 Hi everybody, I'm Danielle Downs is I'm just lately missing the hair so that way I can detangle. You never really want to go in straight away when the hair is in its naturally curly state because there might be a couple of tangles. So as you can see, I pretty much go in just from the high point of the head and I start detangling from there and keeping everything straight out. So if they're longer, yes, it might flop over the head so you can part it. But seeing as how this mannequin is a little shorter, I'm going to go in and just splay everything out in a perfect little kind of flattened-out afro, I guess you could say. Now if you like to section out, keep everything neat, have a roadmap, kind of like I do, then I'm just going to section this into four quadrants, very basic. So going from the high point of the head right behind the ear for our first section, just click that away. And then again, from the high point of the head, right down the middle. And now we've got our first little quadrant here. Just have the legs or the arms of it, however you refer to it, going up. So that way it doesn't pop where that you lose control. Gator clips are another great thing. Chopsticks also, so whatever your preference is. But basically you want to get the hair as secure as possible and just out of the way. And as I said, this is a very easy salon reality kind of highlighting technique. Personally, I love it because I can modify it so all different lengths. I can do as much or as little as I want depending on the head. So always make sure that you're going in, assessing the hair. If you have finer textures and you're using a weave, maybe not use a large weave, you can use a fine weave. So that way it's a little bit more diffused around the head shape. I'm going in with Sink or Lift today. It's great because it's a potato based lightning system that lifts up to nine levels. What's wonderful for curly hair is the fact that with that potato starch, it's pretty much like a conditioning kind of effect. It's also not going to irritate if you're using this on the scalp. But mainly I chose it because it doesn't swell, especially when I'm doing any of that hand painting. I don't have to worry about it leading on to other areas that I don't want it. When you're doing a highlighting with this, you want to make sure that when you're doing the hand painted portion, you're weaving out a couple of sections. So that way it blurs the line a little bit, say if somebody wants to blow out their hair and not wear it curly. And again, you can start wherever you want with this. If you want to start near the ear and work that way, you can. I usually like to start right in the part because that's what this person, your guest is going to see. I also like to take out just a tiny little section right in the front. So that way when I'm weaving, it only shows a shadow of that highlight right in the hairline when she goes to pull it back because most naturalistas are going to be pulling their hair into a tighter, slicked back ponytail. I really don't want to make that difficult for someone to look at for like the first two, three weeks if I'm doing like a really heavy week. Because then it's just going to look really, really striking. So by having that little veil there, it helps to diffuse it a little bit more. So we're going to pop in that first highlight. Now, the other thing that I don't worry about is most of the time you want to make sure that your section is only as wide as the foil itself. But because we're working on a curly girl that really isn't worried about getting this right to the scalp. It's OK to over direct those corners and have those a little further away. I'm just going in with the corner of my brush just to tap a little bit closer. But as I said, with this one, you can go very close to the edge because it doesn't swell. So you don't have to worry about those bleep marks pushing over the foil line. Which I have watched hairdressers that they can work in basically all white. I used to watch a guy named Floyd Kenyatta. He was like the granddaddy of textured hair for Paul Mitchell back in the day. OK, so if you need to go ahead and clip that out of the way, just make sure that you're not grabbing onto your foil because you don't want to pinch that. So when you're clipping a piece away, just go right over the foil and connect that to the rest of the hair that you have clipped away on the other side. Now, in the back, seeing as how that's actually a lot thicker and denser than the front section. Back here, I actually like to just take out a tiny bit of hair. So I'm not doing an even weave the same way that I did up front. This one, I'm only dropping out maybe about three little sections. Effectively, it almost looks more like a weave. I'm sorry, not a weave, a slice. So again, going in with the corner of my brush so that I can just tap that close to the hairline, but not right up. Now, some people, they have like a really long kind of nape area in the back. So you might have to take that in two sections and that's fine. So for me, I always say that any technique that you're using, learn it, master it, but also play with it and have fun. Weaved out a chunky section and then I just painted that on. And then I just lightly just massage that up the hair shaft a little bit so that way it can blur it a little. That way we don't get like a heavy demarcation line where it's just straight, blanch painting that on. And then just going through and lightly massaging that up. Now, I'm not like really clamping into the hair because I just want to massage that over the top layer of the hair because once I squeeze that through and I'm saturating top, middle and the bottom of it, that's where I get that line of demarcation, where it's just giving it that light little petting over the top and then massaging that mid shaft. That's where I'm getting the saturation from about just about the midpoint to the end. And then everything that's up here, that's over the middle point, that's just going to get a light little balayage. All done with our application. So we have our hand painted sections that out here on the perimeter. I have them just laying over those little triangle sections so they're not touching any other hair. And like I said, this is a lightener that does not expand. So you don't really have to worry about it bleeding on to another section. Everything that is inside of the foils that I did first is being incubated. So that's going to come up a little later. Everything you see in this nice little lovely pinhead ponytail here is just going to be untouched. And that was simply just to get it out of the way and that I won't be using extra product because if anything, I would rather not use, you know, like as much foil or as much balayage. So if I can leave something on its own and I do. But again, totally up to you and whatever your preference is. And so that hair technique and coloring technique leads to this lovely very high contrast, very pop, just lovely metallic kind of highlight. Now, what I used to tone with was Palmetto Cremma 8MB with 10 volume. Again, I just prefer the cream. It has a lot of really nice emollients and different things like that that just help to condition the hair. So you always want to make sure that it's leaving the hair in the best state that it can be. So that was another reason that I chose Cremma because it's just ultra conditioning and it's a demi permanent. That's our lesson for today. I hope I helped out. And if there's any questions, hit me up. My Instagram is at the hands downs. I try to answer on the thing real quick. Keep going. And I try to answer any questions that are on there. Become friends, let's talk hair, share whatever you're doing with hair or whatever discoveries that you have. I love to learn from other hairstylists. Yeah, for sure. So you can see all Danielle's work on Instagram at the hands downs. You know, definitely send her some DMs, ask her some questions. And definitely inspire me to get better about posting because I take the pictures. I just forget to post them. Yeah, we're all you'll do it now. I feel like I feel like we'll get we'll get back into it. Can you do a close up? Yeah, for sure. Close up of both of them. I think the pre-dawn one. OK, so again, because we're using that nice little kind of pinwheel, you can see that right in the top here. It's just an indistribution of color going all the way around. Great thing being is that you can see like little lighter bits, but then you can see some of those darker pieces push some more of the light. So that was with crema XG 8 and V. I mean, this is what I do. I know, I mean, it's hard. It was all backwards. She's looking into a screen, but it's back. And I've never done this before. Exactly. All right, cool. So everybody saying that they loved watching it. Looking forward to more beautiful work, love it, needed this. I think it's cool. I'm, you know, guys, let us know if you have any, you know, requests, the full schedule about already next week. Are we doing the rainbow color melt thing? So the next week we're actually doing rainbow color melt, not on curly hair, which will be really fun and looking forward to that. So then we're going to get into relaxers and we're going to do all kinds of stuff, right? So super exciting. All right, let's see. Anything else you want to say, Daniel? Besides to go follow you have fun with hair and everybody stay safe wherever you are in the world.