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hey, beauty activists check out my long lashes hair, i have my extensions in. for today's video, what i'm going to show you guys is how to gently remove color from EXTENSIONS, so that you can recolor them to match your hair color.

these are my old extensions from when my hair was pastel pink, which was probably five or six years ago.

i've never thrown out the extensions, because the hair is still super healthy and very beautiful. but what i know is, obviously, i can't use the pastel pink extensions in my hair without changing the color. with extensions, we are not able to process them a ton. they come already processed, so the more you do to them, the worst they're going to feel. 

you really want to limit the amount of coloring you're doing, and you definitely don't want to be putting bleach on them. that could really destroy the integrity of the hair, and then you have gross extensions.

what i have to do is gently remove this pink color, so that i can put my color on top and have a perfect match like this.

the goal of extensions is that you don't want to know they are extensions. they want to blend completely with your hair, and look like your hair. these extensions are so perfect, i bet you you don't know where my hair starts and where my hair stops. pelo, what do you think?

check this out. you see the difference of my lengths versus this. you couldn't even tell. 

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we are going to be using the PRAVANA ARTIFICIAL COLOR EXTRACTOR to remove the pink in the hair.

starting with the clarifying shampoo, we're going to really make sure that this hair shampooed out very well so it's very clean.

now, we're going to apply the pravana color extractor onto the extensions, making sure to fully saturate the hair. 

once we have this side all applied, we're going to flip over the extensions and apply to the other side, so that we can make sure that the extensions are saturated thoroughly on both sides.

to make sure the hair is fully saturated, we're then going to comb through the hair, and then we're going to EMULSIFY it into the extensions.

we are now going to process for 20 minutes under heat, so we're going to have it under the dryer. after the processing time, you can see now that a lot of that pink color has been eaten away, which is perfect.

this now gives us a great canvas to put the color on top of, so we're going to take this to the sink to wash out.

it is very important when you're using the pravana extractor that you get out all the color pigment that is left. what happens when you're using the extractor, it shrinks the color molecule out of the hair, and that's what actually is the gentle remover of color in the hair. 

you want to make sure that all that pigment is gone because i've found in the past, if you go to recolor the hair, and the PIGMENT is not gone, you can actually reactivate it and reoxidize it, coloring the hair back to what it was.

after we do our first shampoo, i'm also going to be doing a developer rinse shampoo where i'm putting a developer into the shampoo and emulsifying it into the extensions.

what this is going to help do is really, really make sure to wash away any remaining pigment that is left on the hair. 

this is a very, very important step to do when you are going to be coloring the hair after using the pravana extractor.

you can take a look at the extensions all laid out. we have it to a nice blonde color. we have a majority of all that pink out. this is going to give us a perfect palette for us to put our color on over top.

we are now going to color the extensions with half 7, half 722. this is going to match my hair color. the color that i use on my hair is only a 722, but why i'm going to be mixing the extensions with half 7n, is because usually my extensions always come out ashier than they're supposed to, and you have to compare the base of these extensions versus my hair. 

these extensions are a very light blonde color, so they're not going to have as much warmth and yellow pigment as my hair will. by doing half 7n, half 722, it's going to give us the perfect color to match my hair, which is 722.

again, we're going to flip the extensions over so we can color the other side and make sure the extensions are fully saturated.

again, we're going to comb through the extensions with the color and emulsify them together to make sure that it's fully saturated all the way through, and there's no hair in the extensions that has not been colored. the hair is all in process now, so we're ready to wash out.

take a look at the colors, they match perfectly. let me get them in for you so you can see how they look with my hair.

there you guys have it. that's how you guys can gently remove color from extensions to recolor them. try that out for yourself. if you guys have extensions at home or you have clients that have extensions, and they want to reuse them, make sure that you check that they're healthy and the hair is still good, but this is a great technique you can use to remove some of that color.

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hey beauty activists. we're back here with allie, again. so you've seen her through all her hair transitions and today we're going to do another color again. what's been going on is that, allie, leaves in between her hair appointments, months and months and months. so, it's actually been probably about five months now.

and so she's still needing something that's going to be better maintenance-wise that she's not going to come in as often. so what we're going to do, instead of the highlights and color in between, is we're actually going to take her highlights and turn it into a SHADOWED ROOT. so, she has her roots already that you can see, but you can tell that these look like roots.

so what we want to do is we want to make this more purposeful. so we want to make it look like we're doing the rooted look on purpose. so we're going to turn this HIGHLIGHTED LOOK into a shadowed root. so check out how we're going to do that. this is going to be really easy for, allie, now to maintain over time. she can do the five, six months in between her appointments without having to worry about the roots that come out.

it's going to grow really nice as it grows out and she's going to be able to last a long time in between her visits. so a little bit of housekeeping, make sure you guys hit that subscribe button, hit the little bell so you're notified of all the new videos. we put out new videos every friday. go check out our products at nvenn.com.

