I think I'm most nervous, I do have a relaxer
in my hair, so the lift on my hair might be
a little bit more difficult.
So I'm just going to take a little piece
and we'll just do a test strand.
That's not good news.
Hi, I'm Rebecca and I'm from Minnesota.
I'm taking my hair from black to rose gold balayage.
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I wasn't super adventurous with my hair growing up.
I didn't really do anything out of the ordinary,
partially because I just didn't think I was
edgy and cool enough to do an interesting color.
I just wasn't sure if highlighting
or balayage would work with my personal style.
Also, I don't think my parents would have
been okay with that.
My mom dealt with my hair by pretty much trying
to, I guess, wrangle it.
She tried a variety of different like straightening
treatments, blow drying it, you name it, we
probably tried it, but nothing with color ever.
My mom knows that I'm dyeing my hair.
She doesn't know what the color is going to be and
I was like, "Oh, she'll find out when she finds out."
I'm most excited about trying a new look,
kind of pushing myself out of my comfort zone
doing something a little bit different.
It's a new decade, 2020 is coming up.
I'm ready for it.
Hey! So what do you want to do today?
So I was thinking of a rose gold ombre.
Lighter at the bottom like fading up into my hair,
maybe a little bit of balayage.
Have you ever colored your hair before?
I've never colored my hair before
but I do have a relaxer in it.
Okay and are you doing that relaxer
at home yourself or at a salon?
I'm doing it on my own.
So I'm just gonna take a little piece and
we'll just do a test strand and
see what our options are.
Okay.
So I did the tests.
Okay.
And I want you to see....
That's not good news.
It definitely didn't lift even or well.
So, I just don't think it would be a good idea.
Well, that's a little disappointing.
So what we can do instead is,
we can do a direct dye.
We'll just get a hint of a, kind of, deeper color.
I'm thinking something berry would be nice.
I'm a little apprehensive.
I don't know if it's going to actually look
the way I think it's going to look,
I don't know if it'll look good on me.
We'll get a little bit of a reflection.
It'll just kind of give that hint of that berry feeling.
It's not too permanent and
I think you'll get to test it out.
You know what?
I'm open.
Let's do it.
Are you ready?
I didn't even really ask you.
I mean, I am.
Originally I came in thinking that I was going
to get a rose gold ombre balayage style hair
transformation but we found out because I've
been doing relaxers at home, that my hair
will actually disintegrate when I lighten it.
So instead, I'm going to try to do an eggplant
berry color and get bangs.
This berry color is kind of edgy
and I think it will look good on me.
Because of the chemical relaxer, I think that
it just wouldn't be safe
and we would damage your hair.
Sometimes when people have previously relaxed
their hair, the potential for damage or the
hair actually disintegrating or breaking
inside the foil is very high.
The possibility of overlapping is very common.
Also, the ingredients just aren't as
high quality as in the salon.
Alright.
So we are done, and Sarah is going to come
over and she's going to do your cut.
Okay.
So what we're gonna do to start is cut
your length and just get rid of all the dead ends
and then we'll come around and start the bang
and have that flowed back to the nice soft
long layers.
In second grade, I believe, my mom cut my
hair herself and it didn't really work out,
so it ended up getting shorter and shorter and shorter.
My mom was like, "You look like Halle Berry."
And I'm like, "I don't. I really don't."
We'll throw a flat iron wave in it
so you don't have to leave with it straight
and you can see it with some movement.
Okay! Are you excited to see your new hair?
I can't wait.
Wonderful.
Oh my gosh.
Wait. I love this.
I love these bangs so much.
I love how the red, the berry color
sort of comes through in the bangs, too.
When I first came in, I was really, really set
on the rose gold look, but I would rather
have healthy hair than breakage
and I love this deep berry, like almost
eggplant color.
And I love these bangs so much, they're incredible.
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