 Hi sisters. Is there any way else to start this video than saying hi sisters? I don't think so. I can't think of a better way. I don't know. Can you? But listen, who would have known there would be so much controversy over this? Okay? I guess it's James Charles. A lot of things going on with him. I don't know. Anyway, not my business. A lot of people did not want me to make this video. A lot of people did want me to make this video. To be honest with you, I don't care. I don't care. I make hair does reacts videos. And James did his hair. Therefore, I shall react. It's not that deep. It's not that serious. I don't have anything against James. I never met the guy. I'm sure he's a good person. I don't know. I know nothing about him. Besides what you guys see online. No hard feelings against anybody online. And I do not like canceled culture. So we don't do that here. If you guys are a part of canceled culture and you want to cancel everybody and just cancel me and cancel him. It's such a negative thing and it's not cute. Don't do it. But anyways, long story short, not a big deal. James did his hair and I'm really interested in what he did to it. I mean, I've seen pictures of it. So I know what it looks like. But I want to see the process of how he got there. Cause I heard he did it himself and then got it fixed. Yeah. And guys, I am doing a Glitterati giveaway. You guys have been wanting another Glitterati giveaway. I'll be sending four winners a bottle of Glitterati. And all you got to do is follow me on Instagram for Armando NYC. Follow X-Mondo on Instagram at X-MondoHair. And make yourself known. Like my photo, comment. Do anything, whatever it takes. Just make it known that you are in the giveaway. Whatever that is, just do it. All right. And the giveaway will close one week from today, which is August 31st. So if you'd like to enter, enter by then. And that is all. All right. Won't I watch James Charles Bleach's hair? Let's do it. So it's like a people saying that. Every time somebody does their hair, I don't know if I'm going to post this. We all know you're going to post the damn video. All right. You wouldn't be filming it if you were going to post it. Actually, maybe you would. I don't know. I think it's a good decision. Content, I guess. He's done me a list of things that I need, which is lovely. Blue-based bleached lips with your hair separated. Coloring cape to cover your body. It's an Aphagee two-step protein treatment after you're done coloring. Okay. Sounds like a good list. Sounds like it's going to be very impossible for him to do it himself and make it come out. Actually, I don't know. This isn't the worst idea. What else did you buy? But still less than what I guess it would cost in the salon. Like a little less. I am hope now and we're ready to get started. But at least I thought I was ready to get started until I was just informed that I have to wash my hair before bleaching it, which actually makes perfect sense. So I don't know why I didn't think of that beforehand, but I have a full face to make up on and my hair is looking really cute today. So I'm kind of a really sad honestly that I have to take this off. Can we rewind that? I was just informed that I have to wash my hair before bleaching it. Mr. James Charles, in what world do we wash our hair before bleaching? In what world? I'm confused. Big red signs here. Never wash your hair before bleaching it. Never. The dirtier the better. I've done that a few times in my life, washed it before I bleached it and it was not pretty. It was painful. Oh, the reason why you don't wash your hair before coloring it is because you need your natural oils on your scalp to protect it from the intense bleach that's about to sit on your skin, which is not something we're meant to do. Our bodies are not accustomed to that. I mean, I guess they are probably more accustomed than they were a long time ago, but we're not supposed to bleach on our scalps, on our skin. We need those excess oils to cover our scalp in order to make it so it's not painful and doesn't burn our skin off. Cause it is literally bleeding. It could burn your skin. You ever put bleach on your finger and it makes it all white? That's burning it. Very bad idea. This is gonna be a lot more of a painful process. Unless he has a tough scalp, who knows? Never wash your hair before bleaching. Please, don't do that. I'm also absolutely awful. I like the challenges people give themselves. Like Joanna, I gotta go on vacation next week. Antonio, I gotta go on vacation in a few days. James gotta go to a dinner three hours later. All these other girls I watch have work in two hours. Like everybody's got something they gotta do right after they bleach their hair, I've noticed. It's kind of a pattern going on, but I like the challenge. It makes it more interesting, I think, you know? How are you gonna do this in three hours? When you wash your hair, you make tiny microscopic abrasions with your nails. So when you make the tiny abrasions in your scalp, the bleach will actually go into them and that's why it causes that burn effect. But you shouldn't get burning when you bleach your hair. You