How To Highlight Curly Hair | My Favorite Blonde Highlighting Technique (With A Base Bump)

What'S up welcome to my youtube channel in today's video I'm gon na be showing you guys exactly how I do a full high light and low light on somebody who has curly hair and I'm going to be showing you guys a little secret technique that I haven't Shared before so stay tuned, alright guys welcome to this video. I'M really excited to be doing this particular model because she was actually one of my clients that I had back when I was taking clients full time now, I'm full-time in education, the fast one I was doing clients. She was one of my longtime clients, and so I'm excited to be reunited with her, and I'm really excited to show you guys exactly how I do a full highlight and a little light on somebody who has curly hair. Now she has beautiful curls, we're not gon na, be cutting them or doing anything crazy like that today. But I wanted to show you guys my technique for doing highlights and lowlights on somebody who has wavy or curly hair, because it's slightly different than somebody who has straight hair. So, let's get into it. Oh and one last thing, I'm gon na be also sharing with you guys, a little secret technique that I have never shared on my channel before something at the shampoo bowl that you're gon na want to pay attention to. So let's go alright. So here is our before and you guys can see it's been a little while since she's gotten her hair done, and so what we're gon na do is we're gon na tackle those roots, and I'm gon na share with you guys, a secret method that I use To really break up a lot of that depth at the base and also how we give some dimension to her beautiful curly hair. Alright, so we're gon na mix up her Lightner, and so I'm gon na start with a scoop of our blonde or and I'm gon na start with 25 volumes. So the way that I make 25 volume is just mixing equal parts, 30 volume and 20 volume to get 25 volume, and you guys will notice that I don't actually measure with this scale. For my Lightner personally for me, I do it based off of just kind of the consistency and that's pretty much how I've always mixed my Lightner. Some people do like to measure with the scale or perfect measurements. That'S not really how I do it, so this just works for me, but we're gon na mix up 25 volume to start and then we're gon na increase to 30 volume as week up the head and then we're also gon na add in some olaplex as well And then for her low-light, I'm actually going to be mixing up color on a ten and seven in equal parts. This is just their regular dem eye color, and I love using this, especially on my curly hair girls, just because it really adds softness to their hair and from what I've heard. Actually co-op's has some sort of technology where it's like anti-aging. They call it inside the hair, so I personally love to use it on my curly girls. I love using this as a low-light, it's different than permanent color. It'S a lot softer a lot less harsh. I guess you could say so. I always mix mine up in a bowl, especially because we're going to be applying it as a low-light, but then I use a whisk to really make sure that it's super mixed in there and then I'm also going to add oil flecks into this formula as well. A lot of times, people only add it into their Leitner's, but you can absolutely add it into your low lights and your root colors and all over colors dem eye colors. Whatever you want, you can add it into that, especially working with curly hair. I like to give it as much nourishment as possible, so we'll add that into all right. So to start, I actually combed out all of her curls and the reason why I like to do this is it just allows me to get into the hair, especially if they have any product in the curls a lot of times, curly girls sometimes wear like a Mousse or something that's a little bit more crunchy, so I like to just comb through it, so I can run my fingers to it. It just makes it a little bit easier to get through all of this hair. Okay. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to just section out this top section here and if you guys have ever seen any of my other full highlighting technique, videos we're gon na do the exact same thing. It just happens to be on curly hair. So a section out that top section - and I love these little Clips because they allow me to section those out - I do have those linked in my Amazon favorites. If you guys want to check those out in the link below and we're gon na start down here. In this bottom section now, you guys can see. She'S got a lot of depth under here and typically clients. Do they typically have a lot more depth under here, because the Sun doesn't seem this area, so we're gon na start down here with a diagonal back. Our first coil now again, if you guys have seen my full highlight videos, you'll know that this is the exact oil that I always start with, will click this little guy away and I personally like to start with a baby light right here on the hairline. I just think it's a little bit softer when clients wear their hair back. So very few hairs are kind of hanging out of this foil, because it's a baby light. It'S really soft. Now, sometimes you will see with curly girls. They sometimes have a little bit of breakage down here, I'm just from the texture of their hair. So if you need to use a second clip to kind of pull that back to separate out those little baby hairs, it definitely make sure to do that and I'm going to go in with my foil and we're just gon na start here with our Lightner now She'S got a lot of roots. This can be a little bit trickier. This section is probably the hardest section on the entire head and, of course, that's the one you got to start with. So if, when you're first trying this technique, it's kind of hard or