Backcombing In Updos

Whatsoever, a little more hello and welcome to our second secret class, which is on the backcombing backcombing, is one of those most feared thing so hi everyone on instagram and youtube and issy. Today we are going to talk about backcombing, but before that i have a few members who just attended me from the balloon. I can see adrian and miriam hi adrian miriam and i can see stephanie hello, stephanie and here i see anushka hello, everyone. How are you doing? Thank you awesome. So before we start, do you want to tell me where you're joining me from what city you're joining me from and what are some of your questions or what you want to learn from the session, so anything that you have at all to share with me. Adrian miriam or stephanie we're in l.a california, oh nice, nice good to know. So what do you? What do you want to learn in today's session? Do you have any expectations or any questions that you want me to answer, or just do my jam so sneaky says i'm from uk hi snee. Thank you for joining from uk. So we have one person from california and one from uk. That'S amazing! So any questions! No we're ready to start awesome great. Let me just go full screen here and spotlight myself on youtube and zoom, and then i'm saying hi to everyone on instagram, too topic for today's class is actually backcombing and the difference between backcombing and matting. So what we will do in today's session is actually demonstrate some of the backcombing techniques that i have been using to create volume on top or height without using pins, because sometimes not all clients want that. How to remove that backcombing and then how to use backcombing to create different shapes? Okay, so, let's get started. Let me get my things off. I will just move this chair away and bring in my mannequin just right here: okay, so this is my mannequin. So the first thing that we will be learning today is going to be: how do we actually create volume or height on the top, so that i would want you to be ready with some tail comb and then, if you have a dummy or a mannequin head, It'S good because then i like it to be pranked it to be a good practice. Okay, so the first thing that i do oops flopsy topsy. Okay, so the first thing i do when i'm backcombing. Can everyone see me on the screen on this screen and on this screen? Am i visible? Is it good or do you want me to change the angle in any way? You cannot see the whole uh-huh you can uh, so i can just raise this. Let me try to raise this girl a little bit. Then there you go. That'S perfect, awesome, yeah! Just just put everything that you want me to do. Just let me know i don't realize sometimes i'm on multiple screens cool, so the first thing that so this is how the mannequin looks. I can see you, hello, alisha, uh, hello, alicia man, that's my nisha hi nisha. So this is how the mannequin looks before we start. This mannequin is actually also on the issc platform and she is a 12 inch mannequin and the reason i am practicing on her is because this is really difficult to create volume with and if you are able to create volume in these kind of mannequins, then you're Pretty good in creating volume with human hair, okay, so the first thing that i would do for a little bit of volume on top so clients who want just some volume on top i'm going to section out that section first and then i'm going to show you What exactly my section looks like okay, so we will create this ellipse kind of structure or a ha or a circle kind of thing, and i'm going to paint this mannequin, so um yeah so see how it goes from the top goes all the way to the Back and then on this side also, it starts from the top here and then it goes all the way to the back here. So it's kind of like a full circle starts where you want the height to start and goes a little deep in the back. Now i don't want you to take sections which are just on top and the reason is there won't be enough volume to hold over. You want to go a little deeper, the more volume you want, the more deep you go, the lesser volume you want, the more higher you go. Okay and the reason is our head: shape is round so when we just do on top - and we don't do anything here - nothing is supporting the backcombing and it falls off and you're like. Oh, i just did a lot of backcombing and nothing really happened. So that's why let me frame myself well and let me start my sections, so how will i be backcombing? The first step would be vertical sections so from right here we would be doing one section second section and we'll be doing actually we'll be doing horizontal sections. Sorry all right so one horizontal section, second horizontal section and then so on if the section becomes too big for the tail comb. So if the section size is longer than your tail comb divide it into two parts and stack it up like a brickley. Okay, if you don't get that no worries, we will do it step by step. I just wanted you to have a little bit of what we are doing in your mind. So the first thing that i do, i always take half an inch sections and the reason is if it's too much hair you're, not creating volume, you're, just you're, just teasing some hair and that won't stay long. Okay. Now, if the client doesn't have enough hair and your and you want to create this volume and suppose she didn't have this density, what are we supposed to do then? Okay, i want to know what are some of the things that you would do if the client does not have enough density if the client doesn't have enough hair, what are some of my solutions, so let me know in the chat: what do you think i'll? Just pull up my chat here, so let me know in the chat: what would your solution be? If suppose, your clients decided that if your clients did not have enough density, so i'll keep keep i'll, keep an eye on the chat and