 Hey guys Brian here here from freesaloneducation.com with step 9 of your 14 steps to becoming a better hair colorist. Today's step I wanted to go over. Sorry it took a little while for this one to come out but I was looking for just the right client who actually had some roots because today I wanted to go over a little bit of retouching when you're doing any kind of hand painting work. I get the question a lot when we do classes or videos how do you go back on a retouch because people feel that they have to be able to find the exact same section and if you've done any sort of hand painting you can see there really isn't any kind of exact sectioning. So I guess the main thing that I want to stress today is not to stress. We're a lovely model sage here. We've done full head of balayage in the past and she's got just enough grow out and what I like about doing the retouch with this is they feel like it gives us a little bit more freedom to either try to go back in and mimic the line work that you can see here that we've done in the past or start to really escalate her blonde in a way because we can see where the the lines have grown out from the last time. So maybe now I go in between with what we left as her low light last time to really create an overall blonde or effect. So I think I'm going to do a little bit of both. What's cool is since we're working with Olaplex, I'm not too worried about going over any previous blonde. So it's going to allow us a little bit more freedom of either brightening up old blonde or bringing her old low light back up to this level to create more of an overall blonde effect. So once I've got my section honestly for her hair, I think through the lengths of her hair she's as blonde as I'd like to take her. So I'm just going to hold just below where I'm going to end up going over some of some of the new stuff. So just like last time I can see I've got my frame section here. So take some of my products. I'm going to start right about where that ends, work it back up towards the root. And then depending on what I want to do with the highlight, either bring it down to brighten up that blonde or let it just sit right where it is. The backside you can see there's a little bit more dark. So I'm going to widen this section of the highlight just a little bit because I want to bring some more blonde back in. So going over the the center of that triangle section that was the low light before, I'm going to incorporate a little bit of that so that this whole section, as well as every other one that I do this way, will just be a little bit brighter as her finished result. So we're going to go through and take each section and just sort of freeform wherever you want it to go. You can either do the highlight you did last time or you can make it a whole new highlight by going into the old lows from before. So thanks guys. I hope that helps. Be sure to check us out at freesaloneducation.com and we'll see you on the next step.