How I Style My Platinum Blonde Pixie Cut

Hey guys, i'm steph and welcome to my beauty, stash, hey guys, welcome back! Thank you all so much for watching another one of my videos. You know the drill before we begin make sure you click on the subscribe button and ring that bell so that you never miss one of my video uploads. Today, i'm going to be showing you how i style my new little pixie cut. Well, it's not very new. I did this about towards the end of may, so it's been about two months that i've had this um. I recently went to get a trim, as you can see, and to get it bleached again, so that it is the platinum color. I personally do not like to bleach my hair like every month like i'll wait, a good, maybe eight to ten weeks um in between bleaching um. I might have my hair stylist just go ahead and tone it and then, when i feel like my roots have grown out enough, then i'll go get it re-bleached now, for today, i'm just going to take you step by step on how i style this little pixie Cut it really is super super easy. It'S the easiest haircut you'll ever have in your life. Now i am starting off with a clean head of hair because i did wash it last night when i took a shower and i always use some type of purple shampoo. Every time i wash my hair and to be honest with you guys, i usually just stick to washing my hair twice a week. If i need to then i'll go a third time, but for the most part i wash it twice a week and for sure once a week, i'm using this paul mitchell. This is the platinum blonde shampoo. It is a purple shampoo, as you can see right there. I need to clean this bottle, but i've been using the shampoo for years years whenever i do a platinum look, which has been pretty often over the last six years. I'Ve always used this shampoo and i've always had a great result from it. I typically buy this from ulta beauty. Of course you can buy it wherever paul mitchell is sold um. You do get 10.14 fluid ounces. I want to say the price on this is probably about 15, but everything that i'm using. If i can link it, i will link it in the description box down below. So in case you guys have a new platinum, do um or a pixie cut. You all can check it out. So what i'll do is i'll lather it up and i'll leave it on my head for about maybe two minutes and then i'll wash it off. You don't want to leave it on for too too long, because your hair can absorb some of that color. But for me that i have short hair leaving it on for one or two minutes is the perfect amount of time and it helps to take the brassiness out of the hair. It helps to keep the hair with that nice cool tone. Platinum. Look that you originally got from your hair stylist, so i've really been loving. It then i'll follow up with a conditioner, and this is a conditioner from l'oreal. This is the ever pure sulfate free conditioner. This one is for blonde platinum hair. It is a lighter shade of purple, let's see if i can squeeze some out there, so you can see so, as you can see, it's a lighter shade of purple. It'S not as deep dark purple as the shampoo is, and that's fine um i'll put a little bit of this like a quarter size of this on the palm of my hand and then i'll lather it all over. My hair i'll usually leave this on for 30 seconds to a minute, but this also helps to keep the brassiness away. I also like to use like this is the second shampoo i use throughout the week, so i'll use this one once a week. This is the ever pure sulfate free shampoo. It is the same color as the conditioner, so it's not as dark as the paul mitchell, one um, but it still works great and it doesn't strip your hair of the color that you paid so much to get right. So i've bought these like at walmart target amazon um pretty much at any grocery store. Drugstore you'll be able to find this brand. This line i've been using the ever pure line, the sulfate free line for a long long time, and even when i have like red hair or my natural color, i do reach for the other versions of this ever pure line. I think it's just a really great line of shampoo and conditioner and it doesn't break the bank now as soon as i get out of the shower and i towel dry, my hair, i go in with another paul mitchell product, and this is the platinum blonde. This is the blonde toning spray. This has been working so well for me. I recently discovered this about a month ago, yeah it's been about a month and i bought this um in store at ulta beauty but um with my hair damp. I just spray this all over and then i'll either blow dry, my hair or i'll. Let my hair air dry, as was the case last night, because i just went to bed um, but i do find that this has been working to keep some of the brassiness away. Brassiness is something that, unfortunately, is going to be inevitable unless you're bleaching toning, your hair, like every couple weeks, which i don't recommend that you do that um there is gon na, be some discoloration occurring throughout or in between your coloring process. So by using these purple shampoos, these purple products, you really help to kind of prevent it as much as possible, and i have seen a difference, especially by using the spray that i got, but unfortunately it is bound to happen. So now that i've shown you guys some of the first few products that i use before i go in and start styling, my hair, i'm going to go ahead and show you guys how i blow dry it and then i'll show you the products that i use Or how i flat iron it and the products i use within the styling process, so i just have a water bottle here and i'm gon na spray. My hair a little bit mainly just this part, and this back part right here, where my hair kind of sticks up sometimes, and this next product is a recent find for me, this is the living proof. This is the restore instant protection, weightless heat and uv protection. I got this in, i think my boxycharm from last month and you can use this on wet or dry hair, which is what i like. So i'm just going to spray a little bit of it on mainly on this top part right here now, when you're working with platinum, blonde hair, it's always always a good idea to use either clear products or to use products that have a purple tint to them. That is also going to be something that helps to keep the brassiness away. So now i'm just going to go in with this little pyt blow dryer. I got this in a boxy luxe. Last year i haven't been using my full size blow dryer. I do have a dyson that i love to use, but um since i don't have a lot of hair and it doesn't take very long. I just reach for this little travel blow dryer. I keep it here in my drawer and it's just easy to take in and out and plug in, and it gives me a nice even dry now, while i'm blow drying, i'm moving the hair forward, because this is how i typically style my hair. This is how it begins versus me, pushing it back so now that i've completely blow dried. My hair, it's time for me to start flat ironing it. I have two different flat irons that i'll interchange with each other. They were both free well. Actually one was given to me as a gift and the other i got as like a free gift with purchase in one of my macy's orders. So let me show you the one that's not plugged in that i'm not using today. This is the one that i got from macy's as you can see. I think it's only about half an inch, it's really really small um. It does a great job. It heats up really. Well, i haven't