Balayage Platinum Card + Red Hair Color Correction [The Best Way To Create Vibrant Red Hair]

What'S up and welcome back to my youtube channel today, i'm gon na be doing a color correction and it was quite a big color correction, because the client that came in had super long hair down to her waist no joke. She has a previous brown hair color, along with some balayage and some highlights going on, and it's been about six months since she got her hair done and she is ready for a major hair transformation. So we're going to be taking her from really dark brown and to this really vibrant, copper red shade, which i'm super excited about. Oh, my gosh, i can't wait to show it to you, so stay tuned check it out and before we move on make sure you hit that subscribe button and turn on all notifications. So you don't miss a tutorial. Now, let's go ahead and get started all right. So here's my model and i'm really bummed, because i didn't get the proper amount of video content on my actual camera, but i got some on my phone. She has previous colored hair with some highlights so brown hair dye. So this is why i'm going to be using malibu cpr. I ended up using two packets on her hair and basically, what this is going to do is reduce and remove up to three levels of unwanted pigment of oxidative color pigment, because that's exactly what she has in there with all of that dark brown, hair dye, specifically Colored about six months ago, and what i like about this product, is it's not going to alter her natural pigment by any means, but we basically did a clarifying shampoo on her first and you're. Gon na apply this onto damp hair, and we actually did this at the chair, because her hair was just too dang long to fit inside of the bowl. So we basically went section by section making sure to really work it in to those mids and ends section by section and then put a processing cap right on top of her hair and processed her underneath the dryer for a full 30 minutes. If you want to know how to mix this up and learn more about it, there's actually a link to malibu in the description of this video using malibu cpr was an essential step in this color correction, because she had that previous brown hair dye and in order To give her the vibrancy that she wants in that copper, shade that we're going to give her we needed to do this step now, something to keep in mind. She did ask me to give her a solid, copper shade, but also one that was dimensional. So a copper shade that didn't have necessarily highlights, but something that was going to be dimensional and i feel like we achieved that with this application that i'm going to be sharing with you today. So once she was done processing under the dryer for 30 minutes. We took her back to the shampoo bowl, did a really good, rinse shampoo and then a light condition on the mids and ends. One thing to note is that, because her hair was so long, we spent majority of her time detangling. So i did need an extra pair of hands while doing the service, which you can see my assistant here. She is working this product and while i'm filming - and i was a little limited on time - to get the full steps - but hopefully this will provide you with enough inspiration in this video to do something similar or spark your interest to try this technique on a client Of yours once she was all detangled, i basically sectioned her off into four quadrants and decided to do a platinum card balayage for her, and you can see that i'm just painting on my lightener getting kind of close to the root, but mostly just surface painting. As i get towards the top, but really working in my lightener, basically a few inches down and really working it in on those mids and ends and just laying it one right on top of each other. And i did this to each and every single section of her hair until i was happy with them on a lift that we got. One thing to note is that i did use blue powder lightener at a one to two mixing ratio with 20 volume developer, and the reason why i decided to do lightener is because she had that previous hair color on her hair and then also to give me The vibrancy that i was looking for out of the color that we achieved at the very end which you'll see so in order to get a really vibrant, shade of copper or even red. I love using 20 volume lightener just to bump it up to that level. Seven because you're going to get the maximum amount of vibrancy out of the color. Something to note is that, yes, her hair is wet. I decided to do a wet application because i wasn't looking for the most aggressive form of my lightener it. This is really just to bump up the pigment just a little bit as well as really focusing on saturating those mids and ends. So this is why i do more of that surface painting towards the top, but i'm saturating where that previous color was at and overall, this is going to help me kind of get an even lift for what we were trying to achieve with this copper shade. Each of my sections are about a half inch thick and, like i said, i'm painting kind of close to the root area, just more of a surface paint, because i want that natural graduation and i am going to be using permanent color when we're all finished. With this, but going forward after we're done with this correction today, we'll just need to do permanent on her roots and then do a glaze on everything else for each of her appointments. In order to maintain the vibrancy. Just note that if you want the maximum lift out of your lightener, you will want to apply it onto dry hair and do a more traditional platinum card. So keep in mind, this technique is a little unconventional, it is applied on wet hair and the water is going to act as a dilution tool. For me with the lightener and again, this is just to give me a little bit of a break in the color. I'M not looking for maximum lift