 Hey guys Brian here from freestyleneducation.com with step six and 14 steps and becoming a better hair colorist Today I wanted to tackle one of the more popular looks for the past few years Give you guys a couple of tricks pointers tips on how I've found success with it and that is the ombre It appears that this look isn't going anywhere. It's just going to change shapes and colors a little bit So hopefully I can give you guys some tips and maybe a little bit better understanding on How you can find your favorite way to create the perfect ombre? My way that I like to do it is using a little something that they call force perspective It's an optical illusion that they use and everything from architecture to photography to basically trick the eye into not noticing a transition Regarding depth. So I talked about it a little bit in the ombre video that we have on our site I just wanted to go into it a little bit more to give you guys maybe a little bit better understanding So here we go. I've got our model here I chose to use one of the back quadrants just because I wanted a wider section so that you guys could see what I was talking about a little bit clearer When you take your sections you want to make sure they're Depending on the density somewhere around an inch because you'll notice I don't use anything in between So doing something around an inch is going to keep it so that it has enough stability underneath it to keep from pressing too Hard against the hair beneath it thus causing bleeding when you do this technique you can use any kind of lightener you want I Suggest using a lightener that resists swelling If it is a lightener that resists swelling generally that is something that they will say in their advertising because Again, we want to prevent bleed marks. So if it doesn't swell then it's not going to go any place. You don't want it to go The one I'm using for this today is palmatial sinker lift I like it because it keeps that wetter consistency throughout the duration of the application and it also resists swelling So I've got my section here now when I'm speaking about that force perspective and creating that depth This is where you need to start to look at it wherever you hold this section as you apply is Where that hair is going to be blonde from that section down to the ends if I wanted to create more of a Stronger light and effect. I would hold it up closer to the head because from here on out That's going to be solid blonde if I want a little bit more of that natural to play into it Then I'm going to come down a little bit further and so on and so forth to where if you just want the ends blonde With much more transition then you're going to hold it much farther down in your section So you get yourself a good nice firm grip there make sure the hair is nice and straight if they have curly hair You're going to do this a little bit different. You're going to do it the same actually same way just as much stronger thicker sections So I've got her nice and straight keep it nice and taut hold that section elevated up off the head That's also what's going to help make sure that it doesn't press too hard against the hair beneath it And now we're going to create that force perspective You dip the brush don't scoop so that you get a nice little bit on the end of your brush And then we're just going to start using steady hand just creating nice solid lines Wherever you want that blonde to start is where you're going to go in with your brush if you want it all the way up against the scalp kind of kills the look of an ombre sometimes but Whatever you want to do start wherever you want So get plenty of light on my brush Start that line and then just let the hair take the lightener off the brush Not pressing in real hard. I'm literally just holding it close enough for the hair to pull that lightener right off for me Coming to the other outside of the section there Same thing Just let that nice solid line create. I'm not worrying about this yet because I want to create that A force perspective look before I worry about soaking the ends with the lightener So now that I've got those two outsides. I'm going to come in the middle at about the same height And create a line down the center there Now this is what's going to take your ombre from looking like just a dip dye Put a ponytail in and soak it in bleach and make it really start to look like something That's just a natural beautiful fading. We're going to go in between these two lines now But drop it down a little bit further We're going to create that same nice straight line going down towards the end of the hair And then come on the same side do the same thing Now you can see where we have these five separate lines, but they start to come together on their own here That's what I'm talking about as far as creating that force perspective Because if you try to look at the negative space the hair that we didn't just lighten You've got your solid color up here And as it travels down there's less and less of it until all of a sudden now your lightener comes together If you have a wider section than this you might need more than the five lines You might have to go in between each of these lines with something even shorter If you are dealing with a smaller section say the front quadrant to the head You might not be able to get all of those in there. So just do your best at creating those uneven but still Mirrored lines throughout the section as you get down to the end Don't just automatically soak the ends because that's going to create a line of demarcation that we're trying to work against When these lines come together is when I'm going to start to feather in my lightener using vertical strokes and It's just going to marry all of this together Until you get down to the end I'm going to use my trusty little paddle here to make sure that you get lightener all the way through to that end and Then you can see and hear a little bit because we held that section out and had a good density as far as the section goes The lightener helps to just kind of make the section buckle so it shouldn't press against the underside too too hard All right, so I hope that helps you guys out If you have any questions or anything else you'd need clarify it on ombre or anything in general Be sure to visit us at freesalineeducation.com check out our Facebook page and spram everything We're here for you guys. So thank you and I'll see you on the next step