Caramel Blonde And Brown Highlights For Dark Skin!

Let go hey guys and welcome back to brandy, beauty tv today, i'm gon na be doing my client, camille's hair and her hair has grown out so much y'all. Initially, she actually had kind of like a bob cut that we did actually last year yeah. It was around this time actually so around this time. Last year she had a bob cut and i'll insert some pictures, so you can see where she has come from. So this is her hair today from doing that, bob cut and what we're going to do is change up her color, of course, because, as you can see, it all grew out and we're just going to do a simple standard, partial placement and we're going for we're. Trying to achieve really dimensional hair color, because uh camille, she kind of like she wears wigs most of the time, actually so um she's really kind of. Let me just like do whatever, but i want to keep it really really low maintenance for her simply because um i didn't want to take her too bright, and i didn't want to add too many highlights in there, because that comes with more maintenance. So i wanted to show you how you can still have high impact and high dimension in your hair, but don't have a whole lot of hair color. At the same time like you can definitely have both. So i just want to show you guys how i'm going to achieve that and then we're going to freshen up her ends. I already trimmed it a couple months ago well, another couple months ago. Maybe oh, it was a couple months ago actually about two months ago, but we're gon na go back and clean. Those ends up a little bit more and give her some nice tossed uh lived in waves and i can't wait to show y'all the end result. So for camille's placement, the back is going to be a brown and what i'm using is the redken shades, uh color lacquers, the gels and it's a permanent color line by redken and i'm going to be using the colors, 7nw and 6ng. And i mix a little bit of 8n in there as well, and it's really no method to that. That'S pretty much just what i wanted to use, because i love the consistency, and that is what i had laying around and i said you know what it's going to make the perfect brown. So i just went on a limb and just said: i'm just going to mix it all together, and so it created this beautiful, a beautiful chocolatey brown color, which is exactly what i wanted, and so i'm gon na mix that and i'm gon na dip that with 30 volume, because i kind of wanted to bust open her cuticle just a little bit, so it can really really lift her up kind of high because, as you can see, her hair is a little dark. So i wanted it to show up really nicely. So i'm also going to be taking zigzag placements because i'm not going to take her color or her base color. That is all the way to the root. I really want to leave her kind of rooty simply because sometimes when color grows out well, not sometimes this is this is what happens all the time if you bring your color to the root you're going to have a line of demarcation and it makes maintenance a Beast because you don't ever want that line to show you want it to always appear to be soft and organic and, like it just grew out freshly from your scalp. So by leaving her rooty and just kind of brushing that color up it's going to make. It seem like it's just so much more natural and she'll be able to go just a little bit longer in between her touch-ups if she chooses to keep this color for a little while so for her highlights, i'm using my favorite lightener blonde solutions and 20 volume Developer and i'm going to still be dragging that base color from the back to the front as well, because that's going to serve as our overall base. But her highlights are not going to be in the back. Her highlights will only be on the sides and in that little strip, that's in the middle that i parted out as well, and so i'm going to be taking really chunky weaves simply because camille's hair is a little on the thinner side. And so i don't want her highlights to get washed out and i want i didn't want them to appear blended. I wanted to keep that dimension, so i'm going to space hers out um far apart, so she's not going to have a lot of highlights at all. Like you want to see just how few foils she's going to have in terms of her highlights - and that's because it's so easy to wash out hair, especially when you're working with brunettes and people who really want to be more of a brunette, they don't want to See a whole lot of blonde and it can be really hard to achieve that. If you don't understand placement - and it took me some time - you know over my career to understand that less is more one of my favorite hair, stylist mick. He always says when in doubt leave it out. So if i you know, i'm doing a consultation, i'll ask my clients: do you want to be blonde with brown, hair or brown low lights, or do you want to be more of a brunette with blonde highlights and once they start seeing the difference in the pictures? They'Ll start kind of leaning more towards what they're going for, because there is a very big difference between the two, so in camille's case she definitely wanted to stay more on the brunette side. You know it's fall time and i said, let's just cool you off a little bit. You know, let's just let's simmer it down and just take you