I feel like I'm cutting off everybody's hair all the time

it's really fun but I want to make sure that you guys know that i'm

not anti-long hair

I think long hair is beautiful but I like short hair too

so this is awesome Christina

that I was telling you about, I cut her baby williams hair a little while ago

and she decided that she wants to chop off her hair a little bit

at or below her shoulders and do a really cute balayage

like peekaboo highlight technique so that's what we're doing today

and I am ready to chop off this pony tail

what I did was pulled it back the way she naturally parted it when she came in

I pulled it back in a ponytail and then I held my fingers where that ponytail met and I pulled it back around front

to make sure that was long enough for her so we have that length

and this is where it is

and we're going to cut it off now, when I do this I usually

I usually just stick my shears in and do a little bit at a time

it helps to not make your shears dull

it's gone!!!

it's scary. oh and look at her pretty ombre it's gone

it's like a little pony horsey tail

it's falling apart because I didn't put a very good elastic in there

now i'm going to color it because this cut is definitely

not done

it's uneven, there's a long piece right here

but you know what it's close enough to where I won't be waisting a ton of color

i'm going to do the color and then we'll cut it after the color is done

so for the color she wanted the top to not be

any maintenance so doesn't want to have highlights that come straight out from the top of her head

so we're going to section off right at the roll of the head and that is where the head

starts to roll

down so like the top of the head would be here these are the sides

this rolling part that's right on that little roll that we're going to pull this

hair up

and I'm just doing a circle section in the back and it doesn't have to be perfect

i'm going to pull all of this hair and put it in a clip

now i'm not going to want to do anything on the roots of this hair, I might pull it down

and do just a few on the very ends like a balayage technique

but all of the highlights that I paint on or I mean an ombre technique maybe just with

this but I will a deeper highlight in through here to make the peekaboo but I will be using

a balayage and that is just when you paint the highlights

onto the hair freehand and you're not using foils and i'm using the framesi decolor cream

and I always use that when I do balayage technique because if you're using foils it doesn't really

matter you can use the bleach that swells or whatever but if you're painting it on by

and it swells then it will be messy and it will give you polka dots all over the head

make sure that the cream or the color that you are using is non swelling when you're

doing this technique and this is virgin hair it doesn't have any color on it we had the

lightning on the end that we cut off but I could even just use a high lift color line

on this because it hasn't had artificial color put into it but sine we want it to be I don't

know you said that you liked the reddish what was that in the picture that you showed me

but that was her natural hair okay so you're not wanting to change your natural no I guess

not well I think that the balayage technique will give it that look a little bit anyway

because so of the parts of the hair that just got a little feather of the lightener will

be more of a reddish tone than the actual highlight part so it should melt and be similar

to that so i'm going to mix up the color okay so I mixed up 20 grams of the decolor cream

and 20ml of the 40 volume developer and I made sure that i went with 40 because her

hair is very dark and we don't want the highlights to be too dark we want them to be pretty light

right you gotta wear gloves when you do this because it can get really messy and you need

a few clips to help keep the hair up so i'm going to start on her right side and take

down leave like an inch and a half section down so just about that big side of her head

and you need to pull it tight and then you're going to pick up your color your decolor cream

or whatever you are using and you want to have a good amount on the brush no like enough

that's going to fall off but a good nice line on there and you are going to pick a spot

and start and you just draw it down and then i usually do a little bit wow frog in my throat

I usually do just a little bit different on the levels just to make sure that it doesn't

have like solid lines in there and these keep it real soft and natural so that you don't

have huge noticeable lines and then on the ends on just these little ends i'm going to

saturate it a little bit so it's kind of a balayage or ombre kind of an ombre technique

make sure you get both sides on the bottom and then you can just let it sit like that

so we're going to take down the next section make sure you wipe your hands off when you

grab the next section i'm just going to do one big one on this one right here right over her ear

make sure there is a good amount of color on the spots that you are lightening because

if it's too thin then it won't lift enough okay so on this underneath one I had one and

so on this one i'm just going to do the two edges and bring it down so you can pull it

a little bit tighter to a v shape and you'll notice in the middle I did a teeny little

one in the middle just to soften the line okay this will be the last section on this

side i'm going to leave this front piece out because it already has that really big one

alright we'll just do a few small ones on this one at different levels I like to do

the ones that are a little bit taller by the face because naturally the hair around the

face is usually a little bit lighter and if you see any really big chunks you can smooth them down you don't want anything really

huge dripping down into spots that you don't want them so make sure it's clean but saturated