we have products that are going to make your hair softer, shinier and healthier. you'll love them. and then, last thing, go check out our sister channel @dollareyelashclub. we're putting out makeup videos and tutorials on that channel all the time. all right, stay tuned. let's get started.

let's start by sectioning out her hair. we are going to use allie's part line to set up the sections in the front, and then those front sections are just going to go behind the ears, and then we're going to have the back sections divided into half. our first foil pattern is going to be a fine to medium weave. so we're going to weave the hair out, and when we're lightening the hair we're actually going to be FEATHERING the lightener on and staggering them on a lightener we put into each weave.

we're going to be putting the lightener in close to the roots, but we're not going in all the way because again we are creating the ROOTED EFFECT; so we do want a bit of allie's natural there. make sure to pick through if you have any dark pieces that are longer than the rest. make sure that you are picking those pieces out, and lightening those darker pieces, but not pulling lightener onto anything that's already previously lightened.

this is going to ensure that we don't have excessive processing done on the hair, and we reduce any damage that's going to happen. our next foil that's going to go on top of this is actually going to be a baby light. so it's going to be a very baby fine weave. this is going to act as a veil to break up the blonde highlights in the first foil.

we are going to be putting the lightener right up to the root so that it creates a very NATURAL SHADOW ROOT EFFECT. also, we want to have as much blonde as possible so that allie has as long of wear as she can before she sees a lot of her dark natural come through. working our way up through the section, we are going to be alternating between both foil patterns.

once the first section is complete, we're going to move to the other side. we're going to be doing the same foiling pattern, making sure to mimic what i did on the other side on this side. so first again, starting with the fine to medium weave. then next, having the baby find weave, and repeating that pattern onwards. i like to make sure that the top foil on every single section is going to match.

and so for this specific shadow root effect, i want to make sure the top foil and every section is a baby light, a BABY FINE WEAVE so that acts as a veil across all the top sections. here is her entire head of foils all complete. we are now ready to wash, and we're going to take these foils out, rinse it out, and then we're ready to tone.

this is the toner all applied. i've used nine p in the matrix color sync. there you guys have it. that's how we turned allie's hair from her highlights and her color into a shadowed root. so super great technique for your clients that want to be in the salon a little bit less and they still want to be blonde, they still want to have that color, but they want to be able to go longer in between their visits without having to come in.

so really, really great technique. you can see how we blended her roots out completely. we still have her natural color right at the roots there, but we have a perfect fade from dark to light. so try that look out for yourself. if you guys have any questions, leave a comment below we'll make sure to get back to you right away.

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it's a high performance, natural line, so you can feel good about the ingredients that are in there, and they work in the hair. so, if you guys want to win free products, go to nvenn.com/giveaway. we're giving away free products every month. so we'll ship them right to your door if you're the winner. other than that, we'll see you guys next week. bye beauty activists.

hey guys. so we're back with montana. look at how her hair has grown. you can... down. so you'll remember montana from when we did black to blonde in one day. we did a back-to-back foil, and now you can see where her hair has grown out. so what we're going to be doing today, we're not going to have to foil it all because now we just have new growths.

we're just going to be doing a on-scalp bleach and tone. but what's happened now that it's been so much time is that, obviously, we can see by how much regrowth there is that it's been a few months for sure.

and so, what we're going to have to do is we're going to have to lighten this a little bit different, because the first little bit of new growth is going to lighten out really quickly, because that's close to her scalp. the hair is not fully keratinized yet, and plus we had heat. but the next portion of new growth, which is probably about, let's say an inch-and-a-half area is fully keratinized, which means the keratin has hardened. 

it's going to be a little bit harder to lift out, and it doesn't have the heat from the scalp. so we're going to have to go through that first, lift that out, go back and do the new growth. and then what we're also going to do, is that we're going to pull this onto the ends as well, and we're going to be lifting out her blonde lighter. so it's going to be a little bit of a process, but we're going to get it to a nice lighter blonde.

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so this is how we have montana's hair sectioned out, very simple, just in four quadrants. so, right down the center she wears it, so we'll keep it that way. just right above the ears, all the way to the top, and then all the way down the center back here. it's very good to keep organized when you're doing anything like this, just so that you can make sure to keep your sections very clean and work very quickly.

so we're going to start applying the LIGHTENER to the new growth section that is about half inch to three quarters of an inch from the scalp. the reason why we're going to start here is that this portion of the new growth is going to take longer to lift out than the portion right by the scalp.

the portion by the scalp is not fully KERATINIZED yet and has the heat from the scalp, so will lift much quicker. so we're going to apply this section first, and then move back and do the new growth after so we can ensure an even processing time.

here is the lightener all applied to that section. now i'm going to work our way through the sections again, and we're going to apply to that first half an inch to three quarters of an inch that's close to the scalp.

we're going to stay very organized as well, starting at the bottom of the section using a comb, and working our way up. we are complete, the first lightener application. we're going to let this process, and then rinse it out. we can take a look at how nicely this is processing. we can see how even this is. we're ready to rinse out now, so let's go to the sink.