yeah awesome cool? So if anyone has anything i'll, just speak from the chat, if not i'll, just go ahead with the demo, what we'll do is first, we will elevate the angle, so there are many different options for you to elevate the angle. Different options in the sense of you can go straight up, that's 90., but since this is the back of the head, i always recommend that you over drag this piece and then start back over. Let me get this okay, so we are going to push some of the hair, so you take some hair and then you push this on the bottom, so this section needs to be a lot of backcombing and the reason is this: is the foundation section the foundation Section needs to have the maximum backcombing so that all the overlays on top are able to support it. Okay, so uh so decency is volumizing powder, uh nisha says, do crimping and then go back homing, absolutely right. If the client doesn't have enough. If the client doesn't have enough volume, then you can definitely you should use volumizing powder, you should do crimping and then you should do back combing. But, however, when you're doing crimping, i always advise that it should be there, but it should not be visible and the reason is you want the effects of backup crimping. So i so i would say: do micro crimping do little bit of crimping and just touch it? Don'T create those triangles because that's not pretty, and it's not trendy, it's like 80s. Okay. So again, how are we back away? We are going to take some of the hair and then we're going to push it down, see how see how strong this backcombing is. It'S staying by itself as a section right now, that's exactly what you want when you're starting out in your first section. So now that i'm done with this, i will put some whole spray, i'm using osis plus freeze 2 for now, and once you spray you're, not done you have to contain all the back foaming inside the backcombing part. So you will just contain everything inside the reason. Why do i do that? Two things, one neatness, you kind of contain the whole back combing inside, and the second reason i do this is because i want to push the product inside the hair. I just don't want it to stick outside; i want it to be pushed inside so that the backcombing stays for a longer time. Okay. Now, let's move on to the next section, i also do this vacuuming for clients when they are doing updos, and i do this for clients who just want some curls in the end, but then they want backcombing or their top part is too flat. So this is more also a correction, sometimes for people who have flat head on top okay. Now how not to do back combing, okay, you know sometimes how someone has back combing and then you can see their their um. You can see like a net structure or you can see like a high structure inside. That'S not what you want. That'S like matting, so this is not vacuuming. This is matting when you do this mess, and - and i see this all the time when people try to create buns or people try to create different loops. This is no volume. This hair will immediately fall down when the next section comes on top, and this will only make the client angry. So this is called mating. You don't want matting at all, so backcombing is not just pushing any hair back. Combing is pushing the hair near the roots. To create volume without creating mesh, i know it's like a lot of things like you're saying: take the hair, take it down, make it voluminous but don't create a mess, but it's it's something that you can do so one thing that really helps me or helped me When i was learning back coming was keeping this section straight. Like my my left hand, i'm a i'm a right-handed person, so i hold my section from left hand if you're a left-handed person, you would probably hold this with your right hand and then back home with your left. So, whatever your less dominant hand is doing hold it tight. If i'm doing the same action from my right hand and if my left hand is probably loose, then it's not doing its job see how weak everything is like how? Okay, let me do this with a loose left hand, so that it's not so taut and it's just and slightly loose and then we'll see the results and probably compare okay, let's see how this is i'm trying to be loose, it's so against my um against my Habit but i'm trying so see how this creates a different ziggy wiggy, and that is matting. I will try to show this so when you're able to create different shapes inside and then you're able to see this section has less back combing. This section has more back coming and then there is nothing much on the roots. What exactly is there is in this section? So when you do matting, one of the quickest ways to detect matting is that the backcombing is more in the mid section than in the root section. If it's in the root section, it's going to be voluminous backcombing if it's in the midsection you're, probably looking at matting okay, so let me see: okay, we have some hi jigna. I have a from jigna in instagram hi jigna. How are you doing how's your sun in australia awesome? So what i'll do is again same thing that we did for previous section? I will push this forward. Why did we push it forward? Because this gives me more space to push the little hair onto the roots? The larger space i have available larger is my ability to create more volume. If i am doing backcombing like this, i'm actually fighting for space. With this section and then in in my fight i will actually detangle the lower part which doesn't help me. So i want to create more space, so in i will over direct, so over direction is not only in hair cutting it's also in styling, okay, so i will just go forward. I'M going to put the section ahead. Okay, so again, let me just backcomb this. So what i did was, i will back home it now and make sure that it's really going on to the