How To:Warm Highlight Techniques New Bleach Bath Method

Yeah, i know i like to jump right into my video so to get this look, keep watching. So the first thing we're going to do is get some 4d developer clear, that's the liquid developer and some bw2. You want to make sure you get the liquid developer, because this is the updated version of our bleach bag. So i think i am sorry you're gon na use some royal navy in a door or any blue color to add to this um bw2, because you know bw2 is white. It makes your color a little brassy a little orange, so this is going to fight some of that orange um that we would get with our base color. So i did four scoops and i'm gon na match it with what i thought i was gon na show. Y'All, i matched it with four, no eight scoops of developer. Oh there, it is i'm sorry, but i did eight scoops here of developer. I think i end up adding a little bit more to make the consistency a little watery, because this is not like an exact formula, but we want to try to get as close as we can for this to be effective and then, like, i said, we're going To add the adore balloon, so we can fight some brassiness at the same time that we're lifting, so this is good for when you bleach or not as well. So you know lately, we've been getting these big knots. Bw2 is pretty strong, so adding the blue gives you a blue base, as you can see, as i'm mixing it up. But what i would do different with bleach knots is that you add the adore color first, because it's going to make it a little runny and you know you need a little thick pasty, consistency, but not so now i have a tea kettle with hot water. I'M going to not submerge but saturate the wig with hot water, so be careful, it's really really hot! I'M sorry! I mixed these clips up a little bit, but i've been trying to get this video done for y'all for the longest, but we're going to saturate the wig to get it damp, like you know, a little wet. So this is going to be considered our bleach bath to dilute the uh potion of color that we've made, but this is what's gon na kind of dilute that potion. So we're not getting like that high lift bleach bond. We would be looking for if we were just to use 40 developers straight um, as you can see a lot of our wigs kind of have chemicals and stuff in it. So you'll see a lot of that. May come out in your wig, which is fine and then you're just going to pour the um concoction. As i like to say of bleach and developer, like i said, you might want it a little runny. So if you have to it's okay - but that was the whole point of using the clear developer, because it is a liquid consistency - opposed to a creamy consistency. So we can be able to um saturate the wig better than we would and use a little less water. Um to dilute it, so it can move a little faster, so this step is going to um going to be based off the type of hair you have so some hair. I can't remember this is my hair or my client's hair, but some hair moves slower. Some hair moves faster because whatever chemicals may be in it or what chemicals may not be in it, so take all of that in consideration. There is no perfect formula or exact formula to this. It'S like, i could just give you clues, and you kind of just not clues, but tips and techniques to help you do this with your own hair. So it's not like a definite okay. It'S going to turn out just like this, like with color it could. You know come out a different way. It could turn lighter, faster or don't turn at all, because it's not 100 virgin hair. So please keep all that in mind when you're doing these color techniques. That color is not an exact science, unfortunately, but it can be fun and it can be messy, as you can see, i'm getting that all in there making sure i don't miss any areas to get my base down really really well and you're going to let it Sit, i let mine sit for about 30 minutes, but i would watch it because it might turn in 15 just because we didn't use as much water as we usually do when it comes to this bleach bath. So i do say: watch it just to know you're getting the right color base to treat, so i used um foil, regular foil. I got this from the hair shout out to her, but you can make them as long as you want to they're nice and thick they're perfect for long hair, so i definitely suggest going to the store and getting those so once it's um done, we rinsed it. I didn't wash it i just rinsed, it really really good um, so be um, expecting the hair to feel like a little dry once you get it out because we haven't conditioned it. So just you want to be a little careful with the hair um because it's at a fragile state. So, with my highlight i'm going to use blonde um, it has nine lift and you see it's already blue based um and we're going to use that for the actual highlights my base color, because we use so much product and we're not trying to do too much. I always use e32 first and then i go in with the blonde me. So i did make two concoctions. I'M gon na do one with 30 developer. You can do 30 or 20, whatever one you choose and then my other one is going to be 50.. Now the 50 developer is sold at sally's, but you have to be in their pro program to be able to access it. Now. I'M sure that other companies sell 50 developers, but i know for you to get it at sally's. You have to be licensed to get it um so but you can do foot 40, but i suggest to do two different levels, so you could do 20 and 40 10 and 40 30 and 50 like i did. I could have did 20 