 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, go! To today's vlog, today we have a special edition color vlog for you. Thank you to Joyco for sending me all of these fun colors to play with. What I did was I went on Instagram and I asked you guys what color you wanted me to color the haircut that I did on the last vlog and you guys went crazy with all kinds of really cool ideas. So I really appreciate everyone reaching out and posting that. Now the biggest request that I got was for something that had to do with the holidays. So to stick with the holiday theme, today I decided to go with some reds, some light reds, some pinks and I wanted to mix that together into a technique. I will be doing a lot more videos like this guys. So if I didn't pick your color, don't worry, it'll happen for sure. But today we went with reds. So the colors I chose for the mannequin today because she was already sitting at about a level 5, I chose the ruby red and I mixed it with the black pearl just to add a little bit of depth and through the pre-lightened portions of the color technique I went back in with the rose and the soft pink. So we mixed a lot of different tones with this hair color and what I love is with fantasy colors you got to have some movement in there. I also accentuated the haircut that I did because it had a lot of short layers and textures so I didn't want it just to be long straps of color. I wanted it to really show off the texture so I'm going to show you guys how we did that as well. This is the pre-done mannequin so you can see all that movement in there. So when she moves her head you see every bit of texture created on the haircut but also you can see how it was deeper here and then it just goes into some lighter pieces throughout the bottom. Has a really cool color melt feel to it. A lot of you guys requested some color melting in there as well. We do do a lot, we do do. We do a lot of color melting in this video as well. We mix all those colors together. It's just beautiful. I know you guys are going to like it. Let's get started with our step by step. Here we go. All right guys so real quick I just want to go over the sectioning that we did for the mannequin before we start our actual hair color because the sectioning is one of the most important parts of coloring hair. So we started off, we found the parting of the guests. So in this instance they part on the left hand side. So what I did was I took the left hand side parting and then I drew a diagonal forward line off of that which created this little triangle right here. It's the lighter side of the fringe that kind of swoops over so I wanted to separate that. Then I took another triangle out from the division point of the head because I wanted to separate all this texture that's in the back from the haircut and separate it from the front which has a little bit longer more disconnected pieces. So we're going to work on that later as well. Then we sectioned from the high point here down to that parietal ridge area or just above the temple area and created a nice strong triangle which is on the heavy side of the head. So this is where everything is going to part over to. Definitely a very important part of this look that we're going to create because I want that flow to kind of come over and have that fantasy color move into that heavy part of the haircut. Then one last line at the division point which creates another nice little triangle on the heavy side that we can deal with later and separates this textured part here. So we're going to get started with our technique but I wanted to just show you guys that sectioning. So here we go. Okay, so the one thing I want you guys to focus on in the back we're going to start just above occipital bone right behind the ear and we're going to start by painting across. You'll see that I already pre-did a couple of those. This is very repetitive but I just took thick vertical sections. You'll also notice that I sectioned off a V shape really out of the crown area of the head just above the occipital bone. That's where all that short layering is and I don't want to paint into the short layering. I want the short layering to kind of disappear into these pieces. So you could see how those layers fall over top and how those blonde kind of pieces are going to fall out that we're going to color later with our fantasy colors. So then I work into the temple area. Painting hair for me, this part I want to go nice and quick because I'm going to do a double process so I'm going to pre-lighten all of this stuff and then I'm going to go through and overlay it with all the fantasy colors. So I don't want to spend a ton of time on this. So we're going to do a lot of hand painting just brightening up certain places. And what I wanted to do is really show off certain parts of the haircut. So this is the side portion where the disconnection is. And any parts that were disconnected in this haircut is what I'm going to paint the bright pieces on. So we did that in the back. Those were the longer pieces. And then now I'm going to do it in the side. I'm going to work all the way up that heavy side almost to the scalp. You'll see that it really feathers off towards the scalp. And I think when you're hand painting hair, the key thing here is just to make sure that you don't go straight to the scalp and you feather in that lightener and make sure that your lightener is nice and thick. This is the well of free lights that I'm working with, the 40 volume just kind of painting through there. I like all Balayage lighteners to me so far I've really felt very similar. Well of free lights is what I had on hand at this point. So I'm just feathering that through and you can see how light it gets towards the base. So it's not completely saturated. The more you saturate the Balayage lightener, the brighter that part of the hair is going to get. So that's why you want it to kind of soften as it gets towards the base. Now the other thing that you're going to notice is I'm going to take this all the way up the side of the head but I got a little further away from the scalp on that last section because I really want the brightness to kind of stop once it gets to the top of the head. So you'll see as the head starts to curve up that's where the lightener starts to kind of fade out so that when I overlay that you get that brightness right on the corner which would naturally kind of happen when the sun hits the hair color but then it goes away as it gets on the top of the head. The other thing in the very front now that I'm working on that fringe area I'm going to keep this a lot lower than the rest of it because I really want it to come across her face nice and deep but then have that kind of brightness around the cheekbone area