roots. I'Ll actually tell you a very funny story regarding back combing and somehow it just struck me right now, when i was doing back homing for michelle, who is at for sure who's, actually a a playmax singer, and i did her back homing for her concert. I didn't know that she was going to carry that poof or that before for uh for the entire show in seattle and then the next day her show was in chicago. So she carried the exact backcombing that i did for her and she has like 21.5 million followers on ig and the audience size was like 2 000 and it was crazy. So when i did her back combing - and i said okay you're done since she's - you know like people on stage - know how to check it. She actually went into her backcombing and she kind of like moved the whole thing with her hand and felt all the roots, and then she was like. Ah it's good, it's good yeah i'll stay, so she did her entire concert in seattle. She did her entire concert in chicago and then she obviously had a flight in between and it was all good for her. So back women can really be very long-lasting if done properly. So now my section size has started increasing from my third or fourth section. So when the section size is too long, it could be that you have tiny hands like me, which is totally fine, or it could be that the size of your comb is smaller or larger, or it's just too much to control. In that case, i always say divide it into two parts and probably when you have more sections ahead, do a bricklay so that people can't tell that this was the left-hand side. This was the right-hand side when you're doing bricklink. All your parts are kind of like hidden. Okay, that's one option. Another option is when your section size is too big. So, for example, when the client has flat sides right, so she has a nice head shape. Okay, she has like perfect head shape because she's a mannequin but for clients when they have a flat head shape on the sides. You probably want to backcomb some of this also because they just have conical head and when you do that, then this is something that you can try doing next time, overdirect number one and then backcomb in the center first, so that you have a structure to work With okay back home in the center and then move this speed just going from mid strands to n and move on one side, so i have moved this on. Left, move this one left and now back home on this side. Focus on this part. Now, first, we are focusing on the center. Now we will focus on the left because the direction of my strand is left, so i will create volume here again. I will hold this tight, see how taut it is because i'm back combing and then i'm pushing everything to the root again. Do this on this side on the right hand, side so that you're creating an equal volume. Otherwise, the back combing sometimes turns out that there is more volume on the left, less volume on the right, and i will just move myself - do this so right now so see how i am doing the same thing: angling, my section and then taking the hair. The short hair from the top and then moving it down, okay, coming back in the center and seeing that everything is nice and uniform, hold spray, push the whole spray inside and then comb it out. So this is my section till now, then i can keep doing it and then we'll see the so. If your client wants some backcombing a little height, this is probably a good point for you to start decreasing the amount of backup okay. So i will take another section section this away. Does anyone have questions if you have any questions, feel free to throw that in the chat? I would be more than happy to talk about it. So again, let's now this is right on top so 90 degrees out on top and people back home. First, the middle part remember and see how this is so bigger than my section size. My comb size. It'S like one and a half times my comb. So same thing, like i told you we'll, go we're going with approach number two which is moving the sections left and right like dancing along with it. Okay and we are not dividing or your option number one was divided into two parts and then bricklay it in such a way that people can't see okay. So again, i'm going to vacuum this in the center and the reason i'm i'm saying and the reason i focus a lot on back combing is, i feel it's an underdog. I call it backcombing as the underdog of hairstyling, because people feel like, oh god, backcombing is so easy. What'S the whole thing, but then clients are so upset when you do back coming for them. They'Re like oh, it's so difficult to remove. My hair will fall. Don'T do backboarding, can you not do bad combing and probably do my style? That'S what clients say and the reason is because it's probably matting more than vacuuming, which is a mess to remove and then the second reason is it doesn't really do its job people. You can see the beehive through it, which is not a good thing. Good presentation and the third thing that happens is we don't educate our clients on how to remove the backbone? I mean we definitely. We definitely want to do the service, but i feel like one thing that makes back homing, not a great idea over people or for clients to prefer coming is because it's so hard for them to remove. So we have some, i guess, okay, so hi debbie. I see that you joined us and i see laurie hi laurie and then here i see trina md show and ina and ida and shilpa and lika hi everyone. Thank you so much for joining so again continuing with the backcombing i'm going to shift this on this one side and then start backcombing. Like i said, the section size is big, so i will make sure that it's being backcombed well so see how i'm kind of like almost in this direction now and then comb and move comb and move comb and move to the center comb and move to the Right, don't go, don't come all the way from the roots, then