Hair Color Tutorial: Super Fast & Easy Way 7 Foil Techniques

I'Ve been a malibu educator and platform artist for almost 13 years of my 14-year career. I'Ve been an olaplex advocate for three years. I believe this is my third year and i'm also a regional brand educator and director for a company called active hair science. So my spectrum is super broad, but what i'm bringing to you guys today is going to be a quick seven foil highlight you can place it anywhere for whatever pop color you're, trying to design or any type of just ultra blonding you're doing. But before i get into all that, i got a couple things i want to get off my chest. First off, i want to say thank you and happy birthday to olaplex and all of you. I believe that we wouldn't be where we're at 100, without the support of all of you, guys in the industry, all of the stylists that are just pumping olaplex products into people's hair and keeping the health and maintaining the integrity of the hair. It is my favorite part about this brand, one of the best things about it, i believe, is how you can push the hair a little further and you can watch the hair and understand the hair a little more with olaplex. I think that's a huge huge boost for any stylist career, but uh. Let'S see my notes, my notes, my notes, so yes happy birthday to olaplex, i'm so excited and so happy to be a part of this team uh getting into it all. What i want to talk about is the seven foils or less highlight it's a great spring highlight it's an amazing summer highlight it's an amazing scenario that you can put yourself in to increase your average ticket. I believe that's what i put in my little tag and notes. Hopefully everybody can hear me good, there's jennifer. So, let's talk seven foils, the reason i say seven foils or less is you can cover a lot of ground with about five to six and then two little extras or you can cover seven all the way down the middle? If someone is wanting like a little, let me spin you babe. If someone is wanting like a little a little pop color in the back, you can see. I'Ve got her sectioned off into a diamond of her hairline, and what that's going to do is we're just going to go piece to piece and i'm going to show you but say: you've got somebody. Who'S never had color before or their uh daughter is wanting. Some purple, but you know you have to lighten the hair. This is an easy way to cover a lot of ground without having to use a lot of product a lot of time and it's an amazing intro for someone as well who's wanting some dimension wanting to just get a little highlight little kiss of color on top. But it's all about the sectioning and the planning that you do for this seven foils and i want to try to get through my products that i'm going to be using today. All the things i'm going to be using today, which i'll be talking about later on, is our number four and our number five leaders, as well as obviously with my little two ounces or less with olaplex. I'M only going to be putting a 16th of olaplex. In my lightener and in my developer mix also finishing at the bowl with number two from olaplex, and i might do with my five four and five liters - i might dab a little bit in this number four and mix these two, because she's super blonde and super Porous, i don't want it to grab any color. I don't need to tone her. All i need to do is give her a little bit of that lavender. Look, so it'll kill any golds or any tones that are in the way. Let me see it check in. I love olaplex and i love the way my colors and highlights come out with them. Absolutely who doesn't love old place so lean forward? For me, emma i'm gon na try to uh show everybody what this is going to do see. If i can pick it up switch it, so you can see. She'S got a lot of dark shadow kind of throughout and in between we're going to fill these in and we're gon na cover this in a very cool zigzag pattern. But when i show you it's gon na be corner to corner as well as if i have time, i'm gon na show you how to add some in the back as well to cover in some of those dark areas. But it's all about sectioning, hey brittany. How are you so, let's get it mixing two and two two ounces and two ounces: we haven't got our oliplex in it yet so, where is everybody from put your uh city and state in the comments? Real quick, the smell of olaplex, my fave one of my faves, hey doris. Where are you from i love learning a quick new technique? Jennifer. This is like my favorite one. What happens is a lot of times. People have gone to uh a stylist before and they've been like. I don't want to sit in the chair for seven hours. I want a little highlight. You know. I want to be here all day all the things this is so quick and so easy, and i know that uh stylist all the way from chain salons uh all the way to individual owners, all the way to people who rent suites there's always a need for An increased average ticket, the more money you bring home, the more money and things you can buy and all that but uh. What we're gon na do with this particular in the front is we're gon na take a wide section across across our part, we're going to say it's about three and a half to four inches wide lean back just a little and we're just going to surround that