 Now All right. Hey guys, welcome to fse live number six We have a lot of really cool things in store for everyone. We have Brian Herr back here Drea Bolland What's your name? I Almost called you Justin. Yeah, Justin is not here. Justin's on vacay Hopefully doing something fun. I got Christina Cavalcanti running the show and we have so Well, we'll get to Brian in a second because we'll talk about what there's plenty of time for me Well, he's got going on, but we have a really cool class for you guys today Also, we have your questions that you submitted through Instagram. So we will be answering those questions. Drea is pulling those up now She has them and I fad is sitting in Yeah, it's bright on this side. So I didn't realize how bright it was on this side of the Of the camera. Yeah, that's having a hard time. So welcome to the table I'm trying to summon the announcer voice. Yeah, you're doing a good job Beautiful milky complexions and those bright blue eyes that probably looks fantastic Which is lights up on you two sitting next to each other. Yeah, so All right. So and we have the freewheel back behind me We're giving away some cool stuff today and also like I said On the last show if we hit 150 people live, which we'll be watching for So make sure you're posting and sharing that with your friends to join us live We will give away something awesome. We decided and somebody will somebody we're gonna spin for someone Yes, somebody that's watching live will spin the wheel. Um, also There was one more thing and I forget what else we were going to talk about We talked about the andis clippers last week, but I did get more clippers from andis So thank you to them. I have reviews coming up with the clippers I just posted a video of a brand new haircut That was requested by some people. We put that up a couple hours ago. So you could check that out later on Um, and that's pretty much it. So make sure you're sharing this. Oh, and the chat is open Drea's got that I'll probably pull it up on my phone. So let's head over to brian All the way over to me all the way over there and uh, let's see what he's got going on for the class tonight. All right, so Hi Here we are. Uh, all right, so I wanted to Get into a little bit of color with you guys have a little bit of fun But do something that we're also seeing lots and lots of I feel like the internet is very very saturated these days with fantasy colors And I wanted to come up with something. I wanted to take this opportunity really to just have some fun and Really just go over some of the do's and don'ts and the basics Of just fantasy colors in general. I think one of the great things about Uh, really just what fantasy colors have become. I think they've become They've gone from being something that hairdressers and kids that work at hot topic have to now Everybody's got it. I have clients that are doctors. I have like it just it's all over the spectrum these days So I definitely think that it's something Everybody should get a little more comfortable with so that's hopefully what this is going to do um I think one of the reasons that I love fantasy colors so much is because Without people realizing it. It's probably the highest maintenance color that you can give to somebody Because there is the pre-lightening step that most people are going to need before you can use any kind of fantasy colors Uh, most fantasy colors that Really give those vibrant results that you want are just temporary colors So if they want to upkeep that then you're going to have to see them a little bit more often And then finally when the day comes that they decide they don't want it anymore Then you've got a color correction. So it's a whole Bundle of color services all rolled into one and most people don't even realize that when they get into it Uh, let's see. I wanted to go over one of my big things an analogy that I use a lot For my guests when they come in wanting things because like I said, it's all over the internet Everybody wants some form. It seems this these days But not everybody can get what they see online So I came up with this analogy and we've all now sort of adopted it and changed it a little bit here in the salon That really just helps people understand it a little bit better to let them know What they would be getting themselves into if they wanted that I use this opportunity when people talk about wanting because I'm sure you've all experienced it the people that come in with the pictures of beautiful silver and lavender hair Have jet black hair like level one and then that's just a whole dialogue that needs to happen surrounding that So I do take the opportunity to go into explaining a little bit of the levels of lift Which will help them understand just color a little bit better in general And the way that I or what I tie into that to sort of create The the visual for them. I actually created the visual for you guys tonight And that's using construction paper and crayons the first one it was supposed to be brown But I couldn't see in the package. So it's a very light brown. I went with four colors that I three you commonly see in Fantasy colors and then the other one I just figured, you know, why not because yolo, it's my class So I went with red crayon blue crayon yellow crayon and then a pretty lavender On this lighter brown you can see and from what I'm picking up on the camera It is adding some tone especially with the red and the blue But it's not really showing up necessarily as a vibrant color I explain to them if I can get you or if you're starting at a brown and I put this over It's really going to wash out. You're not going to see things like yellow It might rich it up a little bit and really I think this is just because it's a crayon because we know that lavender is not Going to show up at all on brown And then I explain In your levels of lift and this is something that hairdressers need to understand as well Orange is going to be some place that a lot of people end up. Hold on. How did I hold the last one like this? So I want to try to be a little consistent. No a consistency is good So again, you've got your red Orange is when you if you can get somebody to an orange red is one of the only colors that I feel Well, obviously orange But red is one of the other colors than what you lifted to that I think will show up when you lift somebody to an orange And they'll still get that nice red which is good because If you can only get them to an orange chances are it's because they've got really really dark Maybe even previously colored black hair and red looks really good with black The blue again as we know color wheel is really just going to more cancel out the orange Again, because it's a crayon. It sort of does show up somewhat, but We know when it comes to hair It's really just going to kind of go away and just sort of muddy out The yellow Again, the best you're going to get out of that is a little bit of richness But you're not going to get any of that yellow that you're looking for and then even on paper the lavender is almost non-existent. So That's a good visual I think one of the most one of the biggest mistakes Because it's one of the most realistic ones is we can get people to yellow This is a very attainable color for most heads when it comes to pre lightning But the problem is yellow is a primary color and anything that goes over it It's going to mix and create a secondary pretty much The red's not going to show up as a vibrant red You're really going to start to orange out your reds if you try to go over yellow with it the blue Unfortunately, you're going to be looking at some green tones that if that's what they're looking for cool But if they don't want green You're certainly going to give it to them with that blue And if not the day that you give it to them the second that blue starts to fade It's going to turn green if that's yellow underneath yellow. I love yellow hair obviously So If you can get them to yellow and then go over it with yellow You're set. You're golden because then even as it fades