BROWN hair with BLONDE highlights
hi, everyone. today we're here with laurie. you can see this beautiful dark brown color that she has. what we're doing today is we're going to try to SOFTEN OUT the grow out as the gray grows in.
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she grows in relatively gray, but she loves being a brunette. and we've tried to go all these different kind of colors to blend it out.
what we're going to do today is we're going to put a really, really dense set of foils in and lift it out to a really ASHY LEVEL 8-ISH. and that will just be enough to lighten it, but it'll keep her in the brunette family.
let’s get started
here is laurie's hair all SECTIONED out. i have it sectioned into five sections, one on the fringe, two on the sides, and two on the back.
i'm going to be using DIAGONAL SLICES so that the result is really diffused.
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here you can see her hair is PROCESSING nicely. a lot of the extra warmth has been stripped out, so i'm going to rinse it.
here is her hair all RINSED out. it is exactly what i want it to look like. you can see the roots are a little lighter. so what i'm going to do for a little extra deposit is i'm going to put 1/3 6 in and 2/3 7 in my bowl to TONE her hair.
on her ENDS here, i'm just going to put on 7.22 to give it a really ASHY feel. but if you look at how diffused it is, this is going to really break up her gray as it grows out. and overall, she'll still look like a brunette.
so that's it for today's video. i hope you enjoyed it. i'm going to try to get a clip of laurie's hair as it grows out so you can see how nice and DIFFUSED it is. she's going to get to stay her beautiful brunette color and it's also going to help to mask a little bit of that demarcation that she has because she's so heavily gray.
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HIGHLIGHTING PLACEMENT for microlink extensions
hey guys. we're back with leah and her extensions. last time, we showed you how to match extensions to her hair. so what we're going to do is show you today is how to retouch a color when you have micro-link extensions in the hair.
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so i'll show you what we got to do to work around the extensions and the look how beautiful they look when they are all finished! i'll show you step-by-step how we do that.
assessing and prepping the hair
this is what we're getting started with. so she has a ton of NEW GROWTH and she has her wefts and tracks in her hair. so we're going to have to work around these to do a retouch on all of her hair.
so the goal is that we want all her hair except what is in the weft to be colored. so we want to make sure to get everything underneath and in between.
start by sectioning the hair. we have a HORSE SHOE SECTION at the top, which is divided into two.
then we have all the wefts SECTIONED OUT together in the center here. we are going to start foiling on the bottom, so we have the hair underneath on the sides and underneath in the nape and we're going to start foiling from underneath and work our way up. the key with doing any color placement when you're foiling here is to be ORGANIZED, especially in this situation.
we want to make our life very easy working with the extensions and we want to make sure that we are getting all the hair and we're not missing anything.
FOILING the hair
starting on the very bottom here, we put in all our foils.
now we're going to pull down our FIRST TRACK. what we want to do is pull down all the hair that goes all the way up into the second track, so all the loose hair is going to be here that we're going to foil, so we want to make sure to get everything in BETWEEN both wefts.
now we have all the hair in between the first and the second track foiled.
we're going to move onto the SIDE SECTIONS now that are still underneath the weft, so we're going to foil in all of the hair on the sides.
then, work through to the other side and we're going to do the SAME THING. we can see now we have all of the side sections foiled now as well as the underneath.
we are now going to pull down the next track of hair and we're going to FOIL all the hair in between. we just have one thin section here so it's going to be very easy to fill this one in.
once we take down our last weft, the entire bottom portion of the head foiled. all we have to worry about now is the top horseshoe, which is very simple.
the top of the head
we are going to take that one half of the horseshoe and we're going to split that into HALF and we are going to foil the FRONT section of each side first.
you can see now we have both front sections left and right done and now we're ready to move on to the two back sections of the horseshoe.
with that all done now we have the entire head FOILED, all the crown, everything in between the wefts. we are going to have a really nice completed look with this where we don't have any hair or new growth that is missing.
we are ready to WASH OUT now and TONE. so let's take her to the sink and pull these foils out. i'm going to tone her new growth with the 9/3s. that's going to match perfectly to the rest of her hair.
there you guys have it. we're all done. leah's hair, her color is ALL FINISHED.
that's how you want to do it when you have micro-link extensions in the hair.