feels kind of awkward, don't get discouraged, just keep practicing, and actually one of the things that you can do is you can practice on a doll head? Because this section on the doll head is even trickier than it is on a person on a client so practice. Let me go ahead and you will get a lot better at it, but just get as close as you can in there and then. What I personally like to do is I'm going to fold this in so it just helps me lock it into place a little bit easier so that we're not having anything slip out and then I'm gon na go into our very next section. Now I like to do these first two foils right around the hairline pretty close together. Just because again there is a lot of depth back here. So I'll put that away - and you can see this foil goes a little bit higher than that. First, one everyone's hair lines a little bit different, so it's always going to vary just a little bit, but that's the cool thing about highlighting. Is you really get to customize it for your clients going with this foil, lock it into place, and you guys are going to see I've got a lot of tension on this hair. With this hand, I can you know, move this hand away. That is just something again that comes with practice, though, is this feels awkward. If this feels uncomfortable, it's gon na feel uncomfortable, it's gon na feel a little awkward, even for me, who's been doing this for a long time. It still feels kind of weird. So don't again, let that get you discouraged just keep practicing keep trying. It will become a little bit more natural, but at the end of it still sometimes gon na feel a little awkward. So just want to. Let you guys know that guys can see. She'S got some of these low lights down here of her natural color, so I can see it. I can pull this one up and kind of put it in with our Lightner, I'm just gon na kind of feather that through. I don't want to overlap a lot of this blonde down here because, again, with curly hair, it can tend to be a little bit more on the fragile side. So we definitely want to make sure that we're keeping that integrity and again I used a look like in our color too, just to really help that as well. So I'm going to continue up this section and just continue to do a little diagonal backs all the way through here, we'll probably do about four or five more coils till we get to about there. You guys are gon na see that my pattern kind of starts to do this type of thing, then we're gon na do the same thing on the other side and then I'll show you guys where okay, so as I was doing this boy, I wanted to pull This one out, so you guys, could see she's got some of this natural low light in here just from her natural color, it haven't been, it hasn't been processed yet so what I'm doing is I'm kind of just pulling it out with my tail comb here? I'M actually gon na add this into a separate foil, so I'm gon na grab a little foil here. This can sometimes again be tall, so a little tricky feeling, but now you guys can see I've separated out that low light. Now I can paint this without having to worry about the other pieces getting overlapped with that blonde. So this is a little trick that I sometimes will use it with clients that have a little bit of excess natural little light in there. It could be from you doing their hair and just missing that whole section or it could be from somebody previously who's, not necessarily getting all of that hair in there. So when you have two foils like this, definitely make sure to line them up and then just fold them really softly doesn't need to be crazy. It'S gon na be a thicker foil, obviously, but it still works out really nicely. It keeps your sections clean and that's gon na be a really great way to keep the integrity of the hair. Now, as I'm continuing in this section, I've done now three highlight I am gon na go, do a low light, so we did mix up that little light. Color, it's a little bit lighter than her natural color, but I like it just because it's gon na give us a little bit more dimension. So this is a little bit of a thicker. Coil. Probably wouldn't do this much hair for a highlight, a pearler light because she's not curly hair. We want it to be a little bit thicker, because you want to make sure that you're seeing that actual dimension in there so for her we're gon na do about 1/2. Every for every highlight we'll do every about a every to highlight it today. We'Ll do a little light and then maybe for every three highlights we'll do a little. It'S all this kind of keeps pushing off and we're not gon na do one to one. She still wants to be really blunt, but we're definitely gon na add in some more dimension in there. So I'm gon na finish up this section on this side. I'M gon na go to the other side and then I'll catch you up from there alright. So I just finished our back section and we did kind of our, because you guys can see that we did all the day. I go back about four or five foils on each side and then one low light for this entire section, because it only did you know four to five highlights so now. What I'm going to do is I'm going to take this little tiny triangle piece now a lot of times. People want to skimp on this little section. They think that it's not important, but it is technically part of our hairline down here. So what I like to do is I like to do what I call like a microwave through it, where I just kind of like pick up pick up pick up really fast, see that little tiny bit out - and I put this in its own foil, because a Lot of times there is a lot of depth that hangs out here and again. These are going to be the little tiny things that do separate you from other hairstylists that aren't taking the time to do these little extra foils these little extra pieces, so that little foil does make a difference, because it is part of that