Diy | Highlight Your Hair And Cover Your Grey At Home In One Process | Lighten Your Hair For Spring!

Everybody I'm Charlotte, and this is the daily - we talk all things: skincare fashion, Fitness and Nutrition for women over 40.. Today I have got a color, your hair, with me kind of a video, so I'm definitely keeping it real here today. This is exactly what I'm going to do. I just have it all on this table instead of in my little in-home salon, so I don't have any gloves today and typically I do. I absolutely recommend gloves gloves, are going to protect your hands from the harsh chemicals and I have had plenty of bleach Burns and it's not fun. So I'm going to be extra careful today and just know that I usually wear gloves and you know I got all my stuff ready here and realized that I had to get gloves and I just need my hair done. So you will see, I have to color about every you know um four to five weeks and then the back I kind of let go until I can finally get to it. So, as you can see, I have a lot of gray on my temples. It'S almost platinum and um. I can cover a lot of that with eye shadow like in between. If I can't get around to you know no coloring, I actually waited a little bit longer this time, just because I wanted to get on here and show you how I do both my highlights and my color like my root coverage, and so I'm going to do That today, I'm super excited, maybe these things that I'm showing you today will be like just add-ons. You might pick one thing up from this video now I'm a licensed professional, so I kind of know what I'm doing when it comes to hair and I'm gon na try my best to kind of go along and give you the tips and tricks how to give Advice to ensure that you, you know, don't do something crazy to your hair. Okay, because you can't bleach is Harsh. It'S really really harsh and you use heat when you use when you color your hair, highlight your hair bleach, your hair you're out in the sun, those kinds of things it depletes your hair of protein, which causes breakage, and essentially you know you end up with hair That is frazzled and fried and sexually hang on to the protein. You want to use coconut oil ahead of time. You know even before and after showers, if you can or if you know, you're going to be coloring, your hair just go ahead and douse it. A couple of nights before and I am also buying into my hands and take it from like the mid shaft of my hair down to the ends, because that's going to help with the protein loss, you want that oil to kind of be a barrier essentially try. Not to wash your hair before you bleach and you don't want any wax on your hair at all. If you are coloring your hair, because the color, especially if you're doing great coverage, will not penetrate your hair, if you have any wax like products, I've shown you the little wax stick that help keep the little Strays the little wild wiry Grays down. So that wax stick is something that you wouldn't want to put on before you color your hair, so I purposely haven't used that wax. Stick since I washed my hair last - and I washed my hair, maybe four days ago, and so I feel like my hair - is just greasy enough to get going on this and, like I said, it's going to seem a little oily, because I have the coconut oil In but typically my hair is pretty dry, so just just remember: coconut oil really really a great inexpensive product to use for hair growth, foreign okay. So what I have here so pretend I have gloves. That'S the first thing you need I'm touching up my grays, so you I want to show you my grays before we get going just so. You have an idea of what I'm working with here um. This is all gray through here. Mostly here on my temples. You see all that gray, so it's pretty um, it's pretty like white like right here, but it's not evenly white. I don't have any intentions in letting my grays grow out. I just happen to love my hair being color, I'm going to show you what I'm using today and kind of give you um just a little bit of information without going through, like you know, color school right, I'm a Redken girl, but you can get things that Are really good at Sally's Sally's has some really good uh product Wella is at Sally's um and they can maybe help you to figure out your color there. So what you do have to do is make sure you know what your natural base color is. You have to know what your natural base color is to get started with color, because that's going to help, you know you decide on what color you want, because there's all these undertones and make sure you know on a scale from one to ten one being black And ten being white, what your hair color is. My natural level is a level six, but I to be honest with you with this blonde hair, I don't like to take it to a level six. I actually like it to be bumped up a couple of Shades. Okay, so I want my base color to be more like at a seven or an eight, but be careful if you have a lot of color still left in your hair um. That'S why I'm using some shades that will kind of negate any of those undertones. Okay, now I'm not trying to get too crazy technical here, but I think some of these things are important just so you have an idea of why it's so important to know what your natural color is. So my natural color is a six. The colors I'm using are by Redken I'm using sevens and eights okay, so I'm mixing them. So the 7n is what I'm going to be using today, I'm using half of this and then a quarter inch of 8GB, which is a gold beige and then I'm going to be using 8ab, which is going to counteract any of the orange brassy tones. Now gold beige seems a little bit like an oxymoron because gold beige, but it's it's such a beautiful tone that I really enjoy using this. I do think that it warms things up just enough and then this counteracts any of the orangey or Golden Tones that I don't like okay. So this is the 20 volume I'm using if this is by Redken 2, but they have bleach and developer at Sally's. That'Ll work just fine developer, I'm using blonde Dimensions. This is by Redken as well. I'M going to be using 20 volume developer as well on that two color brushes right here, I'm probably going to be using this comb right here. This one does Bend quite a bit. I sometimes prefer this because you can actually get down into that parting and you can kind of bend that foil down in there. It just depends on your preference, but I'm probably using this today - pre-cut foils, you just pull them out and use them as you need them. Costco has foil I like to season for color. I just tear them in half and it works out really well, and it's not you know quite as pricey as like this, and you get so many so, depending on