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blonde to BROWN hair
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today is going to be a really quick one and it's going to be how to formulate to take blonde hair back to dark.
as you see here, she has this much REGROWTH and the rest of it is all blonde. so to start we're going to need TWO FORMULAS, one for regrowth to lighten it to the color that we want, and also to neutralize any warmth that's going to come through. then, the second formula to start is going to be the fill formula.
we get lots of questions on why we choose the fill formulas that we do, so i thought i would shoot a quick little video and hear a little reasoning behind our logic for what i am doing. and then after that, i'm going to color the hair back to dark.
you'll want to use a FILL COLOR anytime you want to finish result that is three levels or darker than what you're starting with. a fill color will prevent your finish color from looking muddy and unsaturated. it's also going to prevent the client from getting any PREMATURE FADING, so it will give them the longest-lasting results.
the FILL process
okay, so what i've done here is i've gone ahead and put the 4.1 on all of her REGROWTH. i did leave this little space because i want to make sure that i'm melting the 4.1 in with the fill color. so you can see here i've only taken it to the top, just going to COMB out all of the tangles, take the 4.1 and make sure that it's MELTED all away. i just want to make sure that i'm covering all that darkness because i don't want any unnecessary warmth, and i do want the color to be perfectly even all the way through.
so then i'm going to COMB it down and then i'm going to put her fill color, which is 5.35 on her ends. i chose 5.35 because it has a little bit of GOLD and a little bit of MAHOGANY, which is like a RED VIOLET BASE. it's going to be the perfect fill color to take her back to a level four.
this is her hair FILLED and you can see it looks perfect. it has just the amount of warmth that i need to have the color look really saturated when it's finished. now, i'm just going to go ahead and cover her from root ends with level four.
STYLING
here's her level four all WASHED OUT. you can see her natural texture coming through. if i was just going to leave it like this, styling it later would be an absolute nightmare. because it'd be so hard to straighten and it would be really frizzy.
so what i'm going to do is pour in some 'replenish'. this is great for filling in all the cracks and crevices of her hair. you're going to see when i power dry it how SMOOTH it actually becomes. i love this product. it makes my hair feels so amazing.
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blonde HIGHLIGHTED hair: coloring hair EXTENSIONS
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when someone has blonde highlights, they typically have a ton of different shades of blonde in their hair.
you can't just go out and buy one or two shades of blonde extensions and put that in the hair and expect them to MATCH.
what you need to do is you need to put a BLEND of all the TONES in the hair. the goal of extensions is that you don't want them to look like extensions. you want them to match exactly to their hair.
if you take a look at leah's hair here, we can see she has a lot of different tones in there.
the STYLE of extensions
i custom ordered hair through nvenn. we get 100% RAW EUROPEAN VIRGIN HAIR. it's such a beautiful hair. it's also a fine texture and it's naturally a super blonde color, so it's perfect for leah's hair and it's going to match her texture perfectly.
here is leah's hair BEFORE extensions, we can see a lot of different tones of blonde in there.
each track actually has FOUR WEFTS in it and each weft is actually colored a different color of blonde. we're STACKING them on top of each other.
the reason why i'm putting four tracks into every weft is because leah wants her hair to feel very FULL. she wants a lot of hair. you can customize this based on what your clients want and need with how full they want their hair to feel.
COLORING the extensions
i'm going to be doing COLOR SWATCHES on pieces of the exact extension hair.
the reason being is that this extension hair may not color in the same way that leah's hair does, so in to ensure we're getting the SAME COLOR TONES, i want to make sure that we're testing out the colors we want so that we get exact colors we want in leah's hair.
we have a lighter blonde level 10 here on the right. then we have next to that a level 8 and then after that we have a level 9 and then after that we have a 7.
here are our extensions all LAID OUT ready to be colored in each track. we're going to have all four colors of blonde.
you're going to paint the extensions, making sure to fully SATURATE the extensions through to the other side.
you want to make sure to get all the hair including the WEFT, so the weft is also colored as well. we're going to completely paint the one side. then we're going to FLIP the extensions over and paint at the other side to make sure that all the hair is colored and we don't have any light bits peeking through.
now we're going to flip the extensions over. you can see on the back here that the color has not SATURATED through the other side.
we're going to lead to extensions down FLAT, made sure that the hair is sitting flat. that's the best way to give it an even color. next we're going paint the extensions on this side. making sure to fully saturate the extensions.
now we’ll EMULSIFY it together and COMB through it. we’re making sure that we definitely have color saturated throughout. starting on the bottom, work your way up. like any sort of hair combing technique that you do- don’t rip through the hair.
always remember to emulsify into the ROOTS
and we're DONE. you can see the color is super saturated and even we don't have any light pieces of extensions peaking through that have not been colored.
we have our four shades all colored in. now the reason why we're doing four shades of colors is because our client has tons of different shades of blonde. in order for this to match, we need to mimic what she has in her hair. so this is a 7 and 8 and 9 and that's the level 10 on the far right that we didn't need to color.
