{"product_id":"maria-nila-colour-refresh-caramel-brown","title":"Maria Nila Colour Refresh Caramel Brown | Warm Brown Masque for Dark Hair","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA conditioning masque carrying semi-permanent caramel pigment that brings warmth and a copper glow back to brunette hair that has gone flat or ashy, with no developer required.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eThe Moda Team Review\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaramel Brown exists for a specific and very common problem: brown hair that was toned neutral or ash in the salon and has since settled somewhere lifeless. Maria Nila describes the shade as reviving medium to dark hair with rich caramel tones and a deep copper glow, and both halves of that matter. The caramel is the depth, the copper glow is what stops it reading as mud. On a level 4 to 6 brunette this is the difference between hair that looks brown and hair that looks like it catches light when you move.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt shares its three cationic dyes with Beige Brown — Basic Blue 99, Basic Red 76 and Basic Yellow 57 — but the ratio is pushed warm rather than held neutral, and that single difference is the whole shade. Where Beige Brown uses the blue to cancel warmth, Caramel Brown lets the red and yellow lead. Positively charged basic dyes bind to the more negatively charged, more porous surface of processed hair, so the caramel concentrates most in the mid-lengths and ends where colour has faded hardest — which happens to be exactly where a faded brunette needs it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria Nila specifies levels 2 to 7 and rates the deposit at four to ten washes. The honest caveat on a warm shade is that warm pigment fades warm: as it releases it drifts a little more copper before it disappears. On most brunettes that reads as a sun-lifted end to the cycle rather than a problem, but it is worth knowing before you choose between this and a neutral shade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eKey Active Ingredient(s)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBasic Red 76 and Basic Yellow 57:\u003c\/strong\u003e The warm pair that builds the caramel. Red supplies the depth and richness, yellow lifts it toward gold, and the combination is what produces the copper glow Maria Nila describes rather than a flat brown.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBasic Blue 99:\u003c\/strong\u003e Present in a small proportion. Its role here is not to neutralise but to anchor — a trace of blue keeps the red and yellow from reading as straight orange and holds the tone recognisably in caramel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eArgan Oil (Argania Spinosa Kernel Oil):\u003c\/strong\u003e Maria Nila includes it for moisture and frizz reduction. Warm tones depend more than cool ones on light reflection to read as rich, so cuticle smoothing is doing real work for this shade in particular.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePanthenol (Pro-Vitamin B5) and Sunflower Seed Oil:\u003c\/strong\u003e A humectant and a lightweight emollient. They keep water in the fibre and soften the surface, which is why a ten-minute application leaves the hair feeling conditioned rather than coated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eModa Pro Tip\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf your brunette has old highlights or balayage anywhere in it, pull those pieces out and treat them separately with a shorter time. Lightened pieces are dramatically more porous than the surrounding natural brown and will take a warm pigment at two or three times the intensity, which turns a subtle caramel refresh into stripes of visible copper. Clip the lightened sections out, do the bulk of the head at your full time, then take the highlights at two or three minutes right at the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eNot the Right Fit If...\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot the right fit if your brown already pulls warm or orange and you want it calmed down — this shade will amplify exactly what you are trying to fix, and Beige Brown with its neutralising blue is the correct choice. It is also not for grey coverage; Maria Nila states that Colour Refresh does not cover grey, so scattered greys will stay visible as lighter, warmer strands through the caramel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow To Use\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShampoo, then towel-dry until damp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWearing gloves, comb the masque through, concentrating on faded mid-lengths and ends first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLeave for 3 to 10 minutes — longer gives a deeper, warmer caramel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRinse with water until it runs clear, then follow with conditioner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Maria Nila","offers":[{"title":"100 ml","offer_id":49911830249700,"sku":"MN6723","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"300 ml","offer_id":49911830282468,"sku":"MN3723","price":45.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0513\/2831\/9677\/files\/IMGcr3723caramelbrown300ml1200x1500.jpg?v=1789819569","url":"https:\/\/www.modasalon.ca\/products\/maria-nila-colour-refresh-caramel-brown","provider":"Moda Salon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}