Blending Gray Hair With Highlights And Lowlights | My Partial Foiling Technique (Super Easy!)

Hey, what's up welcome to my youtube channel in today's video I'm gon na be sharing with you guys and highlighting and low-lighting technique that helps you blend to gray hair, so stay tuned. What'S up guys welcome to my channel, I am so excited to be sharing this video with you guys. A lot of you had asked me how I highlight how i lo i an't how to kind of blend some gray hair into my clients. So my client today is actually my mom. She is so awesome. She has probably about 75 % gray hair, but she still wants to look young and fun, and so we actually blend in her gray hair with this special technique. And it is amazing for those clients who want to blend their gray kind of disguise it without having to cover it or without having a lot of maintenance. Now my mom does come in every six to seven weeks, but that's just because she really likes getting her hair done and because she gets to see me right, but the great thing is she actually doesn't have to come in every six to seven weeks. She could probably know eight to even ten weeks, because this technique actually grows out super nicely. It grows out really subtly and you guys will see that in her before it's been about seven weeks, since she did her hair, but it's still really beautiful. It'S blended really nicely, it doesn't have a line of demarcation, and that is crucial and this technique is gon na, be one that really sets you apart from other stylist, so I'm gon na share with you guys how to do it. So let's get started alright. So this is our before you guys can see. She'S got some natural gray in there and we are going to blend it out. This is about seven weeks gross for her, but the best thing is, as you guys can see, as it's growing out. It still looks really natural and it doesn't have like a major line of demarcation. So I really like this technique because it grows out so beautifully and your clients are gon na love you for it. Alright. So for her highlights, I'm gon na be mixing up just 25 volume and I'm using my flan door from Wella I'll do about just a little over a scoop for her and because I do her hair a lot. I know exactly how much we usually mix up, so I'm going to do 25 and of course, I'm going to add in some olaplex as well all right. So then for a little light. I'M gon na do 15 volume with permanent color from kenra. So I just do equal parts of 10 and 20 and the reason why I do 15 volume versus 20 or 10 is because I want there to be some gray coverage. But I don't want to pull up too much warmth, and so that's why I like to do a 15 volume and then I'm also gon na do our a 10 a from Kendra. I really like this color on her when it fades out. It still looks pretty neutral, and so that's why I really really like it. So I'm gon na mix this up here and we'll have this beer a little bit all right. So I always start my highlights kind of right in the back of the crown and if you guys notice with my highlight method, I actually don't start sectioning and I don't section anything out. I just literally dive right into the hair and another thing: you'll notice is, I actually foil backwards, so I always work off the clients, natural part and I kind of find where the apex is on their head and kind of start right about there. So here we go, we got her first section and I do click away this front section and I'm gon na start with my first kind of highlight piece now. I do want to make sure that I'm getting both quadrants, you know on both sides of the clients. Part line, so I'm just gon na start with my first foil here and you guys can see. I usually start with a low light. So you guys can see that we already have some of that previous low light formula in there. So I'm going to weave out this piece and grab my foil and I'm going to lay my foil down and push the hair over it. So walking that foil into place, and then I'm gon na grab my low light formula right here and wasn't gon na flying. It just fold it back over and go on to my next section, so I'm gon na grab a little section and this is going to be left out of the hair and grabbing my clip from before just kind of clip this down. So I have a nice clean section to start with and then I'll grab. My next highlight piece here and you guys can see I actually kind of work with like more baby like type pieces, so they're a little bit smaller here, they're not like thick, like regular highlights, so I'm just gon na leave this out grab my foil and just Apply my whitener now, one thing that you will notice me do is I do keep it a little bit off the root right here. I'M not going all the way down, because we want to make sure, especially these back foils. They are gon na, be moved a little bit, so we just want to be sure that we're not you know squishing them or having bleed marks or anything like that and fold my foil down and continue down. So I'm gon na probably do about to my lights. To one low light and I'll show you guys, as we kind of work, our way down we're gon na stop right about here. Cuz we're only doing a partial on her today and then we'll work forward. Alright, so I'm gon na do one last boil down here. So, typically for a partial, this is about how far down I go kind of right about where the head starts to kind of round back down again every clients a little bit different so for clients that have a lot of depth under here. She doesn't because we always put kind of foils in there - we're not going to today, but we have in the past. So it's not too bad, but for some points that have a lot of depth. I will sometimes put maybe just a few foils down here. Just to give them a little bit of dimension throughout the bottom, but again it's always gon na depend on that client and depend on the placement, and sometimes when my clients come in I'll, throw a few foils underneath like in the lower section down here and next Time, I'll throw a few more, so it evenly kind of gets a little bit of dimension underneath there, so it doesn't just have like a total like dark section down here, alright, so this is my last boil and for a partial I always just do it starting Here and work my way down if we were doing a full, I would start down here work my way up and then kind of meet this section. So I typically don't have these foils kind of going bending backwards. If that makes sense, we don't want to over direct them too much. Okay, so now that I've finished this last boil I'm going to just kind of grab the hair and fold that foil in half and bring all my hair down until we get to that top section, all right. So now that I finished pulling back all these foils, I will spend my client around and work forward, so I've spun my model all the way around and, as you guys remember, this