BEFORE washing, we've added some water and we're gonna just emulsify in for a couple of minutes before washing with shampoo and conditioner.
ASSEMBLING the tracks
here are her wefts all finished and colored. now we're ready to put these together. i want you to take note here-
all extensions have a portion where the hair is sewn in underneath. you can see these SHORT BITS that kind of stick out. what you want to do is you want to make sure these shorter bits are on the INSIDE of all of your tracks.
since there's going to be four wefts in every single track, we have to use a special technique to sew these together so that the tracks are not too thick. i'm going to show you is a STAGGERING TECHNIQUE where we have one weft higher than the next one a bit lower and the one after that a bit higher and the one after that a little bit lower. the reason why we're going to do that is because it's going to keep your track as calm, packed and as thin as possible.
PROTIP: we want to keep this staggering pattern in the wefts while we're sewing them together. so what i'm going to use is a little bit of super glue just to hold the staggering pattern into the wefts. once we have the wefts all together, we’re now going able to sew this down with all four of them put together.
only put in a SMALL DOT of super glue to help you hold the weft together. we don't want to have super glue across the entire weft. this is just to help hold the weft together so that we can sew it the way that we want to after the first two are stuck together.
now we're going to be putting the third one on. we're going to be attaching this to the HIGHER weft, which is the very first weft.
what that's going to do is keep everything really nice and COMPACT here and where you take a look at the top here. instead of you seeing three wefts, you see only two.
now it's time for the fourth weft and this is going to be STAGGERED a little bit lower now at the same level as the second weft.
with that all finished, we can see now that this is all held together nicely. we have our whole track here and we can see now this is the THINNEST we are going to be able to make these tracks having four wefts in each little track.
the needle i'm going to be using is a CURVED EMBROIDERY NEEDLE. it makes it a little bit easier to sew through the wefts of they extensions. we’ll start by putting in a very TIGHT KNOT. we’ll create about five knots to make sure the hair does not get pulled through the weft.
we're going to be using a 100% POLYESTER THREAD because it is a stronger thread. so it's not going to break in the extensions because we want to make sure that these last.
we're putting in our first stitch. so you're gonna first go through the two HIGHER WEFTS, which is weft number 1 and number 3.
now when we're moving the needle and back around, we're going to be going through the LOWER WEFTS. so now this is going to be with number 2 and 4.
we are going to continue on with the same pattern and finish off the track of hair. first going through the top two higher wefts. then next going through the bottom two lower wefts and then alternating until we're done the entire track of hair.
once we get to the end of the track, again, we are going to put in SEVERAL KNOTS to make sure that it isn't going to come loose. i would put in, three to five knots onto the end of this to make sure and make sure that the thread is very nice and snug, very close to the weft so that we don't have that not moving around or does it feel loose at all.
now we are done and ready to put this into leah's hair. so take a look at these.
on the bottom we have the level 7, then we have the level 9.
on top of that, we have the level 8 and on the very top left it's going to be the lightest blond, the level 10.
let's test it in her hair to make sure the color matches well - and it looks PERFECT.
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there you guys have it . that's how we did leah's extensions. blending those four tones together created the perfect look for her extensions so that her hair matches the extensions perfectly.
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hair color technique BLONDE and BROWN hair
hi, beauty activists. we're here again with sonia, and we're going to be RETOUCHING her color.
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she already has the color that we want in there. so the top half of her head is blonde, and it's going to be just a bleach and TONE. and the bottom half of her head is actually going to be a darker color, which we have colored to her natural.
it's faded since then, so we will be recoloring it. but i'll show you how to section this out so you can do this and apply the color in a really clean fashion and so that we can get her color looking amazing.
