 Oh, what is up beautiful? So I am in a hallway right now actually, yeah. It is what it looks like. And there's a good reason for that because Eric is behind the door in my beauty room. Hi Eric. Eric say hi. Hi. And that is because we are doing a hair challenge today. I think this is gonna be really interesting to see if Eric has any kind of natural hair talent which I'm not too sure about. Eric what do you think? Do you have any natural hair talent? Do I have any hair talents? Yeah. I have a lot of hair talent Brad. I mean we both grew up in a salon. My father owned a salon so we'll see. So basically what we're doing, if you haven't already put the pieces of the puzzle together I am wearing a microphone. Eric is wearing an earpiece. Eric can hear me through the earpiece but cannot see me and I cannot see Eric. Eric is going to listen to my words to learn how to baleage paint Miss Manny Quinn's hair. He has never in his life highlighted hair, right Eric? Brad we're not doing baleage. He can't even say the word, nevermind do it. Yeah I've never painted anything Brad to be honest. So Eric in front of him has a bunch of tools. These tools are everything he's going to need to do baleage painting. Then tone it to rose gold and then style it. Brad we couldn't have done something simple. Like I thought we were potentially doing a haircut. No we are fully going for it Eric. If we are going to do it we are going to do it hardcore. Of course. So I will be teaching him only through his earpiece. He will not be able to see me. I will not be able to see him and this should be difficult. However I think that I am a good teacher. So I think this might be fine. We'll see how good Eric is at following directions though. That might be where we go wrong. Excuse me. So Eric can you hear me? Yes I can hear you. Okay so the vibe we're going for today is a nice vibrant rose gold baleage. That's what your client wants today. Have you met your client yet? Yeah what's her name? Miss Manny Quinn. Miss Manny Quinn. Oh and please put on your apron. It is on the hair because we cannot do hair color without having a cute apron on. There we go. That is on. Great great job. Miss Manny Quinn would not shake my hand but I think she's ready to go. Great so Eric. We are going to start off by lightening the hair with bleach. So to begin, we are gonna section the hair out in a halo section. Of course. So I want about an inch and a half all the way around the perimeter sectioned out and the rest clipped up in a bun. An inch and a half from the perimeter of the base. Oh so hard. The top has a messy bun right? Yeah like you want the perimeter all taken out and it wants the perimeter to be an inch and a half wide. Does that make sense? No! What part of that is not making sense? Do you know what a halo is? Like an angel halo. Of course I do Brad. Okay so like you're going around the head in one solid strip. Does that make sense? Sure. Eric we just started this. Brad I feel confident in what I'm gonna do. Okay am I still using the end of the brush or the end of the comb? I would use a comb and lay it flat on the head and go around the entire perimeter and section it out. So lay it flat on the head and then go around. Just section out the perimeter and please try. I am literally trying so hard right now. You know this looks easy but I don't think it is. Wait Eric this will be easier for you. Just split the hair down the middle. Split it down the middle? Yeah. Okay hold on I need to comb her out again. Okay I'm gonna like pick up the pace a little bit because you know we do have like a time limit here because Miss Manny Quinn actually said she has a date tonight. Oh okay. Brad I just wanna say I'm really having Miss Manny Quinn has no nervous system because I don't think she'd be very happy with me right now. No. So it's also just an easy way to paint for beginners because there's not a lot of sectioning involved and it's a very easy way to paint if you're just learning how to paint. Mr. Mondo. Yeah. Is this gonna look like highlights? Yes. Okay. So what Balianj refers to is not how the hair looks it's a technique on how to highlight hair. So it's like a free form way of highlighting where you're just looking, evaluating and pre-hand painting the hair. Does that make sense? Yes. Okay. And it goes up and down right? It goes up and down. I don't know what that means. Okay I think I answered my own question. I'm pretty sure it does. So now what I do is put some gloves on trying to visualize this in my head what I would do. Okay gloves are on. Now I'm gonna open up the powder bleach. Powder bleach. Yeah. Should call it lightener. I shouldn't call it bleach it's like an ugly word. My cosmetology teacher would be very mad if I called it bleach so lightener Eric. It's always called lightener. I do have the powder lightener. Lightener it's pretty good. Up to seven levels of lift. How many scoops? We can do two. What