 Hey guys, Brian here from freestyleneducation.com with step eight on your 14 steps to becoming a better hair colorist We've gotten a lot of requests lately wanting me to show videos with block color techniques And that's totally cool We still plan on coming out with some but I wanted to go over a little bit with block color that it's not necessarily about Needing someone to give you a specific technique so long as you understand What block coloring is and understand what to expect from it then really your possibilities are completely endless on what you can come Up with yourself. I Think in one video that we did it, which is what I'm going to reference here today as far as a technique that I've done and have chosen The one video there'll be a link below It was concave layering and I threw in the the block coloring parentheses technique. I called it It's really just about understanding that you're going to take a shape of your choosing and put it on a round plane and Understanding that in relation to whatever haircut is going on in there How that's going to fall as your end result for the parentheses technique I knew that she was going to be getting a haircut that was going to have a lot of layering So as you travel down the round of her head that we're going to be many many lengths that you saw throughout the bottom of Her haircut so I chose a shape I called it a parentheses because to me when you looked above her head that's sort of what it looked like I started with a point up near the face and then I brought it as a fatter line Riding the round of her head and then brought it back to a point in the back now What that's going to do if you look at this section here It's going to have hair that veils over it but in a rounded shape So it's not just going to be a flat line of color that's riding through the lengths of her haircut So when this was all colored it all fell and you can see it just falls to different points having that round here Having it the finer points on either end are going to make it so that it's a nice Erratic seeming color while it was a very very simple shape that you created So what I encourage you to do is start picking any shape that you like whether it's a star or a circle or a Triangle or a square anything you want and just understand that as you place them around the head They're going to fall to different points because you are putting them on a rounded shape so I encourage you get a little bit of a Artistic freedom going with this you know maybe start with something not extreme Maybe just a level or two off of what they naturally have just to create a very little bit of simple dimension Just remember when it comes to block color keep it simple There's no need to get crazy the head shape and the haircut are going to help work with you on this one So, thank you very much. I hope that helps out a little bit If you have any questions or anything find us at freesaloneducation.com all kinds of social media and Stay tuned for the next step. Thanks