Part about a half an inch on each side, we're going to go right into the middle catching hair from back there, and this is going to be my burst - highlight what this is going to do. You can see when i pull it up. You can see her shadow kind of in there and we're going to cover all that as much ground as we can. But let me clip this up and out of the way, and i want to show you how i'm going to do it on the sides as well. If you were to do something where someone wanted some peekaboo panels, you could easily take the same sectioning, which i'll flip off here in a second and start applying, but you're going to go in diagonal away from the face you're going to cover that and come back Again too, so i'll show you guys those as well not to get too ahead of myself, but i believe the consultation is key if your service only takes a few minutes. Your consultation that looks terrible. Your consultation should never last longer than 15 minutes on any color consultation, any chemical, any haircut - and i know i've got some people down here that can vouch for me. That will agree with me as far as, if a consultation lasts longer than 15 minutes. Neither one of us, the guest nor myself as an artist will be happy, and i believe that that's the main thing we want to do when someone leaves our salon and they're like. Oh, my god, i feel so amazing. I feel 10 years younger. It'S not really. The money as much it's mostly that feeling that i get when we do someone's hair and they run away with that feeling. Let me see: olaplex classroom updates, that's what we love about it. So much hey malia! How are you all right? So, let's get to it! Let me start putting my olaplex in and then we want to run this section. I'Ve already squeezed it off again inside the foils is 1 16 that you'll add to every two ounces. One to two ounces believe mixing ratio is a question for a few i've had before, but i'm going to give you a little tip. If you, google, olaplex mixing ratio, a little card comes up, it's a little cheat sheet and if you save that to your phone, you'll never have a problem with wondering which ratio i'm supposed to use, which one i'm not, and so i've got my foils already ready. I'Ve got seven so that you know i don't cheat and then we're gon na run right across this part, ready we're gon na go here in the front. We'Re gon na leave about a quarter inch section out and i'm going to go right behind that and create my first actual foil line. You got such baby hairs emma and with that i don't want to. I want to slice it. I don't want to do like a peppered technique where i'm feathering it back or thinning those pieces out we're just going to go right in and get right to it, leaving some of the hair out, because it's porous and it's already there we're just retouching this highlight. Please admins and everybody fill in the blanks that i can't see so far. Let me see if i can pull you a little closer, hey anne marie. How are you i'm so excited so look right here is where we're going to try to go lean down like this. So if you guys can see this tapered foil right here, i'm going from the other corner of it and i'm just taking it directly diagonal back. This is on my nerves, we're going to take it a little wider, lean back and we're going to go from that corner directly over at a diagonal and as we take that corner, my sections are looking sloppy for doing this four part. We'Re gon na go right on the corner of that piece and we're just gon na blend it corner to corner. I don't know if you guys do this, but your feathering of foils lean back just a little, so i can show we're going right on that corner. Leaving a mild diagonal in between you'll see about a half an inch of hair, where this will kind of create some more dimension beyond that, so you're not ending up with a serious brick lay of foils or anything like that. I know this is left out, but as we hit this corner, we're going to take it from the opposite end no different. I think all the clips are on my nerves, we're going to go from this corner to this corner, and i'm going to show you guys really hard to uh see what i'm doing right here, especially with ratty foils right now, ready we're going to go corner to Corner with foil number three, and it really is a simple technique. I know it seems so like oh i've done this before, but if you're taking corner to corner you're, covering a spark you're covering a huge spectrum of color, with just a little minimal amount of foiling, and so for my girls that and guys that aren't as fast As they normally would be, this is a great little technique to get you where you need to be so i'm on one zag here now, i'm here, so i'm going to take the opposite corner on this end as well. Until back, hopefully, everybody can see me sherry jones and we're just going right behind it and going straight over at a diagonal, leaving no hair in between from my corner to corner that way. When those meet there's no cross-hatched look or any type of calico cat experience. You know all that going right in same difference, corner to corner. Can you look down and show corner to corner the reason i do this is a lot of times you run into a lot of people who are scared to get color or have had a bad experience before