Stripy highlights and blonde ends are
what a lot of people do to make a subtle
Sombre' but that is not the case here
what I wanted to do was reattach all
those highlights and blend everything so
it looks super beautiful and natural
instead of those stripy hot mess we had
going on here so here's Formula One and
the low-light formula and I'm gonna
begin by sectioning her hair from ear to
ear and I'm going to start by doing a
baby light at the bottom of her hairline
just so that when she pulls her hair
into a ponytail it's gonna look like she
has those light pretty baby lights
underneath that looked natural instead
of just keeping that dark so I start off
with that and now what I'm gonna do is
break that low light right there just
cover all of that and add a little bit
more depth underneath because I always
think that looks pretty and then I'm
gonna go into like a brick lay pattern
and I'm going to pretty much Balayage
the entire time and what I'm using
is that Swartzkopf lightener I love it for
balayage it's super super moist and it
really moisturizes the hair which is
what I also love I don't want to rinse
bleach out and then all of a sudden
their hair feels really dry that's like
a bad sign to me and this is the
complete opposite super super creamy
just feels really luxurious and keeps
the hair super super healthy so I'm very
very very happy with this Lightner and
now what I'm doing with this comb is I'm
brushing it through her ends I want to
make sure because she does have very
porous hair and her texture is really
curly it doesn't look super curly here
but it's like really curly in person I
just want to make sure it's completely
saturated because I really want to try
to pop out this golden tone going on
here and she really didn't want to see
it either
so brushing it through really quickly
make sure that I get complete saturation
and then I'm gonna go back in and just
create those V's really quickly why I
also like brushing through the lightener
is because it adds almost like a
superbaby light texture in the hair
which is really fun and easy to do if
you need something like that in her case
she has this band of you can see the
brassy Orange so when I do brush it
through that's gonna hit just the top
layer of that brassy orange and pop it
out a little just enough so it creates a
pretty palate for me to tone so that's
what I'm doing right here and again I'm
gonna go right back over it and just add
those really pretty strong baleog lines
so that I make sure I get those pretty
highlights in there the balayage
highlights and now what I'm doing this
is a new trick I learned recently I add
a low-light in there with the 6gb
and I've really been loving 6gb I think
it's one of the best low-light colors
I've ever used it's not too warm it's
not too cool so give that a chance it's
from shades eq and all you do to create
that low-light is just take a quarter
inch section and just take your balayage
board put a little bit of that color on
your brush because it is really liquidy
so be careful you don't want it to drip
anywhere and just completely saturate
that piece and what I'm doing is pretty
much like a brick lay pattern i'm
volleying then do
luli volleying then doing a lowlight
poly aging and then doing a low light
the reason I'm doing this is because her
hair is so light on the ends it looks
really unnatural like as you guys saw in
the beginning it looks very very forced
and what I want to do is just bring a
little bit of that deeper color in
between so that it has more of a natural
look and it's just not so hi I'm Ombre'
and my ends are super blown
out it just doesn't look pretty at all
and her hair texture because of the
curly texture when it is so blown out and
blonde
it makes it look dry and that's not what
we're looking for so there I am adding
the low light and then Here I am just
Balayaging again those V patterns all
the way up her head and just make sure
when you're doing the balayage toward
the root make it a little bit thinner at
the root so that it looks nice and
natural and blend it out you don't want
to do super heavy Lightener strokes at the
top of the root and as you can see here
with my hands I like to go through and
pretty much just blend the lightener
with my hands it kind of adds the
saturation into the hair and make sure
everything is just fully coated so I'm
gonna keep doing that all the way up the
back of the head that brick lay pattern
and then I'm gonna show you the sides
okay so now on to the front I'm going to
create that low-light right underneath
so I'm taking 6GB and just completely
saturating just a really fine section on
the bottom I personally think it looks
better when lighter hair lays on
top of darker hair I just think it pops
more and everything just looks more
dimensional and pretty so that's why
I'm doing that and then same thing I'm
gonna go up the side of the head with
those balayage V's and make sure when
you're doing these V's to really focus
on the front see where I'm focusing
right now those are the money pieces
those are what your clients are going to
see the second you blow out their hair