APPLYING the lightener
here is her hair all SECTIONED out. we're ready to apply the color.
so the key is that you want to have CLEAN sections so that when you're applying the color, it's not going to get messy, because we want to make sure that the lightener on the blonde is not touching any of the hair that we want dark, and that we don't want any of the color that's going to be on the dark touching any of the blonde.
we have the blonde and the dark DIVIDED. and then what we did, because the blonde is quite a bit of hair, we just have it divided in half on the top, and then we just have our FRINGE section out on its own because that's just going to be easier to do quickly first, before we move on to the side sections.
we are going to start in the front fringe section, and we are going to carefully APPLY the lightener only to the new growth of the hair.
you want to be very careful NOT TO OVERLAP any of the lightener onto the previously lightened blonde ends. because it's so blonde already, it doesn't need to be lightened out anymore. and we want to prevent OVER-PROCESSING of the hair.
this is very key when you have clients that are bleached to the root because you do not want to sacrifice the INTEGRITY of the hair. so every time they come in, if you were to paint over onto the previously lightened blond, you would see the integrity of the hair continue to become more damaged and more damaged. so be very, very clean and only color the lightener on the NEW GROWTH.
now let's move on to the assigned sections of the blonde.
what i did with this whole half a section of the head is that i actually split that into half so that we're going to be working in quarter sections. that just gives us more control, and again, just keeps everything very organized and clean.
we have the LIGHTENER all applied now to the top half of the head.
we can just clip it out of the way so that we don't have to worry about it anymore. you can see how it's very clean and we don't have anything touching the dark on the bottom.
the UNDER LAYER
now we're going to be moving on to the dark half on the BOTTOM of the head. we are going to make sure to use a comb to make a very clean application of the color. we're going to start by applying at the back, very bottom of the nape.
and we're going to be doing DIAGONAL sections and coloring the root first.
so we're going to make sure that all the roots are covered, we have no spots missing. afterwards, it's very easy for us to go through and color the ENDS. you can go through in the same fashion and take sections using your comb, and color the ends with the same color. we're going to place it onto a foil so that the color is not getting sonia's back all dirty.
PROTIP: whenever doing a color, i always start in the BACK and i work my way FORWARD, because once you get to the front sections, you're able to now pull it back so that all the hair is in the back here on that one foil that we had protecting her back. it keeps it very organized and very clean, and again, we don't have to worry about color being all over the place.
we have her color all APPLIED now. we are going to just allow it to PROCESS for the full amount of time.
we're going to check the blonde. once it's ready to rinse out, then we will go do that and tone the hair.
we have sonia now at the sink. we can see her blonde looks really, really great.
we have it to the perfect color that we want, a pale yellow. so now we're ready to RINSE out.
after being rinsed out, we have applied the TONER now. what we use to tone the hair is a half 8p and half 10p in the matrix color sync.
the pains of wearing white with no apron, i got color on my shirt. so there's a little bit of hairspray on there so the color doesn't oxidize.
the FINAL LOOK
but here is sonia's hair all DONE. look how fabulous this blonde looks. super clean color.
the blond looks amazing with the dark underneath. it's also a lot easier for sonia to maintain because it's a quick job in the salon rather than what we were doing with foiling her entire head.
till NEXT TIME
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how to do HIGHLIGHTS and COLOR at the same time
veronica here! ally is back in my chair. you probably recognize her from the drip dye series. (if not, check them out here). ally’s wedding is next week so we’re going to touch up her hair. but instead of doing lowlights, we’re going to HIGHLIGHT and COLOR her hair at the same time.
SECTIONING the hair
we have sections for…
- top / front of the head
- the fringe
- the sides of the head
- back of the head
- the crown
- both sides of the nape
FOILING the hair
we’re going to start with the FRINGE. ally parts her hair to her right, so we want to choose our foil placement according to the color effect we want to create. the foils are going to be put in at an angle running parallel to the part line. this will create more blended, diffused highlights. for more chunky highlights, you can place the foils perpendicular to the part line.
with the front section all done, you can see how delicate we’re being with the foils. if you’re going to HIGHLIGHT and COLOR at the same time you need to be very TIDY with your foils. all the hair on the left side, will be left highlighted. the hair on the right side will be colored.
as i’m foiling the hair, i'll also color the hair in between the foils so we don’t need to lift them to get to the roots after. we’re pulling the hair that has been left out of the foils to the side (closest to ally’s face).
and her foils are COMPLETE!