and so in this particular, i don't have to go Through a full color service with them tilt back, please thank you. All i have to do is say: hey, let's just add a little dimension on top and let's go there with it, it's great for people who have dark hair color and they just want a little kiss of highlight or their last stylist used to give them a Little, you know a gloss of some sort on top that kind of broke it up and made it look a little more dimensional. But i want you guys to see how far back i'm at on this particular as i go again opposite corner to opposite corner. No different, hopefully there's some people filling in things. I do want to say this. I am fresh off of the premier, orlando hair show, if you guys, have not gone to a hair show in a while you should. It is an amazing experience, it's better than it was before. I believe i had one of the best shows i've ever had in orlando, who here's been to a show: hey leslie, no one, no hands up for a hair. Show you get this in here and then we're going to come and try to pull over and show you guys, i'm only two foils left and i've covered so much ground across her part line. Look we're coming this way now look down. I know it looks like a mess, but we're gon na go this corner now to this corner, and so hopefully you'll see this as well about a half an inch when it comes to the the bottom crest right here, but we're taking nothing in between and we're Going right behind it at a diagonal and just filling in that area, look at it please! Thank you, we're on the last coil here in this section after this one. The reason i mentioned a lot of chain salons, i don't think everybody individually leases. I don't think everybody individually uh, you know, owns the salon and a lot of times we are on a timer. I worked for a chain salon for many years last oil. Here we go and we're just going to go back again corner to corner keeping the same width on each side where they meet we're just going to take one more and put it right here. Let me get this out and i want to show you guys just kind of the pattern that it lays with lean back right now. It looks like organized chaos in my teenager's hair, but let me see if i can show you corner to corner our first corner peaked right here, where you can see my second corner. Although folded peaked right here on this one same amount of sectioning behind it. My third fourth corner - excuse me, is right here touching my fifth comes out in the exact same as well as my sixth, let's spin it around. Hopefully you guys can see all that hey priscilla. Yes, please share the results on olaplex classroom because i've got a limited amount of time for her to process blow dry. Do all the things i won't be 100, showing the results at the end of this live video, but in the comments section as well as all the plex classroom and the olaplex users group i'll, be posting all of my results from her hair. I do want to show you because i have time now we can still chit chat and talk, but i do want to show you the section in the back now so we're going to remove some of this out of my way. My least favorite part of my job, all right, so those are tucked in they're safe, we're just going to keep them up and out of the way just right here all right now, the sectioning is no different. Yeah, i'm so glad shows are coming back too jennifer for sure all right, so the sectioning is going to be no different in the back. I'M going to go the middle of the ear as far as i can with a clean diagonal part with enough weight behind it on both sides that i won't have any issue with overlapping or anything like that. Let'S move this: can you guys all see that hey dale yeah, i'm super excited about the hair, show game starting back up hey april um, so let's pull seven more. The reason i use this technique in the back is because a lot of kids nowadays they're not allowed to have more than 10 percent color 20 percent color at their schools. 5 6 7. they're not allowed to have more than 10 to 20, and this is a cute way to kind of give a kid that wanted some type of pop color or anything like that. Give them an amazing little kiss of color that they are proud of and happy with, and also like, not violating the rules of their school and so we're just going to go with a little clean spot right here on a diagonal, no different i'll. Take this porous piece out. I just wanted to show you guys this quick thing and i'm so excited that. Hopefully, someone can take this and they can make some extra money with it. They can incorporate it into their repertoire. They can make this a part of what they do on the daily, instead of just being stuck with the lady that comes in she's. Like i just want a haircut, i thought about color be sure you get all the technique, questions, technical questions absolutely, and i will answer everything towards the end as well. Just want to write up show your favorite share. Your favorite hair show in the comments. Let'S go so the technique is about a eighth of an inch in and if there's any technical questions, but i will answer them or have somebody in there that will keep these a little wider. So you guys can see them just how they feather in jennifer. What did you say, great low maintenance