that yellow is going to be behind it to make it look pretty And unfortunately the lavender it's really just going to work as a toner if you use that nice pretty silver Lavendary color, but you've only lifted them to yellow It's just going to really tone the hair more than anything And then finally dream scenario But it's the most realistic If you really want to achieve true powerful bright Vibrant colors you're going to have to get that hair as white as you can Again, this is a visual it makes sense to you guys But when you explain that to a guest they understand when that client sits down with that jet black hair And I explain. Yes, that is a gorgeous lavender in that picture But I have to literally get you with bleach as white as a piece of paper for that to even show up That analogy then they get it then they start to have more realistic expectations. So I hope that helps. Please feel free to steal that analogy. It it works for me. So I hope it works for you All right, do you have any questions or anything? Yeah, awesome. No, the only question that we have so far Which I know you're going to go over is what color line we used on the Oh, of course and then um, but we've literally have people on from all over the country Actually a lot of people from america this time. So it's pretty cool. California, michigan, nashville So, uh, so we have a ton of great people on right now So if anybody has questions make sure that you post them and we'll we'll ask brian Yeah, just throw it out there You got to interrupt me because I'll never stop talking if you don't that's true from america america from america I say america All right, okay, so you say america I I wanted to also I wanted to have a pre done for class obviously because i'm not going to Process this wash it dry it and just waste everybody's time. We got things to do So I wanted to have a pre done I sat there playing with all the different colors the color line that we used for these mannequins Are it's from the the vero k pack by joy co. They're the color intensity. I think is the name of the colors And they're really fantastic because I know I they have got so many different colors and Christina had tons of fun when she went to the store and pretty much found She got like one of everything so I was like a kid in a candy store yesterday um I find some of where I get to Play artists and I feel like a painter and have a little bit more fun is not just taking what's straight out of the tube But maybe if I had a little bit of this from this color and then maybe a little bit of this to create whatever So for the pre done I went with more obviously in this purples pinks family And what i'm going to do for you tonight is going to be warmer colors. It's going to be oranges yellows reds There's a little pink in there So you're going to get to see me do that. So when it's getting applied to the head Don't freak out because it does not look like that at all But I did do the same technique so I think All right, I can start with this To show you and then i'll go through her hair I started with a foil placement on the head. I took out a little bit Of a football an american football shaped section at the back of the head. Some people call it cat's eye Whatever you're more comfortable with so a little Point to point section in the back which left me a good size halo around the head I then took the colors that I wanted the highlights to be in this case They are a yellow and I believe hot pink And I alternated them coming around to the top On both sides then I let down that cat's eye section from the top And just popped a couple more of these highlights in there. They're not really highlights But a couple more of these foils right in there and what that's going to do is it's going to help make sure that I have a nice banded dimension throughout this because The whole point of how we're doing these This color application is so that everything blends really well So these highlights are going to make sure that it's there's A pop of color that stands out from everything else and doesn't blend After I put those foils in I just did a root retouch with the color that I wanted to be My root color my fake root color in this case. I used red. Okay now Everybody's seen this pretty blowout. You saw the picture on instagram because I'm really I'm about to tear it up I'm gonna flip her over and do all kinds of stuff All right, so one last time she's pretty Thanks All right, so when you come under and start to finger through the hair I use two different shades of pink for the highlight You can see here. I used a softer pink And then for the more bold band, which is also the one that's around her face I went with a deeper richer pink Then for what you're going to see I was calling them like color locks because they just reminded me of dreadlocks, but with color in the hair Uh, I used three different colors For this purple gal right here. I used One is called light purple one was called Uh orchid and then the third one I wanted something that was gonna be a little bit of a mirror of the root color But lighter so for the root I used indigo So for the third color, which you can see in here It's uh mostly clear with a little bit of indigo and a little bit of the cobalt blue Which is cool because it does add a less intense But still deeper color in there and drea actually referred to it as looking like denim. So that was pretty cool It reminds me of the ocean All right So that's that we're going to be doing the same technique placement but with different colors on this mannequin good Solid Sorry Go for it With this this is one of those things you've really got to make sure that you are completely upfront with them I mean we I can it's all about how often they're going to wash You know play around with the colors if you're trying a new line or if you get a new one in play around on something to see Like and I remember in old lines. I knew if somebody went with blue It was going to last a lot longer than if they went with the purple Or sometimes the pink would last way longer than the red It just it's going to depend on how the color is made and then you got to talk about You know the porosity of the hair the health of the hair how often they're going to shampoo how often they're going to blow dry a flat iron Because this is going to last the longest in healthy hair. So And you can't lie to them about it. You can't be like, oh, yeah You'll get like six weeks out of this because then they're mad in like a week when they see it really start to fade and then Other piece of advice that I make sure everybody goes home with no more white towels. No more white pillowcases No white scarves You just you got to be careful because all these temporary colors. They're going to bleed. So all right to start this off I just want to get it set up and then I'll just like keep talking while I work So I've got all this root retouch The easiest way to start this I'm going to have her head tilted forward. So I suggest I use because we do so much balayage as you've seen I use the cellophane that we have for balayage and I'll tuck it actually into the cape and drape it along the back because This is you know, it's it's a it's a color that whatever it touches. It's going to stain So try to keep everything nice and neat as you're working and it's just going to make your cleanup a lot easier on this So now that I've got her tilted forward. I'm going to move everything else forward Because it's just going to make it a little easier as I work flip up all my foils Flip up all that hair because we're going to start at the back hairline and work our way to the front hairline Oh, that's beautiful red I got some gloves. I'm just moving Stuff at this point Yeah, I'm going to go over the make sure you have before you start momentarily Has it looking matt looks good. Do you love it? I mean you haven't done anything yet. I have done enough He's he's he's actually just about to drop the mic and walk you're welcome. Yeah, all right So the colors that I did for today I wanted like I