 Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. What's up guys, welcome to the vlog. So about a week ago, I received this package from Joyco. It was labeled matbeck 14 karat gold. So I wasn't sure what that was gonna be. It was loaded with products. So I wanna show you guys what was in that box first. All right guys, so here's the products that we got from Joyco in the box. Now it was labeled 14 karat gold. I think I know why that happened because they did a lot of warmer based colors for us to play around with. The good thing is, my model, Ani, who was coming in to get her hair done, actually wanted warmer tones, so it worked out really well. She also wanted a more natural looking brown. She had previous highlights that she didn't like. If she went into the salon, they were very spotty, very stripey. So what I wanted to do is do a color correction on her, completely adjust those highlights, and we used a lot of the products on this table to do that process. So we're gonna get started. I wanna get right into the step by step. If you have any questions, make sure you post them in the comments below. Here we go. All right guys, so this is my model, Ani, and basically what I wanted to do at the very beginning is just go through and assess her hair. I wanna show you guys what her previous highlights look like, and that's really what she didn't like about her hair. So I went through, I brushed through it, just really see how they fall because in some cases, when somebody wants to go a little bit darker, like Ani does, you could just go over it with brown hair color. Now I didn't wanna go with a permanent hair color because she does like getting highlights, so that was my first thing. So I wanted to go with Demi Permanent. Now the challenge with going with Demi Permanent is sometimes it's a little more translucent feeling, so you see those old highlights through it. So my choice here was to go in with the Joyco Free Play and hand paint to brighten up and erase those old highlights, and give myself a new canvas. So basically, just going through there, you can see that burst of highlight coming through her hair. So I go over it with the Free Play, which is gonna help brighten all of the hair, and then I can go through and overlay it later with the Demi Permanent hair color, the Luma Shine. So that's basically the process that we're gonna go through. Now the key things I want you guys to realize with this, it's gonna seem a little weird that we're brightening up hair to make it darker. What brightening her hair is gonna do, we used a 20 volume developer with Free Play. I did one scoop of the Free Play to two ounces of developer so I want it to be a little bit thinner. But you can go one to one as well. The thing I wanted to do is just not only erase the highlights, but also just give myself a little more warmth because we're gonna be going in with the warm tones anyway. So I don't need to lift her super high. I'm not trying to make her blonde. I'm just trying to create consistency in her overall hair. So the next thing I wanna talk about is the technique that we're doing. So the hand painting technique, I wanna create a natural shadowed root. So what I'm doing is I'm keeping it about one inch away from the root and then in the very center part of my section I leave it a little more empty. So it's just creating that shadowed effect. Definitely brighter right around the face where she would pull back her hair and then towards the middle of that section it gets a little bit darker and then we brighten it back up. So it just gives it some highs and lows throughout the head. So as you can see, this is not a complicated process. The most complicated part is to make sure that you're getting a nice feathered look at the base. And the way that you're gonna do that is using the right products and the right tools. So make sure you're using a balayage lightener, something that gives more of a smooth consistency. Also balayage lighteners have talked about this in the past, but what they do is because it's a clay base it hardens around the hair and that allows it to kind of incubate the color inside and help give it lift. So if you're gonna get that seven levels of lift you have to really incubate it, really saturate the hair because you're not putting it in a foil. So going through and paint it. The other thing is the brush choice that I'm using here, this is one of Joyco's hand painting brushes. It's smaller in width. So it just allows you to get a little closer, a little more feathered in and you're not slapping as much product on at each time you go to the hair. The other key thing about the brush, I like to make sure that it has nice soft bristles so that when I go over the hair it glides the product on as opposed to really pushing the product on to the hair. It gives it a nice softer look. So you can see my process hasn't changed. I work my way up the head shape and then same thing in the back as I did in the sides just looking for that consistency. The other thing, you wanna make sure that you do this nice and quick because really you're trying to lift it evenly and you also, this is a double process so it takes a little bit more time. So you wanna work quickly through just nice neat clean sections but get through the head so that you can let that process