for summer too, absolutely so we're on the corner to corner routine. I feel like because i'm leaning this way, i'm going to go back behind it and come here and look at how much ground you can cover in a highlight that still has a kiss of a highlight with it. There we go and we're going to take just corner. Add a diagonal up. Let'S see absolutely hey amy. How are you what you guys favorite service to perform with olaplex, i feel like highlighting, is my gig. Like i love it, i love blonding. I love the experience of it. I love when you take them back to the shampoo bowl and it's still kind of wet. They can't see all of it and then, when they bl, when you blow dry and style it out they're, just in love with how light you got them. How amazing the color looks it's just a huge gig in my world over here all right. Let'S check back my favorite balayage all day, i love balayage. I just believe it's been told that it's for everyone and i don't believe it's for everyone. I also am a firm believer in great integrity of the hair and a lot of times. I see uh in the balayage game. There'S a lot of tattered swelling that happens. The ratios off a lot of those things can be different and uh. So if the starting point or your attack level, that you go into the hair and what you decide is your plan of action, if it is a level three and four or even five, sometimes i choose not to do open air oxidation. What i do is i'll take a foil i'll feather it in just like i would a painted balayage inside, but i'm tapping two foils together, so that we don't have any bleed swell beyond that. That way, i'm not fishing in with, like a level seven at the base and kind of cheating out my work, and so for me, i'm foils all the way. I believe you should put a thousand in each head, but that's me personally, so we're all the way over here and my section can ride all the way over here and the reason that i pulled this is, i don't know if anybody else does this, but i Do a lot of horizontal foiling for retouches, and so even if it's something like this, where she's porous towards the ends - and i don't want to uh attack any of that with my lightener, if i'm just retouching a base, i can easily take this joint. Give it a half a fold, get it ready, as so that when i take this wide section that kind of goes corner to corner one more try there, she is see. I'Ve got a lot of blonde already in here throughout. What this is going to do is allow me just to touch these bases in these roots or new growth. Excuse me in texas, we say root, but you can even look if it goes even further out. You can bend your foil to get coverage for those. I don't know who else uses horizontal foils. I definitely do though there she is, or if foiling is not 100 your thing you can easily hit them with one two three, maybe four, and this will also give a little grown out. Look throughout these areas see more of the angle for them, hopefully trying to cram everything in at one deal foil all the way see. I love my people there. They are we're just feathering in over that back comb just to make sure everything's got a great blanket technical question. Anyone technical questions. She said it's so good, tuck turn. Okay, so we're gon na take a whole other section down, because we're actually only three foils deep. What a mess i think next time, i'm going to pick someone with less hair, get this wrappy stuff out of the way same thing, just continuing up getting everything out of my way, i learned highlights with foils, so it's hard to give them up. I agree uh. In hair school, i was taking way too thick of sections and uh. My instructor, you know, let me know like less - is more brandon, so 10, more foils with half of the hair in it and you'll have an amazing result as opposed to the way it was before, where i would have a big, huge band of problematic stuff. Let'S move this out of the way, let me get right here, it's some beautiful hair. Thank you. Did you hear that my daughter will be so happy and pleased? Oh, did i intro this is my daughter yeah. I didn't show that for sure i did not tell everyone well, this is my teenage daughter. I think before i do hair i'm a dad and a husband first, i don't think they look at me as the stylist, like you guys, look at me for sure, but we're again going corner to corner and the reason i'm showing you guys. This is. I want you to understand that when i do these small section foils like i do, if i have someone, that's like you know what next time i want more next time. I want this. This is a huge huge ticket builder as well as you have the ability to control what you're doing if they just want a kiss of blonde around the face. This is a way you can oh well, i've got a seven foil highlight that's just around the front and the fringe just kind of brighten up your face, and i think that's something that is not approached by hairstyles they're like oh. What do you want? A partial, a full foil, okay, well, that's 50 to 100 foils. It ends up being 245 once you run all the products with it and all the things and some people leave there going well did i really did i just pay 250 to kind of look the same or to be so blonde. I i don't recognize myself, and so i think that's a huge gig and a huge part