out of this. Some tips when doing balayage is to not be afraid to use your hands. This is how you get that really nice beautiful blend, so each of my sections are combed out with a wet brush. So that way, i have a nice even surface to work with and make sure that you're using enough lightener and turning your brush sideways and just stroking the brush up and nice and flat against the head, and i do use my hands quite a bit. So the reason why you want to use your hands and the brush, and all of that is because, in order to get the blend, basically, what you see is almost what you get when doing painting. So what you see visually, how the lightener looks on the hair is exactly how it's going to lift. This is why you see me really pushing it in towards those mids and ends and really working that product in it's, because i want it to be saturated but towards the top, i'm just using the flat part of my hand to stroke up and down, and that's How you get that blend? It does take a little practice if you're new to balayage, but it is a technique. That'S been widely used for over the past decade now and it's continuing to evolve, and this is just one technique that i use when doing correction. I'M gon na continue on applying my lightener in all four quadrants in the exact same manner, just one thing to know when you're working with this long of hair, i actually wish i had those from our bibs to put on the back and i totally ran out Of those so to compromise or improvise, rather i'm using foil, to lay the hair away from her face. It did get a little tricky when she wanted to get up, so i ended up having to help her get her bag or a drink or whatever she needed, because a painting like this, you do need to have. Your client sit still for the entire process, because her hair is just way too long. It literally went down to her waist if you want to check out another way to do a platinum card technique, be sure to click the link in the description of this video and it's done on a much shorter hair, but a very similar technique with a very Different natural outcome overall take your time if you want, you can also use cotton in between the sections if you're new to hair painting - and you feel like you - need a little bit of separation towards the base. Cotton is a great separator and then also foil. I typically would probably foil this if i wanted to get a much lighter and brighter end result, and the foil is going to be your heat conductor to basically incubate your lighteners, so you get the most brightness out of it. So, overall make sure you use thin sections and brush through each of your sections. Take your time to surface paint and saturate paint. Make sure you use your hands, make sure that your brush is nice and flat and decide how much brightness and lightness you want. Out of this, that's going to determine your application of a foil or open air. So this is all open air done on wet hair to further dilute, and then i basically used a total of three bowls of lightener on her and processed her. Actually, we ended up washing out a portion of her hair first and then allowed for the rest of the hair to process, because it wasn't quite done again. This is because her hair was so long, so it took quite a bit of time to work through each and every single section, but overall i think we got a nice even lift and the type of lift that we could achieve in this one session. There were a couple little areas where the color just wasn't quite budging and that's because i probably could have applied it onto dry hair and got a better lift out of it. But overall this gave me a nice canvas for the dimensional copper shade that we ended up with. So when she was done processing, we completely rinsed her out, i would say overall 30 minutes and we got a really great base to work with, and we 100 percent dried her hair just to prepare her for the maximum saturation using permanent color. And then we did do one final gloss on top of the copper, and this is what i like to call double dipping. So, first we go in with the permanent shade to make sure we got that nice even canvas and then one more time with the demi permanent just to really richen it up and seal it in when working on a full color application. I actually love using this brush, in particular it's by xero time, and if you want to check that out, the link is in the description of this video or you can click on the link at the very top of this video. But you can see you get lots of coverage with this brush and they actually have three different sizes. I use this brush quite a bit and i actually don't film enough with it to show you guys. So this was a perfect opportunity in this candid youtube. Video to show you how awesome this brush really is. I ended up applying my roots in just about under 10 minutes. To be honest, and then i got the rest of the color on her ends, which i didn't film. But here is the formula i used all kendra color and for her roots i decided to use six cn that six copper natural with 20 volume developer and then for her mids and ends. I mixed up 6cn equal parts to 7cn one to one with 20 volume developer, we processed her for 30 minutes room temperature did a final, shampoo and light condition and then applied her final gloss onto damp hair, using kenra, professional demi, permanent three-fourths of seven cc and One-Fourth of my formula was six r, giving that really rich copper red finish and super dimensional. I am absolutely obsessed with this formula, and here is the final result of my dimensional red color correction. Look how gorgeously vibrant this color is. I actually had her come in the next morning, so we could take a better look and picture of the final color in actual daylight because it was super late when she left comment down below. 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