 Hi, beautiful. What's going on? You look fabulous, as always. Thank you for being here. Today, we have another installment of At Home Balayage Fails. Well, actually, they might not all be fails. Maybe none of them are fails. I actually have no idea because I don't watch the videos before I watch them with you. So hopefully it's something entertaining. Otherwise, hopefully they do a great job. But I do know one thing. All these Balayage bleaching jobs are going to be done at home with most likely block-style, with pretty much zero direction from a professional. Can't wait. Also, you guys, I have a giveaway. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. It's giveaway day. It's giveaway day. It's giveaway day, day, day, day, day. Giveaway day. You guys love the giveaways. So I am bringing you another one. Voila! I am giving away the entire collection of X-Mondo products to two of you guys, including the sold out Wave Tech Wave Foam that will not be back for a little while. 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Our first video is by TheGlampixie and this is doing an at-home balayage teasing method. I hate teasing methods. We're off to a great start. I haven't even pressed play yet. Let's do that. Why don't we just press the play button, shall we? So yeah, I am using the L'Oreal Paris. It turns out really dark on my hair so I knew this is what I wanna go for. And first thing that I did was part and pull out a couple of front highlights. Is it too early to pause the video? Just leaving a small section on the bottom. Bride motto, doesn't even start the video, already has to say something. Yeah, I have something to say. I'm what you could call opinionated. We're gonna use box dye 5A, honestly, why? Why don't you just use a permanent color line with the correct developer that goes with it? So like 20 volume in 5A. You can just buy that and mix it together. It's gonna be probably cheaper than buying a box and better for your hair. But do you? Also, I don't mind what she's doing. She is sectioning out the front pieces of her hair. That way she can highlight those pieces and she doesn't color them dark first, which is a great idea. You don't wanna color your hair dark and then go lighter after. That's a big no-no. Noah, thank you, ma'am. I went in with this little detailing brush. I got this at Sally's. Okay. I'm pretty sure they're also available on Amazon so I'll try to find one in the link. So we went to Sally's and we didn't get real color. Died the root to like mid-shaft and then I went in with this small fine-tooth comb and just pulled the dye through just a little bit to get rid of that harsh demarcation line. Not a bad technique. I really don't hate that at all. So dyeing the root to the mid-shaft. We love the terminology. Woo! The only thing you have to watch out for when doing that comb moment is that you lay your comb flat on the hair while you're combing down. That way it really drags the color and instead it doesn't just make spots on your hair. Towards the back, I let myself pull down that dark shade a little bit further because I wanted the majority of the highlights to be closer to my face. I am excited for her to get rid of this sort of brassy orange color that she is going on. I think a 5A will be great for her because it'll cancel out that orange because ash is blue and blue cancels out orange. So it's actually a good color that she chose. She did not need to use permanent color by any means. Dyeing permanent would have been perfect for this scenario but oh well. After I let it process for about 25 minutes and rinsed it and dried it, I went in with my salon care. Oh wow! And my eye on color brilliance brightening powder. You can see what this way hair looks like. So yeah, it is really dark, almost black. Her hair is really dark. Wow, I'm actually shocked at how dark that came out. However, kind of not because her hair is probably really porous, it looks a little bit damaged and a little dry. Usually when your hair is damaged or dry, it takes two shades darker than the shade you're using. So a level five will come out as a level three on her and that's pretty much what she got as a level three. So that makes a lot of sense. Also the ash tones come out looking a much darker than the warm tones because they do not reflect light as much. So that is also the reason why it looks so dark. And then with the bleach, I just did like the lower half section and sometimes I would pull it up a little bit higher. So there were some like streaky highlights in there. I know I said I didn't like the teasing method but that's just because I hate combing out teasing. It really has nothing to do with the actual method but this is good for her. It's gonna help her and give her some assurance that she's not making literal lines in her hair because when she combs up that teasing, it'll add sort of a gradient to where her dark starts and her light starts. So it'll be nice. This time around, I did opt to use some foils just cause I didn't want there to be any bleach transfer on those lower layer. I mean, that's a good