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Summary: Before coloring or highlighting your hair, you may want to apply a hair lightener. Learn how from an expert hair stylist in this free hair care video.
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About the Expert
Dawn Shannon A professional stylist since 1993, Dawn is the owner of Intuition Salon and Spa, an independent salon located in Clearwater, Florida. Contact her at www.intu... read more
My name is Dawn Shannon owner of Intuition Salon and Spa. Now I am going to go in through the sides here because we want the lightest parts to be around her face and that is where our emphasis is. Around the face, the hair is a lot finer so you want to be very careful you especially want to put attention on their head position being correct. You want to be extra careful applying the color and that it is not too thick up at the root area. I am going to go from this side to this side and then I am going to apply fewer through here and through the back. When I fold the fold in applying color, a lot of people do a lot of different things, I personally out of 15 years of doing hair prefer to not fold the foil perfectly because I think that it tampers with the color too much. And it can create bleeding which is when the color seeps out of the foil and creates spots on the scalp. So I personally just fold them very gently and I do not worry too-too much about how neat and tidy they look. In the back, I am going to do it at angles here because I do not want it to look like a real square hairstyle. And I am starting off here with finer partings and I am going to work my way up to bigger foils. So it looks a little more natural being lightest here, less light here, less light here and darker here because if the sun were to naturally lighten your hair that is how it would do it. And that is how we apply the lightener.