How To Balayage On Gray Hair

All right, one of the questions I get asked a lot is how to do hair painting with a root retouch, and so you can see here that I've already applied the root color for Leanne. There's 2 ways. You can go about this. You could just let this process rinse it out and then go back and highlight it. But that's going to take a lot of extra time on your part, which is then going to have to translate to a more expensive appointment, which you can offer your client. But the other option you can give is you can do the root retouch first and then go in and paint, and what I'm going to show you today is how to avoid accidentally not getting some gray coverage, because if you paint too much on the gray where The-, you can overlap the lightener with the color, but if you overlap too much on the gray, that color is not going to be able to cover the gray. So what I'm going to show you is how to do hair painting with a root retouch. That'S going to save you time and your client money. All right, so you can see here Leanne's starting point.. She had grown at her roots for at least eight weeks. Oh my gosh., So we had some really good roots to touch up.. So I went in. I applied to my four quadrants: the root touch up. You'll, see in the notes down below that. I put her formula. I used Redken to apply that to cover her gray and then I went and mixed up my clay lightener, because if you've been around a while, you know I love clay lightener and I don't use the manufacturer's instructions. (, don't tell them ), and I have my comb trick and if you want to learn more about hair painting go, have a look at my Hair Painting Outside the Lines. The link is down: below., Okay. So what I'm doing is I'm taking the clay lightener and I'm getting it on the flat side of the brush.. Now I'm going to go-, I want to make sure I get some brightness around her face, So you can see here where I've applied the root color. This is where her gray is so, although I can bring the lightener up into the color a little bit, because this is covering gray, I can't overlap it I've-. I only learned this by mistake is that if I overlap it that gray coverage color isn't going to process completely.. So I'm going to go just right here and apply it with the flat side of the brush and then fan it in.. And so, if you're wanting to get right to the root, you won't be able to do it with this technique. You would have to let these roots process rinse them out and then go in, which is a great option, but this is more of a time-saving money-saving option where it's still going to look- you'll see with the finished product. It'S still going to look nice and bright and close to the root and then because her ends are already lightened. I just fan it out. Here. *music*, So you can see I'm taking `` triangle inspired. Sections'' is what I call them, and what I'm going to be able to do here is paint on this side so when she pulls her hair in a pony. That'S going to show that brightness as well as I'm going to paint on this side. So as when her hair moves, it shows that brightness, but then there's all this internal stuff that will create depth, that's not being touched., So I hold it at a 90-degree angle from the head. I start applying. I don't go into that gray, but I still blend in.. Then you can see. I just flip that triangle and I go and apply on that side and you can really end up with some beautiful three-dimensional. Looking highlights that you can't achieve when doing foil patterns. *Music*. All right, so you can see here as I'm going through the hair, I'm making sure I have good tension on the hair and I use the flat side of my brush.. I want you guys to remember that when you are doing balayage this way, I always keep the hair elevated at a 90-degree. You can tell I don't care about how tidy the sections are, though, that doesn't matter at this point.. This is what I call my `` angled parking placement''. You can see here where the part is here, I'm kind of going in at an angle so that when the hair falls, it's going to create this really beautiful effect. That'S going to look like it's her natural color., So always making sure that you put that product on the flat side of the brush. Like I showed you in the beginning, you can see there. I put the tail end underneath the hair, because I want to make sure, as I lay it down, I want to make sure that they're not stacking the color's not transferring the clay lightener will develop a hard shell around it and it's okay to blend it into The color there a little bit but remember, do not blend it into where the gray is then the gray- the root color will not process properly, and I learned that the hard way, let me tell you, but you can see here, i'm getting close to the part Stacking it, it kind of makes her look like a who from whoville, but oh my gosh. I can't wait for you to see the end. It'S going to be so awesome., So here's a quick look at how it looks when it's all been applied all over. I do the full head and then here you go. *music* All right here comes the fun part. We let it sit and, of course me and Leanne gabbed and caught up. There. You can see what it looks like all the way around it kind of looks fun to look at. You know when they're sitting there just hanging out uh and then here you go onto the blow-dry.. It took some time to really blow out her hair nicely. Put some body in it some movement in it., I do rough dry to about 80 percent and then I go through and I always blow dry the front piece so that my client can see what the color looks like get a feel for it.. You can see. I get some nice movement and volume there in the front and then we're going to go on to blow-drying the sides.. I'Ve got a sneak peek. If you want to see more of my blow drying process or how I style, hair leave a comment. Below. And I don't know if you guys have already used this little trick. I saw it circulating around on Instagram and I wish I could give credit. If you know who to give credit to leave a comment., But I found I kept accidentally ripping people's masks off, so I did this little trick. It gets it out of the way my brush doesn't or my comb doesn't get stuck on it and you can see. I like to take vertical sections there, when I'm blow-drying the sides that way I can get a little bit of extra volume on the side. I get some nice movement. I go back from the front like I said, so I can always blow-dry the front. First, that's where it matters most. If that part dries on its own a little bit janky, it's gon na look a little bit weird., so I know this may not be the way they teach it in school.. But you know, as you saw the way I mix up my clay lightener, I'm all about knowing the rules, so you can break them.. I love this blow drying technique.. Then I go through with my 1.5 inch iron and I give her some nice waves, just alternating which direction it goes to back and forth from the back to the front. You'Ll see we'll shake it out here. Soon.! Oh, my gosh you're gon na see the final look right away. Do not go anywhere because here it comes. Boom. Oh, it looks so so good. She rocks it. So well. We've got those grays covered up. So nice She's got some nice bright blonde. It looks like it transitions so seamlessly. There was no shadow root. We saved so much time so much money and product because we actually use less no shadow rooting necessary one toner boom.. Isn'T she gorgeous All right? Well, if you like this video - and you want to see more like it or you've, got questions about anything else, make sure you like subscribe, leave a comment.. I want to connect with you. More. We'll see you next time friend,