Full Head Highlights On Short Hair Tutorial | Back To Back Foiling Technique | Kenra Color

What'S up Kenra, it's Lo Wheeler, your ambassador and today we're gon na do a really fun color technique. I have my good friend Matt here he has volunteered as tribute because we are gon na go blonde and we are going to take him blonde with a really natural root. So it's going to require quite a bit of precision, but we are so here for it. Let'S get started looking at matt's hair, we're obviously dealing with short hair a lot of texture. This is going to require tons of subsections, so i am going to have kayla help me with each subsection, but just as an overview. How i'd like to approach this application is by dividing the hair into four sections? Each side is their own section, the back is its own section and then the front - and crown is the final section. So i think what i'd like to do is start with 30 volume and mix a lot of small batches. So we just have a really fresh and active product, we're using the kenra blue powder to do that, just because it lifts up to eight levels and it also cools as it lifts in tones. So that's going to be important here and again we're mixing with 30 volume, i'm going to start from the bottom. Lay foil drop down micro, section, saturate and you'll see me: go all the way up with the same approach feathering up to the scalp without saturating. At the scalp, this is going to give us a little disconnect a nice rooted look and then we can build the color as we tone after that. Okay, so i'm having kayla hold up each section just because she is personally invested in this transformation as she is. The wifey, but you know i just am going to brush the lightener up, we're keeping it off scalp because we want a soft rooted blend like a edgy contrast, look and don't worry too much about foil, slipping, it's going to happen with this small of a application And i'm just going to take my time and i have everything i need i've mixed, the blue powder lightener medium thick viscosity, just so that it can hold on to the foils. We'Ve cut these foils in half just because you don't need extra wiggle room there. So the smaller the foil, the easier the placement is going to be so we have two brushes. One is a well brush to mix the product, and then we have a fresh, clean brush set aside so that we can just be precise, and as i mentioned, i really like to have small batch of my blue powder lightener. This just creates the opportunity to work with the freshest product and at its most active state. You don't want to work as hard as your chemicals right. The chemicals are formulated to work for you, so i love mixing fresh because that way, i just know i'm gon na get super clean, lift as i work. This is a definitely a custom service that would require a lot of marketing if you want to offer these services just because, in my experience, this blonding is going to be as extensive as you know, something that you do on a long-haired client. It'S going to require, you know just as much technique and planning. So if you are thinking about offering a service like this, you want to make sure that the price point is competitive. For you know a traditional blonding service that you're offering, especially because of the time required for this is gon na be similar. So i've talked to matt in advance, and we know that we've blocked out about four hours to see this transformation through. We know when you're lifting more than three or four levels, which in this case we are we're gon na need time to actually see the product perform and lift to its best ability. So, just because the hair is short, you're not going to want to shortchange the business around this service, because it's still going to require a lot of time and product. I mean we're probably going to use two to three toners and two to three small scoops of lightener. Here, here's a look at the back of the application, we're going to remix a fresh batch of lightener and get nice fresh, active ingredients and we're gon na. Do the same application from front to crown this way and then once we're done with that, we'll address the size. Let'S talk about saturation and your lifting, you want to make sure that you're generous with the amount of product that you're putting on and use your common sense, because you obviously don't want to scoop a big sloppy batch on each section. You want to use your common sense there, but be generous make sure that all of the hair is saturated. It'S going to give you a nicer, even lift and then also the section size of each foil, the finer, the section, the blonder, the lift. So here we're gon na use very fine sections and ample product with these type of services. Something i like to always have in the back of my mind: is the haircut in consultating with matt. He wants to keep his length as much as possible. So after this blonding session, we'll do some light, texture and maintenance. But if i was going to give a totally new shape to his haircut, i would do that first before blonding, because it just makes your work look so much easier and if you remove bulk you're removing surface space to cover. So it just makes it a little bit easier for you to tackle the haircut first in some of these situations. So now what we have left is these sides, so we cannot lose our detail here. This is still important, so we're gon na take extra fine little foils and we're gon na approach it the same way from bottom to top. Here is the result of our amazing transformation, we're both so stoked with how this came together. We ended up doing a shadow route for this, look because i really wanted it to be balanced. So when you're looking at you know the depth of his beard, his eyebrows, his skin tone, all of those things putting a root is so essential to making it look. Effortless and easy, and that's what we wanted to do so to make that come to life. We chose a six ash, which is a deep navy blue base, which is a little bit intimidating to go over blonde because as soon as you see it develop, it starts to shift its tone, but don't be scared of this demy permanent formula, because it's so beautiful It looks so rich. It really does eliminate any harsh lines that you can possibly leave behind when doing so. Many foils and the overall tone was a 9pv. Now, when you use a really rich ash based shadow root such as six ash, you can easily get it throughout pieces of hair that you're trying to keep blonder. When that happens, it's really easy. You just take a little bit of lightner 10 volume and pull it through anything that grabs of any of that residual tone. So we did our magic and here is the end result. We use the dry texture spray to give the shape a lot of impact power and just full looking aesthetic, and this actually was such great results. I mean we weren't really anticipating having this impact of lift, but i'm also not surprised because the blue powder is amazing. So if you love this education and want more inspiration subscribe to the channel professional youtube, because there's so many more amazing tutorials right there at your fingertips, see you there