said, I wanted to do warmer colors I wanted to shoot for something that felt a little bit more like sunrise and a little less like auto So I am working with reds and oranges But I'm also working with pinks because I think adding that twist of pink is what keeps it from looking too much Like fall but can still be really pretty So I've mixed three colors that are going to be her color locks. The first one I took from the same line Fiery coral, which was a really pretty deep orange color and I just added some more red to it just to give it a little bit more depth My next color is definitely my lightest aside from the highlights I went with orange and then mixed in a good bit of yellow so that I'm going to have sort of that Uh, I think of it as like an in-between step between what that bright yellow highlight around the face is going to be And then that deep red at the base. So it's like a bunch of crush It looks delicious And then finally because I wanted again like with the other one something that mirrors The root color a little bit. I did take red, but then I swirled in some hot pink with it as well So that's going to have a slight variation to the root so that it's still going to have a cool dimension to it Hey, Brian, let's just uh, I do want to address um, somebody was talking about the retouch is going to be a lot. Um They said I'm I'm licensed, but that's a lot but very pretty and I think uh The big thing would be the retouch of this would be completely different. It usually is I mean because the You're not really going to be able to go in because this is not an exact block coloring that you're doing So it's going to be too hard to try to section out So if they come back and still want a full head of something it's probably going to involve You know cleaning that color out whatever your chosen method is. I know there's a zillion of them online whether it's using bleach with shampoo or 10 n or color remover whatever your preferred method is you're probably going to want to get all this out and clean out the palette before you go in with something else because They may want to do something else. They may want to do something similar But oh, maybe a little less of the red or something like that. So Cleaning out that palette before you go is going to be your best bet Yeah, and I think when you look at the the guests that's going to get this, um They're getting this they they probably aren't somebody that wants to keep their hair the same all the time Right, so it's not going to be that you're you're going to do the exact same colors and the exact same placement They probably want to change it up. So that and it could be for an event Right could be for a party. It could be for halloween Yeah, could we make you more often? Because I got to meet good ideas Yeah I mean you could all this ends up giving you as you can see with this one is just a super dimensional look I mean, there's nothing to say you can't do this with like a six seven eight n But for the sake of the fun of tonight, right? We're using something more exciting cool Right and there are plenty of people that to save that I will leave a root color Do one of the easiest ways to get max color without an insane amount of Bleaching to the whole head is I'll just do balayage on somebody Because that covers enough of the head as far as lightness goes To then add a fun color to it with still working in their root color to it And then you get a really pretty fade into whatever fantasy color you're wanting to play with now This is also great to like overlay like to do that And then if you were looking for like a really vibrant red To like color your reds with like the normal red for like the longevity And then hit them with one of these over top of that right to get a really super vibrant red true story, bro All right. All right What you have a question? Yeah, I have all right. So while we're on this path with um Removing of uh fantasy colors and whatnot one of the questions is um Um, uni walker has A client who does fantasy colors and likes to switch it up a lot She usually lightens her regrowth and then soap caps on her mids and ends to Remove the old color. Okay What are the thoughts on this on the best ways to remove old color or maybe a color line that fades more quickly than They used to not so much. I was gonna say the problem is a lot Every single fantasy line has been tweaking and promoting that they have longer lasting colors To me, that's more of How it lasts in your guess hair is going to be the porosity of their hair how well they hold on to certain colors It's just going to be a guessing game as to Yeah, I have works more better for each one of them. Yeah, I have a client who I put in the uh Orchid highlights into her hair and she came back six weeks later and they were still there Oh, yeah, I well dry and I were joking about it yesterday my good friend Jean We put three different colored foils in her hair two of them have faded out completely And it's been like a year and one of them still has spots of blue like still in there All right, so is that good that did we answer? Yeah, okay, you're done. You can come over to the town All right. Okay. Bye. All right. So what i'm doing now When you go into this obviously you need gloves And I always make sure I have a towel because I'm going to wipe off in between every single section to try to keep this as neat As possible is that enough? Yeah, because if you don't use gloves, you're going to be getting some really funny looks at the bar later on Oh, yeah And then like when you pick your nose you get it all over your face and it's just awful Increasing the funny looks All right, so what i'm doing I'm there is no exact sectioning to this If you guys have seen videos with me before, you know, that's just how I roll So I'm using my foils to help me section my color So I lifted up that bottom row of foils. I was left with this whole patch underneath So I just split it into three because I've got three colors. So Let the dimension begin shall we? So now I take my color This is the orange with the yellow. I go up close to where I stopped with the root retouch Get plenty in there work up close to the root retouch with the brush I don't want to get too much on the brush because that brush is going to continue on through the rest of the head And then I'm just using my fingers to kind of mash that together Because the colors will mix they will give you an in-between color and that will actually have a nice little fade. It will work Keep that in mind in case you decide to use Colors that are just not really going to go together that well Like if you've got a green root and you want to smash it together with an orange just Take heat of what that's going to look like. It might not be what you're looking for That's why I like to use this technique on colors that sort of Live close to each other on the color wheel because then I don't really have to worry about How that's going to smash out and then we got our third color smash, smash, smash Bright smash. Yep This is that really pretty the red with the hot pink mixed in it's going to look awesome Then when it's done, I just Give it a little twist that way. It just keeps it sectioned and pretty make sure you wipe Say sorry towel bye But it comes off the gloves quite nicely So I don't have to worry about I can touch I'm fine And you got more tattoos. Yeah, I colored in my tats. All right. So now as far as What to put where? Just take a visual count of everything and see okay. Well, I'm going to be putting this right over this orange So maybe I won't do orange because there's a reason that I took this away. I want as much dimension as possible Uh, again another thing that that brings me to a good point When you are doing this also realize that the smaller of a section you take The more this is going to try to blend together if you take bigger fatter sections It's going to be something closer to a block color technique So the colors are going to stand out more against each other because they're going to be in bigger