of it uh for me is tailoring what i do to the guests needs not everybody's going to be my teenage daughter right. That'S going to you know, just sit in the chair and say: oh dad. I want to be blonde or whatever there's a ton of people sectioning today it's terrible, but there's a ton of people who don't even uh. You know don't even know that you offer something a little less expensive than your full foil highlight for 250 to 275. yeah, we're still hidden same difference, corner to corner no different in the back, i'm just covering ground some people like to bricklay. I don't like to bricklay. I got i like to go corner to corner. It covers more ground. I believe the bricklay can create almost like a tattered pattern or a checkered pattern. Sometimes, and so that's one thing that i stay away from unless the uh the service calls for it. I just believe that not everybody's made of money right, i'm in dallas texas, so my price point uh for hair is going to be. I don't i i do cut and color starts average price around 175 and that's an intro rate. That'S where um, i would say, a mid-range kind of uh pricing for my area. I also price accordingly for products so that, if someone is coming into my salon, they're like i want a full foil, highlight and they're like what you know what's that entail, and i always explain to them what comes with the complete olaplex top to bottom service. So that's a little bit! Why that's a difference between me and your last stylist? I also uh remove all the minerals with malibu c's crystal gel before every single guest. If this wasn't my daughter that receives crystal gel and uses my products at home, it would be a scenario where you would see me demineralize her with a treatment for about 40 to 45 minutes beforehand before lightning, so uh you're a great dad and how much? Oh donna, you're, so sweet. You can't throw me off i'll start crying. You know um again we're two foils away and we've covered 30 to 40 percent of the hair, with some sort of blonde to disperse that light throughout. And it's going to be an even really cute kind of look because we're covering the same tracks as we would anywhere else and now we're almost to a connecting point, and so i've just almost done 50 of the hair in a matter of 30 minutes uh. While talking and stomping obviously, but in a matter of 30 to 35 minutes, i have covered 50 or more of the hair, with some sort of blonding with some sort of highlight or dimensional color change. I think that's why it's the most beneficial for me and my girls here. I'Ve started several new girls that have before struggled with color they've been uh. You know they weren't taught properly, there's a ton of reasons that people what's the treatment that you use. There'S a ton of reasons that people are scared of color. I believe olaplex is a great beneficiary for a stylist, because if your knowledge isn't 100 or your eye can't look at a blonde and go oh that's done as an intro. All the plex is a lifesaver. It'S i create insurance is what i tell people, it's insurance for me, nicole, the product that i would the treatment that i would use is for malibu c, it's a crystal gel treatment and what it is is in a short form. It magnetically removes the minerals with vitamin c, and so the truth is is that if you're a colorist and you've never used a malaboo seed product or you've never removed the minerals of the hair beforehand, um, what it's going to do is it's going to give you An even clean palette to paint your lightener on, and the best way i can describe it is, is that if you were to paint on a white blank canvas, you would get all the pigment everything that you needed all the way in there, but we're not painting On canvas, we're painting on things with pockets in them and minerals that have attached and been you know, been stuck on there for years, and so when you're, putting your lightener on the head, you're pushing through all those minerals. So a crystal gel treatment is always recommended for sure crystal gel olaplex. I will not do a client without both of those periods. Last one - and we are right here in my back. I hope you can see how i have tilt like this emma, how you guys can see how this brick or this zigzag pattern has come together. We are in one section where my section and my section will now connect. I got ta re-flip, my foil though, but i'm hoping that everybody that sees this can understand that it took me 20 minutes 30 minutes to cover this much of the hair as it's not even it's arguing with me right now, no different here, i am in my Back you can see how these two foils are about a half inch to an inch apart. This is going to give me a crest right here and we're going to go right across that line. Connect those two pieces face that and we're just going to lay a foil in between no different, but with something like this. The average stylist would have put a hundred foils from here to there and the customer goes. Oh wow, i'm super blonde now and if that's not what they wanted and they just wanted a a whisper and i'll tell you what i mean by a whisper all right. You can lean back now, oh so much better, huh, okay! So the reason i ask um, if you want to be blonde blonde or you want to be anything