really shouldn't. I mean, if you do it right and you use the right formulas and the right stuff, it shouldn't hurt. How many gays does it take to put on a glove? That's the question. How do I measure off two ounces of this? Please don't eyeball it. Well, what am I supposed to do? I don't know, I'm measuring. How do I eyeball it? Just make sure it's the right consistency when you eyeball it. I'm interested to see which application process it's gonna be. That's gonna be the interesting part. That's such a pretty color. Oh my God, it looks like brother for the palette. So if you guys don't know, I already purple bleach lightener, might everyone wanna call it. What it's gonna do is attack those yellow tones a little bit more than a white bleach would. So it's gonna really gonna put some ash pigment in your hair and that is what the blue is, ash tone. So hopefully when it lightens, it doesn't too yellow. But James has very dark hair. He's like a level four. It might take more than one time of lightening to make his hair white. We'll see though. Water. I'll see if it was getting hot. Bleach is exothermic. So when you mix it, it produces heat. That was actually correct. But it doesn't really get hot that quick. It takes a long time to get hot. And really it only gets hot in like foils and when you're incubating it in some tight area with like maybe a bag on your head or something. I don't know. It doesn't really get that hot though. Can't really tell what the technique is going on here. I don't know if there is a really technique. Just take a apply the bleach kind of situation. We see a lot of those apply the bleach kind of things. Like they're like, boom. Like I'm just gonna like, what the damn bleach in the head? I'm just gonna get in a whoop brand in the head. I think that he is starting with the ends. So that is good. I like that. That's actually good. But he's not applying enough bleach at all. He needs to put a lot more. He needs to look like toothpaste. It's very caked on. That is when you know you put enough on. And this year, it's not enough. I'm so girls. I kind of always imagined James coloring his hair blonde. And I was like, it's only a matter of time before he does that. Like, it's kind of a good idea, yeah. I've never been blonde before. This is so weird. No, never. I remember I had a gray hair for a second. I didn't have the pink. Oh wow. I don't remember that. Bad face. Too old for that shit. I don't know, man. I don't remember that. I'm not gonna lie. I honestly cannot stand when guys have the sides shaved and the really excessively long hair coming out of the top of their heads. But to each their own, live your extra life, do whatever you want. I don't know. The color is kind of cool. I like the color. And my scalp is burning. I think it might. Is that in his eye? No, it's on tonight. Funny. That's really not a good idea to get it in your eye. Coloring your own hair is just way too stressful. It's honestly just like, ugh. It's like your arms, your life hurts. It's just like too much work. Like, it's just not a good idea. It's like, mm. It's like one of those things that always seem like a good idea and then you get into it and it's just like, wow. Hairstyles put in a lot of work. Yeah. You don't think about it. It looks so easy until you get your hands on it and you start doing it yourself and you're like, what the fuck is this? Like, who signed me up for this? And then everybody's like, I had nobody signed you up for it. I don't know. Anybody made you do this. That extra bleach on the bald spots. That's so loud. I have no bald spots. Oh, yes, you do. Yo, he is going into that scalp. He is like, we're gonna get it in there deep. He looks like he has experience with hair. Mr. James Charles, I thought he would be, oh, I thought you were bleaching your hair yourself. This looks like somebody is helping you. Mm. I'm just kidding, who cares? Bye. Do you need to keep it on for? I bet this is burning. Like, a madre. It is probably hurting so bad because he washes hair. Please, again, never wash your hair before you bleach it. Please. He's gonna be a pinger. So it can heat faster. Yes. Good idea. And also, what kind of flows are those? That's not what these are used for. I feel like you're about to storm area 51. I wouldn't put a blow dryer on it. It's just gonna dry it out. So bleach gets dried out and the moment bleach is dried out, it stops working. You really shouldn't blow dry it. You should steam it. A little trick I like to do when I'm at home doing my hair and I don't have a steamer around, they make hair steamers. When I don't have a steamer, I like to use one of those bags that he's wearing, spray the inside with water and then go and sit outside in the sun or put the blow dryer on very, very low with a high heat setting and just like go from far away just so it gets hot in there and starts steaming. It actually makes the lightener lighten way faster. And it makes it so it doesn't ever dry out. So it just keeps lightening and lightening and never dries out. And it's actually such a genius thing that I came up with and my mind is so powerful. