How To: Balayage Highlights (Teasylights) On Short Hair | Brunette Balayage

Hey guys welcome back to my channel, so today I'm gon na share with you how I balayage my short hair by myself at home. If you're already subscribed to my channel, then you know what my hair was super super super dark brown like almost black, and I have been in the process of slowly just adding some lighter highlights and just adding more dimension to my hair. Just to like lighten it up a little bit just to break up like that solid, dark color, but, as you can hopefully see, this is the result, so I'm gon na show you exactly how I did this to myself and what I used keep in mind. I am a licensed hairstylist, so if you're not a professional, follow this tutorial at your own risk, if you have never colored your hair at home before if you've never used, bleach or Lightner on your hair - and you don't feel 100 % comfortable doing this, please just Go to a salon, have a professional do it for you all of the products that I used to do my hair. It did purchase at Cosmo Prof, which you need to be licensed in order to shop at so, if you're not licensed, you can find similar things at Sally's Beauty, Supply or I'm sure you honestly can find all this stuff online without a license, so we're gon na Start off by mixing up our bleach, so I'm using this blonde or powder by Wella and I'm mixing that with 20 volume developer it doesn't really matter the brand that you use. This is just what I happen to have on me, so I mix that together in a 1 to 2 ratio, so one part powder to 2 parts developer. I don't weigh it out or measure it. I just eyeball it until it's the consistency that I like you can see it's not too thick, but not too liquidy, either kind of like the consistency of conditioner and because I want to make sure that my hair stays nice and strong and healthy during the lightening Process, I'm gon na be adding olaplex to my bleach, so I just fill it up to about the first line and I pour it right in and just mix that in now for sectioning, I don't really care about having a lot of light pieces underneath. So I'm not even gon na really bother with that. So I'm starting my first section from the tip of my ear and then I'm going towards the back of my head at a diagonal. So I'm doing the exact same thing on the other side and then I'm just gon na take that top action and just clip it up out of the way. And then I'm gon na grab my first piece of hair and I'm gon na back home it creating that tease is going to really help blur any harsh lines and create a really nice easy effortless blend. So then, I'm just gon na take my bleach and I like to start from the bottom. You can see I'm kind of applying it right at like the middle of that piece. I saturate the ends really well and then I just really lightly feather it up. So again, it's gon na create a nice blend. I want most of the lightness to be at the bottom of the hair. I don't want to go too high up once that is nice and saturated, I'm just gon na fold up my foil and lock it into place, and I'm gon na move on to my next piece, and you can see the pieces of hair that I'm working with Are pretty small, the smaller the pieces of hair, the more control you have the easier it is to work with? I find, and I'm also making sure that my pieces are pretty see-through that way. They'Re not gon na come out. Blotchy, the Leitner's gon na be able to penetrate all the way through and I'm gon na get a nice even lift so same thing. I'M back homing to tease the hair and then I'm just saturated and really nicely, and then I'm just kind of lightly brushing up to feather up at the top. So that way again, it'll just help it blend really nicely, and I won't have any harsh Schrader Cross lines now. When I get to the back, I'm basically doing the exact same thing. It can be really tricky to do the back of your hair, especially when your hair is short, because you can't see it, you can't really pull it all to the front. So if you need to - and you have someone who can help you - I highly suggest having somebody help, you do the back or you can even place a mirror behind you, so you can see better or you know you can just wing it like. I do so once the back is all done. I move on to my next section and I'm making sure that I let down a somewhat thick amount of hair because I do want to leave hair in between each foil. I don't want, like a super super light. Look, I do want this to be more dimensional, so it's important that I leave some dark pieces in between and again all of my partings are a diagonal back, so it's a little bit higher in the front and then gets lower towards the back that just I Feel gives a more natural look. It kind of works better with the shape of your head, so again grabbing a piece backcombing laying down my foil and then apply the bleach, and you really don't have to worry about having perfect placement or following any particular pattern. With this, it's all about just putting light pieces where you want to see them. So if you want to see more brightness towards your face in the front, do that put more foils in the front if you want more all-over put them all over. If you want your entire head to be lighter, you could literally do all of your hair in these foils, like just do this all over the whole head and don't leave any pieces out, it's really just up to you and what look you're trying to go for So just keep repeating the exact same thing, all the way up, my head, making sure that I'm leaving some hair in between each section and you'll see that I took my bangs section and I tied that off into its own separate section. I'M going to actually do that hair a little bit differently. I do want like a muddy piece in the front where it's a lot brighter like right around my face, so I saved that for last, so you're gon na see in just a second. What I do with that section. You'Ll also notice that I'm working off of a middle part, I like to switch my part up, sometimes aware in the middle. Sometimes I wear it off to the side. So by lightening my hair down the middle, it's gon na make sure that everything comes out. Even so that way, no matter which way, I part it it's gon na all, look the same! So again, it's up to you. You can either part it down the middle or, if you always wear it to the side, then you can part it to the side. I'M just lighting it from the way that you normally part your hair. That way it'll be a little bit easier to envision what the final product is. Gon na look like and you'll know exactly where all of your light pieces are gon na fall. So now for my bangs, I want to completely light in that whole section, but because it's kind of thick, if I were to just put the bleach on, as is it, would come out really blotchy and uneven. So I'm splitting it up into three thin slices and I'm doing the same thing, I'm back combing and then applying the lightener, but you'll see that I do bring it up a little bit higher. You want to be careful, you don't want to touch the lightener onto the teased part, because then you can have some weird splotchiness, but I'm bringing it like right, underneath the tease. So after I'm done applying everything, I let it process for about 10 minutes and then I go through and I check the pieces I like to look at the ones that I last did and then the one that I had first started with, just to make sure That everything is lightening evenly and that nothing is getting too over-processed. If I feel like a piece is done, and it's already light enough, I will take the foil out and just rinse it out because keep in mind, even though I only waited 10 minutes. Some of the pieces that I first started with had already been sitting there for much longer than that. So once all the foils are done, processing a shampoo and condition my hair, and then this is the color I'm left with real ugly and brassy, which is why we're gon na tone it. So for toner. I am using the Rusk deep shine, color gloss in the color 7a. This is a demi-permanent color and I'm gon na mix that, with six volume developer by well a color touch again the brand doesn't matter, and, yes, you can mix brands. An important thing to note is if your hair did not come out as light as mine using a level seven toner is not gon na work, so you're gon na want to use something darker. If you guys would like to see a whole separate video on how to tone hair properly, let me know in the comments I would love to do that, so I'm just applying this all over. You don't have to worry about being really perfect, because this is only going to affect the light and pieces of hair. It'S not gon na do anything to the dark parts. So I let that process for about 15 minutes just follow the directions that come with your color and then I just rinse it out no shampoo and then I'm applying olaplex number two. This is the second part of the olaplex treatment. So I fully saturate my hair with this, and I left that on for about ten or fifteen minutes. You could leave it on as long as you want and then that's it. This is the final result of my hair, so you can see it's not super bright. I just wanted to add some lighter brown pieces. Just add some dimension just break up the super dark color. Whenever I do my hair color, I typically like to wait at least 48 hours before shampooing, my hair, just so if the cuticle has time to seal in the color really like locks in there, but that is basically it for this video. I hope that you guys found it helpful if you have any questions, feel free to leave them down below in the comments feel free to go. Follow me over on Instagram what else oh and subscribe, obviously make sure you subscribe to my channel. I thought. Well, you don't miss out on any future videos. I will see you guys in the next one bye you