all the way down in that disconnection. So I'm keeping this definitely way away from the scalp at this point. I'm going to work my way up a couple of sections doing the same exact thing keeping that good amount of root in the look but remember guys the big thing with this is that in the end result I'm going to have a deep base but then it's going to go into another color that's only a few shades lighter than that. So it's not like we're going extreme with highs and lows in this hair color. Now the last bit you're going to notice that I don't paint it I just let it lay over top and what I'm doing is I'm looking at how that's going to look because that's the great thing about painting hair as well is I can really see as I'm working my way up the head shape is this how I want it to lay? Is this the part that I don't want to have the lightener on it? So then I just leave that to just color it with the depth color later on. I'm going to do the same thing up the other side. Again, this is the weak side of the head shape so I really want to be careful how I'm painting because there's not going to be a lot of hair overlaying this portion of it but I do want to go nice and heavy with the color as well. I want to really brighten up the sides because I think it has a really cool feel when there's that deep tone on top and then it kind of melts into the bottom. Remember that little safety net that I built in there? That's that little triangle right next to the parting. What that's going to do is that's going to fall over top of all this stuff that I'm painting right now. So that's going to have that kind of deeper tone melting into the lighter pieces as well. So you really want to plan out your sectioning. That's why sectioning is so important when you're coloring hair is to make sure that you have the right shapes that you're looking for. What you're going to see me do now is I'm looking for how that's going to fall and what I've realized is it's falling a little thicker than I wanted it to so I break it up in half. I clip away that disconnection that I want with the hair color and then I go through and I just paint a little bit more lightener on there so that it's not such a thick triangle falling over it. So now what we're going to do is now that we've got the painting done you can see how quick that happened. Now we're going to process it with the Minerva Color Processor and actually this thing lifts the hair in 10 minutes so it works really well even on mannequin hair. It lifts it really quick. So we process this for 10 minutes. You guys might have to process it longer. If you're not using a color processor you might leave it for 40, 45 minutes so don't rush it but you definitely want to get it nice and light. The lighter you get it the more options you have later. So I'm going to go through here and I'm going to make my color selection based on all these different color choices. It's a lot of different fun things that Joico sent me but what I want to do is I want to do a nice deep base. So nice, I'm thinking the Ruby Red which is this one right here. So I'm thinking I'll do the Ruby Red and I'm going to put in a dash of the black pearl which I think will be pretty cool just to deepen the Ruby Red just a little bit. That's going to be my base color and I want to make the ends nice and soft. So the way that I think I'm going to be able to do that is going with maybe a semi-permanent rose tone which I think will look really nice. Obviously it's going to play off of that kind of orange tone that we have coming through here. So do I think it's going to be exactly this tone? No it's not but what it's going to do is that will soften it and then I can decide do I want to do something different with it after we get this on the ends but this I think will give me just a little bit of that kind of control on the ends of the hair color. So we're going to do that on the ends, the Ruby Red and black pearl throughout the base of the hair and then we'll see how that looks, how it works. So you guys can see I did a last minute little add in of the light pink because I just wanted a little more depth in that rose color as well based on the level that I got the ends. So the ends were definitely in that yellow orange area so I wanted that depth from the pink. So just added a little bit of that to the formula and that's going to help me get that tone that I was looking for. So now the real fun part begins for me it's adding that fantasy color in really melting those colors together. So I'm going to go right to the base with the Ruby Red. I'm going to call it Ruby Red even though it has that little splash of black but we'll just call it Ruby Red for now and then I go straight to the base and I paint that and I kind of smash it with my fingers through the mid shaft a bit and over every bit that is that level five, six brown that is her natural base. So I want to make sure that I cover every bit of hair but then anything that's a nice lighter blonde that yellow orange tone I paint that right away with the rose and the light pink and just kind of smash them all together. What I love is with fantasy colors it's really nice to work them into each other so it almost becomes you've got your one base color you've got your end color and then you've kind of got your mid shaft color which is both colors mixed together which really makes a nice kind of seamless transition. A lot of you guys talk about color melting that to me that is color melting it's blending all those colors together letting them live organically together. I'm definitely a different colorist than I am a hair cutter hair cutting I'm very particular with how everything goes with hair color I like to really just kind of blend and fade I think hair color should not be as mathematical as it should be artistic and really just the feeling that you have. So I paint those tones through adding the pink to where I see that blonde where I've already kind of marked the spot and I just mix them together with my hands. The cool thing that I noticed with the rose color I believe it's the rose color that I was painting with has glitter in it. So as I was painting I saw a lot of glitter happening in the end result didn't see a lot of glitter in that but you can definitely see how shiny and cool it looks so definitely clients would be excited about that. So just painting through working my way up the head shape this is pretty simple guys not a lot to say here it just has a lot to do with painting the ruby rose where you have brown hair and painting the light pink where I see my blonde hair coming through and then kind of mushing them together to melt the colors in the mid shaft. I really want to make sure that ruby rose is right through the top portion of the haircut. So all those top