idea. Foils will also give you that really bright white highlight. So if you're looking for that then using a foil is perfect for you. I don't know what her goal is but it is gonna give her a pretty light highlight. Also the fact that she just colored her hair with an ash tone color that's really dark is actually gonna help sort of tone the highlights without her actually toning them. So I'm interested to see how Ashley the highlights come out because she had just applied that really dark color. In this salon, we would have normally colored her hair and highlighted it at the same time. That way we're not doing two steps. We're not coloring her hair dark and then reversing it like cause that just causes more damage that way. So it is a little counterintuitive but I will take it. I did pull out this front section though because I want the front sections of my hair to have a little bit more of a bleach pattern to them. That's a great idea. Opted to this leave those more towards the end. I approve of that. I think the front of your hair should be lighter for sure. And I'm glad she left those pieces out to start. That way the front is really impactful and bright. Pulled out some of these foils. I wanted to see how the bleach was processing. Oh, it's light. Didn't want to over process it and damage it. But her hair was light to start so that makes sense. Be a concern like by bangs, I went ahead and pulled it way closer to my root. I didn't want it to go all the way to the root but I definitely let myself go a lot higher and I tried to feather it in as much as possible. I'm so curious how this is going to look. He's but very, very little on these front sections. This is either going to look terrible and come out so splotchy or this is somehow going to come together and actually look really good because it kind of looks good right now and I'm really confused about it. Okay, are we going to see the outcome? So this is how it turned out. I am so in love with it. I'll be honest with you. I'm very proud of myself. I think I did really good. I'm maybe sitting there and thinking, girl what you talking about? I love it. It looks pretty gradual. Like I feel like I did a pretty good job you guys. The one thing that I don't love is these front bits but they are a lot yellower than the rest of it. This has a really beautiful like ashy tone to it whereas these front bits have a little bit more yellow but I might just go ahead and retouch that with bleach. How did we get here? Is that what I want to know? I want to know how we got here. What was the journey? Because last time I saw you, you had bleaching your hair. I didn't look like this. I would have thought she got it done in a salon. I would have no idea that she didn't do this herself. The dark on the top looks really good. She looks like a different person for the better. It looks really good. I do think the front pieces need to be bleached again but be careful. Those front pieces can be a little fragile. Other than that, I don't know. How did it come out so white? I'm so confused. I mean she does have hair that's on the finer side so it does lighten much quicker and much brighter and whiter than other hair. But God, she got really lucky or something because this looks amazing. Congratulations, glam pixie. You nailed it girl. First one down and you killed it. You really did this for me. Thank you for setting the tone of this video. I appreciate it. Up next, we have nap cat. This is called using ponytail to create the perfect balayage. Using what? Nap cat? Giddy cat girl, what are you using? First step, take out the ponytail that you slept in last night. You're gonna want bowls, bleach, toner. Usually want temporary. I've got permanent on hand. You're gonna want 10, 20 and 30 volume process You might also want to scale some gloves, a foiling comb and a lot of hair ties. The first tool that you're gonna want to reach for is your foil comb. Okay, so she is sectioning her hair out into two ponytails. Now we are sectioning up the front part of her head. Okay, whoa. Now there's a lot of sections going on. Okay, nap cat, I see. Okay, so she's using 20 volume and lightener and she's measuring out and she's doing a great job at this. I'm very happy that she is measuring and doing all that stuff. And now we are using foils on the back of her head. Okay, talent. We're retouching on the back of her head. This looks dangerous because if you overlap that bleach, your hair is gonna fall off. But also this could be good. The thing with ponytails, yeah, it is a viable option for when you're doing balayage. It pulls the hair in different directions. That way when you lay it down, you get a softer gradient effect with your balayage. I mean, I'll take it except she is taking very big sections and she will probably get a little spotting because she's not fully saturating the hair properly. But that's okay. A little bit of mess up, it's fine, it's fine. Let's see how it came out though. Oh, okay, it looks similar. We're toning with 10V, which is violet, which cancels out yellow because it's opposite on the color