and 50 to give dimension, but this is a way to be able to get dimension without necessarily having to go back in with, like i know, i see some people use like they actually use color opposed to lighter, but this is a Way to get dimension is to use two different type of lighting two different developers to get some dimension within this brown base that we're gon na have, and, as you can see, i have my olaplex sitting right there. I am going to use that that's another pro thing. I believe this i've seen it sold on amazon and stuff like that, but olaplex. If you don't have olaplex to go with this 50 developer. I do not suggest it because the developer is very, very strong and it can break the hair. So you got to remember all these things are chemicals, but you have to be very, very careful what you're, using and so with the olaplex. The olaplex is a bond builder, so it's going to kind of help me keep the hair intact while processing. So if you don't have olaplex for your 50 developer, i do not suggest using 50 developer or not even olaplex, but some type of bond builder, because if you don't have it, your hair could break it. Can you know you, especially if you're dealing with a customer's hair, you don't want to have to replace it? So remember all these things when you're coloring hair, because again color is not the exact science and you may have you know the vendors may change their hair. You may be doing uh bring your own bundle services and things like that. So you have to take that in consideration when it comes to the hair, because you don't want to have to replace the hair. So now that we have our concoctions made, i start my first 50 developer in the front because i want those pieces to be really light in the front um of the wig, regardless, where i part it. So i did do the 50 developer concoction in the front. First and then i wanted that's where i wanted to sit the longest, so i did do that one strip in the front. First, with 50 developer um some of the clips i needed to show you guys get either deleted or i didn't record it by accident. But if you have any questions, do not be afraid to ask in the comments you guys. Let me know, is there any tips and tricks that you guys use that i can use next go around? I might actually have a mentorship program. Now, that's about five dollars. A month and you'll be able to get me directly via facebook um, because sometimes i don't get to the comments in the what is it called in the comments of youtube? Sometimes i don't get the notification and yes, so you did just see me put. I got the rambling, i'm sorry, but i do put bleach on the foil to help with saturation. So that's a good tip or trick to use for good saturation to make sure you're not missing any spot is to put and - and i mean be sparing you don't have to be. You know cheap or stingy with it put a nice amount on there. So you know that the other underside is getting that developer. I mean developer, getting that lightning um. I just can't talk today getting the saturation that it needs and, like you see, i love these foils because they're huge, like doesn't matter the length they work. You fold that up, you do not want to apply any heat whatsoever. It says that on the bottle and that's something i put in the video, you guys have to read the directions of some of these um color things. Because that's where you go wrong, is they tell you to do one thing and you do another just because it's something that the norm has done um, so i apologize for this voiceover. I'Ve been trying to get this done forever, so this may not be my best. Voiceover voice over so please, let me know if you have any questions, i will clarify anything you need for the most part um. If i can, to my knowledge, i'm still learning a lot of this stuff as i go because i just you know some stuff is trial and error. I see something i like or don't like i'm okay next time i'll do this. So that's where this comes in, like granite, highlighting is about the same thing across the board, but there's so many ways to do it and it's not it's not a right way. It'S not a wrong way, but sometimes it's a better way. So what you see me doing here is, i take maybe one or two tracks, and this just goes based on how thick or thin you want your highlight. So for the most part i just wanted them everywhere. I didn't really want um precise. I wanted more of a blended look, so for the most part you'll see me take one to two tracks at a time that i will highlight, and i would go so if my first one was 50 i'll, do the next one 30., then the next one. I will try to rotate it so they're, not all clumped up together to give me dimension all over. So just keep that in mind. I said you don't have to do it exactly like me or anything like this is something you can freeze. This is where your creativity comes to like, where, like you know how they say, i'm um, i'm an artist and i'm creative about my stuff. This is where that comes into play. You can do whatever you want to do like you, don't have to do exactly what i'm doing. This is just the way i do it to give you a base on like i made somebody made, and this is goes into not really want to have to have custom or pre-made wigs, because, like i had somebody want me to remake it and then she's all. I wanted more color in the front, so the expectation wasn't there because she wanted something different when she didn't really voice that to me she wanted. She just told me: she wanted