it is time for another hair change it
has been a long time
six or seven months to be precise since
i've seen
a professional hair stylist and i am
ready for a transformation
i'm talking color i'm talking cut maybe
a treatment
the last time i cut my hair was when i
did it myself i was going for some
korean bangs
okay let's just do that to this side
i didn't really turn out with what i was
hoping for my hair is really uneven you
can especially notice with it when i put
it up there's all these different hairs
going in different directions at
different lengths
so hopefully we're going to fix that
today and i really want to achieve
this color that i've seen popping up
here and there for a long time now it's
especially popular
in korea amongst korean celebrities and
k-pop stars
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and i don't know what it's called or
what it is exactly but that's part of
its allure to me it's really uh
mysterious
is it blonde is it brown it's a bit gray
and ashy at the same time
i don't know if i'm going to be able to
achieve that but we're going to try i
actually messaged my stylist sandy and
sent her the photos
to say like this is what i'm interested
in doing and she's always been really
honest with me about
what i can achieve and what my hair can
achieve like health-wise
and she said i would have to bleach my
whole head probably in order to get
there
but i don't really want to do that
because after dyeing my hair
white blonde i've finally grown out
my natural color mostly and it's at a
place where it's really healthy it's
growing strong and i'm really happy with
it
so i don't know what we're gonna do
we're gonna i'm gonna go there we're
gonna talk about it we're gonna see
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let us head to the hair salon
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january yeah so like seven months
so i tried to cut my hair myself
i'm sure you've had many pandemic
haircuts coming in
yeah i mean it's just that it's just the
front like
like i don't know what i did sandy
explained that my natural hair color is
a bit darker than what i was going for
so realistically if we weren't going to
bleach my whole head we had to do
highlights and then we would use a toner
that's somewhere between the color of
these two
and then the end result wouldn't really
be one straight color like this or this
it would have a few colors and more
dimension
kind of like this so it's pretty
dramatic
for you because right now it's like all
natural yeah
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guys i have my first gray hair
is it really great oh my god it is
should i rip it out
all right what should i do with this
it's like save it think i have many more
to come
this is just the beginning so step one
is back-to-back
highlights yeah baby like baby legs
so we we want to make them more natural
instead of chunky
sandy put fine highlights throughout my
whole head
and this took about i think just over
two hours to do
because my hair although it's very fine
it's very thick
i have a lot of it so thank you so much
sandy for
all of your time and hard work you put
into this
transformation all right it's lunch time
i'm having my
beloved mana it's been so long
juice and a
giant wrap inside there's falafel
tomatoes
lettuce tahini and hot peppers and the
outside is
tef this grain called taff it's really
good
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next they washed out the highlights put
on an ashy toner
and then we did the olaplex 3 so that my
hair can stay strong and healthy
although we were bleaching it
and then the regular shampoo and
conditioner
and then it was blow-dried before i got
my hair cut cutting your hair dry causes
less damage because wet hair is more
fragile
and elastic it also creates less room
for surprises because you know what
you're going to get they can be more
precise they can
tailor it more to exactly what you want
and you will see the finished result
right away basically i just want to
clean up the ends she trimmed as little
as possible because i still want to grow
it a lot longer
the main focus was to clean up the front
of my hair and make the layers more
symmetrical and i also added a little
bit more layers in
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done i love the color it was exactly
what i wanted
um but she did it in quite a healthy way
because it was done through highlights
instead of bleaching my whole head first
i thought that it wouldn't look quite
like what i was looking for but
ah it does does i'm so happy
and it feels so nice i never realized
how important it is to have a haircut i
used to get a cut like every four months
but i've waited over seven now and my
ends were just
they really needed some loving my hair
is
yeah they're okay apparently it's a
typhoon three at the moment
and could turn into a typhoon eight but
at the same time i am
out right now it's not it doesn't feel
windy i'm out right now and i never come
out i haven't been in central in a while
and i feel like i want to walk around a
bit
so let's just take a little walk
see what's going on
top shop is closing in hong kong so they
have a big sale at their store right now
i think
so i'm gonna go and check that out but
there is a lot of brands leaving hong
kong now which is very
unfortunate and then even just walking
by
here a lot of shops have closing down
which is really heartbreaking
to see really wonder what the future is
gonna be like
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i'm just walking around tom's on his way
so you grab me it is
so humid out hong kong is
such a crazy human place and i was
just riding up the escalator i saw this
traditional tea place and there's one
that they always sell
at the front of the shop and i'm pretty
sure
i should pay attention i'm pretty sure
it uh removes
heat and dampness so i think i'm gonna
go grab one of those
that's bitter i hope it it's good for my
health it tastes like it's good for my
health
i'm just gonna try and download
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how's your day
good morning it is the next day now and
i was hoping for a sunny day so that i
could show you what the color looks like
in the sunlight but unfortunately it is
another
very dark and runny rainy day we had a
typhoon eight last night thankfully it
was just an eight they were actually
expecting a nine or higher because there
was a really bad storm and they stopped
public transportation and everything
but it just got to an a and it mostly
occurred in the middle of the night when
we were sleeping
i might sound like i am very nonchalant
about it but typhoons are a regular
thing here in hong kong the first
like two times it happened i was quite
scared
but it's happened so many times and
august is actually typhoon season that
we've kind of just gotten used to it
i think it's kind of like a snow day in
canada in the fact that it happens
if there's a lot there's school closures
and office closures and people just stay
at home
but it's just basically a lot of wind
and rain i did an ig pole asking you
guys if i should go darker or lighter
with my hair and it was pretty much
50 50 which is an exact representation
of how i feel sometimes i want to go
lighter again because having bright hair
is really fun and
exciting and but then i love the way
dark hair looks and i love how
shiny and like luxurious dark hair looks
too so it's kind of on the fence
and i feel like this can kind of be both
i don't know if you would call this hair
light brown or dark blonde
it's up for interpretation let me know
below in the comments what you think
i've heard the term bronze before which
means it's kind of a mixture of the two
or kind of
in between the two i don't know i like
the mystery of it i personally feel like
it's a
light brown ah but i don't know because
in certain lights it looks probably
blunt
yeah i am very happy with this color
although it's a very subtle change
it makes me feel fresh makes me feel a
little bit different if you're thinking
about changing your hair and you don't
want to go too
dark this is a good option because it's
kind of in the middle
it's kind of just a different tone
alternatively you could also just tone
your hair to be the more ashy version of
your hair because a lot of this has to
do
just with the toner so you could try
that too to see what
more of a cool tone would look like on
you just for a little bit of a change
and a little bit of a pick me up yeah
let me know your thoughts on this do you
like it do you think i should go darker
or lighter next time or can
continue this she said all i need to do
is tone this again in two to three
months
so that i can keep this color because
hong kong water tends to turn your hair
a little bit more brassy or
orangey toned so i think i am gonna keep
this
for the fall thank you so much for
watching i will see you guys
next time bye
you