 Hey y'all, what's up? My name is Sonali and today I'm going to get my hair done. It's been a while. I think the last time I toned it was January and it's currently May. It's been a really long time. My money pieces are growing out. I just kinda wanna do something a little different for summer and I have two options. I either wanna keep it ashy. It's pretty much what I already have but just add a little bit more color so like lighten it up a bit or we can go warmer. And I've always been really really scared of this. Even in my past like hair dyeing videos I've always said like ask for it ashy. So I don't even know if I should go warmer but like something in my heart is just telling me to go warmer and lighter. But I'm just like a little bit worried because I obviously have like warm brown skin so I don't know if it's gonna like actually look good against my skin if that makes sense. Obviously I wouldn't ask for like anything orange or like red but I've just been seeing this beautiful caramel color all over Pinterest and I feel like Kylie Jenner is the first person that I saw that I loved it on but obviously she is definitely not my skin tone so I'm gonna ask my hairstylist what she thinks about the warmer tones and see if she can make it happen or even see if she thinks it will look good on me and then kinda take it from there. If you have never dyed your hair the one thing I will tell you guys is that hair fades so it's really hard when people ask me like oh what color did you ask for? Cause first of all I didn't really ask for a color I just like showed her pictures at first and like just showed her like inspo of what I wanted and she could kinda like recreate it from there. Also my hair does fade so it was a lot darker especially when she tones it it definitely is darker than what you see now. There was this one point where my hair looked so good and then I cut it all off and dyed it again and I really regretted it but also like it kinda needed a touch up like everything was just getting a little grown out but I do want that like money piece like I want like lightness around my face I definitely need a haircut cause my bangs like this is my longest bang and that is so long like usually I try to like go for like here you know last time I got more of like a blunt cut but then I asked her to just texturize the ends so it doesn't look like a blunt cut but then if you go to style it or like braid it or anything you won't have like the layers situation. I feel like my hair used to grow so fast but ever since I dyed it it definitely slowed down a lot and I was so sad because I chopped it off thinking it was just gonna grow back in like two months but it is taking a really long time so I really don't wanna chop off like a lot I literally just want her to get the dead ends off so we'll see we'll see I'll keep you guys updated I'm really excited I'm actually going to my friend Mariana because she's gonna do my hair and then I'm gonna take her maternity photos so we're doing a little swappity swap I'm really excited to take her maternity photos cause she already has a daughter and I think she's gonna do like a cute little mommy and me kind of thing it's gonna be adorable but I kind of want to take a couple of like tech talks so I can like do a transformation video on tech talk so I'm gonna go and do that and then we can leave for the salon I just got to the salon and I'm getting a little nervous now and you know that feeling when you're like okay I'm gonna do it I'm gonna do something different I'm gonna go big and then you literally freak out and just play it safe cause I feel like I'm feeling those vibes but hopefully she like encourages me to do you know something different I'm here with Mariana and we are getting started on my hair so do you want to explain like what you're thinking? So we're definitely gonna put it all in foil just because Sonali has like super dark hair I know she wants to cut a lot of the brassiness so putting it in foil is gonna help to really protect the heat and make sure the hair is lightening evenly and very thoroughly yeah there's also a technique called like painting on the hair so we're gonna stay away from that because that's usually when you have ash or the brassy tones and we wanna get rid of those so all in foils, really small sections Bollyage effect teasing I'm excited I think so we're gonna go a little bit lighter and just bring the color up and like more color for the summer because I feel like my hair just grew out like now I'm looking at it and now it just like looks black again so I definitely want to get more color in there yeah I'm gonna be blonde while I'm taking out the foils it is looking very light because we did want to cut through all of that brassiness because that's like the one thing Sonali was telling me that she did not like about her hair sometimes and yeah once we rinse all of these guys out we'll add the toner and so then we'll decide like what tone we want although I think Sonali already decided I think I'm leaning towards warmer I posted a tech talk and a reels about it and half the people are like ashy for sure and then the other people are like oh my god like they're in warmer for sure I'm like someone please make a decision for me I shared your poll and mine has 75% for like the caramel tone oh my gosh okay well it's decided I think we're going for it also I saw a split but who's shocked I went blonde guys literally oh my god it's crazy so I'm putting on the toner we're gonna have two different toners I have one that's a little bit darker and one that's a little bit lighter so we did the highlights and then I'll put like the darker one a little bit closer to the roots and then blend it to the other color and that's just gonna create like the perfect grow out as it fades I love it I'm also getting a haircut while I'm here because I never get a haircut so it's much needed Maryana's gonna tell you guys what she did exactly so in case you guys want to know for your next hair appointment she's gonna tell you okay so we did a foilage what that means is that it's a balayage but it's all going to be put in foil so that way we were really able to cut out all of the brassiness I know I said that but you cannot stress that enough that's one of the biggest things it's really really small sections but you always wanna mimic like what a balayage should be so some of them are painted all the way up to the root some of them are not and then I always do teasing so that way it'll I get rid of that harsh line that can sometimes appear with the grow out and then with the toner we did a shadow root plus like the rest of the toner so a darker darker toner and then melt it into a lighter toner that's also going to help the whole fading process and the whole growing out process so hopefully this will last and only a really long time thank you so much I'm so excited to style it and just take off my mask and see you without my mask but all right it's my new hair people it's been about two weeks since I've gotten my hair done and I wanted to show you guys what it looks like curled and then just like in different lighting cause the hair salon lighting was like a little bit weird but it does look a little bit less dramatic when it is curled but so pretty it definitely is a little bit lighter than I'm used to but I just love like the face priming layers like I said we did kind of like venture off to the warm and like lightness but still kept it a little bit ashy but I will keep you guys updated on how much it fades because she said that she did like a root smudge I think it's called so up here is like a darker toner and then it's just going to start fading so it like blends really naturally so I'm excited to see what that looks like because this time around I wanted to make sure it was going to be able to blend really nicely so I wouldn't have to go back to the salon very often I think the last time or this time I got it done it took about four hours around with a haircut and a blowout and everything like that I'm going to end the vlog here if you guys have any questions feel free to DM me on Instagram there's definitely going to be a lot more photos of my hair there so if you need any pictures to show your hairstylist they'll be all over there and if you go to this one Instagram post I posted all of those videos that I put in this vlog so it'll be really easy to just send over your hairstylist so I will see y'all in my next video bye