happens if I do more than two? You might die. Are these heaping scoops? These are large scoops. Okay. Two scoops check. Two scoops. Now let's open the 30 volume developer. The 30 volume developer check. Yes. Okay so we have that. We're gonna now mix the 30 volume in. We're gonna eyeball it. We're not gonna. Wait, wait, wait, how are we supposed to eyeball it if your eyeballs are over there? That is right. These are gonna be my eyeball. Open that. Who gives instructions by eyeballing it? Pour enough in so it looks kind of even with the powder but maybe a little bit less than that. Okay. Those are the greatest instructions I've ever given in my life I think. And just whisk it together? Whisk it together. Okay so you want it kind of like a little bit more liquidy than toothpaste. Like it's like kind of like cool whip. Okay, okay. Is it thick? I would say it's kind of gelatinous. We're gonna go with that hopefully. Let's grab a brush of your liking. I would prefer something with a nice tapered edge. Something maybe medium size. There's a few different brushes there. Whatever feels natural to you. I'm gonna use the one that's black and small on the top and it has a really pointy end. That one's more for like foil highlighting but if that's what feels bad. No I'm gonna use the blue one. I'm going with the blue one. So you're gonna grab the right side. Which right side? Just pick a side. Okay. Grab a section. You have a brush in one hand. That is correct. Oh god I'm like trying to visualize it. Um, okay so, this is so hard. Put the brush down. Put it in the bowl. Okay it's in the bowl. Wait Brad pause. Yes. Quick question. What? Is most of the bleach going in the roots or is it going in the non-roots? I will show you. Okay. Okay so grab a comb. Got it. And comb that section out. You got it? Yes. Put your hand up, whichever hand you feel like holds the hair naturally. There. And do like a scissor with your hand. Oh my god I just did that before we even said it. Oh my god. But I did it with the other hand though. Okay go. Okay so now you're gonna comb with one hand and scissor with the other one down the hair. Okay. And then hold it taut. And then once you get to the end with the comb put the comb back on the table. I want to repeat that from doing just to make sure. So we're and then we are scissoring so it is nice and like. You're taut. Taut. So now you're gonna start towards where your fingers are at the end of your hair, at the end of the hair. Yeah. Okay and I'm stroking upwards. You're stroking, stroking. Very light strokes. Upwards? Downwards. Okay. Oh god. So now you're gonna start painting but you're gonna keep stroking okay? What? If you say stroke one more time. This is gonna come out so crazy. How do you know it? It's going well. Okay. You're stroking right? Yes. Stop. You're stroking it. Oh I can't stop saying it. Yeah. So you're kind of starting near your fingers and you're going upwards. Oh wait a minute. I asked that and you said go downwards. Okay so it's a downward stroke but you're going upwards at the same time. It's an upward downward. Yes. Like you are going towards the root you're just not stroking towards the root. Brad are we sure we want to do this? Yes. Okay. So would you say the surface is lightning has lightener on it? That would be a yes. Does the entire thing of lightener or just the surface? The surface. Great. Now you're ready to finish the ends off because you did the rest of the hair shaft right? Okay I kind of lied when you asked me I did finish the ends already. Okay so the whole piece is done. Yes. You let it go. Yeah I let it go. I feel like I didn't give you that direction. So you're not very good at following directions are you? Brad it was taking a long time my fingers were hurting. Okay so the whole piece is done. The ends are nice and saturated right? I would say the ends are saturated. You can always lay the hair on the back of your hand at the bottom and then take the paint brush and gently stroke the ends once to get that last glob of paint on the end. There's nothing worse than having like a dark piece at the end. Okay I think it's good. So now that's our first piece Eric. Congratulations. Should I do the other section of this section? So now you're gonna skip an inch in between and go on to the next section. So you're going around the head towards the front. Yeah. Skip an inch, grab two inches of hair and start painting again. Okay there's only like an inch left if I skip an inch. Okay well whatever you do we wanna make sure that the last piece you do on that side is in the very front of her hair. Okay I can do that. Because we want a very impactful highlight. Okay I'm feeling most better about this section. Like those money pieces up in the front. Okay Brad are we ready? I'm gonna explain to you exactly what I'm doing okay? Great. So what I'm doing is I am scissoring the hair with my now I'm using my thumb and my index