Doses It's pretty Blend it into the root Give it a twist and move on with life Do you love it? So then I'm just going to start to bring this down Bring these colors. Well, bring these sections together I'm going to try to pull this one around so you can see I am ripped All that shoveling I did around my car Whereas I'm so thankful for my wonderful bosses who shoveled out the entire driveway so that I can get my car out now That's exciting Thanks guys He has them in the wall on a week and then we're just going to keep going That's why I have her slightly tilted forward as I get up around the top You'll see I'm going to bring her head back just in case I forget to say it But I ever tilted forward a little bit so that I can get under And grab this hair I'm just going to take this whole section right here Let's see. Let's do the pretty Red and pink. How are we doing? We got any questions, Dray? You are solely manning the ship right now. All right. So do you want me to I'll focus on questions that are being asked live right now. Okay. I'm just saying I said, okay Um, oh, this is a good one Um I was hoping you were going to go with a bad one. She's screaming So if this isn't your question, sorry, I think they're all great questions. No, they're all great. That's why I do that every week Um Bethany Parisi asks on How do you go about pricing fantasy collars? Um, that's a good question. Obviously you're going to want to take into account Whatever you're doing for prep. I mean if you're going to get somebody If you're going to have to do like a full platinum card on somebody Whatever the lightning process is you charge them accordingly for that And then you're just really going to discuss with the salon what to charge for this kind of stuff. Generally It's going to be time consumption product consumption It's going to vary from place to place in different parts of the country and world and everything But I think the biggest chunk of it is to make sure you don't slight yourself on the lightning process Because generally once you get and then Well, and then there's the whole step of if you choose to charge for the blow dry Because there has to be a blow dry between the lightning And the fantasy color or else it's just not going to stick so That's definitely going to be something that the salon's going to have to chat about That's all right It's the wrong side of the head. I'm sorry What's that And I mean obviously there's going to be a major difference between what you'd price for maybe a couple foils of a fantasy color versus What brian's doing today, which is essentially an entire head of Multiple fantasy colors. Oh, it's not essentially it's literally All right, literally an entire head. Oh, yeah, I that's Yes, and like brian said anything that you're doing you're basing it on time. So We're a haircut costs less than a full foil because of the time And product usage. So if you look at any kind of fantasy colors, a lot of those are more expensive than regular color How much is a tube of of that color? Let's just say it's like, you know We all know Yeah, so if you you know, you're spending that you might use a whole entire tube like brian Just realized the other day actually I have to give fad credit for this fad Realize the other day that you're obviously not mixing it with developer, but you're using the same amount of products So when you would use two ounces of color plus two ounces of developer, you'd have four ounces of product the developer is really cheap now you're using four ounces of Pure pigment and almost so maybe a tube maybe two tubes So you're actually spending a lot more money on the product But so what math's just realizing just now We really hope you like this class because as you can tell between these two mannequins. It was expensive Yeah, it's like a $50 color job But yeah, so just base it on your time But then take product cost into that as well But most importantly this will take a good amount of time and you want to charge for that Agreed that's going to actually use the mannequins next week for a pixie Uh brian, can you just go over one more time? Is one of the highlights the base as well or what did you put no for the I'm sorry I don't even think I said it these highlights in these foils are alternating between I believe one of them is the hot pink And one of them is just yellow like straight yellow Okay, because as you can tell by anything that I've ever done on these videos and this mannequin behind me I really like those pieces around the face nice and light no matter what you're doing So I've mixed that Uh, Eric would like to know how long does it take you for the whole process lightning and all? It's just a quick color trip journey Brian, it's just a quick color tip, right? Yeah, it's just it's real quick. This is like five minutes You can do this in a shampoo bowl I'm saying Get it done Brian. No, it's just I mean that's again that's something that's going to depend on how much You're doing. I mean the root retouch and foils on this took me 25 minutes maybe to put in a half hour and then whatever time it's taken me to do these This color keeping in mind that I'm also stopping and talking and holding my angles and Flexing really hard for the camera So Yeah Right. I mean if you wanted to if she came in at a level six and Showed you this video on youtube I mean you need to find a whole day that you're going to spend with her because you're going to have to get her light enough To pull off these colors and have them show up But you know have some integrity left in her hair Which is going to be a lengthy process and the cool thing about this too just so everybody knows as well Like this is obviously an extreme version not too many people are going to come in requesting multiple uh fantasy colors on their really long hair, but This is something that we've been doing for years. I don't know where to look. Um, this is something we've been doing for years because um But we did it we called it color dreads and we were doing it with hair color to create multi-dimensional colors So this exact same technique you could do this as a level five base with You know a level seven coming through it and a level eight and just mix and matching a few bowls of color To create dimension all over somebody's head So I don't want people to think just because they're watching you do fantasy color right now But this isn't very versatile for other techniques as well. Oh, yeah It's all about the versatility All about that's how I like it I want to give a shout out to michael from minneapolis because I was in minneapolis and it is so cold there Oh, you poor thing that I don't blame him for being inside Watching watching this video. Well then this nice. How many people are outside watching this video a nice beach sunset is for you Yeah, there you go. Matt. How many people are outside watching this video? Uh, there could be a lot of people outside You're about to be one of them western The western part of america brian. How did you uh place the foils? The foils all right I always have a really hard time. Can you help me come up with a better term than cat's eye The shape of okay when I say cat's eye because I use it a lot Yeah, but not everyone's from america. It's the shape of a football if you're from america It's the shape of like a cartoon eyeball if you're not in america It's pointed on the end round gets wide and then comes back to a point It's a cat's eye. It's the shape of a cat's eye So what is it the shape of a lot of confusion on this? Oh my god go back in the old videos I say cat's eye like no one knows what I'm talking about. I felt crazy for a minute No, because it definitely comes to a point. I mean it's pointed on both ends. That's how I'm taking it. Oh, yeah Yeah, so if you took a marquee diamond and you round it off I was gonna say what the hell are diamond shapes up in a marquee. Well, I was saying that I'm like what the heck is a marquee? Like if people don't know stuff differently ladies if nobody knows what a cat's eye is Who's just going over