how much hair you do at home, claw clips these clips. Okay, I also have a scale. You do not have to have a scale if you don't want to scale. I just want to be kind of precise, because I have all of this two parts of the one and then one part of each of the other. So, even if you have just get a little container and do it that way, you can do that too. So I did forget to tell you that you're gon na need a couple of towels you're gon na need a darker towel for the color and a lighter towel for the bleach, because you want to keep things nice and clean. Now I'm going to be glancing over to the side here and over to the side here, because my camera is kind of far and I can't really see what I'm doing so. I have to kind of do that, but I'll, let you guys know what I'm doing as I'm doing, I'm going to be doing the lightener and the color at almost the same time, so you're going to do everything together and you don't have to do it in Two steps this way, so this is just the quick and easy way to do: hair at home and just be nice and clean with this. Okay - and you don't want to highlight over previously highlighted hair, so just remember, try the best that you can to only tap the regrowth so that you don't break your hair off okay, so I'm using 20 volume for both color and lightener. Okay, when you're doing bleach, you want the piece to be very, very thin. You want to be able to almost see through the piece um. This is kind of an important step, I'm going to go ahead and weave through my hair. Just to pick up what I have lightened previously and I'm going to go ahead and get started, but this is how thin the piece is you can kind of see through it. Do you see what I mean this hair should be completely white and if it's not, then you either don't have enough bleach on it or you don't have enough lightener on it or you have too big of a section. Okay, so I've gone ahead and dipped and I'm going to go ahead and start keep in mind that I'm going to be as nice and clean as possible. I'Ve got the lightener on there. You'Re gon na. Take the foil heat it up here. Another thing you do not want to paint the lightener all the way to the scalp. Just remember that, because lightener expands and you will end up with tiger stripe - it's a bleeding of the bleach. So you don't that's not a cute. Look. You don't want that at all, don't paint it all the way to the part. You don't want it to touch your scalp or anything like that um then I I do my color every four to six weeks, four to five weeks, my gray coverage. I do not do my bleach every four to six weeks. I actually go three months. Maybe before I do highlights again so just remember that my highlights are pretty outgrown right now, so you will see um quite a bit of painting going on. Do you see how I did that um? This is to lighten your hair for spring and summer, and that is what we're going to be doing. Do you see the piece it's not very thick at all? I just want you to see, and I bend it around the comb if you're watching this video chances. Are you probably already have done your hair before and hopefully you're just you kind of know, maybe the basics already and are just on here to see if there's anything else that you can learn, you know kind of on your: do it at home, hair Journey, okay And so this is what I'm trying to show you. I have bleach on the bottom of those ends. I pull those ends out. I don't want to repaint those ends foil, just like that and then you're going to be really careful not to pull that foil down. Hold it in place as you're folding fold on the side, this will help the foil to stay in place. You don't want that foil to move. Okay, you don't need a ton of oils to brighten yourself up for spring and summer start with a few, and you can always go back in and do more actually have some dimension in my hair. So I want some of the darker color to stay. So I'm going to go ahead and do one more here, I'm taking one small section before I start the highlighting and I make sure that it is as straight as possible. Now this is what I do not want to color. So I'm going to pull that hair over I'm going to clip it and I'm going to grab one more section just like this, and I don't know about you all. But if you are, you know, beginning to you, know, if you're starting to see Gray, how many of you have the wiry texture Gray. That just seems to kind of break and stand up, and it's unruly. It'S that kind of hair that the different texture and it doesn't do what the rest of it does it kind of just stands up. I want to know how many of you have that same type of how many of you have the same kind of gray. Growing in some gray is very vellous. Vellus means very, very soft, but this gray here is very wiry. Definitely a different texture than the rest of my hair. Just uh just know that that's that's that I almost feel like when I color it. It behaves a little better. I almost feel like when I put some color on it. It does behave a little bit better. So now I'm going to show you something. This is a hairline that kind of moves back and then comes forward. So what you want to do is you want to find that hairline and Tuck the rest away and then what I do is I just get. I just weave through it just like this hope. You can see it and then I grab that and let the rest fall. You just take your comb and bounce it now, if you are not very seasoned in hair, just get a really really thin piece and slice. It - and that's just you know like a comb parting, but very very thin, especially around the hairline, and make sure you let the hair around the temple fall out, make sure there's a little bit of hair that comes down before you pull the hair out to bleach, Because then, it's a little more forgiving, okay, the bounce is just kind of weaving in and out like this, if you, if you're doing a slice, make sure it's super thin around your hairline and also make sure you are leaving the hair out and then taking the Hair behind to color, okay, to lighten okay, it's important I'm going to take this down and you can see it's one, two, three four foils so far now this is where I typically part somewhere around here. Okay, so I wanted to clear that you know so. I wanted to go further, I'm going to go ahead and make sure that this is really thin, but to begin with, I'm going to take a little a little parting, and I want it back to back. You want it to be kind of like it's naturally highlighted, so don't no back-to-backs Blended highlights. So that means that if you see, if you have a foil, bring hair down and then you're going to weave out from the next piece okay, so I want you to see how thin this is. This is super thin and you still