you're, removing your backcombing. You don't want that comb just from mid strands to ends okay, and this is the fastest way to do back. Combing trust me when i did my competitions. I sometimes used to have like 15 20 30 minutes depending on the competition category, and this was my go-to technique for creating amazing heights. You can see some of the vacuuming that i have done in on probably social or on my profile on the iss, and you can see so see how much backcombing it is and you're like this is too much dolly parton. If this is too much, dollybottom, don't worry because, as soon as we will brush it down, we will marry the sections and we'll have this section come on top of this. It won't look like a lot. It won't look like dolly parton at all, because the weight of this section will weigh it down. The second thing that will weigh your back combing down is the oil, the natural oil that client secretes or our scalp secretes. So don't worry on. You know something bring it down again, you will take horizontal sections. This is probably going to be my third last section, i believe, any questions so far in the chat, just buzz me if i am, if i go into my zen zone, which is pretty common for me when i'm working on clients or sometimes on a new style Or designing something new, it happens with me a lot that i just zone out into my zombie self, because i just start enjoying it and it's it just becomes difficult to talk, because when you're in that creation mode, when you're in that zen mode, when you start Talking to her, that's when you know like you are silent. It happened with me once in a beauty school. I was doing a demo and i just started talking to her in my head and i was not telling them instruction. They were like elisha. What'S wrong with you today, you're not talking to us, i'm like, oh, i just didn't realize i was talking to hair more than anyone. It'S it's just your! I feel your love for what you do. Okay, so one thing that i do after i have backcombed is i push the backcombing towards the roots, okay and then once i've once i've done the spray and i've pushed the products over. What i want you to do see, especially with the top sections, is spread. It so it was like this, the one tiny thing, and then i wanted to spread it. The reason i wanted to spread it is so that it looks like rounded backcombing rather than a strip back homing. Okay, then i'm going to probably take my second last section here. This is too thick, so i'm going to dive into two parts, and this one probably will not have so much back coming. So this part will be okay, so here's a little secret trick that i feel i will forget. I when i back home the top pieces or the top sections. I don't push my comb inside too much. You can't see the other. You can't see the other part of my comb. What you do see, though, is just me skimming the surface so that there's back combing on this side, but there is no backcombing on this side. Now, that's something that you need to learn for your top back combing or for the back combing that you're doing on top of your bun and the reason is you want it to look neat, you don't want your backcombing to look messy so the cover the cover Of the backcombing needs to have back combing on one side, but that side, but that should not be visible on the other side, that's what makes it looks neat and that's you like. Oh my god, does this have back combing or is it hair padding right? So if you have those questions, then watch out this step. This step probably might just help you a lot, so i probably have to do this again, since i was talking too much and then, when you talk what happens, is it just parted itself from the center and when it parted inside itself from the center, then it Doesn'T help me to for it to be a good overlay? Okay, so i'll take this section again, i will make sure that it's symmetrical from both sides and then i'm just back home a little bit here, spread out and then lay it flat back and then again the same thing spread it out, spread it out and marry It with the sides and when i'm combing it i'm not really pushing my the teeth of my comb inside i'm just going to skew it. Okay, so like i said it was my second last section now i'm going to proceed with my last section. So what should be a good back, homing size? None of you asked me this important question now. I would like to ask you this question: what should be a good backcombing size for different clients? How do you decide how much tobacco or what should be like? Do you take standard sections or do you customize the sections and if you do customize the sections? What are some of your thinking points? Let me just say what are your thinking points when you're backcombing so see how i just backcombed on one side, but it won't really be visible on the other side, and this one i will spray just a little bit, make sure that it's pushed inside and then Back and then spread so yeah tell me what what do you think are some good thinking points when we are actually taking out the side, the sections for backcombing? What are some good thinking points according to you so see how we just backcomb this area? So i will move this here. Is this a better angle? Okay, so now we have the backcombing on top and we have this. We did not do anything on the sides, so this is pretty flat. If you want, based on the style that you're doing you, can marry this two sections, you can curl the section up and if it's an open style, then that's how it can roll and see how it looks beautiful, elevated it has back combing on the top. It looks pretty neat i'm going to bring this close, so that you can see in the ends could be your curls your waves, whatever you wanted to do, you'd probably do that before backcombing and then see how it's kind of like symmetrical on both sides, and