hair line down there. So now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of take my sections here and you can see there's a lot of depth in this one. I would potentially leave this as a little light because there's so much depth in there, but because it's so close to my hair line, I actually do want to get some brightness in there. But sometimes I will leave pieces that are already kind of a low light. As a low light and work that into my pattern, because it makes sense, we don't need to lighten something: that's dark just to lighten it and darken something that's light, because we want a low light. You know so work with the client and what they already have. But there are some times where you do need to kind of go in and let them melt these pieces. So I'm just gon na kind of work up this hairline again for every two to three highlight. I'M gon na do a low light again, just to kind of break that up, and this will help it grow out a little bit softer for her when she has those low lights in there. So we're gon na do one more highlight and it will pop in on her life. I'M gon na do my mullet. You guys can see. I took a little bit more of a chunky piece again just to add in some more of that depth in there. This is much more than I would do for highlights, so sometimes I will do this on girls with straight hair or more fine hair, but I typically like to do it on girls in a world thick hair and those curly hairs, because they do need a little Bit more chunkiness for their little lights, so I'm going to continue up the head until we get to kind of this little back section here now you will notice, as we get up in here, that the foils or the sections gon na be wider than my foil. So don't take a section, that's wider than your foil. We will tackle these. What I call these little alleyways when we get around to the sides, so don't stress about them only go about as why does your foils are a little bit less than it's? Why does your foils? Because we don't want to be pulling here from out here into the center and then having a line there? So I'm gon na continue up and then, when we get to about this section, I'm going to show you guys what we're gon na do all right. So we finished that lower section and now what I'm gon na do is I'm gon na drop her here and you guys can see all the foils disappeared she's, not so much hair. It'S not even that just the curl texture, but I'm going to start cutting off the apex of the head. You guys will see, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take my section just like this and if you've watched any of my other highlighting videos, this is how I highlight all of my clients, hair. Now we were doing just a partial highlight. This is actually where I would start I would go down to about where we left off with these foils. I would do this little section and then I would go forward, but because we did a pull. I did that full underneath section. So I'm going to take my first foil here and you guys will see that I don't take super super thick foils. To begin with, I tend to like a little bit more of like that baby light. Look especially when it comes to like curly hair. I don't like it to look really chunky more so just for the roots, it's okay to have chunkiness in the mid shafts like we said with the low light, but I don't like my roots to look really chunky. So, as you guys can see, I actually foil backwards, which is not usual, but this is one of the ways that I feel like. I get the best tension on the hair and it allows me to kind of pick up these sections that have a little bit more of that depth in there from those extra low lights. So personally, for me, I just like to foil backwards. I find it easier, but if you guys ever want to try this technique and you're like oh, my gosh, like that looks a little intimidating, just grab a tall head. Try it out and see if you like it, I personally have loved it. The way that I was taught how to foil - and I feel like I get better results with it, so what I'm going to do is I'm just gon na continue down this section until we meet down with that bottom section, still doing the highlight still doing the Lowlights, and just so you guys know, I did switch up my developer 230 volume now that we've increased got a little bit higher up in the head. Still would olaplex those two, so we're gon na continue this section down and I'll show you guys when we get back to the top okay, so I finished all the way done and what I started to do was I started to pull my coils back down and Fold them so I like to just take the hair that's in between, and I also take my tail comb and just kind of base. It put it add that base and kind of fold the hair over it, so that I can fold these foils back and that's just like a really easy way to fold them back, so that they're not slipping or anything like that, while you're moving the hair back To the front so now that we've gotten back to this front section, I'm gon na spin her around and I'm actually gon na foil backwards. Also, so let's do that? Okay! So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to start on this side? You guys can see I'm now standing in front of her and what I like to do for this very first foil. Is I actually like to do this one as a low-light, especially if I just add a highlight, or if I just did a low-light for the first one that I would do at highlight, but I don't need to back these ones up. This is kind of just a personal preference, but I also like it just in case this oil slipped at all. This is the one that's gon na have the most slippage, because you did pull it all the way forward and now you're pulling it back. So in case there was any slippage I like to just kind of go in right with my foil, just so that if it does, it's not gon na bleed on to any other hair. It'S