after a quick power dry, we can see how evenly the roots have LIFTED. we have a nice even pallet in all of the new growth area, from scalp to about that three-inch section that we had. now, we're going to do our second lightening process. we have our hair sectioned in four quadrants again, just to keep organized.

we are now going to go through and do our second lightening because we've done the heavy lifting portion now. we're going to be applying from straight onto the scalp onto the new growth darker area.

the very front portion of the hair right around the face typically lightens out quicker and faster than the rest of the hair, so we're going to leave that out for now, because we don't need as much lightening as the rest of the hair.

when working onto the side sections, it's easiest to use vertical sectioning patterns because you're able to just pull the hair back away from the face and have it neatly sitting away and off the face. 

next, we're going to go through and now PAINT the lightener onto the ends. once that's all complete, we can go back to those sections now that we left out around the face, and we're going to repaint onto those sections to lift them out slightly a bit as well.

we have our whole second application of lightener applied now. we're going to let that process, and then we're going to rinse out. this is her lightener all rinsed out of the hair. we can see how nice and even her palate is now, and we're ready to tone. 

here are her TONERS. on the left here, we have three quarters of matrix color sync 8p, plus a quarter of pravana express toners ice. on the right here, we're going to be using a straight 9p with matrix color sync.

we're first going to be applying the toner to the new growth area that has a darker section, so it is a little bit darker. again, just about half inch to three quarters of an inch from the scalp, so we're going to start there. we are going to leave out the very light section closest to the scalp because that will overtone if we tone that right now, and we're going to come back to that once we're complete. 

once complete, we're going to move to applying the toner onto the ends. now, with the toner applied to everywhere except right closest to the scalp, we're now going to work our way back, and go through and apply directly onto the scalp for that first half inch to three quarters of an inch.

toning out the darker pigment areas that need more processing time first, ensures that we're going to have an even tone, an even palate once the entire head processes. this is the entire head applied now for the toner, and we can see now how even the hair is looking.

there you guys have it. we're all done, montana's hair, so this is how you guys want to evenly lift out black roots to blonde. try this. look out for yourself. if you guys have any questions, please leave a comment below. i'll make sure to get right back to you.

lastly, go check out our products at nvenn.com. our products are amazing. they are a premium natural hair care line. they'll make your hair shinier, softer and healthier. they make your colors pop, so go out and check them out. try them out in your hair. if you guys want to win free products, go to nvenn.com/giveaway. we do a monthly product giveaway, and we give away free products, and we'll ship them right to your door.

make sure you guys subscribe to the channel. we're putting out new videos every friday. hit that little bell so you get notified when we launch new videos. also, check out our sister channel at dollar eyelash club. we have lashes for as low as a dollar a pair, but we're also doing makeup hacks, makeup tutorials, all sorts of fun stuff on that channel, so subscribe to there. 

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hey, beauty activists. so today i have an awesome tutorial video for you. it's how to do the long ponytail UP DO. so we all know what happens when we tie our hair up. we often lose a lot of our length, and our ponytail doesn't look as long as we want. so i got some awesome ninja tricks that are going to help you and help your clients when you're doing their hair, to give them a long ponytail if that's what they want; and who doesn't want to have a long, luscious ponytail, okay? so stay tuned, i'm going to show you step by step how we do that.

first a little housekeeping though. make sure you guys subscribe to the channel. hit that little bell. we're putting out new videos every friday so you'll get notified. also, if you guys have any questions throughout the video, leave a comment below. we will make sure to get right back to you with an answer.

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so we have beautiful products that are going to make your hair shinier, softer and healthier, so you don't want to miss that. if you guys want to win free products, we put out a monthly giveaway every single month, and go to an nvenn.com/giveaway, and you can enter to win products for free. awesome. okay, let's get started.

let's start by back combing the hair. this is very important for any up do, to put the VOLUME in first, okay? the back combing is going to act as a foundation for the up do and it's much easier to start doing this prior to doing any pinning, so that we can get the shape and the volume of the hair perfectly. you want to hold the hair straight up from the head, and make sure that you are back combing into compact sections. so back combing is not knotting the hair. 

you're going to be putting the comb into the hair, pushing down all the way to the base, and then you're going to start again at the top and push down all the way onto the base on top of that. you're going to create a very compact section of BACK COMBING that is not going to move, but also is going to be easy when you need to brush out.

we're going to be using our NVENN FIX flexible working hairspray. it's a super strong hold, but very soft to touch, flexible moving hairspray. so it's going to give us that good back combing and that lift and stay, but it's going to be soft in the hair. it's not going to be rock hard and crunchy, and it'll be easy for sandy to brush out later.

once the back combing is in place, we have these now compact sections where the back combing sits. we are going to use our thumb and pointer finger and we're going to spread these apart, okay? we're just going to expand these, so they're not so tight and that they are a little bit fluffier.

now what we're going to do is we’re  going to run our comb gently across the top, and we're going to just make sure that along the top of the hair we don't see any of the back combing underneath. we want the very top layer of the hair to look very smooth, and to look very put into place. you should see once the back combing is done, that the very top of the hair looks very nice and smooth, and you do not see any back combing peeking through.

