How To: Apply Madison Reed Hair Color With A Bowl And Brush

Hello, my name is Susan Roberts Cooper and I am a professional hair colorist. Today we're going to be talking about Madison red, which is a hair color that has been designed to be used at home. So the first step in the color application is to apply the protective cream around the hairline. This is what would happen in a good hairdressing salon because, when we're applying color very often we'll find that will go onto the skin and it will mark the skin. So this is just a little bit of extra service that Madison Reed provides when we apply the protective cream. What we're trying to do here and E is not get it on the hair itself. Okay, just to get it on your skin great because we don't want you to look as if you've just had your hair colored. We don't want anybody to be able to tell sounds good so working around. Don'T forget your ears when you do this yourself at home! Andy because you'll find that the ears are not the area that you'll pay attention to until you get color on them and you can't get the color off there. We go now what we need to do, because you've got lots of hair and most people have. Fortunately, we're going to split your head very easily, first of all, into two sections: okay, we take a section from the middle of your forehead right, the way through to the middle of your nape, so right, the way - and this will make your life so much easier Because this comb is perfect for colouring, okay, a nice wide tooth comb, it sits in your hand easily, and it really is very useful for pulling the color through the hair as well later, okay good to know so. First of all, we start with splitting your hair into two sections and then because you've still got plenty of hair. The easiest way to work with this is going to be to take each section and split it again in two and that way you've got two sections on one side and guess what two sections on the other. So that will mean that it's going to be very much easier for you to apply your color to make it easier still in your accessory kit. What'S great is that you have these clips, so they're really strong, which is great, because what we're going to be doing is applying the color directly onto the roots of your hair, okay, so four sections nice and easy to work with the good, though I think we Can improve on this so now we're all prepared and ready to go and is got her cream on and we're all sectioned up. Now we need to mix up the color. We'Ve got two choices here. We can either have a bowl and brush application method or we can use the applicator flask with the color, because I'm a professional colorist. This is what I'm used to. However, when I do my hair at home. This is what I use it's just easier. First of all, I'm going to wear some gloves. These are great gloves because you can really feel the hair through them and what's also great about it, is you get not just one pair but two pairs of gloves inside the kit and that's fabulous to have that in there? What we need to do is take a activator first of all, unscrew the lid and then pop this into the bowl. What we then do is take our color and just as before, use the lid to break the seal and then squeeze the contents of the tube into the bowl with the activator. Now here you can see the consistency of the color. It really does look creamy once all of that colors in there it's time to mix so using the bowl and the brush, and this is one of the easiest colors to mix that you'll ever find, and you can see that coming together very quickly. That doesn't always happen once you've mixed it thoroughly and we've got a nice smooth paste it's time to put the color on starting the application, we're going to start through the back section. So I'm going to turn Andy around so that you can properly see the easiest way to do. It is to put the color directly onto the parting, because that helps to separate out those sections and really keep them sectioned off. Once you've outlined there, we can take the clip out and start to apply when we're applying the color. What'S important is to make sure that we put the color on the head, so you can actually feel this yourself. Can you feel this Andy again, so you can by filling it on your scalp? You can feel that it's actually on your hair. Now, in this case, what we're doing is we're going to put the color on the roots and then take it straight. The way through to the ends, but it's easiest to do the root application first. So when you're doing this yourself at home, if you're doing the whole head as we're going to do here, always start with the root application, just because it makes it easier for you. What I'm doing here is using the tail end of the brush to do my sectioning and if you use the brush application method, this is the best way to do it, because, when you're using the tail end of the brush, you can feel it on your head And that's how you know that the color is being nice and evenly applied that it's going where it should be going. It'S not always as neat as this, but that's okay. So once one side of the back has been put through what we then do is start at the top of the other section when we finish the back, what we then do is turn around and start on the front section, but we also need to make sure That we're not taking too much time, and this is where the flask actually will help when you're doing your hair at home, because it's very much quicker than using a bowline brush you'll notice, as I'm putting the color through and coloring an inch to an inch-and-a-half. If we were doing a retouch application, what you would do is color the hair which doesn't have color so, in other words, you'd be putting that color on the hair, that's growing out, and then, if you take the hair just away from your face, that tends to Keep it a little bit cleaner, okay, now at this point, because Andy has natural hair, what I'm going to do is use exactly the same sequence starting off through the back and take the color straight the way through to the mid lengths and ends, and that's what You need to do at home if you're working on hair, that's completely natural or you're, changing your hair color if you're, maintaining your hair color so in other words, you're, really making sure that you're addressing the new growth at the roots and that's why you've put the Root color on there. What you would do at that point is leave this now for 20 minutes and then take the color through to the mid lengths and ends the best way to address. It is to make sure that you're, using the tip of your brush or the tip of the flask, to make contact with your scalp. If you do that, and you can actually feel it, you can feel that current yeah, then you know that you're parting, the hair and you're getting down to the roots itself. If you do, that, you'll also find that you can take a very clean section when you're wearing gloves make sure that you're putting the color onto your hand again. If you can feel this, it makes it very much easier and you can see what I'm doing here is working the color in with my hands. What you'll, also notice that I'm doing is when I'm taking my section and working the color through I'm always working it from the root towards the ends. This is the gentlest way to treat your hair and, if you're working it like that, you'll find that your hair will give you a really super shiny result. Alternatively, you can use the comb and comb it through and this comb is perfect for that, because not only does it help to distribute the color nicely, but it also helps you to keep it nice and neat once the application is completed, the colors gone all the Way through from the root right, the way to the ends, a good professional tip is to at the very last, go through and apply extra color to that very front hairline, because what tends to happen is that the color absorbs a little bit through there. So if you just place a little bit more color on that area, that means you're going to make sure that the color will be absolutely spot-on. Now we will put a clip take all of this hair because Andy's got long hair. You might not need the clip if you don't have super long hair and then to keep it nice and clean. We use the cap, which comes in the kit and literally just pop, that over the top to make sure that it's keeping your hair out of harm's way, you'll find in your kit a little cleansing wipe. This is specially designed to go around after the color application to make sure that you can take off any stray color. So just literally work around the hairline top of your ears and just make sure that it's nice and clean and there's the finishing touch. So at this point now we wait for 35 minutes and when we shampoo - and it will be transformed, madisyn reads that easy when it comes to shampooing the color. All the easiest way to remove the color is to first of all, add some water to the hair. So but when you're shampooing just add a little bit of water before you start to shampoo and then wearing your gloves, don't forget that you get two pairs of Madison red gloves in every kit, just massage the color off the scalp. If you spend time doing this, what you'll find is the shampoo, the color will rinse off very very easily, and it will be much faster to shampoo the color off your hair. This is what happens in a salon how the color is always removed and then simply rinse. What you'll also notice here is because we spent some time protecting through the hairline, the color comes off and doesn't leave skin stains. I think you're going to like this. My love, it's lovely, the colors all finished, it's finished. How does your hair actually feel? It feels really great. I mean it feels softer. It feels you know healthy. You can definitely tell a difference and like the texture of it, just it feels it feels smoother. I'M glad I did it in fact, I'm sure that I'll do it again. I can't believe that I could just do something like this at home. I feel like confident that I could do it myself, which is it's really great well, and the great thing about using this color is that it is so easy to use at home, because obviously the first time when I did it for you, I've used the ball And brush application right, but you saw how we can mix it and use the applicator flask. So you could do that yourself very easily yeah. Absolutely. I definitely think that it's easy an outfit. I could even do it myself, excellent yeah! You