finger. I have combed through the hair so it is very nice and taut. And now what I'm going to do is take my brush full of bleach and I'm going to do upward strokes starting at the bottom of the hair. Downward strokes going upward you got it? Downward strokes going upward yep. Great you sound very confident. And now I'm going to the bottom of the hair and making sure there's plenty of shit on it. Is it taking you a long time to paint or you're just doing like two strokes and done? No that was it I just did it. Oh okay, seem very confident. How do you feel? So I feel like I think I know what I'm doing but I don't really know. Okay and so the ends you just did the ends? Yes the ends I would say have been stroked. Okay and it's not bleeding through the other side. I would say that's actually a no Mr. Mondo. Great so now we're in the last section on that side right? I would say that was the last section. Eric I just told you the last section needs to be the front. That was the front. No like the last section. She's a small head doesn't she? I thought it was like just two sections. No, we need like at least three probably. On each half of the head? On each subsection we need three sections. It's supposed to be like bleach, blank, bleach, blank, bleach. Okay. What's going on with the front hairline though? It is currently up in the messy bun. Jesus Christ. I knew something sounded off but the halo reference. Eric it is not a literal halo. Well I'm sorry I haven't seen any pictures of angels lately have you? And also Brad like I said the halo sits about two inches off the top of the head so this reference sucks anyway. Okay, so now Eric your last piece is gonna be what we call the money piece. The money piece? Right after you're done blow-drying this is where every girl looks first. It's kind of like where it parts in the middle right? Yes, where it parts. We're gonna make the money piece about an inch wide. But I would say mine is about an inch wide. Okay. This one's gonna be a little different because we want it to be very bright in the root down. You're gonna take the bleach this time. You're gonna start up in the kind of the middle of the hair. Okay. So I'll add a lot of bleach and then once you start getting to the root maybe add a little more bleach to the brush and then feather it like slightly to the root to the very skin. Does that make sense? Yes. And I'm going all the way to the root right? All the way to the root but you're feathering it to the very root. I would say I'm done with this section. Does that make sense there? Can you repeat that? Okay please listen. Brad it's hard to hear and do things. Okay just listen for a second. You want this front piece to be kind of bright in the root but not too, too bright. All right I would say that piece is done. You want to literally take the rest of the hair Eric and literally put so much bleach on there that it's like fully saturated. Both sides? Yeah both sides. Yes. All right yeah I would say it's there. And now take your saran wrap. Oh god I knew this was coming. Be very gentle with the saran wrap. It's a little annoying. Brad Mannequin's probably gonna suffocate. Probably. It is definitely dead. She is completely dead. Okay good. No. Okay she is clipped and she's in. Okay Eric so now that you have your first entire subsection done, you're now gonna hustle through. I'm feeling pretty good about it. Okay so now you're gonna do the same thing on the other side. How are you doing Ms. Mannequin? Really good. How much hair do you have left after all the halo section is done? I'd say like a good amount. All right so what I'm doing is I am getting a good portion of bleach on the brush like so. I'm starting in the rear of the head. Downward strokes going upward. Oh look at you. Okay I know it sounds good Brad. I don't know if that's actually the case. I'm so excited to see what this looks like honestly. I'm feeling kind of good for you. All right thank you for the confidence Brad. Here it come Mannequin. Feeling really really strongly about this okay. Perfect. All right now I think I'm at the money piece now. You move fast. Hey I got a lot of clients due today. I have a blow dry at 2.30. No no no you don't blow dry you're a color red. I have a correction in three. Mannequin died about three hours ago. She died from the inhalation of bleach in her nostrils and then she died because I suffocated her with a saran wrap. Eric have you checked on the other side how it's processing? Absolutely not. Okay why don't you just take a little peek when you're done with that. All right I'm still in the money piece though I'm really dabbing it on there. Okay you know what the saran wrap is doing? It's keeping the heat in. Keeping the heat in correct but it's not gonna produce as much heat as say foils so if you really want a massive amount of lightening you're gonna want to use foils instead but we use saran wrap in order to keep the heat in