kind of neutral, so um. You know i'm not going to blend her out too much. As far as the blonde is concerned, don't want to wash her out definitely want that brown to be the focal point and also keep those blonde pops there, but just enough to detail it not enough to wash her out. I know some of y'all might have questions as to you know what color might look good on you if you consider considering getting hair color, and i just want to first mention that don't over think it you know like hair color is i mean it can get Really intimidating, you know when you just don't, simplify it and kind of just break it down into bite-sized pieces, because you'll be overwhelmed with the possibility. So a couple key starting points that i always tell people to think about are one-year skin complexion. When you're looking at different hair color, you should always take into consideration the person complexion that you're comparing um yourself to, because complexion gives you a general idea of what that color will look like on you as well. Another tidbit that i always tell people suggest that they do is consider length. Consider the thickness of the hair. Consider the texture of the hair, because a red hair color on somebody with really fine and silky hair is not going to translate the same way on somebody with textured, really curly or kinky, hair, curlier and kinkier textures have a the hair, doesn't reflect as much it. It doesn't have as much of a luster as people would silky and really fine um shiny hair. So those are some things to consider. Um, that's actually a really really big key indicator like i've had to adjust formulas and everything simply because you bring me in this picture and i'm like okay, just because i use the same kind of color doesn't mean it's going to show up that way. So we might have to tweak it a little bit to adjust it to your hair type and all those things matter even length like if you bring in a color a hair, color picture of somebody with long hair and your hair stops at your neck. I'M like that's, not a good, that's, not a good look, because i'm definitely not going to be able to guarantee that we're going to even get you to in that territory. You know so, when you're doing your google search look up, you know key things that match what you have going on with your hair. So, for example, with camille, as you can see, her edges are a little bit thin. Now that mainly comes from like the wig she's kind of just resting on her hairline, but that's okay. I know how to camouflage that and i'm going to conceal it. So what i'm going to do, instead of styling, her hair off to the side, i'm going to do her a middle part and the reason why i'm mentioning this is because i got her hair color inspiration from this broadcaster on cnn and i just fell in love With her hair color, i said man, i got ta recreate that i'm gon na see if camille wants this. So of course camille was like yeah i'm down, but i knew i couldn't do her hair to the side because of her edges. So i put her part in the middle and i tweaked and adjusted her placement based off of how i knew she would be wearing her hair and those are little just key little things that you can do. That'Ll make all the difference in how your hair color looks, and it can really take it from 0 to 10., so maintenance for camille's hair y'all is going to be relatively simple and low simply because we did not leave her hair uh super blonde. I toned it down to like a level eight like that. Nice rich caramel color, and i did that because her hair was already dry coming in and that's because of the weaves and the braids and things of that nature and her hair is just being covered up. And so when your hair is covered up for long periods of time, you lose elasticity, you can lose luster and you can also be a lot more prone to breakage and, as you see in the middle of her hair, when i'm streaming, it um when i'm getting Ready to trim it actually you're gon na see how she has like this uh kind of trail of breakage down the center. Well, that, basically just comes from just it being dry and breaking off, and if your hair is dry, that clearly means that it's not moisturized and in order to get moisturized hair, you have to wear your hair out, leaving your hair out for two weeks or week And a half in between your next style, like a sew-in or braids or um crochets. Anything like that um leaving your hair out for two weeks and then put it back up, is not enough. You'Re, just gon na keep damaging your hair. Your hair needs the same thing. Your body needs needs oxygen, it needs water, it needs sunlight, it needs those things to remain healthy, so, on top of her salon, grape products, which is going to include her blue brass soft shampoo to keep her color neutralized and her moisturizing shampoo she's, also going to Need to just wear it out for a little bit, because now it's colored in any type of color, if it's not maintained, if it's not treated, it will break so to prevent all of that. If she follows those steps, she will be able to get the most and then really out of her hair color and enjoy it so guys. I just wanted to stress the importance of just accepting your natural hair and learning to like work with you have because i'm gon na be honest with you uh some of the