COLORING the rest of the hair
since we’ve been so meticulous with foiling ally’s hair, we don’t have to move anything to COLOR her ends.
here’s the after shot of her hair/ foils. notice how ORGANIZED this color application is. not only are her foils clean, her face and cape are also clean.
wash, tone, and STYLE
now we’re ready to RINSE the hair. we’ll be toning with pravana’s express toner ‘smokey silver’.
with toning said and done, you can see the BEAUTIFUL BLONDE ally has. if you have any questions or comments, as us @nvennhairbeauty.
how to do LOWLIGHTS for gray hair
veronica here! today i'm going to show you a super quick video on how to BLEND OUT gray hair. oftentimes, we have clients that want to get rid of some of their gray hair, but maybe not necessarily all of their gray hair. they want to have a color that's going to be low maintenance because if they have quite a bit of gray and you put a solid color on them, what's going to happen is that in two or three weeks? they're going to see that great big line of demarcation.
clients like amanda don't want to have to come into the salon all the time like that, so what I'm going to do is an awesome LOWLIGHTS technique that breaks up the gray, that gets rid of a good chunk of the gray, and softens the whole look.
take a look at amanda's hair. she has a ton of gray new growth and you can see some dark color on her ends. she's already had some brown put into her hair before. that brown that's her natural color, so what i'm going to be is alternate between slices and weave. reason for those slices being i do want to see those thicker pieces of color coming through. with your clients, you get to play with whether you want to do all slices, slices and weaves, or all weaves.
where people don't want to see the grays is at the top and on the sides around the front, so that's exactly where we're going to be putting the FOILS. we're going to be doing the entire top section, the back crown, and everything on the front on the sides. we're going to be leaving out the back section in the nape because that's not very visible. also, typically in the back area in the nape, we have less grays, so the hair looks darker anyways, and we want to really, with this look, mimic what her hair would look like naturally if there were just less gray.
we now have blended out the gray and we see this very nice, natural looking brown color still with gray, but less gray. the great thing about this is that it adds the color back into the hair, it's going to be low maintenance, we're not going to have to worry about amanda coming in every three weeks to do a root touch-up because we can see where that line starts. all in all, this is a beautiful color to do on your clients that want to freshen up their look but not completely get rid of their gray.
let me know if you have any questions about it. leave a comment below. i will make sure to get that answered for you right away.
#carebeyondhair: hair DONATION
here we are with little gabby today. she just got her haircut. she's donating all of her hair to make wigs for little girls that don't have hair. it’s beautiful that she's starting at such a young age, giving back to the COMMUNITY.
she lost a lot of inches today in some places. 14 inches. there's going to be a really lucky little girl out there. at nvenn, we believe in #carebeyondhair. to change the world through hair and beauty, you need to give back to your #community.
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3 tips for applying FOILS to LONG HAIR
this video will be demonstrating how to do foils on long hair. it probably comes down to the middle of her back. and now she looks like a beautiful mermaid with her new color
this video will be demonstrating how to do foils on SUPER long hair. vanessa’s hair comes down to the middle of her back. she looks like a beautiful mermaid with her new color
i'll be linking videos down below in the description on videos that are similar to the color placement that i'm using. if you wanted reference for that.
tip number one
tip number one for working with really long hair is you want to choose the appropriate FOIL SIZE for your second foil.
you don't want it to be to be longer than necessary because the extra length will just be excessive OVERHANG and that’ll make it easier for your foils to SLIDE.
tip number two
you can put some lightener onto your foil first before you put the hair on it. that's going to help the hair to STICK, especially for the heavier sections. also, having some lightener on the bottom of your section will make it easier to saturate the hair with lightener.
PRO TIP: make sure that you're placing the lightner just below where you want to start the FEATHERING so that you don't end up with any harsh lines or color where it’s not supposed to be.
tip number three
make sure that when you're placing your second foil that you place it underneath with a little bit of OVERLAP underneath the first one. this is going to ensure that it stays nice and snug when you fold it up.
FINISHING with products
'replenish' and 'fix' are two of my favorite products. i never style hair without them.
'replenish' is designed to fill in all the cracks and crevices of your hair, making it look smooth, healthy, and shiny.
'fix' is the most amazing blow dry agent EVER. i just lightly mist it into everyone's hair. this product will dry weightless no matter the texture or the density of the hair. even super fine hair WON'T BE WEIGHED DOWN.
then POWER DRY the products in and style as usual. these products will give your finished look a smooth and voluminous finish. that's it for today's video.