there Isn'T really a hole or a gap between your backcombing and then your plain section right, so you will just make sure that everything is married together and if you want, you will spray it up. If that's what you're going for or whatever that look is, if your client wants more backcombing, you just keep proceeding till the point you feel the backbone is enough. This backboning is meant more for this by this pride, this uh this part and that's it. Okay, any questions on how we did mag on how we did this back combing before i actually start removing it. If there are any questions, just let me know any questions, any questions, any questions, any questions. Let me check the chat here and then here um. This is good. Thank you. It'S okay, okay, roxanna says: okay, very nice, beautiful awesome! Thank you. I have what is this okay? Let me see a question on the chat here. Okay lori asks me when i, when i have a client with very thin hair. I take super small sections yep. Yes, that's absolutely right, because the more sections you create, the more backcombing you will have, and that is going to be essential for clients which have very thin hair. I'M not sure if you joined the the session when we were discussing that, if your clients have low density. Also then, one of the suggestions that we all that we discussed was using the volumizing powder or micro crimping it, because micro crimping really helps in making sure that we have a good volume. Now we will proceed with removing the vacuuming okay and, for example, let me grab my like. What'S happened right, you know going back to work okay, so i need a hair padding for this panel brush. So probably what you're? Looking at when you're removing combing is a paddle brush. Okay, so i just say: sometimes when you try to create textures, you can reveal the backcombing. How do you avoid that micro, crimping micro crimping number one? Don'T crimp it too much, because if okay, that's too, that could be one of the reason if you're crimping it too much and when you're creating textures, which uh i'm feeling like what you mean is when you're creating pull outs. Very good, then, in that case either your cover needs to be not two sections. Probably four sections so remember how we discussed like the cover section is just. Is that part where the where the backcombing is on one side and it's not on the other side, then i would when you are creating textures and you don't want the background to be visible, then what i will do is. I will probably increase the amount of cover that i have so that when i pull out so that when i pull out and create my waves on top for textures - and i have then i'll then have my u-pin and then i can make different designs on top. Then that won't be visible. Okay, try that try increasing the size of your cover, just by not even an inch inches too much. I feel like three fourth of an inch half an inch to three fourth of an inch increase the cover size by that, and i think you should be good okay. So now we will move on to actually remove removing the uh removing the vacuuming. One thing that's really important is that we educate our clients on how to remove the backcombing. So let me also grab a setting just a moment. Okay, so now we have everything what we will do to remove the vacuuming is. We will first just feel the client's hair and then open up the backcombing and tell the client that you know you should just first spread. It spread it like well spread like a wing okay as spreaded as it would be, it'll be easier. The second thing you want to apply is a shine spray. Okay, any kind of dry oil spray shine spray would be good, and then you would probably ask the client to just just tell the client that you know just wait for a minute. A couple minutes is good. You don't want to wait for a long time. Just a couple minutes and what that does that's shine. Spray actually is an antacid or works in the opposite direction of a whole spray, so whole spray that really holds everything up is like tight, like a like a adhesive like a female color glue and then shine spray lets everything loose. It'S like little oil, so it breaks down that adhesive and the hair won't pull. The important thing is that the hair won't pull once the thing is away. So now that i have put some shine spray i've, let it i've let it wait a little bit i'll. Actually go back and remove my backcombing section by section and the more you will educate your clients on how to remove back homing, the more they will. Let you do the backcombing and the more of the less of a hassle. It will be for them and then my clients have no problem with backcombing and the reason is, i always educate them on how to remove it during the trial, especially my brides, okay. So, for example, if this was my way, i'd, pat pat and then walk away. Pat, my i'm not going to try to brush everything out from the roots, no remember how we detangle it's from the ends, then the mid strands and then the roots for backcombing. The way it works. Is you just pat? That'S it you pack, because as soon as you start patting, the backcombing starts loosening out, it starts to loosen out and then it becomes easier for you to remove you just go in near the roots, again see how i'm going near the roots. I changed my angle from horizontal to vertical just so that i could be closer to the roots. Okay, and you really want to push this section away. You really don't want this section to be disturbing you when you're removing backcombing in this section and then once you're done with pattern pad just take it down, pat pat firefight, backpack and then back right back away, so see how backcombing is gone from this section. I can just smooth it out simple again: let's do it for this section and if you think that there is too much if the, if you think that