we need to start with the end in mind, and what we know is that sandy wants to have some hair out in the front and she doesn't want it all pulled back; so we're going to leave that out now. she's going to have a fringe in the front that's going to be curled, as well some pieces along the sides.

now with the back combing all done, we're going to check from the front and make sure that it's all symmetrical. make sure you adjust your back combing anywhere that you need to, so that you have it even on both sides.

next, we are going to be pulling back the hair to put into a ponytail. we are going to be taking the top half of the head, so just above the ears all the way back, and we're going to be tying it up into a half-pony. using a thin elastic, we're now going to tie the hair into place. we want to make sure that we're maintaining the shape and the volume in the hair. 

so hold the hair into place, wrap the elastic around the pony, and tie tightly into place. tying the top half of the head first into a half-pony allows us to get it in very tight to maintain the volume of the hair. this is going to allow the ponytail to not be too heavy and weigh it down. double check again from the front that the hair and the volume is all symmetrical, and then after you tied it that nothing went out of place.

moving on, we are going to take the second part of the ponytail, which is going to be a continuation from the last section, from the top of the ear down to the bottom corner of the nape. this is only going to be leaving a small strip of hair down the center nape of the back of the pony.

we're going to do that on each side, and we're going to pull it up to the pony, and wrap around and tie again with an elastic so that we have one ponytail altogether.

from the underneath of the ponytail, i'm going to be taking out one strand of hair. we're going to pull this strand of hair out, and use this to wrap around the elastic, so that it camouflages the elastic and it looks like we had this beautiful tie around of her own hair to camouflage the hair tie. pin the hair into place, making sure to hide the pins so they're not visibly seen. 

we are going to curl the hair because this is going to be a little bit more of a formal ponytail up do, so we want it to look a little bit fancier. we're going to be CURLING all the hair around the front and on the sides, and then we're going to be curling the ponytail as well.

now with this very last section of hair that's hanging down the center nape, you have a couple options. sometimes if you want, you can actually just leave it hanging down, and it is camouflaged fairly well by the ponytail as well. 

i'm going to just gently pin it up a little bit higher, just so we can see the neck and the nape very nice and clean; but we're not going to be pinning up the hair all the way to the length of the pony. what this last piece of hair is going to do is going to act as a ponytail extender, so that when you're looking at the hair from behind, it looks like it's super long in the ponytail.

we are going to finish the hair sound now with fix again; this is the flexible working hairspray. it's going to give it the strength to hold the style throughout the night, but it's still going to have that softness and be able to move around. we're going to make sure in the back nape section here that all the baby hairs and all the fine hairs are put into place and sprayed so that we have a nice clean look.

there you guys have it. that is the long ponytail up do. so it is a beautiful up do that you can actually dress up or dress down. so great for a lot of different occasions. try this look out for yourself, guys. this is a super ninja hair trick to make your ponytail look longer. 

so really simple to do, and we get that really beautiful long, luscious ponytail look that sometimes we're always striving to achieve. if you guys have any questions, leave a comment below. it will be directly to us, and we'll make sure to get that answered for you.

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if you guys want to win free products, enter our monthly giveaway. it's at nvenn.com/giveaway. we give out free products every single month. okay, other than that, guys, i love you. make sure you go out there and change the world through hair and beauty. i guess i'll see you guys next week. bye, beauty activists.

hey guys, we're back with jess. the last time you saw her, what we did is we took her platinum blonde here and we took her to her natural. now, you can see what's happened to her hair is that it's faded back. her blonde's come back out. we didn't do a fill at that time, cause we knew what might happen; is that jess would want to be blonde again. jess now wants to be blonde again.

yeah. we're going back to light again, but actually what we really love is the GOLD TONE that's come out of this. we're going to keep this blonde shade. all we're really going to do is we're not going to be doing a full bleach and tone like we were and taking her blonde to the root. i'm going to do it as a SHADOW ROOT so that she can still keep her natural at the very base and she doesn't have to come in as often to maintain.

we're just going to be moving her blonde up so that we don't see a huge difference between dark and blonde. we're kind of getting rid of like the OMBRE type of look and we're going into the shadow route. so, stay tuned. i'll show you what we do. it's going to look awesome.

this is what jess' hair looks like now. what we're going to do is we're going to pull up the blonde and we're going to take this nice lighter golden blonde and move it up to break up the darker natural blonde. what that's going to do is going to give it a SUNKISSED highlighting effect that looks very natural and that looks like this is just as natural color that just was lightened out in the sun.

we have jess' hair sectioned out. we have four quadrants sectioned out, two in the front and two in the back. you want to make sure that your front two quadrants are sectioned according to the part line just often where their hair's center parted. 

we just have it parted down the center. when creating a very natural sun-kissed highlight, you want to have the blonde highlights very DIFFUSED in the hair. we're going to be using a fine weave that's going to be a little bit thicker than a baby light, but we definitely want it very fine because we want to see the blonde, but we want it very diffused with the natural color.