okay so that's all for that side lets do the same thing on the other and you don't have

to do the exact same pattern you can try to match it i'm going to kind of try to remember

what I did but it doesn't it's not really a huge deal it doesn't have t look the exact

same as long as you have about the same amount of color in there it should look good so now

we need to do something in the back and I want it to match or be similar so i'm going

to take that same type of thing pick up sections starting from the back down here but you can

go a little bit higher because it's okay to have a darker base underneath back here so

i'm going to start right there just below or in the middle of the ears right before

the head starts to roll under really steep so right there take a little bit more okay

and then i'm going to be working in two different sections here because that's too big to hold

in your hand and the hair would just not reach so i'll start over here

i'm taking pretty big sections down probably an inch and she has thick hair so it's a lot

of hair but the more hair that you take down the less noticeable the highlights will be

because there's more thickness covering them before the next highlight level because i'm

taking a big section down and then sectioning that one off again back here to just be highlighting

this smaller top section so that there's like an in-between making it a peekaboo color that

kind of shows through the darker layer on the sides I didn't do that because they're

going to have all of this darkness laying over them and that will create the peekaboo

but since we're back here i'm just doing because it's faster and it doesn't really get seen

so you don't really need to worry as much back here

and then if you have like I did a really big chunk in the middle here so in order to give

it a little bit of variation i'm going to take a little section and not paint that one at all

so now that i'm up here closer to the top my section is a little bit smaller so

I can handle this whole piece because of how we sectioned off the top so i'll just do three

highlights on this one and

you can see as i'm getting closer to the top i'm taking alittle bit smaller section just because I want there to be a little bit more lightness

on the top

you can see the ends over here are already lightening up really nicely getting a really

pretty nice blond color so i'm glad that we're on our last section becausecatch

it needs to up alright so that's pretty much it I don't think we're going to do any on the top at

all just because she already has these leftover little bit of highlight on the ends from the

last time we did her balayage and that's going to blend it in real nicely and we kind of

want it to be peekaboo anyway so i think we're done with the color we'll just let you process

back here for another 15 and if these are too light if these are done if these one process

all the way to where i'm like oh I like how light those are and this isn't done yet then

I can just rinse out the two front sections and leave the back if I need to do that but

I don't think I will I think it will be okay it's actually natural looking to have the

hair slightly lighter color in the front than the back so that's why I started in the front

with this one okay i let it process how long did we let that process probably like 25-30

minutes so like 30 minutes and I just watched it and it looks light enough to me i'm probably

going to tone it with a B because it has a little bit of an orange tone to it so i'll

use a Redkin Shades eq 9B you can see here it's a really pretty caramel blond there is

a tiny little bit of brassiness in it it's not bad but I like the tone that toners give

so i'm going to tone it okay I just washed her hair out I am mixing up the toner just

an ounce of the 9B it's called sterling and it's from the shades EQ and then you have

to use the processing solution it's one to one so and ounce of the processing solution

and I always just when i'm doing toning I just mix it with my finger real quick cause

it's not going to be on my hands for very long and also i ring out the hair to get all

of the extra moisture out because hair is like a sponge so we gotta try to get some

of the water out so it soaks up the toner nice so even towel dry it if you have to to

make sure that you get all of that extra water that you can get out okay so now we're ready

to pour the toner on and since it's mostly on her ends we don't need to tone this top

section but it's okay if it gets everywhere because it only deposits on the hair that's

lighter than a 9 or lightened hair it won't do anything to her brown natural hair so it's

not something scary just pour it all over and work it into the roots and sometimes to

get all the rest of the color out I dip the ends in to kind of smear it around an soak

up the last little bit and then you can actually watch the hair change it's like magic right

before your eyes so the brassiness is just getting covered up by that blue tone and it's

turning into that really pretty caramel color so you can see that's a different tone and

it looks much better so i love toning almost every time I lighten I use a toner of some

kind usually unless they want it really really bright and I got it lighter with the bleach

then I can leave it sometimes but that's good I think it's time to rinse it out Okay everyone

we are done with the color and i'm going to cut her hair now so the link to the haircut

will be right here and I will show you the end result of the color after I do her haircut

because then it will be dry and you can see it and it will be prettier so i hope this

color technique helped you and it gave you some new ideas to leave the top untouched

and just do the peekaboo highlights it's a fun new idea and i hope you guys try it let

me know how it goes give me thumbs up and comment and let me know what you guys want

to see next time we'll see you later bye