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. The bleach is a gather. Okay, let's wash this out now. To the little, to the little, to the little. What? It's okay. Yo, it's mad yellow. Happened. Ah. Honestly, I didn't think it was gonna come out good but the application wasn't so horrible. I'm thinking they just didn't apply enough lightener on there and dried it out with a blow dryer. And good luck to James because now he has to apply another layer on his scalp that is already probably on fire. Can't wait to see that. Look at the ends, man. And he has very cool toned skin. Like extremely cool toned skin. This yellow is just making him look not good. Uh-uh. This is not what I'm comfortable with. Wow, blonde legend. Yes, BW2. It's like a cheap bleach. Honestly though, kinda kicks ass. When he grew up as the hairdresser, everybody's like BW2. Don't touch that. Yes, get those foils in there, man. You just gonna foil one piece? Yeah, I got lazy. Put the foils on. That would have worked. Oh, that was one foil. Okay, wow, I'm gonna put it. Yo, James, your friend kinda slayed the application on that. Oh man, it's literally another thing. I learned all this stuff the hard way. Believe me, I'm not saying I'm like, I don't make mistakes but like, ooh. Don't shampoo the scalp roughly after you bleach your hair because you got so much going on on that scalp. You don't wanna irritate it anymore. When you wash bleach out of hair, you gotta be like extremely gentle. You're just gonna be like this. Cause your hair's already stripped of all its nutrients, all its pigment and you just wanna like give it some love now. Give it a little condition, a lot of condition and then move on. Oh, wow, that's really blonde. Okay, so we're trying to tone. It looks fine. I mean, I probably would have lightened it a bit more. His scalp probably hurts so bad. He washed it, applies two layers of 30 volume bleach, scrubs his head again and then scrubs his head again when he gets the toner put on his head. Don't do that. That is probably horribly painful. He is not being dramatic, honestly. This is the first time in my life, I think I'm gonna say this. He's not being dramatic. You're so good. I've never seen a skin like this before. It's like a different look. It's like burning. It's horrible. Oh my God, his face is so red. I'm gonna do the next side and. Oh. Yeah, not quite there. You didn't quite do it. It looks pretty natural on him in a weird way though. But I did this, you couldn't tell. This is kind of what the hair is looking like right now in a natural lining. It's pretty platinum. There's definitely a few purple strands here. Pretty yellow. Hello guys, I'm here with my good friend Dustin who always cuts my hair. He makes it look fabulous and fantastic and gay and we are going to fix this now. So what are we gonna do? So I just mixed up a little violet based toner to just take a little, just put that all over. I'm just gonna sit on there for like a few seconds, like maybe 30 to, you know, one minute-ish. It's a lot of time. See Dustin applied it to the ends first which was the most orange part because toner happens very fast. When you're dealing with platinum blonde people, it happens really fast. So you gotta work very fast or else you're gonna get some spots that are deep violet, gray, white, and you're just gonna apply it. You're gonna get it on that head in a very short amount of time. And so he applied the ends first because they were the most orange and then he put on the roots real quick and then probably rinsed it off. I mean, I've already seen it but I feel like I'm seeing it for the first time again. This is so fun and so fresh. This definitely looks a lot different on camera than in pictures. Little face tune there, James. Honestly, love won't turn down. I really did not think this is actually going to look good but I'm freaking obsessed. I feel like I look beautiful. I look really tan. I feel like I look like I'm about to have just more fun than everybody else and I'm kinda down. I would much prefer to see James in this kind of a color just like very white silver. I mean, mine's fading but this is the thing. So when you have a very pink complexion, very cool tone complexion, it isn't the worst thing to have warm colored blonde hair because it ends up just bringing out the warmth in your skin but however, a silver toned white, white, white blonde would look, in my opinion, so much better on James and it would really compliment his skin and be very sleek. And listen, I think he looks great and I think with makeup it's gonna look like woof and bun and fresh but there's always room for improvement and next time he gets his hair done, it can be lightened even more into a very silvery white blonde. When you first start out as a blonde, you kinda gotta work your way up sometimes. You gotta start with the yellows, you get the yellow range and you get more white, you do a little bit more lightening, a little more lightening and then you end up like this and you just are addicted to having white hair but it looks good. So who's gonna bleach their hair next? I don't have any guesses but let me know. 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