turn the brush to the side and lightly FEATHER the lightener up into the dark blonde root. we're going to be staggering the amount of dark that we leave in each foil so that we can create a very seamless blend from dark blonde to light ends. our first foil is going to be put in very close to the root and then our next foil is going to be pulled back further, leaving more dark.

then, we're going to be alternating between this pattern of foils, so that we can really stagger the amount of dark that's left at the root and it's going to create a really beautiful shadow root effect that we see no harsh lines of where the darks stops and where the blonde starts.

to make a very natural highlighting effect, i like to leave a little bit of hair over top of the foil to act as a veil. this is going to just help diffuse the highlights a little bit more. also, what i did is i made sure my top foil in each quadrant was the foil that was staggered with more dark in it, just to give that shadowed root a little bit more natural of a feel.

here are her foils all applied. now, we're ready to get these foils out, so we're going to wash her hair and then put in her toner. go check out our website at nvenn.com. we have amazing products that you'll absolutely love. go to nvenn.com/giveaway for a chance to win free products every single month. we'll ship it to your door.

we have the toner all applied to her hair now, so we used a nine three, which is a nine gold. that's going to give it a beautiful warm blonde tone. we are all done with the highlights now and it has the perfect sunkissed look.

check this out. it looks like this is jess' natural hair and she's been out playing in the sun and this is how the color came out, so it's super beautiful. you can see how her blonde highlights are very diffused in her natural color.

if you guys have any questions about it, make sure you guys leave a comment below. try this look out for yourself. it is a great color to do for people that want to look very natural still, but they want to have a bit of lightness in their hair color.

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hello everyone. we're here with erin, again. she's co-starred in one or two videos before.

you can see here that she had a reddish burgundy color before.

she's pretty salt and pepper gray, about 50% in the front, and then more in the back. 

we want to give her the best grow out possible because she's actually sick of dying her hair. and, we talked about a whole bunch of different options, but this is the best. 

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basically, we wanted to bring her back as close to her natural as possible and then i'm going to show you as a closeup, but you can see it's super DIFFUSED. 

i actually did not cover her regrowth at all. it worked out to be a really great technique and we were both very happy with the result. i'm definitely happy.

SECTIONING it out

here's erin's sectioning PATTERN. i'm going to divide her hair into FIVE EQUAL SECTIONS, one on the top, two on the back, and two on the sides. the side sections, i want to divide just behind the ears. 

here's a closeup of aaron's hair. you could see here on her REGROW, she's about 50% gray. then she has this band of this medium brown color, and then her mid-shaft to ends is this really dark color.

what you can see here is that she's pretty salt and pepper gray. what i'm going to do since we want to give it the most DIFFUSED grow out, is i'm just going to give it a finer weave. since she does wear her hair straight and curly. 

APPLYING the lightener

what i'm going to do, and what i have been doing, is i'm just going to leave her regrowth. i'm going to FEATHER it on just like that so it's more diffused, but i'm not actually going to lighten it because i want to take her back as close to her natural as possible so that it has a very seamless grow out. if i lighten her regrowth, she's going to have to start this grow process all over again from step one.

 just like that, and i'm just going to continue that. 

what i've done in all the quadrants other than the top one is i just did slices and i'm using that same feathering technique where i'm just FEATHERING overtop slightly of where the color extends into, into her natural. and then after it's when we tone it, we'll be able to blend it out really beautifully.

here's a closeup of the lightener FEATHERED on. 

here, her FOILS are all done. there you go. and i'm actually going to rinse out the front because it's all ready to go. 

i'm just going to show you what her foils look like here. and that's perfect. i just wanted it just above a LEVEL SIX.

adding the TONER

here's erin, all wash and POWER DRIED. i'm going to be toning today with a 6.22 from j beverly hills. the reason why i wanted to lift it just pass a level six is to cut a little bit of that extra WARMTH.

finishing touches

here we have her all wash and power dried and it's actually perfect the way that it looks.

 I'm going to mist in some ‘fix’ and ‘replenish’ to get her ready to STYLE. 

this will be really good because she has a lot of natural texture that'll help us to blow it out straight.

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hello everyone. welcome to today's video. today's video is going to be a super quick one. i'm going to show you how to TONE OUT brassy and damaged hair.

before we get into all of that though, i do want to get a little housekeeping out of the way. do subscribe to our channel! hit the little bell so you're notified whenever we post new videos, which is every friday. the kind of videos we like to post are ones that will help to take your hairdressing game to the next level.

whether you are new in the industry, or someone a little wiser in the industry, it is always important to be continuing your learning. the only reason why my sister and i are where we are at today is because we never stop learning and you never know when you're going to get that one little trick that helps to take your game to the next level. also, if you have any questions or comments, leave them down below. we will get back to you. other than that, let's get started.

