How to blend grown out highlights into balayage using three different hair color techniques!

what's up welcome to my YouTube channel in today's video I'm going to transform my model who has

grown

her

highlights

and I'm going to combine

three

of my favorite

techniques

on her head. I've never done this before, but I'm really excited, so let's get started guys, like I said, I've literally never combined these

three

specific

techniques

before, but she has some over

grown

reflexes, but she also has a lot of depth underneath that we have to overcome, so I'm going to be combining my iaj foil technique, my baby light technique with a root shadow and I'm going to draw one more thing in there, so I'm excited for you to see how we transform this

hair

and really show you how you can combine them.

different

techniques to get the look you want so let's mix it up well so this is what we're starting with.

You can see that she has grown

highlights

and then she has a lot of depth down here and in the back. So what we're going to do is brighten a lot of these things, give it a Bali eyes look on any of the highlights and really get rid of this line of demarcation that's so strong throughout its highlights, like this. that we're going to be doing all that fun stuff and this is going to be a big transformation and I'm excited to show you how I transform clients that have adult highlights into a Bali eye look to give them something that's a little bit lower maintenance.

Alright so I'm actually going to combine two

different

techniques so this video is going to be fun because I'm going to show you two of my techniques and I'm going to merge them together so I'm going to start with blonde or and I'll be doing 25 volumes to start and a lot of you have asked how they're done 25 volumes, so just all they do is mix 20 volumes with 30 volumes in equal parts with their Lightner and that's how they get 25 volumes now, obviously, there. they're very scientific ways that you should make sure you measure and things like that for some of you who love to measure your lightener.

I usually don't measure, I just eyeball it, some people say that's wrong, it's always worked. I got it right, so I go off of consistency, not necessarily measuring, but yes, of course, to get a true reading of 20 by volume, you have to measure your developer or weigh it, something like that again. I've been doing this for a while it works for me but do what works best for you and I don't want to hear any hate or comments about it but for me I bought consistency so one of the things I like to have is a a little lighter. liquid but nothing too thick or too runny so for me this is actually a really good consistency and then I'm also going to add a little bit of olaplex.

Now another question I get a lot with olaplex is do you really do it? one eighth of an ounce, which is what is recommended per tablespoon of bleach or per tablespoon of Lightner, you should do one eighth of an ounce, but if you did that, that would affect the way your developer works, so you would have to do 35 volume because you have to increase it by ten volumes, so if any of this is conf

using

, check all directions of the plexus, so if you apply an eighth of an ounce of the recommended amount, then it will actually force you to adjust your developer, so what I'm really going to do is just take a sixteenth of an ounce per tablespoon and I did a little bit more than a tablespoon so I'm going to do a little more than that and just add that and when I add just a sixteenth of an ounce it doesn't really affect my developer, so I don't have to increase my developer, but again, if you have any questions about this, be sure to ask everyone. check them out, they can give you all the answers there, that's again what works for me and what I've learned over the years, so this is Art Lightner, we'll start with some youthful

balayage

pieces below and then switch to aluminum foil, so we're going to start with our volume 25 at the bottom and since we're making some pieces of aluminum foil, I'm going to use a

blend

ing agent.

I've touched on this in a couple of my other videos, but today I'm going to use Uhler care organic acid milk rinse as my mixing agent. In previous videos I've used a light conditioner, but now I've switched to Biology ah Color Care aesthetic milk rinse, so let's add this to a bowl and this will be our mixing agent and I'll show you exactly what I'm talking about, but I love it Using this for our

blend

ing agent versus a lightweight conditioner, this is a product I use everything. time in the back and we'll show you how we use it there but this is a really great blending agent so yeah let's start right so the way I'm going to approach your

hair

I told you I'm going to give you two different techniques, so since she only has about two and three inches of regrowth up here, if she had a little more, I would use my foiling technique, but since she doesn't have that much regrowth, I decided I'm going to do it.

