Sunkissed Balayage Hair Painting Tutorial | Red Hair Color With Balayage | Daniella Benita

Hi friends today i am here with the lovely erin lives hole and we are going to be balayaging. This beautiful domain so excited because aaron has been blessed by the gods um with this red natural hair color, but for summer we want to do something a little bit more fun um, i'm still going to keep her natural, but i'm going to call it like sun-kissed Balayage for her, so i'm really excited to show you guys: um and yeah stay tuned. So for those of you who are new here, my name is daniela bonita, i'm a salon owner hairstylist and content creator in philadelphia. If you would like to see more videos on color techniques, cutting techniques, styling, hair business, please give this video a thumbs up and a like and subscribe to my channel to see more. I also wanted to give a shout out to my friend, erin liv's whole website and instagram. It is chocked full of so many recipes. You guys can use whether you are vegan gluten-free pescetarian or dairy-free. She literally has it all so definitely give her website and instagram a like and a follow. You guys are gon na absolutely love it all right guys. Let'S get painting follow me. So if you guys follow me on instagram, we're gon na be using the blonde me clay lightener by schwarzkopf. This stuff is incredible. If you guys haven't used it, it is my favorite balayage lightener, i'm going to be using 30 volume with also the blonde me um with a little bit of olaplex, because i don't want her to lift crazy fast. But i need it to be strong enough to make sure she gets bright, but i'm also going to be putting the olaplex in to protect her hair. Okay. So i'm going to start with two scoops and then i like to do one fourth of opex. Okay. So once you're mixed, i like to feel the consistency, and if i need to put a little bit more in, i will so i like mine, a little thicker than this. The olaplex tends to really thin it out. So i'm just going to do a teeny bit more of the lightener and i think balayage paint is such a consistency thing. I don't really feel like anybody's mixture is perfect for everyone. It just really needs to be how you like to paint to see how it stays. That'S how i like it and what i'm going to do is use a brush and i always keep it in my bowl and i swipe the side like this. That way, when i'm painting i get super thin amounts on my brush to keep it controlled. Okay. So what we have here, my fermara balayage board gloves i have a couple clips. I have cotton to keep everything separate, foiling comb and i always have a white wet towel to wipe off my brush and also clean my hands off. I also wanted to point out our favorite plastic wrap from kirkland. We get this on amazon. It is the best um, most plastic wraps get really like tangled and annoying and they're just a headache. This one's amazing, it's huge, but it lasts you forever. So first, i'm going to start flat, ironing erin's hair just to get a really smooth palette to start painting. I'M also going to be using my favorite backwards bib by framar. These are also biodegradable, so i love that about fermat. They always try to do more eco-friendly products. Okay, so as always, you always want to ask where your client parts, especially with balayage, so if she flips her head, no matter what, when she comes back to her part, this is going to be where the balayage shines so she's about a little off center here. So that's where i'm going to work and with balayage. I always start in the front, because i want to make sure that's where the brightest pieces are and you can always bump up your lightener um peroxide in the back just to catch up to the front. So i'll probably end on, like 40 volume back here with olaplex, just like that nice clean section so begin by taking out her front hairline, because that's what i want to focus a lot of detail on and then i'm going to take diagonal sections up, painting diagonally To add those really pretty highlights here, but like almost like more of a ribbons technique, so i'm going to clip this away, and this is what i'm going to begin on, because i want to make sure her front face frame gets the brightest. So i'm going to begin right here, diagonal section, i'm going to paint nice fine slices and see how little i have on my brush - it's not overly saturated, so you can control it. You want to begin in the center and then blend up with the rest. When i begin painting, i like to start in the center of the hair and then push my brush backwards to create soft gentle lines, i also use my hands a lot to blend the lightener into the hair, especially on the ends, so really use your hands as A tool as you're doing balayage, with aaron's hair color, i'm going to make sure to completely saturate the ends on every piece that i paint just to give them so much brightness and gorgeous glow. But the pieces that i don't completely saturate you're going to notice that it has a way more blended, soft gentle appearance. What i also do you want to look underneath and check your lines, so here i'm just going to blend that a teensy bit more, and you can tell right here this