noticed that it damages my hair or anything, and it does kind of like have like rounded plates on here um i like it, it's very lightweight and it was free and it works. So sometimes i'll use this one. The one i'm going to use today, i think this is a baby bliss one and i want to say one of my friends gave it to me. This is a little bit smaller and since i have shorter hair right now um this is the one that i use. It is on right now, but you can see the plate. Size really is small and if i bring it over here, well, maybe they're about the same. What do you guys think to me this little this one, the blue one looks a little bit smaller, but i do like this blue one, though, when my hair is a little bit shorter, like it is today before i start flat ironing my hair i put on This little heat resistant glove that i got with one of my curling wands, just because i'm always burning myself and since my hair is so short, i do need to touch it while i'm styling it, and this just helps to protect my hand. So what i'm going to do is i usually start back here and i just curl in this back part curl in curl. Under i should say, i don't need to leave it on there for too long it usually gets a little curl pretty quickly now up here towards the front, sometimes i'll curl it the opposite way that to where it's kind of going to spike up or curl back. I have a natural part to my hair right here. My hair always goes to the um left side. My hair stylist cuts my hair. She always takes that into consideration, especially when i'm doing like i have longer hair. There really is no wrong or right way to style a pixie cut um and it's just a matter of the look you want to create you want it spiky. Do you want it more curled, um right now. I don't have too many options because it is on the shorter side, but when it does grow out some, i can definitely spike it up more. I can have a more of a curl to it if i like, but i usually do this front part towards the back. Sometimes i will style it when it's kind and bring it down kind of where it like bangs, but i don't always know if that's the most flattering on me, like i don't know, maybe i'm just used to seeing myself with it going like away from my face, But yeah this is about this is about it. This is the extent of me using the flat iron. So now, what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you there's only two styling products that i'll use, and sometimes i use them together. Sometimes i just use one on its own, but this is actually a product that my hairstylist gave me. This is from the brand aquaj and i really love this brand. This is the transforming paste light and it comes in this tube and it is a clear product. You just need to squeeze out a little bit and then you can run it through your hair and kind of move it and texturize it, as you will with your fingers. Another product that i like this is from the brand kenra kenra, platinum, texturizing, taffy and you'll notice that this does have a lavender tone to it. So, like i said earlier, you want your products to either be clear or to have a light purple tone to them. When you're working with platinum hair, this one is a little bit heavier. So usually i like to go in with this on day, two or day three of my look so i'll start off with um, usually just the aquaj one, and then today, i'm probably not going to be using the kenra texturizing paste, or i might just to show You guys how it looks, but for now i'm going in with the aquaj warm it up in my hands. First, i bring down i slick down the sides of my hair. I kind of just bring it forward. Then i just start scrunching it through my hair. At the top, i try not to flat iron anymore. Once i have this paste on and again with a pixie cut, there's no right or wrong way. No hair is ever going to be perfectly in place. It'S supposed to look tousled, it's supposed to look messy, sometimes i'll bring a little bit down right here now. Let me take a little bit of the camera slick down my sides again: you're, just kind of adding definition and texture to certain pieces of the hair. Now what i like to do is go in with a little bit of texturizing hairspray. This is from the sexy hairline, and this is the high tide, texturizing finishing hairspray. This is great. I'Ve loved this hairspray when i have longer hair - and i love it now that i have short hair. It really helps to give you kind of like those beachy waves. I just got back from the beach look um. I really love it all right guys, so this is how i style my pixie cut on a pretty much everyday basis. When i have it short, like i said earlier, i just got it cut a few days ago, so it is shorter than usual. I just have her go as short as possible, just because my hair grows pretty quickly, but these are the steps that i use. These are the products that i use literally everything that i use on my hair. I showed you guys today from the tools to the products um and how i style it. Sometimes again, i will just bring it all to the front and kind of wear like a little bit of a bang look, but i prefer more of like this tousled spiky kind of do. I just feel like it complements the features on my face a little bit better but to each their own. You wear your hair, however, you feel the most comfortable. Now, if you're considering cutting your hair, i went from having shoulder length red hair to having this, and i made the decision pretty much within a week, and i made the decision mainly because i was just bored. I was bored with my hair. I wasn't doing anything with it, but putting it back in a ponytail. So, what's the point of having long hair, if it's always going to be pulled back, might as well have a short fun do that you have to fix every single day that you can really make look different every single day, and it's really just gon na? Be a breath of fresh air into your life. Like i look at myself in the mirror and at the beginning i was like. Oh, my god, i'm a little nervous like what did i do, but i had my hair like this before in the past. It had been several years ago, but now that i've gotten over the initial shock i wake up every morning and i can't wait to style. My hair, i love to style my hair and i love to do my makeup even more so now i just love how my makeup looks with this haircut. I love how my clothes look with this haircut. I just love everything about it. I love the color, the cut everything my hairstyle just she always does such a great job and that's another thing guys. You need to find a hairstylist that is going to work with you that is going to lead you in the right direction when it comes to cut and coloring, and what exactly is going to complement the features of your face and guys. I just want to leave you with this last point. This is just hair, hair will grow back, hair comes and goes it takes on different forms, whether it be straight or curly different colors, but at the end of the day it belongs to you. It'S your hair and you do whatever you feel is best for it. If you want to go a short pixie cut, platinum, pixie cut go for it. If you want to do it long and green go for it. It'S whatever is going to make. You feel the most beautiful i want to. Thank you guys so much for watching another one of my videos. You all have a great day or night wherever it is, you all are at stay. Hydrated guys drink your water, and i will see you all very soon. Bye