What I have to do is in this section below where she is very dark. I'm going to go over it and do my foiling technique just to light it up and bring some luminosity up here, give it those volley eyes, look down and then up or you already have your highlights, let's go over them and do some spaced baby lights, then we'll look for a natural

color

between those sheets to recreate that volley look and really get rid of this line of demarcation. a strong one that she has here and then at the end of the bowl we're going to do a little baby shadow just to diffuse those highlights, so I'm really excited to give her this look and I'll do my baby highlights on her. much more spaced apart, they're just going to break this line of demarcation, but we don't want to go crazy and blonde here at the top, so that's the technique I'm going to use, but I'll show you through the whole process, okay, so I'll do it.

What I did was part her hair from the front to the back and then I just took a section and sectioned off this top area. Now she's got some of these highlights down here, but we're not going to lift a little bit for

balayage

like up here, so I'm okay with this kind of being in our bottom section, so we're going to take our first section of the shape in which they normally make my foliage. It's kind of a back diagonal section around the hairline and you guys can see that it has some whiteness here towards the end, but I want to show it here as well, so we're going to click on this area and what I'm going to do is I have really straight hair. , fine and soft like me, so what's going to happen with her hair is I'm going to weave it, but then I'm also going to tease it out and you want to make sure that with clients like this you're

using

really fine hair. toothed comb and you're going to start here at the base and work your way up if you just work your way up to the root chances are your hair is going to be too soft and it's not really going to form well so I usually start a little bit further down here to make sure that the good area is nice and high, so I'm going to take a foil and I'm going to start with a smaller foil here and I'm going to Take my mixing agent, that organic milk rinse and just tap it on this corner near the root area and then we'll mix our Lightner with that boiling agent.

Now, because she has highlights, she's going to have some pieces that are like more lowlights and stuff, so I'm going to take these pieces and just add them back in here to make sure that we actually get them and that she doesn't have spot enos, but We will make sure to be very careful with the pieces that are already pre-cleared. She's going to get a haircut, but we're not going to do anything crazy like absorb a lot of light, so we want to make sure that we keep her hair healthy and we keep that integrity in her hair, so all I'm doing is mixing the lightener with that blending agent, try not to get anything out of that provocation or really get into it, let me take another sheet. just put this up here and we'll fold the bottom here just to lock it in place and we'll make like a little triangle lock right there.

I'm going to continue doing this. I'm going to do another half inch section. I'm going to do the exact same thing and probably do three diagonal back sections right around the hairline to give it that shine and then I'll switch to the other side and do that side there. Alright, so I made three diagonal back sections on both sides and now I'm here with our V and what I'm going to do is take a smaller section here, sometimes I'm going to Sometimes I make it bigger, but since she has so many things here , I really want to make sure that I get a lot of shine here, especially because she also has a lot of shine on top, so taking my AV section right here and I'm going to kind of weave across this section and you can see that she just lightens a little bit here at the bottom, so I'm also going to tease this and this is This will be kind of a starting point as a piece, now you guys may have seen before in a clip her hair so soft the teases just want to come back to go down so what I've been doing is just taking a clip and securing it right there and then just combing it out and now I also have a clean area to apply my Lightner so that's a really easy and great tip to keep the teases from coming back to fall on you, especially for people who have super soft hair.

First, I'm applying my blending agent and then applying my Lightner now again. I'm being very careful not to touch the areas that I had already lightened before, but I definitely want to make sure I get into this darker area, so I'm just going gentle and again I have olaplex in there and that will help ensure that your hair stays healthy as we go through by this process, so I'm just mixing this in there and something else. What I use is a clean, dry brush that I go over and sometimes clean this section. I usually think it's a little messy or something.

I just go over it and make it almost like there's a draft, so we're just going to apply our foil and what I'm going to do is make another straight section here because normally I would make a thicker one there, but since it has so much depth, I'm going to make a more and then I'm going to do another pair of diagonal backs and another straight one, so we're going to keep working on this section, so I continued up over the head again. I made two straight sections that I showed you guys and then I made two more diagonal back sections and I'm going to finish this little area here with some straight sections now, one thing you need to be careful about when you're doing On the other side, you want to make sure that you are teasing him very well and we mean it, otherwise you may make yourself know some lines, so if that starts happening to you, maybe try this technique and normally you will have lines.

