Shampoo and Conditioner (sold separately) every other wash.
-Use the bust your brass repair mask one time per week in place of conditioner.

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 (Color-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 color; in this case, increase the usage of system.

For Gray Hair:
-Use Bust Your Brass Shampoo and Mask every wash or alternate every other wash with the Kure Collection.

For Textured Blondes:
-Follow the regimen suggested above based on type of blonde but use the Bust Your Brass Repair Mask in place of conditioner for an extra dose of moisture. The Bust Your Brass Repair Mask is the perfect mix of toning.

Recycling Instructions:
-TerraCycle and amika joined forces to create a free national recycling program for amika’s hair care packaging. Save your empties, print a free shipping label, and send back your packaging to give it a new life.