 What's up guys welcome to today's video so today what we're going to be focusing on is a technique called air touch balayage I'm going to start by prepping the hair with the joyco defy damage pro series one This is a bond protector, so I'm going to spray it on the hair That's going to help with any bond breakage that would happen in the lightening process I'm also going to use free play from joyco. It's a clay-based lightener for balayage And then I'm going to use the joyco 40 volume Developer from lume shine so the technique is basically this it's you take a section I took about a half inch section. I hold the hair tight in my hand And then I blow dry over top of the section which removes some of the hair So basically what this does it replaces the traditional tease highlight Technique without actually roughing up the hair and getting it all tangled and then you have to deal with that at the shampoo bowl So super cool technique So again, I take a half inch section I spray a little bit of the pro series one over top of the section and then I take my blow dryer on cool Make sure you're not frying the hair before you put that lightener on so I put it on cool And then I separate some of the section and then I paint onto the hair This is such a cool technique in the fact that it's easy. It's quick I can take thicker sections because I'm breaking it up using the blow dryer And then I just paint that saturation on and I get a beautiful end result Which you guys to see obviously at the end so just hand-painting it on using that clay-based lightener now Here's a tip as I'm going through the section I want to make sure that I paint the lighteners especially at the base on top of the section And I don't go underneath that will keep it from bleeding through as I lay those sections over So really just painting on the surface of the hair and then once I get towards the ends Then I kind of work back and forth horizontally across the section to really saturate those ends because those can fall all the way down So again pro series one over top hit it with the blow dryer Loosen up some of those those hairs and then hold the section tight and paint through with my brush now another Fun fact about this technique is that it's great for super thick hair, but it also could be great for thin hair so a question came up that Would would you do this same technique on fine hair as you would on thick hair now my answer to that is yes But I would do more blow drying on thick hair Based on how much I want to diffuse the line that I'm creating with the highlights So if I want to really diffuse line, I have really thick hair I'm gonna do a little extra blow drying, but it takes very little time to go through with the blow dryer and work it through now I'm working into the side section Spray the pro series one on first build those bonds up and then work You can see how those hairs just fall underneath and then that gives me my section to paint And I just go through and I start painting Now one thing that I I thought about when I was starting this technique is I want to look at the practicality of it Does it actually make sense to go in and do this technique instead of teasing the hair? And I think it makes a ton of sense because of the fact that you're not tangling the hair You're not damaging the hair by pushing it up and really working that teasing into it And then you're not damaging the hair by getting her back to the bowl and trying to comb out all that teasing So for that reason, I think this is a better technique And I also think this is a better technique because it's quicker than doing a weave foil It's quicker because you don't have to Untangle the hair and you just go through with that blow dryer happens so fast So and the other thing I really love about this as opposed to doing a weave foil is the fact that I can take thicker Section so I'm taking about one inch at a time So I'm really quickly making my way up the head shape and not having to worry about that time constraint So getting a lot more saturation with the lightener Separating a ton more of the hair than a traditional weave and it's a more seamless effect in the end result So when I'm painting on the lightener you can see I'm still doing that kind of traditional balayage V effect You could go up to the scalp if you wanted because of the separation that you get But I wanted this to be a little bit more of a lived-in look As I move into the top section things are gonna change a little bit but not by much Really the biggest thing that's gonna change is I'm not gonna diffuse as much hair out with the blow dryer So I'm just gonna take out a tiny bit and then I'm gonna do heavier painting with the lightener The reason for this is I wanted to have a nice bright top a nice bright veil kind of falling over to the side So I really saturate that lightener on again Not going through the section at the base But just laying that lightener on top of the section and then painting it completely through the ends As I work that lightener down See still working that V shape So kind of an emptiness up towards the base in the middle of that section But I paint it pretty close up there and I get it nice and close right around the hairline area because that's where that Kind of bright piece that flows over her face. That's what you want. You want that brightness Finishing up with the last section again still gonna heavily Saturate definitely more in the front of the section than in the back saturating it through and Let it process All right, so that's what the technique looks like when we're all Applied and now I'm gonna let it sit for about 30 minutes in this case You could let it sit longer and you can see the end result. It's beautiful. It's rich. It's bright It's seamless, which is my favorite part about this technique and you can see the difference between a Non-colored mannequin head and a colored mannequin head. You can see how bright it pops just looks so beautiful So I hope you guys like this technique. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions. Thanks for watching