Hi everyone it's April with hair 101. Today we're going to learn how to do shoeshine highlights
On spiky
Boys hair
And what we're going to me
You're going to need to go to your beauty supply and get
40 volume developer
and some bleach
I use Redken but if you go to Sally's
they usually have
a purple one there that's good
you're going to need some hair gel
a color comb, measuring cup, a bowl
and a piece of foil
and a comb
so
what you're going to do is wet down the hair
and we're going to stick a little bit of gel in there
you're just going to rock the gel in
and you're going to need a blow dryer to
and we're going to blow dry the hair straight up
and this can be done on
any length that's short enough to stand still. So this is about as long as you'll be able to do it on
if you have hair on the sides will be able to stand up to.
he has more of a mohawk haircut so it will be more in the middle
but you're going to blow dry it straight up
okay so when the hairs up
you're going to mix your bleach
and your
developer
it will say on the packaging how much to do
this is one-to-one like 1 ounce to 1 ounce
um
it's pretty forgiving
I just eyeball it
just listen to your package whatever one you buy
you're going to take a foil
I'm just going to use half of this
you're going to take the color
and just smear it on the foil
make sure there's a good amount on there
don't spread it around the edges you don't want to get this on your fingers it will burn
and don't get too much on the foil you don't want it to drip when you turn it upside down
that's a good amount
now what you are going to do
you're going to flip it upside down
and you're just going to rub it back and forth on the ends
and then you're going to need to add some more color
can you hold still :)
and they call it shoeshine because you just rub it back and forth
like you're shining shoes
and if there's a little bit sticking down here
you said it shouldn't get on your fingers
okay and as soon as you have
enough where you feel like your
highlights are where you want them
be careful not to go down below this spot. if you get any bleach down there you're going to have polkadots
Or leopard spots you don't want that
so make sure it stays
up on top here
and a little bit more back here
and I should be wearing gloves because I just got some on my fingers and I'm going to have to go wash my hands
you should wear gloves
even though I am not
okay now you're going to loosely
take a shower cap
and put it over-the-top
that's so weird
so the reason we're putting a shower cap over is we're going to need some heat to get this
to get this lighter
if you don't use any heat
You would need to leave it on for a really long time. And it will dry out too so you need to cover it
the heat just makes it process faster
if you have a little boy with a really dark hair
it will be more like a copper orange color
especially if you don't use heat
but I'm going to use heat
Just to make his highlights as light as it will possibly go because I don't want his highlights to be copper
if you don't have a hood dryer you can just use a blow dryer. just use it on low blow
so it's not pushing the
Plastic down
I want to sit in that heating thingy over there
and you're going to heat it up like that until it's
at least like 15 minutes
but longer if the hairs still orange
this can stay on anywhere from 15 minutes to even an hour
as long as it's off the scalp
if it's touching their head anywhere
don't leave it on for more than like 15 or 20 minutes
I'm just going to leave him under here for a while
okay so his hair is light enough now do you see his color
it's a really really
light blonde so we're going to rinse out his hair
okay so now we have our shoeshine highlights you can see they're just
subltle you can see he doesn't have any funny spots
or anything because you shouldn't have let it go down to the scalp
if you do have spots means you probably blobbed it on too thick and it fell down to the scalp
so make sure when you do this it's nice and light
so
all we need to do now is put some gel and it and style it
do you want to do it dry or wet
um I want to do at wet
okay just stick some gel in there
okay
And then you have some shoeshine highlights!
Thank you Zade