Transition Your Copper Wig To A Golden Blonde Without Bleach

Why don't you hear me we're taking the hair from an intense copper to a nice golden blonde? We are going to start with a copper swatch. That'S actually going to help me find what level that i have lifted the hair up too, so that i know how to mix my toner. The bottom is darker than the top, so we're gon na find out exactly how dark and voila i found the first swatch. It is an 8 medium, blonde, copper and now up top. We have some lighter pieces and it's a nine copper blonde lightest blonde copper. So i'm going to mix up two different formulas, because i want to maintain the dimension of this hair. We'Re going to use yeah, there goes our two formulations, one for the bottom, one for the top at the bottom. I'M going to use aveda's 8 n with their in dark, intense blue, green, pure tone at the bottom and then for the top. We'Re going to use aveda's 9n with their dark, intense ash at the top. I fully saturated the hair with water. It really helps me run through my color. It helps it glide on better. It helps me use less of it because we know weeks can definitely take up and soak up a lot of color, and i will say that um the hairs we started off with a darkest brown color. It was the level two and i lifted it with avedas and lightner powder lightener their bleach. I mix the bleach with 20 volume and some may say well why not reapply bleach to make it even paler or blonder. Now i will say that i chose not to use a second application of bleach instead, i'm using this color that you see, because i want to maintain the integrity of the hair. I want this wig to last a long time. I wanted to the hair to feel soft and manageable. Don'T want the hair to feel gummy or hardened so we're doing a two-step process, we've already lightened with bleach and now we're toning in order to extract the copper or to extract the orange from the hair and make it less coppery and some may say, hey. Why not get a blonde wig and just make it golden blonde? Well, i didn't have any blonde bundles. I only had darkest brown bundles to make the wig and we're doing the best that we have and we're going to still get to where we want to be going this route and, if you're at home - and you want to make that orange hair into a nice Golden blonde, it is possible, it's very possible, and this is how you do it. So i've done the left back quadrant with that 8n with dark, bg and 10 cream developer, and one thing i would recommend is whenever you want to cancel out a color that you, you know, cancel out a color that you don't want to see in the hair. I recommend getting a color wheel. A color wheel will basically tell you each and every time how to cancel out the color you don't want. So, if orange is on oranges on one side of the color wheel, what color do you think is on the opposite side of the color wheel? It'S blue, so blue, cancels out orange and that's why i'm using the intense ash, which is a dark blue, green, to cancel out the orange in the hair? It'S amazing! I love science. I love chemistry. I love how it's predictable every time, sometimes i'll, hear colorists say: oh girl, i do color and i pray it works out. Well, prayer is nice people, but if you have a color wheel, basically the science has already been figured out for you and things become predictable and you actually are going to be you're going to have less stress when working with your color. If you work with a color wheel, it's it's a wonderful thing. I highly recommend it and it's something that you can either post or pull up on your phone. So now that i've finished the back the front that's lighter and the top on the hairline. This is what i'm going to use the level 9 intense ash with 10 cream developer on. That'S the second formulation and we're mixing it up there. We have three components in that bowl. We have the 9n, which is the base. We have the dark blue, green, intense ash and we have the 10 cream the 10 cream developer. So you i like to whisk for at least 20 to 30 seconds, making sure everything spreads evenly. It'S like you're whipping up some eggs with spices in it just want to get everything nice and leveled in your bowl. I am matching this wig is for beautiful client of mine, and i'm matching this wig to the color that i dye her hair so that when she wears it, no one will say: oh, are you wearing a wig um? No one will notice. It looks just like it's going to resemble the color that i do on her by monthly, so so now we're doing the front, left, quadrant and again working the root first and then pulling that color down mid lengths to ends. Please note that when i shampoo the hair, i am going to shampoo it with color treated shampoo, i'm going to use aveda's color concert, color, conserve shampoo and conditioner, and just before i put this wig under the dryer after i shampoo it, i'm going to use aveda's Confixer, it's a liquid gel with morocco protein it's important to still use protein on these wigs when you have lifted them with bleach and color treated them. Why? Because you're removing some of the coating, that's on the hair follicle, so you want to put it back so that the hair still shines and so that the hair still feels soft and silky and flows you really. This is human hair, so you want to treat it like human hair and treat it with the best products. It really will show. So now that we've applied color to the entire head, the back, i am taking a wooden spatula and i'm just scraping the color off of the hair so that i can see more clearly and i'm fanning out the hair. So i can see how much warmth i have and how much is cooled down. I like what i see so i'm gon na, let it continue to process and reapply the color and the top. It probably looks like i don't even have color on there. Yet right. Um but there's color up there and voila look at sassy pants. Look at this color guys! Look at the dimension that we have. This was so much fun to do and to really cancel out a lot of that copper. And if, if you forgot how much copper we had here's the before and after thank you have a great day guys