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FOILING TECHNIQUE + how to create a WARM TONE hair color that isn’t brassy
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hello everyone. today we're here with sheena. we are going to be showing you how to get this beautiful ROSE PEDAL color.
WARM COLORS look BEAUTIFUL on ethnic skin. getting the right tone becomes the challenge. ethnic hair naturally carries more warmth! in our experience, there is a small window of time before the client thinks that their hair looks TOO WARM aka BRASSY. i'm going to show you a really cool technique that will give you a warm (but not brassy) finish. in a nut shell, all you need to do is lift the hair slightly past the level that that color “normally lives” and then finish with your final desired color. ---this will all make sense once you go through the step by step---
lets jump right in
so here we have sheena all SECTIONED out. i'm starting with just the four sections.
in this bowl, i have blondeme with 20 vol and cool additive.
sheena actually lives down south now. since i only get to see her once every 8months to a year, i'm going to leave a little bit of a VEIL around the perimeter to mask any major regrowth that will happen. as you can tell she has very THICK, COARSE HAIR. for this reason, i want to make sure that i make her highlights “CHUNKY ENOUGH” sp that people can see these flashes of color come through.
i'm going to be using diagonal back sections and i want to bring up the color fairly high.
I strategically added BLUE ADDITIVE to my lightener to help cut any excess warmth.
PRO TIP: natural warmth that’s exposed when you lighten the hair isn’t very pretty but artificial warmth is GORGEOUS! adding blue additive to your lightener formulas will cut the warmth out that you DON’T want so that you can PUT BACK IN the warmth that YOU DO WANT.
you’ve seen us do this foil pattern before. I’m going to back comb the hair and feather on the lightner according to how much color i want to see. for sheena, i will vary the height that i bring the lightener up to. i'm also going to leave some hair out between each foil.
as you can see by my tail comb, i will be bringing the lightener up HIGHER for this section.
PROTIP: if you are going to PRE-APPLY lightener to your foil to help it stick, make sure to apply it in the same pattern that you will be feathering the color on. here i ANGLED the lightener in the same way that i will be applying the color to the hair.
skip a section. then on this next foil, i am only bringing the color up to about the middle of the hair. so i had one high up, low, high up and then mid range.
PRO TIP: set aside any hair that you would want to leave out for the veil on top.
i’m going to WEAVE the sections above the parietal ridge. now, you've heard me say before; the size of the weave is really DEPENDANT ON HER HAIR TEXTURE. the thickness of the weave that i am showing you would be really chunky for someone if they had fine hair. any finer of a weave on sheena’s hair wouldn’t be very visible.
sheena wants to see more flashes of color up top so i will do BACK TO BACK foils on everything above her parietal ridge; the bottom foil will be a slice and the foil on top will be a weave.
again, remember to vary the heights that you are bringing your lightener up to for the slices.
Then of course, leave out your veil at the top of the quadrant.
FRAMING her face
she wants to see a lot of LIGHTNESS around her face so i will bring up her foils quite high.
i’m going to follow the same foiling pattern for the most part; i will leave out a section of dark between each foil. the only thing that will change is how i foil above the parietal ridge. rather than doing the foils back to back, i am just going to weave each section (i am still going to leave a section of dark in between each foil, i’m just skipping the slices).
so here are her foils ALL DONE. we can see these lighter pieces from her color before. i'm going to take a 5.8 from the j beverly hills line to cover it up. it is a really beautiful light brown color that is pretty neutral. it is from their mediterranean line which has a base made from gold and ash.
i'm going to go ahead and cover up all of these lighter pieces here.
now here's her hair all done. we can see it's perfect to RINSE.
PRO TIP: it's pretty safe to assume that most people despise having brassy hair. people that have a natural level 4 or darker will pull warmth A LOT easier than people that are a natural level 5 or 6. you can really cut the brassiness for those dark haired clients that want a level 7 finished result, if you just lift the hair to a level 8 and tone it back to a level 7. the underlying pigment at a level 7 is orange. if you lift slightly passed that, it won't expose any orange as it fades, therefore it'll fade less brassy.)
here's sheena’s hair all rinsed out. it is actually perfect. we can see a little bit of that RESIDUAL WARMTH, which is something that i want. i didn't want the under pigment of orange to be too intense and i do want some warmth so that the color doesn't fade too quickly.
now we're going to put a rose gold toner on (from pravana express toners) knowing that it's not going to look like rose gold. sheena's hair is showing a decent amount of warmth so with this rose gold over it, it'll end up looking like a soft peach.