The problem is that either the section was too thick, you didn't do it or you didn't tease it enough, but another thing you can do instead of just taking a straight section is you can make a diagonal section and that's also a diagonal section in zig Zag. that will help you eliminate some of that, so for me it's not really a problem that you have, but for those of you who have been trying it and maybe if you have some problems, definitely try that, so one thing I told myself account while I was deleting this section, just as I was talking here, I realized that there's a lot of depth down here at these ends, so what I'm going to do, she's got some reflections there, I'm not going to worry about it. them too much because again we have some olaplex there.

I'm literally going to tilt these ends, so I'm really going to tease this section. As you can see, I got rid of most of that blonde there. and I'm just going to take a piece of aluminum foil and just brighten these ends because they're very dark and again, this is something that I saw while I was talking, so I'm going to put it here on the camera. This happens sometimes, especially because these are your grown out highlights, you're not going to have that kind of solid and you're going to look like a balayage, so you're going to have to go in and add these custom foils, which is why I like this technique because I'm going through the hair. . see it almost like a pipe panel and be able to see what needs to happen there, so I'm just adding that in there.

I'll go over this, but this is really tea, so I'm not too worried about So this is going to add that guy right there and then, now I'm going to go back and do this other section that I was meaning to do, now that we have our piece woven and mocked, I will mock her just one more time. here and again with her hair, this had to happen, these clips had to happen because it's very soft and which is great for her, but for me it makes my job a little bit harder, so again I'm doing exactly the same technique.

I just added my blending agent and again it has some of this lightness on the ends, just a hint, but a lot. I've been just putting out these pieces here, she has just a little bit, it's hard to probably see it even on camera, but the rest of this she has some lightness to it, but there's so much depth there that I'm just saturating it. I'm not too worried about it again, if I had a lot of thick highlights I would. I try to weave it in, but it's so mixed up there that it will showam I applying this? on a foil just to make it a little bit easier and then again blend it out and just fold these guys up and go around the sides just to blend that line of demarcation a little bit more so I decided to do one more. technique on your hair just because you still have a lot of low light there and what I don't want to happen is that we do all this work and it still looks like a highlight because your ends are still very dimensional and obviously With balayage we know that the ends are usually a little lighter everywhere, so I'll still leave some dimension.

I don't want it to be an ombre, but I'm going to go over it and just remove some of these lowlights. Up here and again I'm not going to be able to get every highlight out of here, but I'll do my best and I'm going to joke about this now, I'm trying not to disturb anything other than I already did it above, so this will just be tilting some of the ends and I'm going to go through them and just lighten them, I'm still going to use my blending agent, so I'm almost going back to our foliage technique. and I'm just using like a volume 28 at this point, a little bit higher than 25, but not quite 30, it's a little touch of 20 there and I'm just going to go through and take out some of your pieces again, no. trying to disturb anything else above, but just to give it a little bit of correction through some of these extremes, okay, so these are the final contrasts, we have so many things going on like three or four different techniques in there that we're going to do another one in the bowl so there's a lot going on in this, but I want you to know that this entire application took me a little over two hours without an assistant, but just for you guys who feel like I'm a little slow or whatever.

We are definitely not slow, this type of thing takes time and I also want you to know again, like I said, that you should get paid for this type of aluminum work because there are a lot of things that go into this process that we go through and apply Olap Flex. number two, we rinse it off and now we're back in the chair because I'm going to apply your root shadow and it's a little bit easier to show it in front of the camera and beat, it's easier for me. I actually apply her roots, so what I'm doing is I'm just going over and her roots out of the formula that I mixed is the exact same formula that I mixed for her between oil

color

s, so it's just six and six. and B, excuse me, and the eq of five and shadows, so I'm just applying this about an inch down and then I'm going to use my comb Wow, guys.