marquee? Apparently a lot of people now. All right So simmer down. That's a cat's eye. I took a cat's eye section Am I clean? Yes If you got color on your arm, I don't think we would notice I would All right. So at the back of the head, I took a cat's eye section at the high point So the point was here Can you see Point was here got wide Came back down what that ends up giving you is a halo all the way around Her hairline I started in the back Not right in the dead center just because I didn't want to but you could I suppose if you wanted to I started with a foil on either side and kept it pretty mirrored Just going with that halo section up until I got To the front hairline you can kind of see when I lift the hair up Can you sort of here? When I lift that hair up you see it's following the hairline the one pink the other pink that pink Sort of I mean they they stayed at more of like a visor The whole way Yeah with a slight diagonal just to go with the section but more horizontal That good that adequate. Yes. Yeah. I mean we can see them right there. So I think if we just oh, yeah And then there's that And then I took the cat's eye section down and popped a couple foils inside of it In the cat's eye marquis football Section so unreferenced it as uh stewie griffin's head. Yeah stewie griffin stewie griffin Perfect who said that I love them Calypso or yeah, calypso Calypso count. No, that's not even calypso is from um Uh calypso metal right calypso Well Tell them how to say your name so that I can tell you how much I love you Because I was straight for uh here on let's do is a better reference Totes all right I like to take this section that Is the the top of the head the heart And just make that a nice big one because then it just gives a really nice overlay to everything Not a heart shape like the heart's the meat We're all chasing it. I forget that you guys can't really hear christina, but I can Amy just to answer your question. She asks where we get the mannequin heads. Um, we have them on freesaloneducation.com Yep, plug Plug, let's see Let me just throw that in there. You can get them at freesaloneducation.com You can also get the uh the stickers on uh Freesaloneducation.com too so you can have a cool neck tattoo. Yeah, I think I'm gonna stop teaching glasses This is so much easier over here. It's watching you Okay, I'll just do balayage every week I am gonna split this just to make sure Because one thing that I can say when you first start working with fantasy colors You really want to make sure that you pay really close attention to saturation Because these are not colors that are going to They don't have developer. They're not gonna swell. They're not gonna move. It's not gonna Run through anything that this color is not touching. It will not color You will end up with lots of spots of oh whoops because You didn't push it all the way through like really wring it out and make sure that you've got it through the whole section That way you're not gonna end up doing all this work And then oh crap like I need to go back in because there's spots that I missed or whatever Christina just went through and moved all of the cameras to change to change the Sorry, mine's still on me. We can just No, I know We now have thumb prints. All right. So while I'm finishing this up because I'm still I'm just alternating I'm getting ready to tilt the head back. If anything crazy happens. I'll throw it out there Do you guys want to hit the instagram questions? Yeah, because there was a lot this week. You guys were awesome All right So I'm just gonna start from the top and work my way down get a girl. All right. Yeah, she's not gonna pick the best one Sad Yeah, everyone's realizing. Okay. Here we go tinker bell would like to know How would you how would or could you deal with a veteran stylist that thinks He saw she knows it all and refuses to try to learn anything new different To accommodate the flow of guest requests requesting new things I love when that happens Okay, personally um Look go ahead. Sorry. Wait. So I just want to understand the question. So so There's how would you do there's a stylist who has been in the salon for a long time long time Yeah, many many years and refuses to Try or learn new techniques to accommodate trends and whatnot. Okay All right, and then what about the clients To accommodate the clients. Oh, okay. So like so a new client wants balayage And they call and the and the stylist is like what I don't do balayage So i'm not doing it. Is that like the case? Yes. Yes. Yeah, I think brian's right. That's fantastic I mean that's fantastic. We've got a lot of times that way and young that happened a lot in my old salon because I was there Right around the time that ombre was starting to hit big And you know the the old veteran stylist Well, I'm not giving somebody roots like that's ridiculous and I'm like that is totally cool Like you go right on ahead and not do that I'm gonna bust my hump to learn how to do it and I'll take all of them I was gonna say odor asking on how to yeah, I was gonna say if this is an owner asking I feel like yeah, and we'll probably know because I think tinkerbell is on there life um If it's an owner that's a personal choice as far as the owner as to whether or not they want to continue to have that stylist In the salon. Yeah, I mean that's a tough. That's tough because obviously I'm I'm trying to remember that that a lot of salons like there's just so many different scenarios within salons Because I would say I would not have them working like one of these days when we're Like old like I just I think about that a lot like one of these days We're all gonna be like old, you know at the same time together And we're gonna be like doing have done hair for We're gonna all be retired on the island 40 years right and we're yeah, and we're gonna go retire But but when you think about that like you have to keep up on the trends I mean that's what keeps your business growing and if we're gonna retire and we're going to you know Have a successful business you have to do the latest thing especially if you're in a business Where there's only a couple stylists like Honestly right now even like my niece Is will be or she is 20 she'll be 36, right? I think you are okay. Yeah way to show your age there But no like she even knows and we try to stay current and we're active On social media, you know active adults, but what what I mean is right now There are things that we don't know, you know that are popular So it's it's happening no matter what age you are right But you have to be open to it to anything I think to be in us to work in a salon team environment. Yeah, right, you know, all right. Well, what if If this stylist who has been In the industry for years and she doesn't feel like she needs to grow as a stylist because She has her existing clientele. They keep coming back to her. She gives them what they want It sounds like Tray is about to put her foot down or something like honestly I'm not gonna do this bother. I just let them just be and Exist in that environment. I mean if this is a co-worker thing Well, this is I get so this is a different kind of question because now you're not having guests coming and requesting She's not turning down clients. So that's what you're saying. So that would be a different scenario If she is so booked like she's booked out like always always booked And her clients want what they want and she gives them that then that's I don't see a problem with that But if she is the lady During the class that's Oh, oh, yeah, well, we did do that this way. Oh no, I did it this way Then that might be a problem. Like, you know, it depends on their attitude It's a I think it's tough too because when you look at our industry like I went into so many salons to teach and right away you can tell the people that have been sat through Hundreds of pointless classes like that People were sent to their salon that they just don't know enough and and they're trying to educate them So there becomes like that kind of I get that