 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sinali. Welcome to my channel if you guys are new. Today I'm dyeing my hair and I'm so nervous but also excited but mostly nervous because this is virgin black hair. It has not been touched by dye and actually I dyed my hair sophomore year of high school but it all grew out and like it's not here anymore. Thank god because it was so bad. I'll insert some photos of my ombre hair. It was like so brassy, so like orangish yellow. It was just not a good look and yeah it was a really big regret of mine because they bleached my hair and like I don't think olaplex was a thing back then or at least not as popular so it definitely ruined my hair and it definitely stripped my shine. Basically what I'm probably gonna get today is balayage. I want to get like a very very subtle balayage like nothing too drastic, nothing too like blonde or anything. I just kind of want to get like some dark brown highlights. I'm not even really sure what we're doing today. We'll see what the hairstyle is says. I'm in like a Facebook group for like awesome photographers, models and all that and the hairstyle posted that he needed models for like a YouTube video that he was doing so I like commented and I was chosen and I was so excited because I've been wanting to get like a balayage kind of like thing done to my hair for like so long now. I've just always been so nervous about the whole like stripping the shine, bleaching my hair kind of thing, but now I know that there's like olaplex and all these like really good treatments for your hair after you dye it so so hopefully it turns out good. I mean I really like my dark black hair but just like when I'm doing hairstyles like braids and like all that I just want a little bit of dimension like you see all these like Pinterest braids on all these blonde girls and it only looks really that good because you can see it because it's like blonde highlights and like little dark brown highlights so you know what I mean? So you can see the braid better. So that's really what I'm looking for just like a little bit of dimension to my hair. So yeah I'm gonna be doing that today to my hair. My hair appointment is at 12 today and I'm actually curious to see how long it takes to do the balayage because when I got my ombre done I remember sitting in that chair for ever and it sucked so my hair has gotten really really long. The last time I cut it was right before graduation which was in May 2019 and it's grown like a ton. I feel like I cut it like right here I think. That's like a lot of hair but that's the good thing about my hair it does grow fast so if I don't like it for whatever reason you know it does grow fast. So I'm gonna take you guys along this journey dying by virgin black hair so let's get started. All right guys it is time I'm in this lawn chair I'm with Chuck over here. You want to say hi and introduce yourself? Hi I'm Chuck. I'm on YouTube at Chuck and we're here. Yeah and we're all linked down below so that you can see like the whole process because his video is probably going to be more in depth than mine but yeah this is going to be exciting. How long does it usually take? It's going to be probably like it really depends on your hair and how long it takes you to lift but ultimately like maybe two three hours. What does the lift mean? To lighten up. Have you ever had your hair colored before? I have. Okay. Like a really long time ago. Gotcha. And I did ombre and it was the worst thing I could have ever done so that's why I'm traumatized but I know balayage is like like a world of difference you know what I mean. So tell me what yours you sent me quite a few pictures. What do you love about those pictures or what I guess I think I like ashy if that absolutely um yeah I just I mean I definitely want it to be subtle but like I want it to look like I did something to my hair too I think I need some assistance. So like on a scale of one being no change and ten being a complete change where do you kind of feel like you want to sit in there? Six. Okay so you want to see it you want people to notice it but you want people to go like yeah Jesus you changed your hair. Yeah the thing is like everyone just compliments me on how shiny it is and like how virgin and like yeah thank you um so like I'm just I just I want to keep the shine and like I want to keep my hair dark but like I also want dimension. Right. So let me grab some swatches and we'll kind of look at um some ideas of where we can go with the color. Okay. And then you tell me from there what feels like you know what this kind of feels like what I want to do or okay. So here are some color swatches the purpose behind this is really for you to kind of fill out the family that you want to live in. Yeah. This is the kind of more golden red. Yeah. Chocolatey. Yeah. Ashy and then natural. Okay. And these all pop out so you're welcome to pull any of them out and kind of see them against your hair to see what that dimension would look like. I think I'm like definitely in this one. Yeah perfect. And they're all super fluffy. Can you recommend? So let's see kind of where you live naturally. Okay. So