is where we're going to have dimension, and then this is all going to be bright, and This is basically what i'm going to repeat all over the head, once you're done, lay it down nice and smooth, and i like to grab cotton gon na put a little bit here and then right here. So i can lay the next piece over and i'm gon na do the same thing right here on the temple again, nice nice tension again in the middle i'm going to slowly feather it up. I'M going to blend with my fingers and we're gon na look underneath see how the blend is. I'M just gon na fill this in a little bit more and i think that looks perfect and the line looks really clean and soft. I'M gon na pull down the next section same thing: keep it diagonal, so i'm gon na remove this one little piece, then we're gon na paint here and then connect the ends beginning in the middle blending with your fingers and then we're gon na paint that one More time so here you can see, dimension is gon na be here. I'M gon na blend it a little bit more up, but when you paint really think about why you're painting and where you're painting, so i want her to have money piece but dimension. So we're gon na keep this little triangle area out. So it's deeper and then give her dimension here. Okay, so after you paint look underneath okay last diagonal sections, i'm gon na take this here, cut it in half, i'm gon na paint here, leaving this open and exposed so there's dimension and i'm really saturating the ends. What i like to do is really like hold more forward, so it's flat, because this is kind of hard so hold forward, so it's flat and then we'll place it over. This is the most important piece of your entire color look, and i found that pulling it straight out of the head makes it so so easy to balayage this and create those beautiful, perfect lines. I also would make sure that you really saturate this part of the hair on your client. Everyone wants to see that bright pop in front of the face, so don't be afraid to really load up on the balayage lightener to make sure they have that gorgeous money. Piece, so you can see here, i'm gon na blend that just a little bit and that's perfect, i'm just going to gently place it here. You always want to watch for your clients eyes. Don'T ever want this to be sitting like that, so i always take a little bit of cotton. Put it right underneath so it protects her up. Okay same thing on this side, just took diagonal section really focusing on her hairline here just start at the bottom and make sure to clip this away and really make sure you have like nice, controlled small pieces, the smaller the piece the brighter it'll, be. If you do bigger sections, it's going to leave more of dimension underneath, but then the top is going to be brighter, so it just kind of depends on the result. You want i'm doing smaller pieces in the front, because i definitely want her to have that bright. Pop but once we go toward the back, i'm going to surface paint a lot because i don't want her to have crazy small bright pieces everywhere. Okay, see these little hairline pieces, i'm gon na make sure i take my brush and really saturate them. So she gets those really pretty baby. Hair face frames right there, so for my next section, moving horizontally all the way up, i'm going to make sure to leave hair out so a lot of people when they balayage. They think they have to cover every piece of hair. You do not need to do that. You want to leave dimension. That'S what makes these looks. Look so amazing and like that's, what makes the blonde pop so make sure when you're balayaging don't cover everything like over balayage make sure to leave depth in between and almost like every other section to paint um the blonde and then remember the more you saturate, the Blonder, it is the more you blend the more like under dimension. It will have. I also wanted to explain when i paint these big pieces, i like to really over saturate the ends and almost use that as like my reserve of balayage paint, and then you can see here, i'm using that amount on the ends and pushing up into the top And into the mids, it really helps create such seamless soft lines instead of like overloading my brush and trying to paint those lines in you just get that little wisp of extra balayage lightener on the ends, and it's really nice to take that backwards. Sweeping motion with your brush to create those really pretty seamless lines, and i also like to do two on the very edges. So one on the edge one on the other edge of like thicker lines, and then you can see. I made that one longer line in the middle right here, and it just looks so so pretty when it's blended, like that. With those other little details in between okay, i'm gon na slow it down a little right now and show you guys the lines i'm actually creating in slow motion and how i'm using my fingers to blend the ends and then i'm taking the very tips and blending The sides of that balayage to create those perfect seamless lines on the edges so next time you guys do your balayage. Do this with your fingers. Take your two, your index finger and your thumb and just rub them on the sides and you're gon