split ends are tricky

SPLIT ENDS and damaged hair are really tricky for two reasons. one, once the internal structure is compromised, there is nothing for new pigment to actually hold onto. so yes, it might look great when you first leave the salon, but after a couple of washes, it's going to fade away pretty quickly. two, split ends travel. once that protective layer, the outside of the hair shaft, starts to peel, it will continue to peel all the way up the shaft until you cut it off.

i have seen people with really long hair that have splits up to here and they're finally like, "okay, it's at the perfect length. let's get it healthy." i'm like, "well, it's going to be really challenging to get it healthy because, unless we're going to cut it into a short pixie, i won't be able to get everything."

yes, there's products on the market such as smooth, that help to mend split ends temporarily between cuts. basically it seals it to stop it from splitting. but eventually, you do have to cut it off.

how to check for damage

in today's video i'm going to show you a quick little trick on how to check your client's hair to see how far the splits have actually traveled. here is the before of her hair. as we know, hair has three structures. how we can know how far the split ends have traveled to is when you hold it up to the light, you see anything that's super, super see-through, the INTERNAL STRUCTURE has been compromised so much that it no longer holds any pigment; not even a toner. that's what we know we have to cut off too.

what we're going to do here is, we're going to choose ... you can see that's see-through there. we're going to use that as our guide, because what we want is it to be solid all across. you can see how ... all this breakage. we're basically going to cut from there, right like that.

one-to-one ratio

in this bowl, i've mixed 7.22 and j. beverly hills one-to-one because with this line, it is a little bit more translucent. and with her hair, there's a lot of warm pigment that i want to control, and that's why i'm doing it one-to-one, so that it's more opaque. and, i also threw in some continuum treatment.

that's it for today's video. i hope you enjoyed it, and more importantly, i hope you learn something. make sure to head on over to nvenn.com to check out all of our products and also make sure to head on over to enter our monthly product giveaway. you can do that at nvenn.com/giveaway. even if you've won before, the system randomly draws for a winner, so you might be able to win again. other than that, that's it for today, so have a beautiful weekend. bye.

hello, everyone. welcome to today's video. we are here with nicole. you can see her beautiful palette of virgin hair. it's very rare that you have someone that has such nice and natural hair. so today, she wants to go towards a melt of different purples to CREATE AN OMBRED LOOK, but there's a very specific way that we're going to do it so that it has the most longevity for her. so stay tuned. i'm going to be right back once we get her all sectioned out.

sectioning the hair

so here, i've just sectioned her hair into four basic sections, and what i'm going to do is i'm going to do the color all at once. she wants to have a darker purple melted into a lighter purple, and she wants her lighter purple to be as vibrant as possible. so in this bowl, i have 5.777 in j. beverly hills mixed one-to-one with 20 vol. i did that because i wanted the color to be as SATURATED as possible.

in this bowl, i have lightener, just with seven vol. because her hair is natural hair, it's going to lift really quickly, and i don't want it to go too light. otherwise, the color will fade too quickly.

diagonal sections

okay, so we're going to start here. what i'm going to do is i am going to do her sections diagonally, like this, so that it will have the biggest blend when it falls forward. there we go. and the nice thing about this color, all of her roots are going to be the same, so you don't have to be so perfect with your foils. you really just want to keep the lightener enclosed so it doesn't OXIDIZE, because then it starts working. so again, you've seen us do this in many videos.

you're just going to stagger the amount of dark violet that there is, so that there isn't like a dip-dye effect at the end. so i'm going to do this. and just make sure that the color is saturated all the way through.

lightener

and then i'm going to FEATHER ON THE LIGHTENER. and you just want to make sure that the color and the lightener does overlap a little bit, so that you're not left with any bands of brown anywhere. then with this next section, i'm just going to put a little bit of purple and a lot more lightener. and then with this section, i'll probably just do a couple inches of the dark, and then i'm going to continue this pattern all around all four quadrants of her head.

perfect color

here are the foils all processed. this is a perfect kind of color. you want it to be light enough for the purple to show through, but we don't want it so light that the color is going to fade. all color needs a little bit of pigment to grab onto, so that's going to be perfect to give the right amount of vibrancy and the right amount of longevity.

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finished product

here you can see how nice and diffuse the color will be. here's her hair all washed and power-dried. the reason why you want a power dry is hair is like a sponge. when it's too damp, it won't be able to absorb anything else, because it would be too saturated with water.

now i'm going to be applying the purple. i'll be using the indigo color from the joico line, and we'll be right back when it's done.

here we are with the hair all power-dried. now, i'm going to put a couple products in there. when you have these kind of bright colors, or really any bright color, or any color in general, the most important product you want to be using in your hair is a heat protector. you know when you throw your shirts into the dryer and they come out that little bit more faded? 

that same thing is happening with your hair between every layer of heat. so really, to keep these hair colors vibrant, you really want to layer on the heat protector. you're going to do a layer before you blow dry, and then another layer before you flatiron.

and with it, you want to mist it everywhere. like so, in between, underneath. because what this does is it puts a thin barrier between your hair and your heat element, so that your heat element is actually burning this and not burning the hair. this is a little fix. i put in also a little bit of oil.