the ego happens to like there's there's a lot of factors in it But I do think that the um That a lot of times these they they should be Reaching for more like uh go to Sassoon somewhere like maybe push them to go Learn techniques from people that are, you know, different. I don't I don't know the answer I don't know because you have class that's gonna make them do something that they're not That they don't already quote unquote. No, yeah, but if you go to a Sassoon class and Even just breaking it back down to like the basics in those classes I've known hairdressers that have been doing over 20 years and they'll still go to those classes because it's it's an ass kick to Sure, but there are young people coming up in whatever academy. There's so many different schools now There's so many different need to go there. So we're whoever's coming into yeah But what I'm saying is whoever's coming in to teach you you Probably could learn especially if it's a young person at least one thing from them. Yeah, you know Even if it's a what not to do that's still something to learn exactly So I don't think any class is pointless. I mean, I'm sure there are they are out there But hopefully if they're actually an educator that are getting gigs Like there is something going on with what they're preaching, you know, I think my big problem is when you look at how the industry was When I jumped out of like the corporate Educating kind of salon thing it turned it turned so much into let's just get a bunch of art Of not like hairstylist Let's teach them our product knowledge and then that's their goal is to go out and just sell So they end up going into the salon, but they don't really know Technique and structure and all these things. So we were saturating the industry. I think with Not super talented people and now you look at the industry and You I mean we have hair like a boss on here like there's a ton of people. They're independent Hair dressers now I mean look at well for the past seven years everything's gone independent. That's why you see young entrepreneurs Exactly because everybody was sick of that whole thing right and now You've got great education that you can get you just have to pay for it and and get people to come in But now I think is a whole different story Right because now you can go on youtube and get anything for free right Yeah, like us like this Speaking of free. How's it going over there brad? I'm free as a bird Free as a bird. We already went over the color cost of that this uh series this uh episode is not free You know what this color is reminding me of now that i'm seeing it all like juicy and tenderly now It reminds me of starbursts. I was gonna say gush is nice. That sounds delicious, right? Okay, the yellow comes out to play Shut your mouth. All right. Let's do another uh question. Oh, yeah, this is my last one So if you want to watch okay, let's watch brine's last one. I mean wait, what color do I want to do? What have I done around it? Hold on Orange here a nice big fat red. That's the cool pink color Right under here is also the cool pink color So maybe I don't care. I'll let you guys pick red color I'm gonna say cool pink color. All right. There you go You know what I'll do cool pink color and fade it into orange. How about that? So tinkerbell actually commented and said new habits and techniques can bring you new money Which is totally true. So hopefully hopefully our roundabout answer Was anywhere close to what she was thinking. I don't know We get very thorough answers All right. Yeah, dray. What's the next one Amy and moxie salon What is the best way to go about looking for looking for and hiring an assistant? I am a booth rent Renter and at the point where I need an assistant to keep growing and making sure my clients are well taken care of What wording would you recommend if I were to post on facebook to get the word out? Oh, that's a good question. Um, I think I would what oh, I would almost try to seek out now that you can On your own somebody Yeah Because you could tell a lot by anyone's information out there or pictures how hungry and how creative They are so wait. I want them to show up with a resume Don't get me started. No, but that that's a fantastic Idea is looking you can find everyone like we follow people constantly I could name off almost when I see pictures coming through I know whose work that is and there's so many hungry people out there like you're saying you could find somebody right through instagram Do a hashtag of hair cutting and the town and the great thing about that Which really excites me is the fact that if you find somebody like that then they're already smart enough to post like that Right, so that means that that's the probably the person you want by your side You want somebody like when I think about the the person that I would like to have Working with me is somebody that Somebody that is like one step ahead already, you know, like I can teach you how to do hair Right, but but you can teach me something as well. You could teach me social media. So I would start Searching posts find somebody local in your area. That's a great thing we should create a video on that and I think I just did and do it that way. Well, yeah, but like a short compact Check out the local schools in your area Go to their facebook's and instagram and see whose work they're posting In or reposting In from the way to find out your call to your player. Yeah Yeah, it's the same like thought process going. Yeah Yeah, but that's an easy way to get in there and find them is to go to the school and see who they're posting Yeah, okay. Yeah Next question Maybe I'm done. Do you want to break that down real quick? Like just show it Yes Work it work it. Hold on. Let me flip this so I can see it All right, and it'll focus Brian if you get close so So here's her pretty face Okay I don't know what to do. All right. There you go right here. All right. So here I've got my Stewie Griffin section right here With two foils in there just to keep it nice and broken up But they Yeah, and then I've got my halo foils now Maybe you can see it a little better because it's the hairs down Where it just goes along that hairline where I've got alternating between the yellow and the hot pink Uh, and then I just came in here and went in between my foils and took nice big sections Some smaller some bigger just to create more dimension throughout Uh applied my color smashing it into that root to make sure that it's going to have that nice blend Pulled it through worked it through all the sections twisted it out of my way Then I'm just letting it hang. Obviously she has no back. She has no shoulders. So that's fine Don't forget to keep it neat. I suggest cellophane so that it won't stick I could put a towel, but if it's oversaturated it may stick to it and then just make more of a mess um She's probably going to process for like 20 minutes and then I will wash her out I'll probably give her a sweet blowout. Maybe tomorrow morning. Maybe tonight. Who knows? So obviously you're not going to see how this turns out Unless you subscribe to all of us on instagram because then we'll all post it tomorrow Well, you wash her out any special way like do that first then the foils because the foils are the yellow It's actually a really good question. So when I washed this one out I went through and used freezing cold water. Obviously she's a mannequin So she didn't care, but you're going to have to keep your guests semi comfortable Uh as cold as they can handle I went through and washed all of the color tendrils out I used a nice high pressure to the water to try to hurry up and just get it out of the hair as fast as I could So that it wouldn't have a whole lot of time to mix into the other ones And then after that was starting to run as clear as can be expected Then I took out the foils and rinsed each of them together With this one. I think what I'm actually going to do Is I think I'm going to take her highlights out first and then just rinse it all together Because the yellow