 Hey guys, it's Brian here from freesaloneducation.com with step 7 on your 14 steps to becoming a better colorist. Step 7, I wanted to go into balayage and I thought about how to do this step And I didn't really want to cheapen the application by trying to rush this into a really quick video So instead for the full technique on application I want you to go back and check out the actual full balayage video that we have Pretty sure the links going to be below for that And I just wanted to hit on just a couple of things that maybe I didn't go into enough in that video Just again to give you some quick tips. Hopefully help you out a little bit For starters when you're getting started on a balayage technique, you're gonna switch to I choose to go to balayage when I'm looking for a little bit more natural of a look a little bit more of a Sun kissed foil work definitely has its time and its place But when you're just looking to highlight someone's base color or natural color and create more of that Sun kiss kind of look that's when I'm going to move into balayage because that's the effect that you're going to get With that in mind getting started your sectioning is going to want to be off of their natural part You're going to talk to them about where their part is if they say they switch it no big deal I find out where it is most often Usually I'll just put it in where their part was when they sat down because chances are that's usually where it's going to sit So working off of their natural part That's going to help give you that nice sun kiss look however they style their hair The other tidbit that I want to make sure that I hit on for this video is when you're moving somebody from foil work Into more of a balayage highlight technique you want to keep in mind that this is a highlight technique You're not necessarily always going to be looking for an all-over color shift if you are cool Go with it do your thing But if you are looking to convince someone that this is a fantastic alternative to just doing foil work One thing you're going to want to make sure of is that you leave in some of their natural color because this is a highlight To what they have going on Now what I mean by that is when you go in and you're taking those triangular sections that I showed you in the video You're not going to want to take every single hair on the head Because when you do that That's when you're going to get more of a color shift if I take every single triangle and do every single section with my V shape Then you're going to be coloring almost all of the hair almost all of the ends Which is going to give them more of an ombre instead of just a highlight So when you take your triangular sections to keep it a highlight Maybe you want to leave a little bit of space out here when I come and take that next triangle It won't go all the way so now you can see while these sections are going to be highlighted We're going to have plenty of hair that's still left out so that they're still going to have their natural color base color Whatever still worked into that final result So I hope that helps stay tuned for step 8 on the 14 steps becoming a better colorist. Thank you very much I'll see you on the next one