and keep our sections clean so the back of the other section. So the back of the other sections don't mix in with other sections of bleach so everything stays nice and organized and clean. That make sense? Yeah. Okay. She's really like wrapped up like a Christmas present. We do have some lightening occurring. How's it look? I would say it's a nice, I would say it's like a six N. Do you really know what that is? No. So let's be gonna work faster because what's gonna happen is one side's gonna process faster than the other so now let all the other sections down. Cool? Done. Your aim is to have six total highlights. Brad I just need to take a moment to say that you make this look a lot easier than it is IRL. I know it's not easy. It's really, would not recommend trying in home or even with a hairdresser in your ear. So just FYI. Starting about in the middle of the section and painting all the way to the top. Don't go all the way to the top. And I'm not going all the way to the top. Oh yeah. I would say that section is done Brad. Okay. This is not gonna come out the right way. Why? Because it looks like there's like three really strong strokes of bleach. Oh yeah, no it's supposed to be like that. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It might look a little stripy just cause you've never done it before. Can I go on my own? Okay. I'm gonna do this side first and then I'm just gonna saran wrap the whole head. More than one way to Walmart, Eric. Exactly. I am working hard over here for Manny Quinn. Listen, if this shit didn't hit me, I'm so gonna wear hair next time. Okay, so wait. You wear it to both sides? Yeah. Wow, you're pretty fast, Eric. I mean, I have a lot of things to do today. Lightning going. Can I peek under the hood? Oh, Manny Quinn, you're gonna love this. Now what? Should I saran wrap it? Yes, saran wrap everything. You can do one giant piece if you'd like. I hate saran wrap. Whoa, that was literally perfect. You did it? Yeah, wow, I'm actually feeling really confident. Woo, now how much hair do you have up there? I would say like a handful. Can you give me some square footage, square inches? Like a five by five. Okay, that's kind of a lot. So now pull all that hair up basically into a ponytail in your hand. All right, I have the pony. So now to take the back of the tail comb, you're gonna go across like a slice of bread. So imagine there being, so hard to explain. Imagine it being divided into three sections, right? All right, all right. And you want to go horizontally, as if she had shoulders, like I want her to go horizontally on the shoulder. No. Let it all down again. Is it all laying flat? Yeah. Okay, you want to take three pieces of a pie, okay? And you want to start in the back. So you want that to be your biggest pie piece. Yeah, all right, what kind of pie is it? It is a vegan apple pie. Can it be like a pumpkin pie? No. And now you can start painting again, but just do not go up to the root all the way. Don't go to the root. I would say this is really well done. Woo! And you're still holding the brush correctly? Yeah. Okay, just visualize this. So whatever you're painting right now is gonna be light. And the goal is to make it all come from the front of her hair and go a little bit deeper in the back. Does it kind of have like a V-slant going back? Yeah. So, okay, great. Okay, now do the same thing on the other side. And this is your last section, obviously. Can I do some designs on the top? No, make sure the back doesn't go higher up though than the fronter pieces, right? Wait, what? Make sure the back isn't higher up with the lightener than the sides you did. Okay, it's not. Okay, great. Okay, now you cover the rest of it with saran wrap. And then we're gonna let that process until it is sort of a yellowy blonde. Okay, there is no question about it that she is now dead. I actually forget which side of her face is the front. Okay, Miss Manny Quinn, we are gonna wait 35 minutes and we'll check your highlights and then we'll see if we can rinse it. Okay, Miss Manny Quinn, we're gonna wait 30 minutes. Now we're gonna check your highlights and then we'll see if we can rinse it. Can I get you anything? To your coffee? To your coffee. Yeah, Miss Manny Quinn, you look so beautiful. And how do you feel about your work so far? I feel really good about it. I would say that the money pieces are absolutely money. I'm really excited to see it. Me too. Okay, so now you're gonna take the rose gold overtone in front of you and you're just gonna take the cap off and you're gonna work right out of the bottle, okay? Yeah. So what this is is a toner. So it's not gonna lift the hair, it's just gonna deposit tone on top of the already pre-lightened blonde hair you just did with the lightener, AKA the bleach. Okay, so I just dip into the overtone. But, oh, Eric. Yeah? Do you think everybody watching has subscribed to our new channel? I don't know, but