is very yellow And it wasn't until after I did the foils and then started to put that really really red root When I see red and yellow that close together. I just think McDonald's so I'm going to Rinse it all at once so that maybe that red bleeds into the yellow just a little bit Just to give it a little bit more depth. So it's not quite as Yellow crayon vibrant yellow, but because I don't know if you can see I mean that's like No joke yellow. I just got hungry. Super yellow All right, so yeah, it's really if you want to make sure like If you want to keep that highlight color off of everything else then yes go through rinse the head first And then do the highlights afterwards As little shampoo as possible obviously try to go with something color safe Try to use stuff that has a low pH most of your Product knowledge manuals or books or somewhere ask an educator or somebody They'll let you know of your lines what tends to have lower pH in your shampoo and conditioner Because that'll just help to make sure that the cuticle stays down Which will keep the color in there because That's going to help make it last longer Sweet brian All right, if you guys have any questions Um, make sure that you post them uh in the live chat for brian As we kind of finish up here draid. Do you want to do let's do like two more questions? What time is it? um 8 57 let's do one more question From instagram and then i'll spend And then what I want you guys to do while we're picking up a question while drae is picking the best question that happened on instagram today Post on Right now live. So we have 94 people on um At this moment. So thank you all 94 of you for watching make sure that you hit that share button um But post so let's do it this way post in the comments right now Where you're watching from I'd like to see that and then um We're going to choose somebody From the uh from the list to spin the wheel for All right, so make sure you start posting where you're watching right now from All right, so our next question is do you feel social media has exposed more artists today? Or do you feel instagram is key to know if you're good enough determining your followers? To do what to your followers determining your followers based off of based off of followers Yeah, can you judge how good you are based off of family real funny story? So I um, I mean, I guess it's funny I don't really know if it's funny, but um Christina just said she's awesome and no one follows her so Um the example I was thinking of too. So here's the thing I it's really funny because I uh, I've been working with and Christina's been helping as well We've been working with companies on growing their social, right? Good job. And uh, so we've been working with all these companies to help them grow and uh I was actually sitting in a meeting and I said, uh, you know Wow, you've done a great job. You have 2,500 followers. That's pretty good for not really trying and then right away it was Yeah, we paid we paid for those so I personally I it has nothing to do We'll start with it has nothing to do with the amount of followers that you have If you look at a lot of people that have a lot of followers There's a reason that they ended up with those followers whether they paid for them or not But you're gonna notice it's all about the reaction of people So a lot of times when I'm talking to you guys Quality not quantity. Remember the most popular kid in high school. He was a douche But he had a lot of friends. He did have a lot of friends, but everybody talked about him behind his back. So yeah, so The the moral of it is it's all about the the quality of the people that you have How do they interact with you if they really like you like a number can add up, right? A number and a lot of people get a following in one way and then they completely shift their their thought process And they do something else you you have to cater to the people that are following you is he behind me There's always exceptions because there are a lot of people on instagram have a lot of followers that are really good really good Yeah, and that's really good Like really good and they deserve it Right, so but you'll see that you you see they make one post and then hundreds of thousands of people like it Right away like so there is you're gonna see different You know different things, but you can pay for a following. So no one cares about that number except for maybe getting some free products in the mail Uh, so if you're looking to get free products in the mail buy some people on facebook or just buy the products or just buy the products It's an ego. Yeah, it's an ego So, uh, and then the other question was What about the instagram though? There was another part about I want to answer that last one But we don't necessarily need to do it. Do they bring out artists? Do you think that social media has brought out new artists? Yes? Yeah, and I think we kind yeah, we did touch on that But yeah, I mean you look at any kind of social media. There is somebody that is mastering that platform Uh within the hair industry somehow I've seen some instagram, you know followed somebody with like 200 Follow like followers, but they're awesome. Yeah, you know Just yeah, I'm gonna tell you right now every company Every company that I sit in with talking about their social media They're looking for people with a social media following to help them like it It has become the most powerful thing that you can have Is a good group that actually reacts to things So if you think about it's not about the number But if you have a thousand followers and you make a post and 900 of them react to that post Then you have a great following that loves you If you have a thousand followers and one person likes it You can pretty much tell that somebody paid for it or a hundred thousand followers And 30 people like your post or like some big companies have a million followers and a hundred people like their post Like you could tell who paid for it and who actually has a core audience and that's really what it's all about But instagram has definitely every platform of social media I mean you look at the job opportunities the things that um That we've done the things that All of these people have done look at gaitang is As his own color at this point. He has a million followers on instagram He wouldn't have had any of those opportunities like that without building his own name on social media So it's a pretty cool thing. It is pretty cool. And if you pay attention to it You could see somebody just as talented and Because he's very talented as gaitang. Yeah, that does not have a bunch of fault like a following. Yeah You know, so I think it totally brings out all artists and the cool the cool thing is you like Gaitang's not for everyone either even though, you know, he has over a million followers But some people like different things So I think the cool thing about social media is that it has allowed you to pick and choose Individually who you like your type. Yeah your type of person so you can follow and get inspiration It's it's the best thing that could have happened and the people that talk about social media and the internet now how young the internet is It's like 15 years old, right? So they they talk about how we haven't even seen the beginning of What the internet really is going to be so people that's anything It is yeah, but said that since very young, you know, if your hairdresser out there and you're you're young Maybe you're in school. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter when you start I would start right away trying to you know Put your name out there and because the more you put yourself out there The more people will follow and then you're gonna be able to do what you want with your career later on But if you if you wait, it's not gonna happen like Drea needs to make her professional instagram page I I'm but like you said the content has to be it has to be quality or no one's gonna engage With you on they'll follow you but there will be no response Right, but there's no point like but people should not be discouraged thinking that maybe their stuff isn't good enough Oh, no. No, not at all, right So just post it and you'll get reactions from people you'll find out what people like and what they don't and then you just grow from there but definitely Um, if this is something you're interested in I would start Posting and just sharing and you get better that way I mean you get better because you want your work to look better And you want so you make a post and you're like, I wish that would have been better And then next time you make it better. So and you get like deep in the whole Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, look at there. Oh, look at them. Oh, look at that. Yeah, you know, yeah Right. Yeah, so let's all right cool. So let's see. What do we hire? Where's where's everyone from? That's what I really want to know All right I think they started Oh my gosh, Pennsylvania, London Portland, Oregon, South Texas, Tennessee, New York Potsville PA That's close, right? We could practically bring that Camden, New Jersey Locals I'm just I just enjoy this just seeing all this. All right, so I'm gonna pick by just scrolling through Huh I'm gonna scroll through and I'm gonna pick somebody. I don't care where they are and then hopefully So here's the deal. Some of these companies don't ship all over the world But I don't want to exclude people that live all over the world So if for some reason they won't ship to you, we'll ship you something cool, right? Cool Okay So trimmings from dad's beard There's no trimmings from my beard. Here's that just stop it Portland, Oregon Alex Markovic Who is that? Alex Markovic since I picked I guess man, right? All right. So on on the wheel Let's give a little let's give some love to the people that are on the wheel because they really help make freesalon education happen So we have Hold on. I got this part. Okay We we we got sunlights. We got jlace. We got olaplex. We got parker. We got ergo Why do you like olaplex? I thought we're just listening it off. Oh, I love olaplex How would we have these fun colors without olaplex? You you heard brian talk about how light you have to get these So that wasn't at the ergo meeting this morning, but I was about ergo I love ergo ergos brushes are a little bit larger so you can take larger sections, but still have an effective Means of styling the hair. So that way you're styling the hair faster, which means is less effort on your body Okay, what about ergo? Jlace has some really cool Hairstyle gear for you to wear in the salon or anywhere else. Yeah, and justin's and the modeling pictures Yeah, if you want to see him go to their webpage Donald scott Donald scott Donald scott has a awesome tool called the carving comb that you may have heard of He's got a lot of other ones called like the twist. We got the dsx razor For hairlines the chopstick heck yeah, and what is awesome about uh, donald scott's tools Is that they're designed to not only be able to cut hair with a razor But to then also be able to go through with shears as well So I think that's pretty awesome. So you have a comb in your hand and so you have a razor scissors and a comb all at the same time Yep The other great thing about donald scott is that they want everyone to know because I did have a meeting with them this week Is that a lot of people think so it used to be the palmichael carving comb because palmichael had partnered up with donald scott that partnership um They separated so donald scott is donald scott donald scott's donald scott, but this is the yeah This is the original Yeah, yeah, so palmichael was producing the carving comb now now donald scott Donald scott it's the original it is he's actually stepped it up. So now it's made with yeah the the metal Yeah, yeah the the products are a lot more durable like if you drop it you're probably going to put a chip into your floor So don't drop them Okay, minerva minerva minerva is our uh salon supply company. How do you guys like the minerva furniture here? Oh, I love it. I think it's pretty it's comfy. It's nice Well, you can get it for minerva Well for minerva we have our towels. We have the towel oven. We have our kind of stool. We have our stations and our chairs. Yeah And the uh tool stations. Yep. All right The only thing we don't have is the salon itself for minerva minerva. Can you work on that? Yes All right, uh fsc is going to give away super silk super silk or brine hair. Oh, no We're giving away vibra straight vibra straight or brine here. Yeah, or me or brine Sunlights is great for the balayage. It's going to give you a lot of different tones uh in the highlights because It's going to hit the hair differently So the strokes that you have that are a little bit heavier are going to be a little bit lighter than the Spots that don't have as much light. Yeah All right, mainstream is giving away a hundred percent of their uh Of your service dollars for the month. So mainstream is basically for the styles on the go Okay Amika For the client on the go and the stylist on the go. Exactly. We've had this job when we were looking for this to go quickly. I know I like this. No, it's good. Amika is great. It's got a lot of great uh pro tools So that you can not only have uh in the salon, but they I believe they also had the the take-home stuff for uh, yeah Take-home products. Yeah Yeah, that's great Uh, then we're back to old plex. We already talked about them. This is tani And then we've got the shears that will take off the hair on your client's head and your fingers if you're not careful So, uh All right, why aren't you an avatar? And that's it. Good job fed All right, all right. All right. All right. All right. Alex is spinning the wheel from portland, or again I'm so psyched for him Thank you for being on live. Here we go. It's like never mind. Let me uh, I'm gonna spin the camera around so we can see It's tight Point like a tiger. Oh, it's tight enough All right, here we go ready Draya are you seething right now? I told you it wasn't tight enough Nobody listens to me around here at all and this is proof I think I saw it earlier and the wheel is rebelling against brian. Just stick it back in Draya has to spin it We have to learn No Sunlights I'm gonna put that was a good price. Let's do one more thing one more question Okay, sure He could have had sunlight that was a good price Push it up a little bit. I didn't work to that. I don't know Obviously, I don't like it tight. What inspired you to start fse. Oh, no All right, never mind. We'll move on was 36 I Never mind. We're good Should I spin again? Yeah, just go ahead. Wish you wish me luck again ready? This time the wheel is just gonna fall off All right, that's good Nice spin. I'm so strong. Ted. That's why I should have put it a little lower Fortune uh-oh Oh, here it goes. Here it goes What's it gonna be? I'm just gonna say I really want to give away All right, alex congratulations olaplex. So all you have to do is email contest at free salon education dot com Send us your address and we will send it to olaplex and they're gonna send you a stylist kit so you can Have olaplex in your salon, which would be really cool. Um Anything else that was fun. What are you doing next week boss? That was really fun. Um Next week another haircut. So Every other week is a haircut and then we have drea coming up with Uh, some styling and we have fad with a pixie. So we'll figure out what's coming Next but that wants to do a haircut as well, which is going to be really fun So thank you guys so much for watching. Uh, I hope you enjoyed brian's class and uh fse live Yeah, go to our instagram free salon education Also, uh, you can follow everybody else, which we'll get their instagram But do that for tomorrow because we'll post the the final result of the mannequin as well Follow brian hair hairstyle h-a-i-r-e Style fad that bonus dry day 2289 Christina underscore steamy and follow us everything free salon education. Thank you guys so much for watching And we'll see you next week