a remake and even still even doing a remake. I'M not gon na be able to get the highlights exactly like i did the last one. The placement may be a little different. The color may come off a little different because it might have processed different or she might have brought me here. So you have to keep all those things in mind. I know i'm rambling a little bit but just trying to keep up with what's going on with the screen. I think this is one of my longest videos outside of my sewing machine videos, so bear with me any tips you could give me. Please give them to me, i'm always open for construct open construct to sit ah open cause. I can't talk constructive criticism. I'M talking about open, i can't talk for nothing, that's horrible, y'all, i'm so sorry so but yeah, so we're just going to go back and forth between the two concoctions, the 30 and the 50 until we get to the top once we get to the top. That is when i start to weave to have a more blended look, because right now we're doing slices. So once you get to the top, that's when i would start to weave and that's more so in the closure area is when i would do that. So once you get to that closure, that's when i would do weave pieces, i wouldn't do them as chunky, because that's what your um your money piece! Is your money pieces, your closure. You want to do your precision and things like that in the money piece, because that's right in the front, but i got that term from cynthia lumsy. But your friend right there that crown area is your money piece because that's what's going to show the most regard is where they parted it. So i highly suggest weaving at the top when you get to the closure. So now that we're at the top of the hair, like i said, we're going to weave so i'm going to go in a little more detail to show you how to weave - and it's really just going that zigzag motion in the part that you made so half Of it's um going to be lighting and half of it's going to be the base color. Here now you can get a little jazzy with it and do two different developers. You could eat the bottom, one one developer and then the top one another developer. So you kind of can play a way to be creative. Like i said before, there's no exact science. You might do something one way that you might like another, so you just kind of can play with what you want to do. Um. As far as the color goes, it's just you want to be careful to make sure you don't have too much. Why are you going to say that? Because chunky highlights are kind of in there or having that big piece of color in the front or in a certain area is kind of in now. So it just kind of depends on the look that you're going for. So i wouldn't say that you want to have too much color in one area, because it won't look that bad. But if it's like in the i want to say that stuff, no just not to say the crown area, the top part, that's like the biggest part of your head that area. You don't want too many chunky pieces because it's going to cover everything at the bottom. So you kind of want to do the weaving at the crown of your head, because that's what shows in the back the most like, even though you got color at the bottom, but you remember all that hair is going to be covered by what's in the crown. Um, so that's why, like i said, that's the money piece do the weaving at the top, so it really can show those highlights and not just have one piece of you know of a color. So i do suggest keeping that in mind. So i let that process for about 30 minutes after the last piece is done now you don't have to do the exact 30 minutes. You can do it to the liking of the color. You know just watch it and see what color you like, but i did let it sit for about 30 minutes before i took my foils out and began to get it prepped for toning. So after i take my foils and rinsing real good, i'm gon na use some olaplex number two and i'm gon na. Let this sit for about 15 minutes. You can do it longer if you want to after the number two i go in with dish detergent. Yes, dish detergent and i clean the hair really really good, because you want to get all that bleach and whatever residue to come out. So once we're done with that we're going to go into toning with this wig, i use t35 and 20 developer. Yes, we're going to use clear again because we want a runny consistency. This is going to make it easier to spread throughout the hair. So if you know that your hair should be stamped, the hair should not be dry when you tone hair. This is for toner, not color. Remember, toner and color are two different things, so you want something. That'S really really saturated. Excuse me, don't jump in my comments, don't kill me. I should have glows on. I know i'm sorry i'll be trying to work um and it doesn't come across the mind so and another thing too, is sometimes i have the hair, be a little warm because you want that cuticle open. So, usually, you bring you're going to rinse this with cold water, but when you're uh i'm doing this method, because i do let it be, i let it be wet, i do make sure the ah. The hair is a little warm or almost hot, and i let it saturate really really good and i let it sit for the directions of the 30 minutes. I let it sit to make sure that it's completely saturated and then i go in with i rinse it with cool water, and then i go in with some silicone mix as the conditioner and then voila. We have our beauty. That'S all for me today, guys thanks for tuning in see you next time.