gon na touch that foil. So hopefully that makes sense, but I'm gon na do a low-light here, just kind of start off my pattern. Now I know where my patterns at I've got a little light and then we're going to take my section skip it down, clip it away and you guys can see I'm always kind of keeping that tension there, so that it's really nice and smooth and then I'm Gon na go in with my highlight, and I'm honestly just gon na continue this all the way down through my ma, my mohawk section. Now, as I'm working, you guys can see that I'm not actually sectioning out a mohawk section and I just worked with where the hair kind of tells me to go. But if you feel like you work better with a mohawk section kind of section out, then you figure out what works best for you again. All of my videos and techniques are things that have worked for me in the past and kinda just little tips and tricks that I have found that worked for me. So if you feel like you, want to section out just to stay more clean and organized totally go for it and do that I just don't need to because it doesn't. I I work better without it. I'M gon na continue up this little section till you get to the front. Show you guys a couple different angles. You guys can see what we're doing here and I'll show you guys when we get around to the front all right. So now we've got to this little front hairline here and I still I'm going to be. You know doing my coils backwards, like always in fact. I actually really like this for the front hairline, because it allows you to get really really tight, but one of the things that I see so often when it comes to highlights especially curly, hair or even just straight hair is a lot of times. Stylists aren't keeping fine enough coils around the front, so you guys are going to see that, like I said, I do a lot of baby lights throughout the entire head, but I definitely make sure to do kind of baby lights around the hairline, and this is what Separates you from other stylists clients are definitely going to know this. In fact, I saw one of my old clients at church the other day and she had just got her hair done by a new stylist and she wasn't loving it and she had a line in the front of her hairline. And I said it's because they were doing the foils too thick, so this is again really gon na separate you. In fact, I'm gon na take this one. Even smaller risk gon na leave this little thingy bit of hair out here and go in and detail out. These hair lines, it makes a huge, huge difference and I promise you not only are your client for their that's the difference, but if they ever end up going to somebody else, they are gon na see a huge difference between you and that other person so going In do you tell me how these hair lines it just makes everything look so clean, especially on people that have straighter okay. So now what I like to do is I like to kind of pull those coils up, so I can see these little baby hairs right here and she's cut just a tiny bit of baby hairs, but I am going to take this into a small coil again. This will kind of just beat you up better lying. Even more so I took a foil and I folded it in half and made a little mini foil. We'Re just gon na paint this little section right here. So normally those kind of hairs would have been left out, but I do like to just paint them because they do add to that depth in the front, and so it just looks really clean when you have them all detailed out. So I'm we're doing when we go to the sides I'll show you guys what I'm doing there. Okay. So now we've gotten to the other side, I'm showing you guys this side. I did finish the other side. I did a couple of those small little foils right here and now we're gon na attack her hairline kind of on this side and so again, just in the same way of what I did up at the top I like to do baby lights. So this might be a section that a lot of people say like. Oh, you could take a much bigger foil. I don't because I do want my clients to have that very natural kind of look when they pull it back, especially on that curly girl. So I take these really fine baby light sections and it just turns out so beautiful. So all we're going to do is we're gon na just do these diagonal backs. I like to do two highlights at least around the hairline, sometimes three, depending on how blonde my clients like to be. If I am doing a low light, we're gon na do two highlights and then one low light for her and just continue going back on the section all right take it back. I said I was gon na. Do two highlights to one low-light, but you guys could see how her hairline kind of comes up right in here in this little point - and I don't want this to be a dark spot. So I am gon na. Do a highlight here and break this down. Even just a little bit more and again, this is that detailing around the hairline every clients a little bit different, so taking this kind of smaller foil we're gon na highlight this one just so we don't have that dark spot right there, okay, so we just finished All of our files and as you guys can see, there is a lot of foils in there it looks messy, but it's just because we got some curly hair in there, but this took me about an hour and 15 minutes to do her entire head. So just so you guys know, I always like to tell you how long things take me just so. You know kind of your timing on things so now we'll let her process and we'll go from there all right. We just rinsed out her color and now I'm going to put on all the Flex I like to apply my little flex before I go on to what our next step is going to be, so I'm gon na find her old flex. Let this sit on for just a little while let her hang out at the bowl and then we'll go on to our next step. Okay, so while her olaplex is on, I'm actually going to mix up her base bump, and so I'm gon