whoa it is the day after my hair appointment. I had a toner put on
yesterday and had it cut. So this is a temporary step my hairdresser rachel who's amazing was
saying that it's best to do this step first because that gives us a better chance of
getting rid of all the warmth because my hair was so warm it was copper basically orange.
This is my hair for two weeks um and this is the base color so it's interesting because it's still
quite light. There was the option of going a bit darker in between to cancel out the
orange as well but i'm glad we kept it a bit lighter like i'd rather it was like this
yes this is step two. I love the cut um they did give me, well i bought, olaplex number two because
we just want to give my hair as much chance as possible and also when we did the strand test
my hair lightened within 15 minutes which apparently is a bit of a red flag it didn't go
stretchy apart from at the ends but the ends have been cut off and it was a bit yellow but toner can
fix that. This is my strand test. This was cut from the back of my head which was scary but
you can't tell that it was gone. It probably won't be this blonde but it's good to know that
it survived. Today is balayage day. This is after about three or four washes. It's definitely not as
copper as it was before the toner but the copper is definitely coming through. Let's go and get the
bleach! And i'm blonde! This is at least, i wanna say, 16 weeks. I had my hair done from ginger to
blonde in may and it's now september and this is kind of how it's grown out i think it's grown out
really nicely, i really like being able to see my own hair color because i haven't seen it for
so long. I love it, i love being blonde, i feel so much more myself. There will be one more stage
after this to sort of get it to where i kind of want it. And this is the finished hair! It's been
a long time since the first appointment, it is now january 2022. I had my hair cut today but
i haven't had it colored since may 2021 which was eight months ago and that's the thing i love about
balayage is that it just grows out and it looks really natural and it still looks fine. Overall
i'm really happy with my hair and if i had any tips for you it would be go to a hair stylist
please please and i'm saying this to someone who did literally my whole life like i'm i'm 27 and
i've done my whole life doing my own hair at home dyeing it cutting it there's tons of videos on my
channel of me doing those things i've done henna box dyes all colors under the sun but going from
ginger or red or copper anything that's got a really red tone to it to blonde is really hard,
it's colour correction and you know people spend years training how to do that and for me i was
like do you know what i'm not willing to risk it. In terms of my haircut what i ask for is a trim
um with long layers that curve backwards and blend into my hair and long quite thick curtain bangs.
I also always take a photo to show my stylist. I'd recommend taking pictures because we're not
necessarily always the best at articulating what we want. Overall i'm really happy
it was really expensive i'm not gonna lie, that was another thing i would say is, it costs a lot
but i know that from now my hair's just not going to cost that much because i'm not going to have it
you know redone that often and really in hindsight the amount of money i've saved on cutting and
coloring my own hair at home for my whole life is probably way more than i've ever spent going from
and all of those lovely things. Thank you very much for watching and i'll see you all soon, bye1