I also have this linked in my Amazon favorites to drag down. and blend the color, but what I love about this is that it doesn't put the color into the hair and we don't want the color to stay in the hair, it just blends it all out, so I'm working on this. back section and then I'll work on the front, but what I've found when applying a root shadow is that it's actually better to work your way up the head instead of trying to start from the top and work your way down and you can end up with a lot of spotty enos. and again, this is just trial and error in trying this.

I learned it the hard way, so I'm applying it like working my way down and I'll open up this section. to make sure that I saturate it completely there and that it's all the way through, but working down the head instead of up the head like I would traditionally do with either. I'm just trying there or should I say. working down the head not up you guys don't do that anyway so I'm going to keep working on this section and then I'll get to the front so I sectioned off his front money section and just trimmed it out of the way so it doesn't get in the way so I take a clean comb and I comb it away from the money piece section and all I do is just touch that rich shadow right around where we already had it and this will just help me start this section off keeping it nice and clean and then I'm just working like I said my way up from this bottom section and then I'm going to go ahead and comb it with that comb Wow, so these are nice little tips and tricks that I've learned along the way making rich shadows and making it mess up so I hope that helps you find a way that your root shadows don't smudge or mess up either so we're done applying them to the rest of your head and I'm just going to make this little piece of money that's been there for probably about eight minutes here in the last five. minutes here on the front, so I'm just going to apply this foil right here and this allows me to pull the hair back without it getting crushed by the other color, so I'm going to come in here and normally I just separate the top of the bottom, I leave it out and I just take diagonal sections from the back and just work my way back through this front hair, yeah, but the key is to leave it very, very clean because I just want to just barely touch your roots here, I don't want to drag them down. too much down and again we use this little tin foil to keep it as clean as possible and obviously she's going to have a baby here while I'm stuck. there and stuff, what can you do?

That's pretty much life, but you know, try to keep it as clean and tidy as possible and this is going to sit for about five, three, five minutes. Rinse it with vanilla, okay, so now I drove and washed it with shampoo. I'm going to add the traceless color care aesthetic and that's how it's supposed to be used, so I'm going to apply it to your towel dried hair and then we'll probably follow up with a little bit of a conditioner, but this will help close the pH of the hair and it will really solidify everything that I like to do after any color service, but specifically any color service that I did a highlight on, so any blonde beans or things like that, boy.

Liege, I like to seal this in, it makes the hair very soft and really makes a difference. You guys will notice it the moment you put it on, so we'll let it sit for about 10 minutes and then finish with a conditioner and here's our final result. You can see it's so beautiful, so blended and oh my gosh I'm obsessed with how it turned out. I think it looks so beautiful and you can see we have a lot. shine on the ends but also some dimension throughout, it looks so beautiful and I think this will grow out so beautifully so this is an amazing technique for those clients that just need something a little bit lower maintenance or they want.

To get rid of the highlighted look upgrade it to something a little more modern. I love using this technique and you guys can see how the foliage and the small highlights with the root shadow completely complement each other and I really hope you give this technique a try. very good guys, thank you very much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed seeing the whole color process like I said, it was a great transformation even though maybe it didn't look like that when she walked in and again, that's why I point out that you should charge what you're worth, you should value her services and make sure you set aside enough time because services like this are basically color corrections, but they don't look like it, so this entire service took me about five hours and about two hours to request.

So I always want to share that with you because I want you to know that these kinds of things take time for me too and you shouldn't be scared or intimidated if things like this take you time because you're literally going through everything. just a single hair, removing it, lightening it or darkening it, so it takes time and not stressing about it, but I really hope you learned something from this video. I know it was a little longer, but I want to know in the comments what was the favorite technique I used in this video if it was on the foliage with the baby lights was the route mentioned was maybe blending the darker color was maybe tilting the extremes share with me your favorite thing I learned in this video in the comments below.

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