and then you can work on your second process after. Okay, so everything has been pretty similar up until this point. So now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my section diagonally in the very front of the head. The reason I wanna start pulling it forward as opposed to pulling it back is because when you pull it back you're painting the bottom part of the hair and when I pull it forward I'm painting the top part, the part that you're gonna see. So since this is in the front of her face you wanna paint on the top of the hair unless she's gonna wear her hair back all the time. The other thing is I wanted to crisscross my sections to create almost like a seamless feel even though no matter how I went through there I'm painting everything very similar but I wanted to crisscross it just in case she wants to wear it right down the middle to make sure that she doesn't have any stripiness to the highlight because that's the thing that she didn't like in the first place. So I go through and I just crisscross each section overlapping and pulling it to the opposite side and that is going to help give me that seamless feel. So there you can see the crisscross same kind of painting strategy though so just going through there. The other thing is I wanna make sure that this doesn't go past the halfway point of her head because again that part of her hair from the halfway point back is gonna fall backwards. So you wanna make sure that the highlights are being shown on the right side of the hair. So I'm moving into my last section. This is a good view of the crisscross pattern that we created in the very front. So you can see that division point where the hair is being painted back and then where the crisscross happens right to that division line. So feathering it in, working it back and forth make sure I saturate it fully and there you go. So you can see that we put lightener all over her head so that's gonna erase those old highlights the crisscross pattern in the top so I hope that that is helpful for you guys. Let me know if you have questions about that. Now we're gonna move into our color overlay. I let the lightener process on her hair for about 30 minutes. That's about all it took because again I'm not trying to make her blonde I was just trying to pop her up a little bit to about a level seven. And then now I'm gonna go in with four NWB which is a natural warm beige tone. I'm gonna do that at her base with five volume and then also six NWB on her ends. So what I wanted to do is create a deeper darker shadowed root and then right through to a natural kind of level six through the ends is she really wanted to be more like her natural color or her natural level. So I start off by painting four quadrants just to separate them. So I don't have to use clips or anything at this point. I just section a parting, I paint it. I do the same thing at the division point right here. I paint it down and I paint both sides of it. And then I clip up my first section and I start by painting the four NWB on the root and I work that through to the mid shaft. The reason I do that is because I'm working with a demi color so the roots gonna take on a different tone than the mid shaft with a level four. So even though it's level four, I can pull it through. It's gonna be more of a true level four at the base and then it'll be probably more like a level five towards the mid shaft because that's our pre-lightened hair. And then I go through with my level six NWB through the ends and I do it all at the same time. Could you go through paint the root and then work it through the ends? You absolutely could. I just personally like to get it all done in one section. I already have it sectioned out and I wanna make sure that I get a lot of saturation throughout the hair because I don't want a spotty end result. So that's my biggest fear, especially with color is not getting that saturation. So I take nice skinny partings and work it through to the ends. And that's basically I work it all the way, almost all the same. The only thing I did a little bit different was in this particular case, I painted the level four all the way through from the occipital bone down. So you can see right there from occipital bone down, I kept it nice and deep and dark because naturally that's what the hair would look like anyways. And then once I got past the occipital bone where the sun would hit the hair naturally a little bit more, then I started painting on the six NWB on the ends. So level four at the base all the way through the hair, pulled through at the bottom, processed the whole thing for 25 minutes and then I was ready to go. So I'm just gonna show you the quick style at the end but you could see the richness of that color. This is a beautiful end result, I think Ani was super excited about it. She loved it. I think it was exactly what she was looking for because she didn't want those stripy highlights. So this just gives it that rich feel. It brings warmth to her skin tone. It's perfect for the winter time but nice, rich, beautiful brown hair. So I hope you guys liked this video. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions about any of the techniques that we used or any of the products that we used. I'd love to answer it. There's our end result. Thanks for watching.