PRO TIP: what you want to think about when you're formulating ANY FORMULA, is how do i want the color that is "showing or exposed" to change? think of it like a math equation; "do i want to add from it or take something at from it?
-- if you need more info on how to formulate, you can watch our law of color video.
the color is DONE! now to style
okay, so here you can see she that the color looks beautiful! you'll be able to see the color better when it's dry. today i want to show you how you can get her hair straight without having to use a flat iron! and this technique will get it really, really SMOOTH.
cocktailing nvenn’s ‘replenish’ and nvenn’s ‘fix’ together is my favorite. i flat ironed my hair like once a year because of this trick. you can use this combo of products in anyone's hair and it'll smooth out their hair BETTER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE! watch all this texture that's in her hair disappear!
‘replenish’ fills in all those cracks and crevices in the hair. blow drying it into the hair, gives it a really SLEEK finish.
'fix' is an amazing TEXTURE CHANGER. whether you're putting it into straighter hair to scrunch it or into wavy hair to blow out, it is amazing either way!
i’m going to evenly mist nvenn’s ‘fix’ all over and run some nvenn's 'replenish' through her ends and then blow out the hair.
check out how STRAIGHT her hair is from just power drying her hair with just my fingers!
now that it's about 95% dry, i'm going to take a paddle brush through it to just smooth it out a bit more.
the COMPLETED look
so that's it for today's video. i hope you enjoyed it.
this is a technique that i use on all my ethnic clients that want a warmer end result without it looking really brassy.
this is a really great technique. let me know when you try it at home and if you liked it too.
also definitely give 'fix' and 'replenish' a try. you'll be able to get the hair nice and sleek without needing to flat iron it.
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how to TIGHTEN microlink bead extensions
hey beauty activists, so today i’m back with brenda, who you may have seen before when i did the EXTENSIONS in her hair.
now, what i’m going to do is RETOUCH them so they have grown out quite a bit, so i’m going to be moving them up so that they're tight and fresh in her hair.
already, you can see some MATTING that's starting to happen as brenda's extensions are growing out. that's very typical. what's happening is that brenda’s regular hair is also matting in with the extensions. this is very important to fix so that you're not getting a bigger problem down the line, so i'll show you what to do with this as we move along.
TOUCHING UP the roots
first i’m going to be touching up her root colors so i’m not going to be doing the full head of foils that i normally do. what i’m doing is just do a ROOT COLOR that's gonna blend her roots in with her low light color that she has.
i’m now going to WASH out her root color and dry the hair so that i could touch up her extensions.
TIGHTENING the extensions
this is her BOTTOM TRACK of extensions. you can see how far now they are from the scalp and this is very important to tighten because it's now putting TENSION on the hair that it's attached to. what happened in this bottom track is that it also started to slide a little bit, so you're going to see that this track is further from the scalp than the others.
to move the extensions up, i are going to actually be OPENING the beads to tighten the extensions closer to the scalp.
i did a full tutorial on how to put these extensions in, so i'm going to link it HERE. go check that out if you want to see how to put these extensions in from fresh.
i'm going to be using the same CRIMPING PLIERS i use to close the metal clamp and i'm going to use that and press down on the OPPOSITE sides of the flattened bead. that's going to actually open the bead up again so that we can now pull the hair tighter. i’m going to PULL brenda's natural hair so it pulls the weft in closer to the scalp
then i’m going to RECLOSE the bead again. using the crimping plier and closing the bead shut tightly. I am going to go through the entire track and do this to every single micro link bead that's in brenda's hair. this is going to pull the extensions tighter and have the entire track close to the scalp.
our first track is COMPLETELY TIGHTENED. you can see how it's sitting snug to brenda's scalp and it's not hanging loose at all. now we're going to move onto our second track.
we can see here a closeup of all the MATTING that's happening, so this is going to be very important to get clean and to unmet the hair prior to tightening the extensions in. i am using the same technique, working from bead to bead, opening them, tightening them, and then closing them down again, securing them into the hair, very snuck to the scalp.
when you come across this MATTING, what you're going to do is you're going to release the bead, so you're going to open it up. you're now going to work into this mat and you're going to really make sure to PULL IT APART and get rid of any tangling that's happening. this is very important.