there's still a lot of product and client would have client has put, there was volumizing powder and whatnot just Use your oil spray or your dry oil spray or your shine spray anything i'm fine. So any questions on using products any questions on using any of these products. Again, i would like to welcome members from issc the international salon inspire expo, and then i'm also going to welcome all my people on instagram thanks for joining this session, thanks for making it educated in this lockdown. I have learned to do online stuff a lot and i'm still trying i used to do a lot of like workshops that was my jam and then i moved to teaching online, so i'm still getting used to it. If there is any questions that you have that i probably didn't cover just, let me know it's much easy to understand what you don't understand. When i see you, because your faces, your puzzled faces or your puzzle expression would be like. If you don't understand, and if you have the expression i know something's wrong and then i'll go and explain it again. But since i don't see you, i don't know what you get. Okay, so roxanna says what oil spray do you have. I use joyco dry oil spray and i also use schwarzkopf's shine spray so, depending on how much of product joyco's dry oil spray is much more has much more lubricant, because sparkler number one shine. Spray still has a little bit of hold. So i would say, depending on how much product, if there is less product, use, shine spray if there's a lot of product and if you want to remove the backcombing you're, probably looking at joycoast dry oil spray. Those are like my go-to products, not so expensive. Like i don't want to use something which is 50 on one client and then have it finished in two sessions i like to maximize my investments so, and the reason i invest in mannequins is because it allows me to practice my skill in cut color and styling. So like, for example, my those mannequins which are blonde are good for styling long, hair, heavy hair, because the mannequins are like competition mannequins. So they really allow me so see how i'm able to remove the backcombing really quickly, just by tapping it out, and you don't tap on the client's scalp. So if this is client's scalp, you don't want to do this. These things, you don't want to hit their head. You don't do that right. So what you do is you have your other hand up and the hair is in between ends this conversation. So i have another question: is using powder make any difference in backcombing? Yes, backcombing powder takes away the oil that the scalp extracted so so think of it as a talcum powder. Okay, when you are really sweating, you are in hawaii and you're having vacation, it's really sweaty and your underarms are sweating and your like parts are sweating. What do you do? You apply some talcum powder. You apply some baby powder, something like that right. So what what it does? It really absorbs the oil and moisture that is secreted from your okay, technical alert from your pseudo forest or your sebaceous gland. Similarly, our our scalp secretes oil and moisture from the pseudo forest in this instance - and this really helps to and the volumizing powder, really helps to just absorb all that it's effective, definitely so see how i'm able to take away so much of those of that backcombing. It'S almost like flat just by my tapping method, any questions about tapping methods that anyone has that i can answer for you, oh my god that lj. Thank you so much! Yes, uh, okay! So people who don't know i am teaching and working - and i am expecting so my peeps on instagram - are actually teasing me. Thank you rj. Yes, thank you so much it's not a full blown bump. Yet the bun is still baking in the oven, but yeah you saw it my girl, my cheerleader, okay, any question. Anyone anyone has or anything that you want to share any particular story that happened with you when you were trying to do back combing for a client or any fun fact, i'm open for that. Thank you so much. Thank you so much lga, so my my friend lj's on instagram says a real queen. No tease you look amazing. Thank you so much. I just want my audience on issc, also to know and youtube also to know what you're saying lj lg is amazing. She talks uh, she coaches women, a lot on endometriosis, which is an essential thing which happens with us. Ladies, we have so many hormones going on at different points in our life, so yeah so see how i'm just tugging in my hand inside and then and it's so much easier on a human head. Trust me. The reason is human, it's just more capable of more shapes. Mannequins are not capable of so much shapes and that's why i like mannequins, it's tougher to work on it, trains you for the thickest strongest hair type, so that when you are rolling on to a client you're like i am cool this is this took me 10 Minutes so ida says: how long have you used that mannequin? Oh this one! Hmm! How long have you been with me cool one and a half years? Yes, she's been out of the box one and a half years, roughly, i probably would say before quarantine in 2020. Yeah so, like 2019 end, when i was doing my workshop yes, so one and a half to one and a half years is how old this mannequin is and still has a lot of hair yeah. I know yes well if you know how to take care of your mannequins they're really worth for money, because then they let you practice they let you have a good skill and you're able to create a good portfolio for your clients to choose from sometimes clients, don't Even know what you're capable of doing so, they show you pictures which are easy because they're, like you, don't know how we go to a restaurant, then we say and we ask them so what so? What is your favorite? We ask the waitress or the waiter or the server, what's your favorite and then whatever they say is their