was a little light. So I'm going to take my little piece leave this out. This is our natural hair, and the reason why I like to leave some of the natural hair out is so that she doesn't have any solid line growing out and again, that's what's really gon na help have that subtle grow out face for her versus having a Huge line of demarcation, so I'm going to weave this section and do the exact same thing so walk my foil into place and grab my lighter, because this is going to be a highlight now. So I'm still doing about two to one now I do vary my pattern. Occasionally I'll do every other just to kind of break it up a tiny tiny bit, but for the most part I'm doing about two highlights to one a low light will fold that down and then again just kind of leave this little baby light section out and Go on to the next one, so you guys can see. These are very fine. Highlights, I'm not doing thick chunky highlights and the reason why again is we want this to grow up as naturally as possible, and so it's really really important the more fine you do. Your highlights, while still packing a lot in there, will still give you that brightness, the client once add the dimension, but without having it grow out really chunky or without it being like, really big and chunky. So I'm just gon na keep moving down her entire part line till we get to the front kind of finish up this mohawk section and when we get to the front I'll show you guys exactly what I'm doing all right so now that I've gotten closer towards The hairline, you guys, can see we're really close to the hairline. Here I started to fold these foils back down. So after I folded them in half, I folded them in half again just so. When I'm clipping back these shorter hairs, I didn't have to reach them all the way back, so that's kind of an easier way to do it, and it also keeps the foils more locked in place. Now. You guys can see with her she's got this little cowlick piece right here and we want to make sure that this is still getting touched, but not like funky blonde. So what I'm gon na do is I'm going to grab my natural low light piece and let that hang out and then I'm going to grab a highlight. We'Re gon na weave this out here, and I want to make sure that I'm being a really precise with this little section here, especially she's, got some a little baby here. So I do get really close. But I do love this brush from frame R because it allows me to in case I got a little close. I can just kind of pull that up there with the tail comb. So I really like that brush. It allows me to be really precise and clean with my work so that all fold in half there and then again we're leaving out just another little baby light piece and these little baby lights around the hair. Look at this she's got hardly any little hair here, but we still want to make sure that we're adding oils in here - and this is what's gon na - set you apart from other stainless in your area by doing the little face framing Danny lights, because these are Almost mimicking the gray that she has growing out, naturally, so we're just barely touching. I'M right, you guys, can see, there's hardly any hair in that foil. But by doing this, this is really gon na set you apart from other stylist, and it's gon na help. It grow out really nicely so this little piece right around her hairline, I think, is good to leave out because she has enough grain growing in there. So I don't think we need to highlight it, but when we come around here to the side, we are gon na make sure to get these little guys all right. So now that we've gotten through these little sections right here on the side, I want to make sure that I am getting these. So I just do a kind of just slice and just kind of weave out a little bit now I like to use a regular size foil for these, but you could totally tear your foil in half and do a smaller coil here totally it's you and what Works Square clients exclaims, I'm really fine here it does help having a smaller foil. Okay. So I'm just gon na kind of barely pull this little guy through put this guy out of the way and I'm gon na do another one of these. Now these are usually like to do highlights instead of highlight little light and the reason why is because we are trying to mimic her natural gray color coming in so a low light, wouldn't necessarily mimic that, and it actually might cause a warm spot just because it Is permanent color right around the scalp, so I personally like to do highlights for these barely gon na tap that in there and that's why sometimes having a smaller coil does help just to get it in there a little bit easier for you, alright! So now that we've kind of clip those up, I'm going to do her hair line pieces here, we'll clip that away this while we're working here alright, so these are just gon na be my little highlights around the face now this isn't super super baby. Fine, you could go more fine, but usually for her. This works really well, but again, it's all gon na depend on your client. What their hairline looks like you guys know. I say that and pretty much any one of my videos, so just figure out what works best for you and your clients can't really touch my lighter in there, because she doesn't have very many roots and hold this up right here. Masek see that I over folded, my foil, sometimes that happens - I didn't mean to do that on purpose. All my do is just kind of barely okay, and now I'm actually gon na do a little light right here for actually a highlight for our next one. So two highlights and then I'll do one low-light. This one is a little bit more of a baby. Fine one am i typically, depending on the client like to do two highlights and then a low-light just to give it some depth right there too. So you don't have just like total blonde chunk, but I usually like to do two baby lights or two highlights first and then this last little low-light piece you can see. These are the patterns that we've already done on her hair before, but you guys can see. There'S a little bit of that gray coming in and that's why it is nice to have this low-light that fits really nicely, but it's also blending right and you guys will notice when I am adding my low-light color. I do pull the color all the way through some people leave out the ends. Personally. For me, I just like to refresh the color, especially on her, because it's only a level 8. I don't really feel too bad about pulling color all the way through. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do diagonal backs all the way through to the side till we get around to this corner and I'll show you guys the other side too, all right. So now we brought to the other side of our head, and this is the side where she has a little bit less hair and kind of you guys. Remember she had that cowlick kind of right here close to this side. So, instead of just doing this corner piece right here, I'm actually going to take this first foil and you guys can see it kind of almost like arches. The way that I had done the foils and I still want to capture some of these little baby hairs. So I'm gon na take my first foil just really really lightly right here and I think again this is kind of comes back to. I always have the exact oil placement for every single client. Now I work off a similar pattern, but every clients gon na be just a little bit different, and so I kind of customized it for every client and every time even their appointments could be a little bit different. Depending on how I place the foil. So, just something to note that it's not always a exact cut and clear type thing, so we're gon na pull this foil up right here and now I can kind of go into that corner, but I still will leave a little bit of that natural low light Out is what I'm calling it keep this next piece, because again we don't want this to be like a blonde chunk right here so and if you guys are ever concerned about these little pieces in the front when in doubt go thinner than you think. If you're worried about them being chunky or too blonde or whatever just go thinner, and it always works out in the best way when you do a more thin foil, it's always gon na blend better. It'S always going to just lay really nicely so, if you're ever concerned about there being like a line right here, just do it nice and thin I'll. Do one more and alright just about here so I'll. Take that natural low light leave this out. I'M going to do one more blonde one right here, and this is kind of getting her widow's peak area. Most clients have that and what I see a lot of here to us do is they do just the front hairline right here in the front and then the sides and they miss this little peak area, and so when the client wears their hair back, they have. What I call like a valley of darkness right there, we don't want that no client wants that they want to see brightness all the way around their head, so make sure to include this little section. It'S really important I didn't used to when I was first starting out because I was never taught to and when I started to realize my clients have this like a chunk of dark right there. I realized that, oh, I need to just add some foils there. So that's what I started doing and it made the biggest difference. Alright. So now we're going to move around to her hairline right here should do a little bit. Thicker of a point on here doesn't need to be quite as thin. I still will always leave it out. She gets in see, there's another ton of hairs in this foil, and this is important to keep it really blended and again, your clients will notice this stuff, especially when they've gone to a status before that. Maybe has left them with like blonde chumps around their face. These are the details that clients notice when it comes to highlights when your blondes become picky about that stuff. That'S a good thing! You actually want them to be a little picky about it, because you can bring them that service of the high-quality blonde around their face and not have these chunks of lunch. Alright. So we're sticking with our two highlights one low light. Now this little piece is gon na hang out here, I'm just going to let that be our natural low light there versus trying to get it in a foil. I think that's fine! We do want to have some natural coming through too. You guys can see this piece kind of got a little bit tight in there with our Lightner, so I'm just gon na come and take my brush and pull that through. If you need to, you can even take a towel or just even your finger and pull that through, so that doesn't Adam believe mark there, because that's. The last thing we want is that leave mark right around the hairline and now we're going to do our light. I'M just going to keep continuing back all the way, edging diagonal back sections until we reach this little corner all right, so just to recap, we did basically our sectioning was this Mohawk all the way down until kind of about where the head starts to round out. We left it kind of stopped right there for our partial, and then we did these smaller little pieces right here to cover those alleyways and then from around the hairline. We basically just did diagonal backs all the way up until we reached about this point right here. So with most of them, I did about two highlights to one low-light, except for around the face where I did two highlights same thing here. I did about three highlights here in the top, and then these guys were mostly highlights no low lights there. So, just as a recap, that's pretty much our sectioning and what we did. It'S almost like the basic highlight pattern, but I want to show you guys a little ways that you can tweak it and make it your own all right. So I rinsed her. I shampooed her out and I put on the vial - are acidic care, color care, milk print disturbing her hair, we're actually not going to do a conditioner, because this actually always worked as a conditioner for us, and one thing that I want to make note of is I don't do any toners on her, because her friend lights lifts up really naturally, and the lowlights blends really easily. She doesn't need a toner. She doesn't need a face club, it's a really simple application where it's just your highlights and lowlights and then rinse it out. So we're gon na rinse her get her going and I'll show. You guys results all right, and here it's our final results. You guys can see how beautiful it looks so shiny so healthy, but look how blended it is. That gray is blended in there so nicely, and her lowlights just had so much to mention without adding too much depth or darkness. They just blend really well, it actually kind of warms up her hair a little bit too. Instead of having it be so gray and Ashley, I love how this turned out. You guys can see how it blends right around the hairline so so beautifully and just looks so good. So I hope you guys try this out all right guys. Thank you. So much for watching this video, I hope that you enjoyed it and I hope you picked up something new that you can use in the salon all the time, I'm all about creating really easy techniques that are easy to use and that are used in the salon. A lot so I'm not about preaching those crazy techniques that you'll never use. This is a technique that you can use all the time and I really hope you try it so before I go. I hope that you guys actually try foiling backwards and if you are somebody who foils forwards or backwards, let me know in the comments below which way you foil and, if you're, going to try boiling backwards. 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