wheel. She's using permanent color so it is going to do a lot and it's going to really penetrate that hair. Oh, it'll probably be good for her. It'll give her that little lift that she probably needs. Okay, wow. Okay, are we getting another really good DIY at home balayage moment right now? What is going on? Yo, she looks hot. Giving us a Garnier commercial, baby, give it to us. Okay, the thing I will say is that the highlights are good. They're very far from perfect, what does that mean? They're definitely things that I see wrong, especially the side pieces. They look very stripey. There's just a difference between doing that and then getting it professionally done by an experienced balayage artist. There is a lot of color variation going on and I would have liked to see it a little bit more clean and put together and maybe like a center part on her. The side part is good for covering up flaws within the hair, but as a good center part with a good color, chef's kiss, baby girl, chef's kiss. That's what I want to see. But overall good, she looks beautiful. And if you're watching this, I don't think your hair is bad. I just think it could be better, but you aren't gorgeous. And only a person picking apart somebody's hair would ever say these things. So don't take my criticism to heart, please. Our next video is by Josie Jade, beautiful name. This is called DIY Balayage on Textured Hair, highlights on curly hair. Ooh, I'm nervous because curly hair, you know, actually it's a little bit easier in a way to do highlights on curly hair because it's more forgivable than straight hair, but there's a way of doing it and there's a way of not doing it. So we'll see if she does it the right way or the wrong way. All right, so I have my hair sectioned out. These are going to be the two side pieces. And then here's all the back. All right, so it comes with this balayage. We're sectioning. Jump placing in the bowl. I'm happy. And then it also has the developer that has to go with it. Now I'm going to detangle the hair and just make sure there's no tangles. So as you can see here, I'm trying to decide how thick I want the pieces to be. It may look like I'm going in pretty heavy, but if you wear your hair curly majority of the time or all the time, you do want to actually go in with thicker slices so you can actually see them. I've done this before and I chose thinner slices and at the end you could hardly see them, which meant I had to add more highlights and it just wasn't satisfied. And if at any point you feel like it's too thick, you could honestly just take some of the hair out and cut it in half. She did that. Great job. Honestly, everything you did said and it was beautiful. She is taking thick sections. It's so important with curly hair or else you won't see the highlights. You want it to be pretty impactful and fun. However, the only thing I don't like is that she didn't really blend it up to the top. It's kind of just like a streak of hair, which is totally like a thing. If she wants that very streaky style, I would have personally liked it better if it was just blended a little bit more at the top, but I'll take it. So she is continuing to go around her head. Doing a beautiful job. I feel like she's going to get more overall blonde feel rather than just pieces highlighted. But me, that's what she wanted and that was totally cool. But I'm excited because I love when curly hair is highlighted. I just think it adds so much more depth and dimension to the hair and it makes it look all around thicker and fuller and really defines that curl pattern for you. I don't know, it's just beautiful and it's like very reflective and fun. And she's done applying the lightener and it looks pretty heavily saturated. I'm not going to lie. The ones that's washed out, I'm going to go ahead and use these two colors that I got from Sally's. A, N, G and six W will make a seven sort of warm neutral color. So that'll be good for her. Guys, I'm going to go ahead and finish. She's doing like a more caramel highlight, which I like. All right guys, so this is it for my do it yourself. I have a lot of caramel highlights and low lights in here. And honestly, I'm really happy with how it came out, especially since I didn't have too much to work with color wise. This would be probably some of the lighter pieces and then like you can see that's just a little darker. It looks so good. They're just hidden under there. And I'm pretty sure I'll brighten up too. And once I'm done, I'll look a lot brighter. But yeah, I like this. This is what happens when you use the proper toner for you guys. She didn't go and use a level 10 toner T18. She went and used like a seven neutral warm color. And that's perfect. Because she's going darker than what she had, the toner really did its job, which is to tone and give you the outcome you're looking for, which is a more warm caramel highlight. And it looks so great on her. And it really did an amazing job of blending in those highlights. So I'm so happy about this. She looks so good. Like compliments her skin tone so well. And I'm like