favorite. You generally tend to order that, because you want to have something nice, that's what brides do they? They give us pictures what what they think we are capable of and if we don't show them our skills, they don't really know that we can do it. Okay, okay, uh roxanna asked me: how are you feeling you look perfect? I'M feeling good. Thank you so much for asking. I do have my uh swollen feet during the evening. That'S a recent development roxanna and you know all those hormones which do come to you. So my husband has been very kind and i think you need you need someone to help you with your hormones and dissect in this part or in this phase of life. But apart from that, i'm really good uh ida says i think, i'm being aggressive with my mannequin. It sounds that the hair fall, the hair is falling out very quickly. Yes, don't be so aggressive with a mannequin, because if you would be aggressive, then definitely the hair starts to fall off very easily, so see how i'm able to take away the mannequin really like fast fast fast, and where can we buy the mannequin? You can buy that mannequin from the link in on the showroom or if you go on instagram, there is linkedin.bio in my description and then you can just go to that. Go to that link and it will redirect you to different options that you have. So this is a 12 mannequin. This is a 12-inch mannequin, the one that's like shorter. I, like it more for open hairstyles and for, let me just say, for cuts in color and little bit of updos, which require when the client's hair is not so long, and you want to do abuse it's a good good mannequin to start with, then there's another Option after this, and that's my 16 inch girl, where are you she's right, there, 16 inch is probably like longer so you'll probably see hair till here, four inches long and then the other is 20 to 24 inch, which is the blonde one, and that really gives You a good grip on doing all the different updos that you can think of, so those are three different varieties of mannequins that i use, which i like and, and the reason i suggest you to have good good mannequins is because so why don't? I prefer mannequins, which have no shoulder. Okay, that's a question that i'm often asked that elisha. Why should we not buy three mannequins which are which are worth you know, like 60 70 bucks, you probably have three mannequins in 180 or 200 versus you have just one of them. The reason is this looks so much more professional. When i take my head shots of my mannequin, i generally place it against this white background that you see here and when i'm taking my pictures in this angle. It actually helps me to present my mannequin and she can wear a coat or a cape looks like a real person, so the client can actually relate more. That'S the one. That'S one thing for my portfolio and second, is that this is much more like a human shape. So all the mannequins that i use are competition heads. I train people for competition, that's another thing, but these are competition heads, so it's actually close to a human mannequins. I will show you another mannequin that i bought from amazon, and so we were actually learning to do how to do blow dry for textured hair and that's when i bought this mannequin from amazon. So the reason i don't like mannequins, which are shoulderless and if you're on budget, then there's no option, but i would say if you can save and invest in your future, definitely do that because sometimes we do end up buying or eating out. But we don't end up in investing in our future. So the reason i don't like i'm going to tell you is because of the way hair has been injected, so these are like incisions which happen on mannequin, so it's not natural way that it spotted this. This is not a natural hair line. The second. This is too big this right here. This head shape is too big for my liking and no matter sometimes it's the mannequin, which does the job. If your mannequin is not good and if you are best of the best and the way it's injected is unnatural, it just doesn't work. So that's those are the two reasons i don't like the head shape and the injection points are not very natural on this. My textured clients, hair injection, is so much different than this one. It'S good for practice, not taking that away, but for your collection. If you want to rise up to a level of uh a great artist, you want to have good mannequin so that she kind of creates your portfolio for you. Okay, so now that we've done this part, we have to do our backcombing for our bun. Anyone has any questions for the backcombing and removing the backcombing for the crown area so far. Anyone so on ig. If ida says, if possible, can we sell all the mannequin? Absolutely you can sell all the mannequins to anyone who wants to buy from you so find the links to mannequin. Thank you so much uh hi mansi we have shop chopped on, see hi. How are you doing, and then here we have laurie and adriana and miriam hello. So now, let's move on to the other part, which is creating a bun using back home okay, so i'm going to probably grab a longer hair mannequin for the next demo. I'M going to remove this from my tripod and then grab the other one, which is right here. So you can meet my dj for the night. So i was actually creating a different look and that's why you see all those different donuts. So i'm going to quickly remove that i keep creating different looks based on this was more of more of a avant-garde. Look for a fashion show that i am creating i'm still under the process. I still haven't finished my creation. I have to come up with new designs and new techniques every time, because if you copy you get disqualified, that's something that happens in competition world, so i'm just going to quickly remove all of this and what backcombing can do for you is