Our Top Picks for Hair Masks to Repair Damage

It is quite annoying how easy it can be to damage your hair. Hair can become dry and dull from heat styling or color-treating. This could lead to hair that is more prone to breaking. An editor has dyed her hair every color in the rainbow. It is difficult to style and repair hair damaged like this if you don’t act quickly.

There are many miracle-working hair masks that work, and they have nourishing ingredients that will keep you from having to use the scissors. There are hair masks that can help with any kind of hair damage, whether you have a few split ends from straightening your hair once in a while or if you need to completely transform your hair after years of coloring.

These are our top picks for damaged hair. They cover all price points and hair types. Below, you’ll find the top masks for damaged hair by brands such as Pantene, Briogeo and Redken. You can also shop at Sephora and Amazon. So what are you waiting? Just a few clicks away are the best hair treatment masks.

K18 Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask

K18 is a popular product. The Leave-In Molecular Repair Hair Mask is able to repair hair of any kind and make it look like it just walked out from a salon. The brand’s proprietary peptide formula reverses damage in just four minutes. You read it right, four minutes.

Fekkai Shea Butter Intense Mask

Mia Santiago, a hairdresser, says the Fekkai Shea Butter Intense Mask works well for curly-haired people. She says that moisture is the key to curls. This mask is moisturizing, leaving curls shiny and bouncy while controlling frizz. The formula’s combination of monoi oil and shea butter is responsible for the nourishment.

Olaplex No.8 Bond Intense Moisturizer Mask

The Olaplex No.8 Bond Intense Moisturizer Mask contains the same strength bis-aminopropyl dimaleate as in all other brand products. However, this mask has two secret weapons that are actually skin-care heroes: ceramides & hyaluronic acids.

The former helps strengthen and maintain your hair’s natural barrier against moisture, while the latter hydrates your locks by holding up to 1,000x its weight in water. This will leave you with shiny hair that feels great.

Amika The Kure Intense bond hair repair mask

Santiago has used Amika’s The Kure Intense Bond Hair Repair Mask for many years. She says that this mask is ideal for hair with severe heat damage or excessively processed. This formula contains mango, shea butter and borage oil that all work together to restore dry hair.

R+Co Sleep Masque Night Repair Serum

R+Co’s Sleep Masque Night Repair serum is a luxurious night mask that repairs damaged hair and moisturizes while you sleep. Devin Toth, a hairdresser, says the secret to the formula’s magic is the inclusion of green caviar. This leaves hair soft and healthy.

Philip B Russian Amber Imperial Gold Maskque

The Philip B Russian Amber Imperial Gold Masque is a luxurious treat. It contains a combination of pea proteines to strengthen hair, olesomes to provide all-day moisturization, and argan oil that smooths any frizz. Santiago claims that the mask is suitable for all hair types, and leaves hair shiny and full of bounce.

Shu Uemura Ashita Nourishing Superior Mask

Toth loves Shu Uemura’s Ashita Nourishing Superior Mask. This is due to its key ingredient, the Ashitaba plant. This plant provides support from the scalp to the ends of hair, which results in less breakage and softness.

IGK Offline 3-Minute Hydration for Hair Mask

IGK’s Offline 3 Minute Hydration Hair Mask hydrates hair, softens it and gives it shine in just three minutes. The tube contains turmeric butter for hydration, and green tea seed oil to add shine. Santiago keeps this tube in her shower to give her a quick, efficient treatment in an emergency.

Ouai Fine To Medium Hair Treatment Masque

Ouai’s Medium to Fine Hair Treatment Masque contains shea butter, panthenol and hydrolyzed Keratin. It hydrates, repairs damage and gives hair a silky touch. It smells just like a bouquet of roses and is easy to apply.

Purple Hair Mask of Beauty

Function of Beauty Custom Purple Hair Mask allows you to take a quiz and choose the details that will go into your custom mask. This purple treatment can deeply condition dry hair and tone any brassy colors on blonde, silver or grey hair.

SheaMoisture Jamaican black castor oil Strengthen and Masque Restore

SheaMoisture Jamaican Black Castor Oil Strengthens & Restore Masque is an excellent drugstore option to get deep moisture. Apply the thick, oil-based formula to your ends and leave it on for 10 minutes. Rinse it off and you will have silky soft hair.

Briogeo Repairs Deep Conditioning Masks

Briogeo’s damage-repairing cream has been named by our readers a three-time Reader’s Choice Award Winner. This is not surprising considering its rich in nourishing B vitamins, almond oil, and rosehip oil. If your hair requires a strong boost of moisture, you should include Don’t Despair. Repair into your routine.

Aussie 3-Minute Miracle Moist Deep Conditioner

News editor Nicola Dall’Asen began using Aussie’s deep conditioning when she was in college. Her hair was dry and brittle and she had never stopped using it. She says that 3-Minute Miracle Moist was already great at the time it came out. But it has somehow improved over the years. “Even when my hair is at its worst, I can let this product sit on my hair for just a few minutes each week to restore all my hair’s moisture, shine and bounce.”

Verb Hydrating Mask

“My brittle, constantly-bleached hair has seen better days,” states Sarah Han, commerce editor. This mask is often used in place of regular conditioners because my hair is so dry.

Sachajuan Hair Repair

Lori Segal, former research director, is a loyal customer of Sachajuan Hair Repair. She says that it is easier to use and spread for thin to medium-thick hair than thicker, pasty masks in tubs. It combs through hair evenly and rinses out quickly, making this a low-maintenance deep conditioner for hair.

Pantene Pro-V Intense Rescue Shots

Rosemary Donahue, Wellness Editor, says that just one tiny Pantene Pro-V rescue shot saved her hair from constant color-treatment damage. This is thanks to its vitamin-B5 and strengthening oils. She says that her curls were shiny and soft, and even though there’s no product that can fix split ends it made them less visible.

Curls So So Moist Vitamin C Curl Mask

“I will be honest, I am not a natural who deep conditions regularly, but I love to grab the So So Moist vitamin C curl mask,” Gabi Thorne, associate news editor, says. This curl mask is packed with glycerin as well as a variety of reparative vitamins. This thick cream mask gives my dry curls moisture.