na be mixing up. Our goldville top sheet - this is their permanent color, it's 10 P and I'm gon na be doing 10 and 20 volume to get us 15 volume. So I'll. This clump a little bit in here a little bit more 10 volume than 20 volume, and I like to mix up about 30 mils of developer 30 mils of color, so 60 mils total. If somebody's got a lot of hair, you can mix up just a little bit more, but that's kind of my personal preference there and we're gon na go apply this over at the pool. Okay, so I just rinsed out for olaplex and then I'm gon na towel drying her hair. I always like to apply my base bucks on towel dried hair, just to kind of get rid of some of the extra moisture all right. So we're going to start in the bottom section here, and this is usually I always like to start in the bottom, because if I do need to rinse it first where underneath it is just easier to rinse, and it's also where the clients hair is the darkest. So I'm just gon na be applying this all the way through about an inch to inch and a half down making sure to really saturate this now, because I'm only using 15 volume and I'm using the gold well top chic 10p. This is my secret sauce formula. You guys were lucky that I'm giving this to you, because it's funny the girl who I started, assisting for back to the day when I was assisting. She was like, don't tell anybody this formula, so you guys got this formula. Hopefully she doesn't see this video anyways. This formula truly is the secret sauce, though I've tried base bumps with other things. I'Ve even tried it with products that are meant for base bumps and I've never been really truly happy with the results. I really like the way that this turns out, though so ideas can see, I'm just really getting this in there applying it super quickly and that's something with the base bump is you have got ta move fast, so I'm just kind of slapping it in there. I do like using this wider frame, our brush, because it allows me to get the color in there, but we're just applying it about inch inch-and-a-half down really trying to make sure that we get all of those roots in there. So some of them are a little bit longer because it's been a little bit a longer time since she's got her hair done and then obviously just applying it to that hairline right there and then we'll move up the head, and I personally just like to section It out just makes it a little bit easier as I'm working through the hair, especially with somebody who has a lot of hair and just keep working all the way through. So you guys won't notice. The key with the base bump is getting it on quickly. So you guys are gon na see, I'm not super precise, I'm not super super clean, but because the color is kind of a little bit more liquidy and we're applying it to wet hair. It'S not really a big deal, but I'm just kind of going in fast, because I don't want the back to start processing while the front is known yet. So I get it on really really fast and it does take practice to kind of work with base bumps. Like this, but you'll get better as the more you do it so now that I've applied it all the way through them just kind of combing it down a little bit, because this is 10 P, which stands for purl, it's actually doing toning, while it's lifting her Face which is really really cool so now, I'm gon na have her lay all the way back for us, and I usually just let her process, for it depends every client you kind of have to watch for. But if you can come a little bit closer you're going to kind of lift the color just a little bit and you're kind of looking for the natural color just to start lifting a slight bit now. This takes practice to kind of see where the colors at, but you don't want it to get warm the second. It starts to pull warmth. You want to rinse it off. So it's like, I said some clients. This is five minutes some clients. This is seven minutes with her. We usually do about five minutes, total meaning the time we started applying it, and so you guys can start to see it's just kind of like slightly lifting her natural color in there. It'S probably gon na be a little hard to see on camera and just because it's one of those things that you have to kind of just train your eye for, but you can kind of see it right around the hairline and then even as you kind of Get back further up into here, let's see if we can open up her hair back here, you guys can kind of see it's just starting to pull just slightly a little bit of warmth right at the root, nothing too bad at all. Let'S see it's open! It up over here it's looking really good, so what I like to do, while I'm just waiting for this to process I'll, just kind of pull it through with my fingers again, it's kind of acting as that toner on those blonde pieces and looking at super super Good, I think she's just about ready to rinse. I just want you guys to see while the hair is wet. Look at how beautiful that hairline is. It looks so blended. The base bump definitely helps blend that in, but you guys can just see it's already. So blended and it's only wet so look I'm really good. I'M excited to show you show you guys get dry. This is our final result. Oh my gosh, I love how it turned out. She'S got such a beautiful curls and you guys can really see that dimension. Come through and the bright pops of blonde, and I love how the base bump turned out - you guys can see how dark her natural color was, but look how beautiful and bright that looks just so beautiful, really blended and lots of fun contrast. So hopefully, this tutorial was helpful for you guys, and I hope you try it out alright guys. I hope you enjoyed watching this video. I had so much fun, making it. It was so fun. Turning your hair back blonde again, and I just love how it turned out. 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