you're going to see how the hair is LOOSE and easy to pull tightly and you're then going to be able to keep the hair very nice and clean so that when you pull the beat in tight, all these excess hairs that don't belong are going to be able to be pulled away and you're going to again have a clean section where that micro blink bead is attached to brenda's natural hair.
again, the extensions now are sitting nice and SNUG to the scalp.
lastly, i’m going to be doing the top track, which is broken up into TWO WEFTS. you can see how loose it is in the hair using the same technique. i’m going to go through each bead and here again, you can see how it looks nice and tightened.
after doing our last track. now you can see the entire top row is DONE.
the FINAL product
i am now complete. now all the extensions are TIGHTENED in brenda's hair. there is nothing loose hanging. everything feels nice and snug. all the tracks we have no more madding in her hair. you can take a look at how awesome these extensions look.
again, if you want to see how the color was matched and how they're put in, check out the video HERE.
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how to dye BRIGHT RED hair
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today i’m going to be showing you how to get a BRIGHT RED hair that LASTS!
she started with about 4 or 5 inches of ROOTS and some OTHER COLOR on the rest.
SNAPSHOT of what we need to do
getting an even result on holly’s hair will be a bigger process than one might think. here’s a little snapshot of what you will see me do. first, i lightened it, then i tone the hair TWICE before putting on the final color. STAY TUNED. i’m going to show you how to achieve this look.
breaking down the plan
this is what i’m starting with. she has quite a bit of regrowth and the rest of her hair is in the realm of a level 5. the end result i want to have is a bright violety red/ burgundy color.
so this is actually kind of tricky because i want to lift it all to about a LEVEL 7 and NOT MUCH LIGHTER than that. i'll explain why in a second.
i'm going to use lightener with 20 VOL ON HER ROOTS and then i'm going to go through and just put lightener and 30 VOL ON THE ENDS and it should process relatively evenly.
PRO TIP: when you know the rules, you will know how you can break them!
if you look at ANY CHART in ANY color book, you will see that red doesn't naturally “live” on any levels higher than a level 6. BUT, the end result i’m going for ISN’T a natural looking red that you would see someone born with. with that being said, i want the red to STAY as bright as it can for AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
SO HERE IS WHAT I AM GOING TO DO:
i’m going to lighten her hair to a level of 7-7.5. by doing this, we will remove enough pigment so that the red can show through AND we will leave the BEST foundation of natural pigment for the artificial color to grab onto.
after the lightener has PROCESSED
i've only put the lightener onto her roots and it's already light enough so i am going to rinse it now. we don't want it to go too light because the color won't have any LONGEVITY.
here, you can see your hair has lightened perfectly. this is exactly what we want for her roots because that LITTLE BIT OF ORANGE is going to give the red some depth to hold on to.
now i'm going to mix lightener with 30 vol and start applying the lightener on the darker band of color in her hair before pulling it through on the rest of her ends.
the lightener is now done processing and it is PERFECT! time to rinse!
as i always say, there are NO SHORTCUTS to great hair. you can see here roots are quite a bit later than her ends. so FIRST, we must even out her base. you can see that 7.34 is a great fill color.
here is her hair FILLED WITH 7.34 and as you can see it's one solid color root to end. i'm going to go ahead and put on my second toner (7.66 from TIGI color) to give a nice red base before our final color (this is will give the color MAXIMUM defense against fading.
so here is holly's hair after the SECOND TONER.
for the final color, i’m going to be mixing 7.77 IN J BEVERLY HILLS and 9-9.8 IN IGORA ROYAL from the schwarzkopt line.
okay, here's her hair rinsed out! you can see it’s perfect; it’s EVEN root to end.
PRODUCTS are key to PROTECT the hair from EXCESSIVE FADING
before you start styling, give your hair a good coat of nvenn's 'protect' heat shield.
PRO TIP: you can show your clients the importance of heat protector by doing a little demo. take a piece of colored extension hair and hold a flat iron to it for just a couple seconds. you'll be able to see how much the color fades. do the exact same thing with heat protectant on the hair first and you’ll notice that the color FADES LESS (that’s if the heat protector actually works of course). even if you are only slowing the fading down by a little bit, it’s definitely worth it!
i'm also going to put in some of nvenn's 'fix’ flexible working hair spray to give her blow out some beautiful texture.
i am going to put in some 'replenish' strength restoration oil to keep it STRONG and SLEEK.
here is her hair all done.
that's it for today's video. i hope you enjoyed it. if you have any questions or comments, leave them down below. we will get back to you.
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