I think that they should. I think not, and I think you should get on that. I think they should, link below. Our first episode is already out. Our second episode is coming out, it's kinda good. Yeah. Okay, anyways. All right, continue explaining. I'm gonna put the gloves on while you're explaining. Okay, so you're gonna just, you know, get it on every lightened piece of hair. There's really no point in putting it on the dark parts because it's not gonna do anything. It's such a light color. Do I need to section it? Yeah, I would section out like the bottom part first. So just like put your finger through it and like section out into three. All right, I'm going to begin to put the overtone rose gold onto the hair sections. I'm just going to saturate the blonde pieces. Can I just use my hands? Yeah, and just mush it in with your hands. Like get really deep in there. Don't be gentle with it, get it really in there. I'm really making sure it's in there. I am liberally applying the overtone rose gold to the blonde pieces. Again, very thankful that my client here has a very high tolerance for pain. And then just make sure you mush it in there. Mush it in there. Okay. Get it on every hair strand. Section that is complete and this section I'm gonna do next. I'm gonna take some of the overtone and put it on the top, making sure I get it on all the different parts. Are you done yet? I'm getting impatient. All right, I would say it's pretty heavily saturated. I'm gonna rub it in like a head massage. All right, so let's rinse it off in 20, throw some Glitterati styling serum in it, blow dry it, and then I'm finally gonna see what the outcome is. I'm feeling really confident. Okay, amazing. Let's do it. It's all finished, you're done? No, wait, I'm not. But it's blow dry? Yeah, I didn't have a chance to flat iron it because she was running late for her date. But does the blow dry look good? I would say it's a little frizzy, but it's there. All right, put some effort into it. Bro, do you think I don't want to blow dry hair? All right, I'm gonna come see it. All right, come in. Okay. I'm scared. Let me examine. I just don't look too far in the back. This like isn't bad. Okay, for me teaching you without even like being here, I would say that this is actually quite nice. Like I could see a person actually going out wearing this. Oh my God, Eric, look at your money piece. My money piece. I mean, it's mad chunky, but it's kind of cute. It's kind of cute. Right, like, and look, wait, see up here, Matt? Good blending. Yeah. Okay, don't look like too deep in the back. Like, look at that consistency. Are you proud of it? So proud. What do you feel like you excelled at? What do you think you kind of feel about it? So I think I really, really went for the money pieces. They're definitely very like visible on the head. But honestly, I think it's kind of fun. Yeah, it's kind of fun. It kind of brings you back to like the 90s a little bit, you know? I think I was pretty good with like the consistency too. You know, like I didn't really like, like if I was going in, I was going in. Look, I'm not seeing a lot of bleeding or anything. Look at this. Do you like doing hair? No. I swear guys, I did not look once and I did not help her at all. You did not look once. I can't wait to watch the footage though and see what you actually did. Okay, I will say, all right, points of improvement. My sectioning was all over the place. This looks great. Right? There's some nice blending back here. But like the blending you did in the back, like you gave her like almost an all around like nice, look at that. And then you did hair color. Oh, you're so serious. I know, let me see the ends. Dude, they're lightened all the way through. You don't have any bleeding in here. And honestly, how easy was that technique? Not easy. For the first half, I'm not gonna lie. I wasn't doing the technique the right way. What would you give me for a grade? Are you ready for this? Yeah, what? For the task at hand and for all the obstacles you overcame, I would have to give you a solid egg. Oh! I'm really satisfied with this for not even like getting help in person and only listening to me. It's really impressive. All right, well, that was fun. Brad, you know what really did it? What? The gliderati. The gliderati. The gliderati really did it. I blame her. Well guys, that's all for today. Thank you for watching. Thanks Eric for being here. Of course. But thanks for instructing me. Make sure you guys follow Eric on Instagram at ericmondo underscore. Make sure you follow me, Brad, on YC. Make sure you follow our new YouTube channel, Brad and Eric, it'll be linked below and also linked to the end screen so you can just wait for that to happen. It's a really fun channel about the behind the scenes of our lives. And shop gliderati, shop the new merch below. I mean, so cute. And don't forget to live your extra life. And I will see you. Oh!