na see how gorgeous and blended your lines become. So we're finishing our last section here and we're going to move on to the other side and repeat the same exact pattern: okay, and just like the face frame, um piece where we pulled it straight out of the head, we're doing the same thing with this piece Behind it, it really is such a great technique to get those perfect lines seamlessly at the root without any type of bleeding, so try this sectioning next time you guys balayage. So i just want to explain my sectioning here. I am doing on the sides. A slight diagonal back but working horizontally up the head and then once we get to that mohawk section. All of my slices will be diagonal pulling forward and that's going to create those beautiful ribbons of highlights that you guys are going to see at the end of this video. It'S my favorite way. I'Ve found that i can create like a highlighted, look without any type of bleeding when using balayage, and i can get super close to that root. So here you can see my sectioning i'm just doing like a diagonal back and then i'm taking a slim section of hair, pulling it straight out toward me and then i can really use that flat surface to create beautiful, thin lines that aren't going to bleed, because We have that flat surface to work off of instead of doing something at an angle where it's really really hard to control. This is going to be super easy for you guys to do those beautiful balayage pieces and then get those ribbons of color without any type of bleed marks. So i just wanted to point out my body positioning here, i'm using my arm almost as an anchor to make sure i hold her hair and have control. So when you are balayaging, especially someone with really long hair, like errands experiment with where your body can go. What positioning works check out different angles? You can hold the hair. What feels comfortable? It really is a lot about body positioning to make sure you can balayage correctly and comfortably. I also can't stress enough how important it is to put that piece of cotton right under your balayage sectioning, so that there isn't any bleed marks. It really is the best way to make sure that your balayage number one isn't touching any of the hair that you don't want, painted and then number two just to make sure it lifts um evenly and safely. Instead of every piece of balayage laying on top of itself, where you can have a lot of swelling, there's too much heat buildup just that one piece of cotton works miracles and then take that piece of plastic wrap, put it on top of each section. So everything is insulated and really lifts the way you want it to lift again without swelling without too much heat production, because that can be really detrimental to your client's hair. So now we're moving on to the last section and right here, you're gon na see erin tilt her head down. For me, i feel like we are always so uncomfortable to ask our clients to move their head for us, but it really is so so important to almost use them as like your partner in coloring. Their hair with highlights, with balayage with cutting, don't be afraid to ask your clients: hey. Can you move your neck to the side? Can you tilt your head down for me and that's really going to help you be more accurate with any of your color processes or cutting processes? Okay, guys we made it to the back and we are going to be doing the same pattern in the back of the head as the front. I wanted to point out, though, when i am painting this bottom piece of the hairline. You want to take the lightener underneath not just on the top, because if somebody pulls their hair up, you want to see those beautiful balayage lines underneath. So once i raise it here, you guys are going to be able to see exactly what i'm talking about. Just take your brush and lift the hair and then paint underneath and she's going to have those gorgeous like sun-kissed lines when she puts her hair into a ponytail and what i did was remix a fresh batch of lightener. So i used 90 grams of blonde me. Clay lightener 100 grams of 40 volume and 1 4 ounce of volaplex and we're just going to repeat the same pattern going all the way up. The head on aaron's hair when you balayage your client's hair, almost think about it as like you're building the balayage you're. Taking your time to paint to construct, to really detail and use your artistic eye to make sure it looks good to you so don't feel rushed when you're balayaging like take your time, create those perfect lines saturate. The way you want to saturate feel the hair. I really feel like this is how you get the most gorgeous balayage results. You don't want to just slap on clay lightener and just not look at it visually and as an artist. So remember that when you're balayaging like really take your time and treat it like you're painting your own masterpiece on your client's hair, so do okay, so aaron has just processed for 15 minutes under low heat, and i did take two heaters to totally like heat. Her whole head um, so that's a really cool trick in the salon. If you need to get all the hair done, just put two heaters side by side, i'm going to