different, we're going to let her process and i can chit chat now. So not everybody wants to be platinum, not everyone wants to have the blondest blonde possible or every other strand be blonde in reality. This is something that is an intro to people who have never experienced a highlight. You can do it with color as well. So after you say, you've got virgin hair level five and they just want like a little kiss of a number seven or something to break up their natural. This is something you can do this technique lean back for me, just a little has used 14 foils to connect the entire front and the entire back now. Is she going to be platinum throughout absolutely not, but that's not the goal we're looking for. None of that is in this reality we're just trying to get some more dimension. Maybe take some of the blonde she's already got, get it a little boost, give it a little bit more um, hopefully uh. You know you're not using this technique incorrectly. By that i mean you're, not putting seven foils right here. You know what i mean like a halo of foils, but what it is great for is there's a lot of new trends where you're, seeing just a hunk of blonde like right here in the back, maybe offset with this quadrant over here to the left uh. This is a great way to create that pattern and show more blonde with less product, foil and all the things. What, in my time at we're getting there we're so set happy, we want to support all your salon needs absolutely cosmoprof top tier in my book. I love every one of the cosmoprof shows. I love my distributors down the street. I have an armstrong call five minutes from my salon and if i need anything they are at my beck and call. They are amazing, amazing support system. Ah, let's see, let me check my notes, so we covered bursts of color great for panel work. I'M telling you this is like the number one thing in my salon for summer is out. I mean summer is in now school's out we're ready to start putting color in teenagers ready to start having those 11 and 12 year olds come in they're. Like my mom said, i could get blue and they have jet black hair or dark brown hair. This is going to be something that you can cover a lot of ground, give them a little bit of purple little blue, whatever they want lightening them and not overpowering the remainder of their hair, because how many uh people have put blue on their. You know one of their kids that they do inside the salon and then three weeks later their mom's like well uh, it's too blue or you know you just have so many things that you're like i don't want the whole bottom blue. I just want a little bit and it's great for uh. I don't know if you have older guests, but i got a lot of older, ladies, that are coming in to get a little purple in the bang and things like that. You should price. Accordingly, if you hit someone with a full foil right off the bat you're going to end up with not not as much of a retention rate, we know that if you just come in and get a haircut, i mean these numbers hold. True, just like i said earlier about a 15 minute consultation, if the 15 minute, if it passes that quit, send the guest out your door you're, not the stylist for them and they're, not the guest for you. I hold by that 100 percent as well as not overloading people and not uh overwhelming them with their ticket getting a ticket. They expected to pay 200 bucks, and it's now got increased to four to 450. Communication is huge on that and uh. It'S a big part of me, but having something in your repertoire where you're like. Well, i don't want to do a partial. I don't want to do a full. This is uh amazing for you to go well, here's what we can do. We can do a little kiss of dimension. We can do a little seven, four foils or less it's about 50 to 60 bucks, it's uh or average in my old salon. It was about ten dollars of foil, so 70 bucks if they got something like that or even lower, depending upon your ticket average, but for any stylist who's struggling with color for anyone. That'S uh scared to ask for a 150 to 300 highlight this is a great intro on both sides, stylists as well as guests. If my guests came in the same, like i said earlier, and they were like, i've got dark hair. My girl's been doing my hair for 10 years level, 4.. Well, hey. Have you ever thought about getting a little highlight little dimensional change if you come at them with a hundred and eighty dollars, they're like oh? No. I can't do that. But if you come at them with hey, i've got one for like 75, with your cut it'll. Take, maybe 30 minutes we'll get you in and out of here and it'll. Look amazing that sales point and that marketing strategy works. I promise you. I have built a business in a separate city twice from the ground up uh, i'm super comfortable with my uh salon ownership. I don't have any issues and i attribute it to olaplex malibu c, especially olaplex, on keeping my integrity of the hair that i'm you i'm doing and uh it's a huge part of me. I don't know if you guys have gotten this. Yet this is a lifesaver. I have if i use a crystal gel treatment before and i blonde them after the minerals are removed. I don't need a toner. 4P is strong enough and it's amazing. Thank you, big. Thank you to brandon john