really shocked that another person did an amazing job. What the? Let's watch one more video, shall we? Our last and final video for today is by Tanita. And this is called DIY five euros at home, ombre, balayage, highlights, blonde tutorial. Whoa, we love the title. That gives me a banana. Let's check it out, shall we? You guys want to go and check it out with me? Hey guys. So today I'm going to be showing you how I dye my hair from home. Glorial blonde in kit. A l'oreal blonde in kit. But all of that at the top is my natural hair and it's got quite a few different tints to it. It's very pretty. So yeah, I wonder what it's going to come out like because my hair, this is all my natural color at the top. Okay, so inside the box you get the cream paroch 40 volume to get the highlight. I am happy that this kit actually says what developer comes with it. This actually isn't so bad. I actually don't mind this kit. I'm going to tell you, this is fine. I mean, it comes with bleach and developer and it tells you what kind of developer it is. 40 volume. 40 volume is, you know, the strongest you can get. However, she is doing balayage. She is not covering her head with any foil, I don't think. I actually have no idea, but I'm going to assume she's not. So I don't mind 40 volume. That doesn't look like enough bleach to me, but go for it, baby. As you can see, it's very random and not very professional. There are honestly things I like about this though. At least she's using her hands and really getting that lightener in there and making sure that it's fully saturated. There's like a white film over it of the bleach, which means good. That means she's using enough. If that piece is nice and white, that's perfect. That's what you want it to look like. So great job. Since it's open to the elements, there's no foil on it. There's no plastic over it. You're going to want to make the bleach a little thicker. That way it doesn't dry out really fast from not being in a foil. So now we're going on the top of her head and she still has no idea what she's doing. I'm glad that she's going up high on the front of her hairline. That'll give her a nice, natural looking, like her hair is just kissed by the sun or her hair wasn't appointed a lot of summer and it got nice and light. That is exactly what I want. And we're going around the entire head strand by strand. I feel like this might not give her as much of an impact that she's looking for, though it will lighten those ends that are already lightened. And I'm a little nervous about that. I hope they don't get all gross and like fall off and sh- No, I don't want that to happen. Hey guys. So I've just had a shower and I've done my hair and this is the final product. I'm really pleased with it. I think it looks really, really nice. It's just brightened it up a little bit and then I've just done a few more highlights through the front. Yeah. And as you can see all the blonder bits, I did put more bleach on them and they've gone a tiny bit more blonder. Yeah. I've not already done it with my hair. I've just blow dried it. It didn't really do anything. And the stuff that it did do, kind of made a lot on your hair. It's okay. I was expecting a little bit more. I'm going to be honest with you. And I mean, the outcome is cute. You look beautiful. I'm glad you went up higher in the front, like I said before. And it's so, so that's all I really have to say about this. But next time you should take bigger sections, go up a little bit higher. You still have a long bit of root there. Maybe even now, just go on the top of your hair and add some highlights coming down. That way it's not so dark up there. But maybe that's what you're looking for. That really ombre feel. But I thought you weren't. I thought you were looking for more of a highlighted feel. I don't know you sis, but I would like you to have more highlights from the roots down. So yeah, add those in. And I think it'll look great. I mean, I don't think it looks bad by any means. And you did a decent job. So I'm proud of you. All right you guys. Actually pretty much everybody kind of succeeded today. Some of them weren't the best DIY balayages moments, but a lot of them were actually pretty good. And I am satisfied with the work that was done. So great job to all of you. And thanks for sharing your videos with us. Make sure to hit the notification bell right below me to get notified every time I post a new video. And make sure you guys follow me everywhere else. Here are all my social media links. Check out my haircarelineatxmondohair.com or on Instagram, that X-Mondo hair. You can also text this number to get notified of new product drops, videos, and so much more. Let's stay connected. Please and thank you. And that is all for today guys. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to live your extra life. I'll see you next time. Bye guys. This is Glitterati, our styling serum. Glitterati will deliver hold, shine, and lightweight hydration combined with the most beautiful touch of pink sparkle. 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