take her back to the bowl shampoo and then i'm going to show you the color melt. Once you get your clients back to the bowl, just give the plastic wrap a little bit of a tug, and it's going to pull right out of your client's hair. You also want to collect as much cotton out of your client's hair as possible. Just so it doesn't cloud the drain, and so it's so much easier for you to brush their hair out when you get them back to the chair. I would also use some type of clarifying shampoo. I love dab vanessa solu and what that's going to do is remove all the lightener we just painted in, and also balance, the ph of your client's hair, to make sure they're ready to tone and now i'm using oy milk from daveness. This is one of our favorite detanglers. It is so moisturizing and also as a heat, protectant highly recommend, if you guys need a good detangler in the salon and it smells amazing. Now i'm going to mix the root sponge formula with redken shades, eq, one half ounce of 7gb 8wg and 8c, and one and a half ounces of processing solution and then i'm going to mix the end toner one ounce 9aa one ounce, 9g and 2 ounces of Processing solution: okay, so we're going to do the root melt, so i'm going to paint the line thinner here and then gradually bring it bigger around that way. She has the bright pieces in the front, but then this has more dimension and a little more blend for her, so the grow, out's, really nice and soft. So you're going to see here i'm going to take a vertical section right behind the ear and that's how i'm going to begin my root melt. It just is really efficient and super simple to do compared to horizontal sections. They seem to take me a really really long time, and we all know when we're in the salon, efficiency and quickness is key. So try this next time, you're doing your color melts. It really is fast and i like to take about an inch section and then, when i get to the front, i'm going to show you how i just tap this front piece and i paint it forward. I learned this technique from a salon in australia and they take that front piece and they just paint it gently, and it really gives you that bright money piece instead of over saturating the front and covering all that beautiful pop of blonde that you created so try That next time paint your color melt forward and then i'm just going to go backwards and double check my work and then move on doing vertical sections toward the back, and you can see how it's almost like that teardrop sectioning, where it wraps around it really is Such a beautiful way to color melt and now i'm going to repeat the same type of pattern on the other side, i'm going to start the air paint forward then go to the front just do that little slight tap and then go backwards to double check. My work in the front and then also create that same pattern in the back, so so now what i'm going to do is take a horizontal section in the back and i'm just going to drag that root down even a little bit further. I found that with just natural, blended color. They do have a little bit of depth more toward the back, because that's just how people's hair naturally grows. So i like to do that with a lot of my color melts. You don't have to do this, but i wanted to make sure this looked as natural on her as possible, so i'm just dragging that root down only in the back, just like half an inch further and then applying the toner all over her ends after you apply You'Re going to let it process for the full 20 minutes and then we're going to blow aaron out and show you this gorgeous balayage. Okay, guys, here's the final result. It looks so so stunning i put on the right here, erin's original color, which was still gorgeous, but now this is just a more like evenly lightened and blended color for her and it looks so natural. It looks like she went out in the sun for a month and just had these beautiful painted lines all over her hair. I love the golden tone we did on the ends and the root melt matches perfectly here's a shot of the back. You can see how beautiful all these lines are. There'S no spotting, there's no smudging, nothing. It'S just beautifully beautifully painted hair and i threw in a quick wave just to show you guys how beautiful it looks waived for me. Personally, i think balayage looks the best with a little bit of a bend in it, so i did use my favorite iron, my ghd soft curve. It'S one and a quarter inch and threw in some gorgeous wave here and you can see as i'm moving it around. How beautiful the hair moves, how beautiful the color moves - and it just looks so absolutely stunning on her um and here it is in natural light, because we all know natural light looks a little different than indoors and it looks even better in my opinion, outside she Looks like a goddess honestly, so yeah. I really hope you guys enjoyed this tutorial. Please leave me any comments or questions below and go give aaron lives whole a follow on instagram and go check out her website. You guys are gon na absolutely love her as much as i do. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will see you on my next tutorial very soon have a great day guys bye,