naturally you're roughly about a two. So not black but yeah kind of a natural black. Okay. So anything that lives in here would be a highlight to your hair. Okay. Right. Um so some of these you live at a two so that's kind of where you are naturally. Okay. So you can kind of see this against all these different colors. I feel like that doesn't look like anything different you know. It's going to be very subtle if you you know if you're staying because that's only a slight change. Right. No granted you know you also don't need to think about that color being right up near your scalp because we're not going to put it right there. Yeah that's wrong. So essentially I don't know I think I just really need you to like maybe give me like two options and I don't know. So really what it kind of comes down to is knowing the right family that you want to live in. Okay. And where do you don't want to go? Okay. I definitely don't want to go in golden. So you want to live in this family? I definitely want to ash. Yeah. Where do you not want to live here? Take that and kind of hold that near your head and what that will kind of tell you is is how dark or light you want to be. What scares the heck out of you? Maybe like this. Okay. Perfect. That tells me pretty much everything that I need to know as far as color goes. What do you think? I think that's yeah that's great. Okay. And that's a great place to start because you can always add more. Okay. You just you know yeah it's um so you can always layer on if you are like you know what this is pretty but I wish that there was just a couple more pops of color. Okay. Um and then the next question is how much of that color do you want to see in your hair? I don't know. Do you want to the insta feel really saturated in color or do you want it to just feel still kind of pretty subtle? Yeah. I mean look at those pictures. See how this is a bit more saturated and there's a lot more color there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe not that. I like this. Okay. But that's like brown you know what I mean. Right. So that's like more warm but yeah like that but actually um yeah. Is that good? And then next question how high up do you want to see it go? What do you recommend? That's a preference thing. That one's a really personal preference thing. Okay. Really what it comes down to is um what I what I tell a lot of people to think about is is how much of that bright color do you want to see sitting right on your skin? Um because that's where it's going to make a difference. Otherwise it's going to fall in and you know be a part of the rest of your hair. So do you want to see kind of that face framing area where it kind of goes up around your face or do you want to leave that kind of lower down? Some people like it to start at their cheek line to kind of accentuate their cheeks. Some people like it to start all the way up their hairline to kind of feel like it's framing out their face. I think having cheeks is fine. Okay. Yeah. So staying kind of lower with it. Yeah. And then from the back kind of blending it down from there. Yeah. Perfect. And then for uh just the haircut like just keep long layers because for the dimension like the reason why I want it so bad is if I do like cool braids or something like I want it to show you know. Yeah. Um but then layers like aren't annoying when you do braids you know what I mean so just maybe like long layers. That's awesome. So if you want to slip on a color road they're hanging it up in the hallway right here. Like you can't even like tell really but like wear a scarf and stop. Melty, chocolatey, beautiful. Melty, you like it. Yes. I'm pretty in love with it too. Yeah. Oh my god. Wait can we take some after pictures? Oh for sure. Go shoot some photos and videos and all that stuff. Yeah but then I also kind of can't. He said that it kind of looks like I just naturally lightened my hair in the sun which I agree with but I think it's so pretty. I think it's like perfect. It's natural. I didn't want it to be like super blonde and actually right after we washed it the first time we like put dye on it it was kind of like kind of like orange red whatever I guess my hair just brought out the warmer tone so he had to go back and tone it but now it is freaking perfect and I'm really excited about it. I want to take some photos of my hair so hopefully when Ryan gets home from work he'll be so kind to help me take photos but I'm really obsessed with it. Let me know what you guys think. I mean I know it's not the most dramatic change but it is still a change for me because I literally thought I would never dye my hair again after my traumatic experience with ombre so yeah I'm really excited and happy that I did it finally because I've always wanted to and it just looks so like good and natural and it smells so good and it's he curled it so pretty and I'm just loving it. So shout out to Chuck. He's the one that did my hair. He's here in Austin like north-central Austin I would say so if you guys are in Austin and want some balayage done or like obviously he does everything with hair check him out. I'll have his info in the description below.