Hey guys, so It's time for a new "Behind the Instagram" video
So over December, I was so extremely busy at the salon
That there was definitely no time for a before and after picture or anything like that, so
In the new year I was like, I need to get back to posting more pictures of my work
And as soon as I did people requested more of these videos, so here it is.
So my client came in with a very very warm natural base.
She said that she was basically a redhead, growing up
So she had highlights but they looked pretty muted
Where it looked like there had either been way too much toner or the highlights had just not been lifted up enough.
So what I ended up doing is I actually ended up leaving her base as is
When someone has that much gold and that much warmth in their base
If we try and add ash, it looks beautiful for the first two - three weeks
And then when that Ash dissolves or starts to fade
We're left with the Lift of the color
And for all you hairdressers out there you know what im talking about when the Ash leaves
And that Lift is left, it's basically when you bleach out hair
And you never toned it. So it's basically just like stripping of your own natural color
So it's even warmer than your actual warm base
So whats what I was trying to eliminate
And it seemed like she had some basecolor done before, So in order to get her on the right track
And in order to make her natural base look Ashy I knew that I had to give her such a contrasting light blonde
thats what we did
I gave her just a very very full highlight
All over her head
And then at the root
This is just kind of my technique
I always say that I Balayage the Root
But she had highlights that came all the way up to her scalp
but there's just this special technique of kind of
feathering on the bleach
Where it just kind of goes so seamless you don't actually see a line
of where the bleach starts
And that's also great for when the hair starts to grow out
because you don't get this 1999 strip of where your highlight starts
So as a hairdresser when you look at the hair
You can feel the hair and all that, you can right away see
How the hair is going to lift,
If your going to have problems lifting it
If I feel that it's hair that's going to be a little bit more challenging
I definitely go in with my Wella bleach. I feel like that always has the most strong and lifting power
But I felt like this girl was already bleached
I just needed to get her to that light buttery kind of color
So I actually went in with Redken Flash Lift bleach
And I used a 30 volume, and that's because I used Olaplex
So originally I would have only used 20 Volume
But because we mixed it with Olaplex I went up to 30 Volume
And the reason why she needed Olaplex, had we only been working on the Roots,
I think she could have definitely gone away without using the Olaplex
But because we wanted to brighten her hair from Root to Ends, we definitely needed to use Olaplex
So I let her process for about 30 minutes and then shampooed her with a nice hydrading shampoo
Then I went ahead and toned her hair
And because she had shown my pictures like really Icy, really bright basically was her goal
She wanted to go as light as possible
So since she wanted that really bright and icy color
I went ahead and toned her with my absolute favorite Redken toner which is 09T
and of course I mixed that with processing solution
And with 9T you really just have to watch it so i literally put on the toner and did not leave the client
I need to watch it because sometimes in 2 minutes it can be ready and sometimes it can take 10 minutes
When blonde is that light, it takes in color really really easily, so
So that is what we did. Then I just rinsed that off and finished with step 2 of Olaplex
And we went back and I gave her just a very smooth simple blowout
And that was it, and those were her results
So that is what we did, and I think it is actually quite simple
So for a lot of you that are asking, for a lot of you that live far away and cant come to me
hopefully you can take this formula and show it to your hairdresser
or if you are attempting it at home,
I hope this has answered all of your questions and I really hope that this helps
So I hope that you have all had an awesome start to the new year
I always get really excited for January
I dont know if it's just because it's my birthday month
even thought at the age I'm at I don't really get excited for my birthday
I think it's just the idea that it's your birthday
I think more so I get really excited for fresh starts, like new beginnings
And it just seem like a clean slate, it can really just be the Capricorn in me but,
I think just that there's so much opportunity and it doesn't matter what I did last year
This year I'm doing this and I feel like it's easier to stick to new things because it's okay,
It's this new beginning, I dont know, thats probably super psychological but
I absolutely love the spirit of the new year
So anyways, before I get off on a big spiel, I do hope that you too are feeling inspired
Whatever it is that you've been wanting to accomplish, I hope that you accomplish it this year
And I hope this year brings you many many great opportunities, so
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Thank you so much for watching, and as always, I will see you in the next video.
Bye