so make sure you completely saturate
those and I know you get tired as soon
as you get to the front but try to put
like your engines back on go because
those pieces are the pieces that you
need to save your energy for if you do
seem to run out of energy you could
always start in the front but make sure
you lift your developer to a higher
level so that the back catches up but
for me personally I like to start in the
back because just in case somebody is
done processing I can easily rinse out
the back and make sure that their hair
isn't over processed and the client has
healthy hair because that's my number
one goal so same thing adding that low
light and then just Balayaging those
beautiful V's all the way up her head
and I'm gonna repeat that same pattern
on the same side
and again as I said the money piece this
is the real deal right here right in the
front and what I like to do is take my
Lightner and feather up see that little
little piece of Lightner up at the top
root
make sure that's thinner when it goes up
to the root otherwise it looks really
really good to have that big bright
poppy piece that's been really huge
lately like the Sarah Jessica Parker
look where it's just that face frame
highlight right in the front so don't be
afraid to lay it on thick right there
because again that's what your client is
gonna see first when they style their
hair and you want to make sure you give
them that face frame that pop because
that's what starts the entire look for
them
so before I rinse her out I'm just gonna
take a little bit of Lightner from my
bowl so 30 volume and I'm gonna paint
it on the front of her hairline what
this is going to do is take those little
baby hairs do you see those on the Left
how dark they are I'm just gonna make
those a little bit poppier brighter so
it looks like she got kissed by the Sun
and there is that first pan of the un--
toned hair I just wanted to show you
guys what it looked like before I did
any root blend or tone and now I'm
taking that 6 GB and 5n and I'm doing
basically just a root smudge so when I
do root smudges I take sections
vertically back and I almost do like a
smaller section toward the front of the
hairline and then I slowly thicken it up
in the back so it looks a little bit
more like it gradually grew out and its
natural I don't do like an entire two
inch section I'm kind of gradually piece
it out and then I always take my comb
and I brush out the root all which way
directions and now what I do is take
that t14 with Wella with 10 volume
and I totally saturated her in the bowl
because I haven't used this toner before
I've heard such good things but I wasn't
sure how it was gonna pull so I made
sure I brought her back to the bowl just
in case anything funky started happening
so I totally recommend that if you don't
know how something's gonna go I also did
a test strand I didn't show you guys on
this but I did a test strand on her hair
before I even put this on there and I
really liked the tone so
if you're ever nervous just bring them
the bowl as soon as you see something
weird just wash it off but in this case
it looked absolutely gorgeous
it totally pulled out all the warmth she
had a lot of brassiness those blonde
tones and this is the result after the
t-14 Toner I think it was
on about 8 minutes and then I
started to see it kind of grab as you
can see a little ashy on the ends which
I really like but some clients might not
like it that ashy she loved it so we
were good to go but this was about eight
minutes and as you can see her color is
so much more blended those streaky
highlights are completely gone the
lowlights in there so it really makes it
look like it's just more natural
sunkissed which is what we're all going
for and I absolutely love the front it's
totally face framed her beautiful eyes
and skin tone I love this tone on her
way way more than I mean I don't I don't
know if anybody looks good with brassy
hair but I think this really really made
her look like just it's just much more
polished it's so pretty she's also a
hairdresser - I forgot to tell you guys
that so that was kind of funny doing
another hairdressers hair I know you
guys have probably had this experience
but it's an honor to do another
hairdressers hair and I was really
really happy to give her like an updated
look like this is so important in our
career in our fields to feel and look
good and I know she left and she just
felt awesome so that made me feel really
great but here I'm just shaking out
those really simple waves I did on her
and that's that's all guys that's our
big big transformation and I seriously I
just love it so much
I hope she's so happy and I hope you
guys learned a lot from this video give
these Balayage V's a chance and try to
take that low light and just do those
tiny pieces it's so cool what the result
is I love it you can see here it's like
it's not dramatic at all but you can
tell it's so much more blended and it
makes so much more sense so thank you
guys for watching as always I appreciate
it so much
I'll see you guys really really soon
love you bye