layers I'm just painting scalp to ends the ruby rose. Even if I see a little bit of blonde in there I go ahead and I just use the ruby rose anyways because the translucency that you're gonna see through the product you're gonna see more brighter tones on the blonde part even if you're using the ruby rose then you are on the darker part. So you still get that movement. I mean we could overlay this entire head with just the ruby rose and you get multiple dimension of hair color it's just more fun to add multiple tones but because of that translucency that you get when you're working with fantasy colors as I'm painting down I've already done the hard work with the lightener. So you really could just overlay it. But I love seeing the multiple dimensions. When I was putting together the technique for this hair color it's really I wanted it to be functional. I'm not an avant garde hairdresser I'm a working hairdresser behind the chair and I want to show you guys things that I use in the salon. So if a guest came in and they wanted dimension in brown hair color then I would probably do the same exact technique I would paint through where I wanted to see that lighter pieces and then I would double process them I would put a semi-permanent brown over top of the whole thing to show off that dimension. What's more fun about this is that you post fantasy colors on the internet you get a lot more attention but for me I like gaining the attention to show you guys that you can do other things as well doesn't have to be just fantasy colors that you work this way. So definitely take this technique and think about it in other ways not just fantasy colors but you can use it in multiple different avenues of your career. So we're just finishing up the back portion of the hair color almost done. You can see I'm working long vertical straps with the color painting again that depth with the ruby rose all the way through pulling it through to the ends making sure those short layers that I'm working on right now all those layers around the crown that I had from the haircut I'm painting those all ruby red and then through the bottom from the occipital bone down I look for those peaks of blonde that I created and then I paint the lighter pink through that and then I just melt it all together from there. This is all based off of a haircut that we just did so this haircut we did in vlog 88 this is vlog 89 so if you guys want to see how this haircut is done as well check out the previous vlog and then I started talking to you guys about different colors that we were going to do on it and the technique built for this haircut. So because we have all those short layers in there I don't want to paint lightener on all those short layers it just doesn't make sense with the haircut to me. So I paint the depth and then I allow those layers to kind of melt into the blonde pieces that I created previously and then that shows off all that texture. You can see all the shine there's so much shine in this joyco color really psyched about it it's actually the color that we use in the salon as well. So it wasn't really that unfamiliar to me when they sent it but I was really excited because I don't get a lot of chances to use this on videos so I was really excited they sent me that much product to also give away to you guys. Now this little tool was sent to me by I believe her name is Lisa Loves Balayage on Instagram but it's called the wow comb. So if you get a chance look it up but this thing I thought the name was kind of funny when I first saw the tool but honestly it is kind of a wow tool because you start combing through and it just rolls right through there's a roller inside the comb and it just melts those colors together. So this tool if I can ever possibly sell it on free salon education I will because it is a really cool tool and I think hairdressers should be using it for combing those colors through. Also joyco must know me a little bit because I'm a messy hair colorist so they gave me a color remover which actually took it right off the plastic of this mannequin which I was pretty impressed by as well. So there's our final technique you can see the glitter from the hair color through there just really fun, really cool hope you guys like that. So now we're gonna finish styling it up I use the Vibra straight iron I've been giving these things away like crazy so if you're not following me on Instagram make sure you do that at free salon education and you subscribe on YouTube as well because I'm randomly giving them away I got a whole box of them and it's such a cool iron we also sell it on free salon education but you can see how that color just melts together. So now I'm gonna go through with my Mizutani puffins and just blend the layers and the hair color together. So sometimes after you color hair it's not done we go in and we do dry cutting sometimes we do dry cutting to really fix a shape to kind of alter a shape that we created we take out some weight that way or in this case I wanted to break up that hair color a little bit create a little bit more layering in there just to finish the look so you can see that I had that kind of bulky dark spot so I just go through with a little slide cutting with my dry cutting scissor and take it off that way and you can see how well those layers just shoot out there and that's that little triangle that we left out on the side as well so I just go do a little slide cutting with that little spray wax in the hair and that is our end result hope you guys liked this video as much as I liked making it let me know if you have any questions at all in the comments below I'd love to answer those for you and let me know if you'd like to see more videos like this I know it was a little bit longer but did you like the way that the information was delivered to you guys thanks so much for watching there's our end result. Alright guys like always if you like this hair color then hit the like button hit the share button share this video with all of your friends out there also big shout out to Joyco I love when companies step up and they send me some stuff to play with I had a lot of choices to go with with this one so thank you to Joyco give them a shout out on Instagram or somewhere I'm sure you guys already love Joyco anyways but I really appreciate all the products and make sure you subscribe to the channel if you haven't done that already I have a lot of huge huge plans for 2017 so I'm very excited to bring you guys along with me thank you guys for watching I'll see you on the next video and guys remember if you haven't subscribed to the channel make sure you hit the subscribe button below because you could win this Vibra straight iron good luck let me know in the comments below if you subscribe, thanks