problem, hair that we have in our community now is because one lack of knowledge. We don't know what we're doing and two. We want instant gratification and we don't want to learn our hair now. Some of that is our fault, some of it ain't, but we're not going to go down that path uh, but i do want to mention that it is our responsibility to take the time and to be patient with learning about our hair, because we will create unnecessary Issues by wanting quick fixes and wanted to look like the celebrities, how they look in the morning times and stuff what you think they look like and that's just not true, you know and that's not reality um. Of course you know do what you want to do. That'S i'm never going to tell anybody what to do, but i am offering a professional opinion and a professional perspective and i'm around here all the time i live, breathe, bleed hair and i have noticed that a lot of people just don't know and it's important to Seek out information um, so you can know, i mean even even down to hair color like razor chick. I don't know if y'all know of a stylist's name, rich chick, but she's, pretty poppin and she's such an inspiration. I love her brand. I love everything that she's about. I just love her and she always says: hair speaks to you and it tells you what it needs and um. You should listen to it and that's one of the truest statements i've have ever heard because it does speak to you and i'm gon na be honest when i'm behind the chair and like many other passionate stylists, it's no thought. They'Re, just they're not they're, not over uh they're, not giving a lot of input into your hair, like you think they are. They really are just going off of what you're coming in with and they're just working with what you have and then that's where the magic happens, learning how to take the raw material and making it something great, making it something phenomenal um. You have things in an enhancement that will accessorize your hair, such as hair, color, funky, haircuts, different ways to style it relaxers smoothing treatments. All those things can be viewed as accessories. Much like you would put on jewelry or makeup. Well, those things are the makeup to hair. You know hair color and things like that. Those are things that help bring it to life and enhance what's already there. So i always stress people, you know, find you a good stylist someone who's, really passionate and then the next question that comes with that is well. How do i know they're good stylist, i don't know, okay, that's the short answer. I don't know, but i do know that there are certain things that you judge. Your style is how you would judge your doctor or provider of that nature, the same pedestal and the same level that you put your health care on, put your stylist on that pedestal and what you search for will change, and you will find you a good stylist. I guarantee you okay, y'all, so to style, camille's hair. I am not going to be doing much of anything at all. I really want to keep her hair simple and lived, and i i want the focal point to be the the color okay. So i need to draw attention to that, so i'm gon na be using my one inch barrel iron and i'm gon na just taking that through her hair, i'm it's not gon na be organized at all. I'M just going to take it wrap it around and just you know, do my traditional different sections and stuff yeah. Honestly in my house with you, i don't really do a whole lot to style, hair anymore uh, just because i don't have to once the cut. Is there and the color? Is there? The styling just comes so easy like it takes me literally, all of seven minutes to style somebody's hair, just because i don't have to work so hard. I believe in doing all the hard work in the beginning and then i'll be chilling because by that time, i'll be tired anyway, so uh yeah, i just took my barrel iron, wrapped it through blot out that was it and take that holding spray. Of course, i always use my camera number nine, but they haven't been out of stock lately because of this doggone pandemic that just won't go away. So sometimes i bounce back and forth between that and my chi enviro 54 spray. So um those are my my traditional go-to's. I love the whole and i like how it's not sticky and whatnot at the same time so yeah, that's all i'm doing y'all and um. You don't see how easy i style her hair, i'm gon na curl. It spray it and then just take it through with my fingers. Yep y'all see that y'all see how the hair done came to life. I told you i wasn't doing a whole lot. I ain't gon na never do a whole lot, because the hard work happens at the beginning of the process, not the end. If you are overworking yourself at the end, most of the time that is, that means you didn't do something right in the beginning, and you missed some steps but yeah her hair came out so beautiful and it looks so healthy and shiny reflective that color is popping. I'M glad we did not take her too light that perfect caramel shade that she's at right now is so beautiful, and it's really marrying that brown chocolate color very nicely. So i thank y'all so much for watching until we meet again y'all have a wonderful week. If you have any comments or questions, just drop them down below i'll do my best to answer and i'll see y'all next week,