have some on top of the foil. Okay, we're going to bounce and the reason why you bounce is so that it's Blended, if you like, Blended, highlights so there it is that's how thin the piece is. So let me just show you here and be careful not to go off the foil. So you see it here, see how I don't touch the actual root because it expands. So I'm going to take this out this way, flatten it out and fold it. You don't want it to slide. Okay, you want it to stay, really close. If you pull on it too much it'll actually slide down and it won't process evenly. Okay, because we are coloring The Roots as well. You don't have to be exactly precise. You want to be as precise as possible, but don't think it has to be perfect. That'S all I'm saying because there's a little bit of room for error with this method and that's what I'm trying to show you today: okay foreign and then we're going to bounce out of this. So we already have a thin piece. I'M going to pick up the pieces that I can see that are have been previously highlighted. Okay, you've got this thin piece of hair here. Do you see all this grow out here? Just so you know okay, so then I take another. Let me just tell you one thing: this is not easy to do my hair and film. I I look like I'm tying myself in a pretzel because I feel like I am foreign to make sure you don't have any extra bleach or any bleeding through there. Okay, because any any bleach that lays on your part is going to bleed out okay, now, I'm going to go ahead and speed up the process on the other side and I'll show you what I'm going to do next hang on foreign and I'm not taking the Front of it to highlight I'm taking the inside that way, it's a little more forgiving, I'm bouncing! But again, if you want to slice, just slice, the thinnest piece and make sure it's behind the hairline and then I'm going to right up top hold it and oh and make sure you don't press it too hard when you're holding it. Because you don't want to squeeze the the lightener out, okay, so that's how it looks just like that, so I will take them all down just to show you, but now what you want to do is you want to make sure all of these little Tails are Hanging down, I already have my color mixed up here, make sure it's really stirred well make sure you get most of the excess off and then I'm going to paint just like this, and I don't mind painting on my face to me. It'S worth it to get all of those Grays and Grays start to grow out halfway on your face. So before you do this, you can definitely put some Vaseline or some barrier and that's what they would suggest doing for safety. I'M just telling you that I don't do that, because I want to get every bit of hair and if you go and put Barrier cream on, you may um make it to where it won't penetrate. You know, so that's definitely always something to consider. Okay and what I'm doing with these foils is I'm folding them back slightly, don't put a lot of pressure on them, but you want to get to the hair okay. So I'm going to go ahead and start here just like that, get all of those pesky grays and to me this is a quicker way of doing it. Um, if you want to do it in two sections like in two different times like do your roots and then the highlights that's fine too. But for me this is what I'm doing today, just because I'm saving time and I'm showing you an easy way to do this all in one process. Okay, so I'm making sure that I get all of those little hairs: okay and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to drop those foils down just like this, try not to get it all over my new shirt, I'm not gon na, be crazy. Uh meticulous here I just get down to the root of it. Just like this almost like a shadow effect to be honest and the hair, the color that I'm going with is a shade or two lighter than my own. So it's not going to be a really dark shade anyway, but do you see what I'm doing just just going along the I actually like to hit the back too right here? I can see it and feel it so I like to hit that just right there, where I can actually do it and then even where you bleached, even when you bleached um, like in the foils, make sure that you I'm going to show you something make sure That you really hit that foil underneath okay, you want to hit that foil with the color okay and then I'm going to continue but be careful of those little Tails. You do not want to color the bottoms of those tails that give you a whole nother. Look that we're not going for foreign with box colors you're, just not going to get as a precise of a color as you would, if you mixed your own colors, so you're just going to get what the color um! You know what the color can give. So remember if you are one that has undertones and you go pick a box color going off of what you see on the package, that is just a woman on the on the package. They have no idea what color your hair is to start with. So please, please no see I'm going back a little further. You don't have to do this, but I have gray right here and I can reach so I'm going back and if you want to you know, Skip that section or you don't need to do that. You don't have to do that either and then I'm just going to go. I don't have any foils here. So this is just an easy. Breezy cover my roots, but um yeah don't go by the Box, because if you don't know what your natural color is, you might end up with orange hair. I'M just saying if you're doing highlights and you have really dark hair, there's there's um. You know, there's colors, that you need to add or negate in order to get that you know that desired. Look! So I'm getting all of this. This is where all of that really gray kind of hair is right. There, okay, so I White, and then I take these down these little things. You don't want to get those so be really really careful of where they are sitting while you're doing this, I'm just going to kind of lightly hit those spots again, a little bit of gray going on. It goes to the back um. You know the gray from the top definitely goes down my part, and I want to make sure I cover that area as well. Okay, so I'm all done I want to let you know that I did wash my hair with purple shampoo, so you see that there's still some dimension in there when you bounce, like that, you still get some of that Dimension, which I really really like and remember. If you are going from a like natural brown, or something like that, if you have natural hair you're going to want to paint that highlight color down the entire hair strand? Okay, if you want to go ahead and paint the entire piece and wrap that in the foil. Thank you so much for watching today. 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