We had a new client come in, who of course wanted to be as blonde as blonde can be. In as few steps as possible. 😳 Of course we said we would try our hardest and she was open to using Olaplex. As we've not serviced this client before, we didn't know what was going to happen or what was sitting on her hair until we got into it, so we decided to do a full head of foils. This is her before. We used RPR My Colour blue Bleach with 30vol and 7.5mls of Olaplex and applied back to back foils on angles all the way through. Eg, no straight lines down the middle of her head or along part line. This stops stripes and allows it to grow through beautifully. After 20 minutes processing, we discovered that she had direct dyes on her hair... The roots were fluro red and PINK! 😫 KILL ME NOW! We left it to process for a further 50 minutes at room temperature as we didn't want to push too hard. Even with Olaplex, we were concerned about the response we might get if we used heat at this point. Slow and steady. Always slow and steady, especially if you didn't have anything to do with their hair history. This is how it came up. 😕 This is rinsed, and towel dried well. So we are left with orange near the scalp, gold in the mid lengths and pale yellow on the ends. So what do you do? How do you gloss this mess? We weren't afraid! 💪🏼 We were tackling this head on! A lot of hairdressers freak out if this happens. They either do 2 things. - They freak out and get scared of the light ends and add natural to their toner and end up with gold, shit hair on the roots and mid lengths. - Or aim to fix the orange and end up with super overtoned, muddy green ends. Why are hairdressers afraid of trusting our best friend? THE COLOUR WHEEL! You NEED TO look at the hair and assess where you're at. Don't lie to yourself. Be honest to yourself. Don't imagine it's something it's not. Work out the level you're at and the reflect. In our case, we knew we needed 2 glosses (toners). Our root area was at a level 8. Mid lengths at a level 9. Ends are at a level 10. So, we knew we had the orange to deal with on roots and mids. What counteracts orange? BLUE! We didn't get scared. We mixed up RPR My Colour and mixed 45mls 5vol and 28mls 8.1 + 2 mls LS (light silver concentrate) On the mids being gold and ends being pale yellow, we mixed RPR My Colour, 45mls 5vol + 29mls 9.12 + 1 ml LS (light silver concentrate) We applied the first mix to the root/scalp area and down over any of the orange. We then applied the second mix the ends. We then blended the 2 together over the mid lengths using different pressure through our fingers, distributing evenly throughout and bleeding it into each other. Processed for 25 minutes, rinsed, applied Olaplex step 2 for 15 minutes then shampoo'd and conditioned out. Here's our results! 😃 This was from a one step process using 2 different colours.
We kept our head. We were honest about our process. We trusted our skills. We protected the fabric of the hair and the results were EXCEPTIONAL! Real results in a real salon! Trust your gut and hug your best friend tight! THE COLOUR WHEEL! - Cassandra Comments are closed.
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