wonders. I remember i made halloween pumpkin using backcombing on a mannequin's head, so if you want, we can also do more q and a's on backcombing on the crown area and probably take this topic of creating volume tomorrow. If it's too much information for you today, because i always want you to be able to practice what i teach it's not only me so when i practice, i practice it by myself and it's becoming, and it just adds on to my practice. It improves my skill set, but when you practice is that's when you actually learn so, would you like to actually do what we learned today and come with questions tomorrow, and then we can learn to move to the second part of back combing, which is creating different Buns or different shapes, i also have the iss main stage or premium education class tomorrow at 12 45 pm pacific, in which i talk about decoding any hairstyle from picture using minutes and what i like some of my ways, because you know you can practice mat, you Can practice back combing and everything, but every time a client comes to you, they're going to bring a different picture in and they'll be like. I want this and you sh, and they expect you to know how to do that. Hairstyle, even though you probably are looking at that picture for the first time, so if that's something that you want to get better at then watch out for that session tomorrow, at 12 45 pm pacific, in which i'll be sharing with you. How do i think and what all techniques we have tried so that we are able to not only recreate those images but actually customize, because i feel long gone is the time of cookie cutter approach. Where you know you do one thing on one person and then you do the same thing with the other person that is not going to make you client magnet. You want your cl. You want to customize every look for your client so that they are leaving you to reviews and booking you automatically, and you are like an instant cell in your area, feeling better sweetheart feeling better. I i'm sure she can smile see. I don't have all of you to laugh around and to talk to me, so i have to kind of like joke all by myself and feel good any questions that you have. I think we should. We should do this second part of backcombing, where i'm creating different shapes using backcombing, because that's slightly different way of vacuuming, and i don't want to confuse two different concepts just because i am doing a class. It doesn't help me if it's not helping you. So probably we can do this tomorrow, where we will learn how to create different shapes after my session with issc so rashmi. What can you please put in the chat the schedule for our other sessions today? I know we are doing a workout of the textured ponytail and i know that we also have another session today. So can you put in the chat the topics for different sessions and their timings? I can also pull that up so that you know we are so that everyone knows, and they can schedule themselves in, for whichever section, whichever session they feel would be best for them to attend. Let me also pull up the information on my system so that i can give you a villain form. So we did underdog backcombing at 1pm pacific. We are doing textured, ponytail, hairstyle demo and bash workout, so in at 1pm. It'S you who is going to be working out on the hairstyle, that is in the on demand section of the iss. So if you've not seen that iss link or if you've not seen that education session, i would say, go ahead. Watch that and then i would want you to be able to do that. Hairstyle and i will probably walk around the room and give you and try to give you a feedback. I call that as workout workout session and then at four and five, we also have another uh sessions that we will be doing. So, let's do the backcombing part tomorrow, i'm getting this feedback? Okay, let's do the backcombing tomorrow, let's do the vacuuming tomorrow, okay, so let's do this uh, the other part of backcombing, of creating different shapes using backcombing tomorrow and today we will be doing the workout at 1pm pacific, which is in nr, okay, pretty cool any questions. Any questions so far for what we covered today we talked. I know we talked about what dogged on back combing, removing back combing sectioning thin hair. What to do products, then we talked about the baby bump and then we also talked about mannequins. Yes, so any other question that anyone has which i did not cover any questions, please feel free to ask me in the chat on instagram or on youtube. So i did not say say: i asked if i can show us i'm thinking to purchase one, but i want to see if possible, if you, if you get ah, oh yes, so ida says i did not say sale. I asked if you can show us i'm thinking to purchase one, but i want to see if possible. So there are three options to purchase mannequins one was the 12 inch that i was doing workout on the other is the 16 inch. Can you see the length of how it's bigger, or i can actually do a comparison right here? So this is a 12 inch and this is a 16 inch version. Let me be in the right angle. Okay, this is the 16 inch. Then this is a 12 inch one and then the blonde is even longer than this, which is like 24 inch. Okay, so those are the three options that i feel are pretty helpful and that reminds me of roxanna's question about dry oil spray. So this is how joyco's dry oil spray looks like just fyi, i'm not selling you anything, it's just the information that i feel has helped me in performing my job faster. So any question. Let me look in the chat. If there's any question nope so we'll resume our session in the workout on at 1 p.m, pacific till then i would say it was lovely meeting you thank you so much for dropping by and let's say, three cheers to much more education, much more learning and much More growth, okay, so till then bye, bye,