so that's it for today's video. i hope you enjoyed it. if you have any questions or comments, leave them down below. i will get back to you. do subscribe to our channel. we release new videos every friday. and hit the little bell so that you're notified whenever we post the videos. until then, have a great day. bye.

hello everyone. welcome to today's video. today i'll be teaching how to get the perfect blonde. we've all had brunettes sitting in our chairs before that say, "i want to be as blonde as possible and i want it to look natural." so, in today's video, i'll be going over little tips and tricks on how to make the blonde look like it's growing out of their head that way.

before we get into that though, let's get a little housekeeping out of the way. do subscribe to our channel. hit the little bell so you're notified whenever we post new videos, which is every friday. the kind of videos that we like to release are ones that help hairstylists take their game to the next level. the reason why i am where i am today is because i never stopped learning. so, whether you are new in the industry or a little wiser in the industry, there's always something that you can be learning. do leave your questions and comments down below; we will get back to you and yeah, that's it. so let's get started.

sectioning pattern

here's the SECTIONING PATTERN that i use. i divided the hair into five sections; one on top, two on the sides that go just behind the ear and the back is divided into two sections. so here with our foils, what i'm going to be doing is angling them all diagonal back, and i do that because it gives a really blended and diffused finish. so i'm just going to go like this. one thing about sectioning in the back side of the head is you want to make sure that you section just behind the ears, so that these foils stay nice and tight. otherwise, they have to bend all the way around the widest part and they get really loose.

and you're just going to follow this pattern all the way up until the top of the section. and in the back i'm choosing to do SLICES because she wants to be very, very heavily blonde, and this'll give the finish of her being almost solid blonde. so, here what i'm going to do is i'm going to do this little piece; she has all these little baby hairs around her hair line and if you don't get these little ones in, she's going to have a patch of darkness when she puts her hair up, or pulls it behind her ear.

so, i have these little foils. i'm going to just put one first. right here just into her little side burn. and her hair is so fine it may not even look like it needs one, but it will. if you don't do one, you'll regret it in the end; it'll have a dark spot. just put one right there.

cleaning up the baby hairs

and then i'm going to put another one because you can see there's a lot of baby hairs up here too. so i'm going to angle it a little bit higher this time like that. these ones i'm going to do DIAGONAL FORWARD and i'm going to do that all the way up. and a good way to know what the FIVE-SECTION PATTERN is, is always parallel the part line. so we're going to go this way. so again, miss beautiful virginia here has all these little baby hairs here.

what i'm going to do, because she wears her hair this way... and it doesn't really matter because i'm going to use a weave anyway, but i'm just going to take a thin section like this, and then everything on top i'm going to weave, because i want it to fall without any stripiness. and because she wants to be pretty heavily blonde, you can do a thicker weave like so.

take out dark leftovers

and i can see what i left out last time, right? so i'm going to go and pick through the other stuff so she doesn't have a whole bunch of dark leftover. you can see how much more dark, double the amount of dark there. and i won't necessarily do that on anyone. if they wanted a little bit more dimension, i'd probably pick the old highlights that i did last time, but because she wants to be super, super blonde, i'm going to take anything that has any extra dark and foil that this time.

the other thing you want to do is you want to make sure that you're getting right to the hairline again so that what she sees, she's not seeing any dark there. here's her foils all done. you can see they're all angled in not all different directions, but some are DIAGONAL BACK and some are diagonal forward. and then can you tilt your head towards me? oh yeah. there you go. see, it looks like a little star.

before toner

here's her hair before the toner is applied. okay, here we have her washed and power dried. now i'm going to throw in some replenish and some fix. these two are the best together for styling. it's going to give her a nice smooth finish and a lot of body. so, we're just going to put this in. and fix is the best blow dry agent ever. i do not like to style hair without it. it gives tons of weightless body.

finished product

here is her hair all done. the sun is a bit dim, so here's what her hair looks like by natural light. that's it for today's video. i hope you enjoyed it and more than that, i hope that you learned something. i don't know if you knew this, but 10% of the stylists in the industry make 90% of the money. and how you get into that 10% is you need to learn everything that you need to learn and execute it at the best level that you can.

also, head over to nvenn.com to check all of our products. you're going to love them all. they have the strength to style thick hair, and they are invisible enough that they can style fine hair. we also give away free products every month at www.nvenn.com/giveaway. we draw for the winner on the first of every month. so if by chance you don't win, make sure to enter again. so with that, that's it for today's video and i will see you next week. bye.

hey guys. so we're here with brittany today. we're going to do a pretty fun color job. so we're going to be getting rid of her root color. we're going to make sure it BLENDS from root to ends. 

