 Hey guys Brian here from freesaline education here with a finally a video on how I'm going to attack a sort of reverse balayage situation got my lovely client sage here and We've been taking her super blonde with balayage for quite some time now And now we want to go into something a little bit more natural a little bit closer to what her Natural color looks like so that it's even more low maintenance because she wants to go a little darker Grow the hair a little bit longer. Just kind of leave it alone for a little while So I've talked her into rather than just going one full dark color because that's just not fun for anybody I'm going to go in and work with the root color that she's got and Create something similar to that and then fade that out into the hair some more so that it looks like Even more of the beachy balayage that just has a few highlights rather than an all-over Blonde in effect and then we're going to go in and use something a little bit Just put some more color back into these ends because they've just gotten really really light So we're going to just bring it all down just a little bit so that she feels a little deeper a little darker a little more Tone to this really really bleached hair. So here we go All right, so here we go We're getting ready to get started the color that I've mixed up for the root and mid-shaft color I use Paul Mitchell the shines XG because I wanted something a little bit more semi-permanent So that as this grows out, I can readdress it However, I need to be it Relightening areas without it turning a funky color or even just letting things fade out on their own The color I've mixed I'm doing three parts of the 7pn to one part 8n The reason for that is she doesn't have an extremely warm base And I really want to still have a little bit of fun with the tone that we put in there So that pearl neutral is going to have sort of a cooler Semi-shear finish to it. So I think it'll be really really pretty it'll really blend the mid-shaft that I create in with her natural and So to start off what I'm just going to do for the first step is I'm just going to go in and apply this just as a Regular root retouch and then from there will be where I start to really create a The reverse Baleage effect. So here we go All right, so I'm going through and just doing like I said just a very Typical root retouch making sure to work off of her actual part because just like doing a Baleage The other way with lightener. I want to make sure that I'm doing it based on how her hair just naturally lives how she's gonna wear it herself so Going on the part going through doing the world's fastest root retouch ever I'm not concerned with making sure that I feather it out too too far yet Because as I go in in this next part after this I'm really going to zero in on areas and create the design of the shadow that I want it to be so I'm giving myself just enough feather out of that root color so that I can work quickly and easily through the next part Which is right now So going through I'm really just trying to create Basically, I'm creating the shadow if you go back and watch some of my other Baleage videos probably most easily the the beach blonde Baleage that I came out with where I put lightener Into the hair making sure to leave plenty of her natural as shadow I'm literally just doing the opposite right now I'm making sure that I'm leaving those outer edges of the hairline light so that when the hair gets pulled back There's the shadow of the the center back of her head with the lightness sort of Running along the edge of all of those layers that are in her hair I used a paddle for this because I like the consistency of the shines xg because I knew that Using that paddle is sort of a backboard. It's just going to help me press that color through To make sure that I had a really good saturation because if you don't saturate through You know, you might end up with like some spotty that sort of You know accidental tortoise tortoise shell kind of look So that backboard really just helps make sure that I get the saturation that I need Around the face making sure that I'm just picturing that if I was doing this with lightener Where would I be putting highlights in? And then just doing the opposite. I'm creating highlights with what she already has And uh, yeah just creating that cool beachy shadow not really soaking it all the way through the ends because I do want her to have that lightness you know Sort of starting off just a little bit towards the root and then really building up lighter and lighter towards the ends So as we finish up you see I paint the backside of most sections Sometimes even going into the middle of a section to create that v with the lightness All right, so now we're all done As you can see I went through And I was just creating the look of balayage but doing the opposite of what I normally do I've got the light now. I'm adding the dark So where I would normally ride along the outside of a section I just left that hair out and painted the inside with my darker color Around the face. I made sure that I'd left those little pieces around The part line that I really really like to always make sure that I add I left them totally untouched except for the root because it's supposed to be a nice rooty look So now what we're going to do is I'm going to process this for the full like 25 30 minutes Then I'm going to wash her. I'll probably go ahead and well, we'll see Probably gonna dryer before I put on the out the color for the end because I just want to let everything process To the full amount that it's supposed to and I feel like if I put the ends on now Then I'm either going to not be able to leave them on long enough Or I'm going to have to leave the roots on longer than you're supposed to and I just want to do it All right, so that it looks really nice for you guys Okay All right, so here we go. We got step one done I process the roots in the mid shafts brought her back to the sink Washed her out Did a quick blow dry as you can see even now it already looks really pretty We've got what would be normal balayage highlights in there with her nice root But I still want to go in and do a color to soften these ends Well, this is pretty I still I want to make it just a little bit more blended I want to bring the end color a little bit closer to the root color that we just created But uh, even for that not bad, uh She's looking pretty good. You can see we've got that nice shadow in there. We really just rich richened up her root a little bit because uh You know who doesn't look better with a little hair color in All right, so here we go All right, so here we go get ready to do the ends I mixed together I stayed with the shines xg for the same reasons that I wanted it on the root Uh, but this time I'm using most no equal parts 9 p.m And 9 n with a little splash of clear just to give it a little bit more translucency Uh and 10 volume So Here we go. We're gonna apply it process it cut her blow her out and then you finally get to see what she looks like So for her end color, I wanted to make sure that I was sort of living in the same color world as the root color that I created because When you're using lightener to create a balayage, you're working off of what their base actually is So since I'm doing this in reverse, I wanted to create the same thing I had that pn as the main base for her root color so I wanted to make sure that I had that as uh One of the one of the more dominant colors in her ends as well because I wanted it all to blend I wanted it to look very natural so that If you know, she is in a situation where she's looking to have her hair done less I've given her something nice and natural looking to sort of grow out very gracefully And uh, yeah, this was the perfect color for that All right, so you'll notice I didn't go down to the root with this because there's absolutely no reason to I went close because I wanted to make sure that I didn't miss any of the highlights that I did leave a little bit closer at the root But I ran everything through now. I'm just gonna sit in process for a half hour Then we'll do a quick little trim and uh, you'll get to see the final result. Thanks All right, so here it is we got sage's final look You can check it out here I like because when it's down It's just a nice blended canvas here But then as you run through you really see that illusion of that deep balayage of that shadow at the root With the nice highlights framing around the layers here Uh, and people might ask how come I didn't just do it all at once and smash through the ends I really wanted to the the semi-permanent that I used on the ends has a lot of reparative properties to it So I really wanted to set it for the full processing time just to help make sure that the ends feel nice and pretty and soft So Here she is. I can't stop running my hands through it Do you love it? I love it. Yeah All right, so thanks guys be sure to check us out on youtube and freesaloneducation.com Check me out on instagram at hair style Thanks. Hope you enjoy the video. Have a great day