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her ends are quite dark on the ends here. i would say they'd probably be about a LEVEL 3. 

and here she has a little bit of natural, but she also has a little bit of color right there. so now what we're going to do is, we're going to color this down to match her ends. 

the NATURAL route

but one thing that me and brittany had talked about is that she likes to be more natural and she doesn't like to put a lot of chemicals onto her scalp or onto her skin. and i totally get that.

so, with hair color, it's come a long way. and the thing is is that yes, they do have chemicals in there, but a lot of them aren't, are SAFE, and they've been tested for decades and decades and decades. and so, we always encourage our clients to do what they're comfortable with, but you're always gonna have people that want to go kind of zero chemicals and not have it touch their skin or scalp at all. so what we're going to do a little bit different of a color process. 

i'm actually going to be doing a back to back foil. so we're not going to be touching her scalp. we're not going to be coloring it from roots to ends, like how you typically would see a color. and yet we're going to put her whole head into foils. so what we're going to do is we're going to get in as close as we possibly can to the scalp with the foils, and we're gonna do them in thin enough sections so we don't have super thick foils that pushes the color basically further from the scalp.

so if we do thinner sections, we're going to be able to get in really nice and tight. but leave that just about a millimeter to two millimeters of space so that she's not getting any color on her scalp. 

so this is going to be something that you can use on your clients that's more health conscious. right now there's a huge movement towards healthy living, toxin-free chemical free. and so this is manic organic. and so this is a really good way for you to keep a client that maybe is thinking about getting rid of color or get a client that is really looking to maybe change up their natural hair color, but they really don't want that chemical touch onto their scalp. so, and think about it this week guys, this is going to help you build your business. it's going to help attract more clients. it's going to also help you put more dollars into your bank account because this service doing a back to back foil is not a simple service. it's a double foil. and guess what? you guys get to charge accordingly for it!

getting started

this is what brittany's hair looks like. now you can see she has this brown color for her roots and then her ends are a darker color. 

we're color matching her ends right now and we can see i have a LEVEL 3 put up against it and we can tell that that matches perfectly. so that's what we're going to be going in to color the ROOTS. 

all right, we have her hair all SECTIONED OUT. what we have is four quadrants, all the way around her head.

what you guys want to do is you want to make sure that we are using her PART LINE and sectioning out the front two quadrants. the reason why we're going to do that is because we are going to really make sure on the top and in the fronts that we're getting this as close as possible so that we're not going to see any lines of DEMARCATION between her natural hair and the dark color. 

here are her first two quadrants of her head. all FOILED. 

PERFECTING the part

all right, you can see now we have most of brittany's hair, all foil. i'm going to show you what we're doing here on this top little section. so in here you can see around the front, this is very important. she has a lot of like little tiny baby hairs. so you're going to have to make sure to put these in the foils. and if you do not, she's going to have these HALOS of bright, natural color. 

so what i'm going to do is i'm going to be putting this stuff into its own little foil. we're coming, we're taking a foil underneath all the little hairs like that. so we're making sure to catch them all and that we're really TAUT AND TIGHT to this is the scalp.

we're doing very THIN SECTIONS. and the thinner the sections we do, the closer to the scalp that we could get. so we're painting in very, very close to the scalp, to the edge of the foil here.

it's about a MILLIMETER that's not being colored, which would be like a week later anyways. it really is not that much growth anyway. and then we fold that up. we could see how close to the edge or right to the scalp. so we're gonna work our way through and we're going to continue this all the way up and then we're done with that.

okay, so as we get to the part here, this is very important. this is where her part line is, so we're going to bring the foils in as close as we possibly can. again, making sure that all of these little hairs in here are colored so that we don't have any, just stray light brown reddish hairs that are not colored. 

all right, we have brittanys foils ALL DONE. now check them out. so we got them all packed in there very well. okay, so once we let it process, we're going to rinse it out. now i'll show it to you afterwards so you can see what it looks like.

now we're going to take the foils out and we're going to add a little bit of water to EMULSIFY before we wash it out.

SAME results, LESS chemicals

all right, there you guys have it. now brittany's hair's all done. you don't see that big amount of light brown where it goes into dark, dark, dark brown and look at her roots. 

so we can see really up close right when we get in there that there is just the slightest amount, one millimeter of natural. but you can't tell, you cannot tell at all. i like brittany says, it kind of looks like she has like one week of growth that you really can't even notice a difference at all. look how nice and SHINY that is. so she gets the benefits of coloring her hair but not having any chemicals touch her scalp at all!

we used our 'replenish' restoration oil, so it is awesome.it smells amazing it totally SOFTENS and RESTORES the hair. when brittany came in, we didn't cut it. we haven't colored at the ends but her, her ends were so dry and a little bit split, but just with that oil in it, all it does is just goes in and fills the cracks and crevices. 

so go check our website nvenn.com/giveaway and enter to try and win these products. you can have beautiful soft hair like this and this! it's all pure essential oils. it's got its own aromatherapy blend in there. so no cheap fragrances, no cheap scents.

okay guys, if you have any questions, leave a comment below. we'll make sure to get right back to you. we put out videos every friday and we'll see you guys next week. bye! 

p.s.- go check out brittany. michael checks instagram as well. she's killing it on there, so if you want any personal branding stuff, anything about social media, she's your girl!