Video summary
The video chronicles a dramatic journey from a disastrous DIY hair coloring experiment to a successful professional recovery. Initially, an amateur attempts to create "raccoon tail" stripes on dark natural hair but fails due to incorrect mixing ratios, improper root application, and inconsistent sectioning. This flawed process leads to uneven orange tones, significant breakage near the scalp, and a messy appearance after two days of bleaching. In a desperate attempt to salvage the look, she cuts off much of her damaged length before trying an even more extreme experiment involving coloring her remaining hair with markers mixed with water, which results in a dripping mess with poor saturation.
Following these failures, the creator decides to cut the rest of her hair short and begins a recovery process using hydration products before attempting another transformation from dark brown to platinum blonde. This time, she uses L'Oreal Professional 8-level lift lightener with a low-volume 20 developer and Odex to maintain hair integrity while aiming for a full blonde result in one process. To ensure maximum coverage and speed without weaving the bottom sections, she applies bleach directly to slices, reserving fine weaves only for the top crown to create a blended, natural gradient. She carefully manages the processing time by rinsing out the back section first, towel drying it, and plaiting it aside while continuing to apply diagonal foils and small weaves to the front and sides.
She also applies bleach directly to the un-foiled ends of her existing blonde hair to ensure even development before washing everything out simultaneously. After rinsing and applying a 912 toner overnight, she reveals a creamy champagne blonde result that exceeds her expectations. The final outcome showcases surprisingly good hair condition, which is attributed to the use of the low-volume developer and Odex throughout the intensive bleaching process. This successful transformation stands in stark contrast to her earlier chaotic attempts, demonstrating the importance of proper technique and product selection in achieving desired color results without compromising hair health.
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Hello, beautiful. The way that people
melt their hair, color their hair, cut
their hair, and do it all kinds of
[ __ ] up ways. Well, it's really
entertaining, but also makes me sad
because I want everybody to have great
hair. And that's where I come in to help
all you accomplish your hair dreams. The
question is, will somebody get it right
today? Okay, so I'm back and it's
probably been at least 3 to 4 weeks cuz
honestly I am not a pro when it comes to
trying to dye my hair. Instead of dyeing
one half of my hair cuz I had um I had
hair parted [music] down the middle and
bangs that I had cut myself. Instead of
doing one side um yellow, which I
literally still have the yellow hair
dye, I just did the whole thing um
black. [laughter]
I don't know where she was going with
that story, but I was listening and I
[music] was waiting for the answer.
Like, what? What? What are you going to
say? Black. Okay. How did you go from
yellow to black? So, we have no color
experience at all. She doesn't feel
confident in doing her hair yet. The
title says dying a pink raccoon tail in
my hair cuz I'm not getting any younger.
Okay.
>> Okay. And I usually don't
um I keep saying um but whatever. I
usually don't
curl. I literally [music] cannot think
of the right word.
>> Girl, it's not going well so far. Okay,
I got to be honest with you. Let's just
get into the color. Okay, stop the
dillydallying.
>> This is what we're using. My husband got
this for me. I'm a little bit worried
because it says up to four levels lift
without bleach. And I mean, look how
dark my hair naturally is. It's [music]
basically like the darkest brown you can
get before it's black.
>> Okay, we're fine. So, she's using
permanent color. The reason why she's
[ __ ] is cuz I think she's doing like a
fashion color. Like, she's saying
raccoon tail. She's going to be trying
to do a fashion color or she's trying to
do blonde stripes. You can't do that
with permanent color. You got to get
bleach out. Permanent color can only
lift you a certain amount of levels.
Like I said, four levels. Four levels
for her from a level maybe. I would say
she's probably like a two or a three. A
seven is like my natural hair color,
like the down here, like this stuff.
But, it's not very light. So, I might
end up with like orange hair. But to be
fair, I'm not doing the whole head. I
think I'm really just going to do like
one kind of [music] thick strip. And if
it turns out good, I might add a like
kind of baby blue one. But I'm going to
try to do a raccoon tail that's like hot
pink.
>> Do you guys ever wonder what it's like
being a non-American speaker and
learning English for the first time and
[music] somebody says bright orange ass
hair is the same thing as bright orange
ass hair? I can't be the only one.
>> Leave color on new growth root area for
40 minutes. Then apply to rest of the
hair. Apply remaining product of your
hair to a fresh color. Let develop no
more than 5 minutes. Total timing is 45
minutes.
>> Well, we're going to waste our time
here. Um, and we're going to make put
ourselves into a more difficult
situation because she's going to use the
permanent color. Fortunately, she's
reading the directions, which I always
love when you guys do cuz if you don't
know what you're doing, read the
directions. As somebody who actually
participates in writing directions for
my own hair products, we take a lot of
care on writing the directions that you
get the best results. Okay.
>> Okay. I didn't know I needed to bring my
measurements stuff up here, but I cook a
lot. So, I think I can just eye it and
figure out how to do it. I don't have a
mixing bowl, so I'm bringing plastic
bowl first before mixing it. Actually,
[music] I should I have these random
like hair clips I found in my cabinet.
Luckily, maybe I should like section off
the hair to kind of I do not know what
I'm doing when it comes to like doing my
hair. Like, I really don't. Maybe I'll
do this so it at least like lays flat
and I can like remind myself that like
I'm supposed to be doing the slits. I I
have no idea, man.
>> Girl, if you don't have an idea, what do
you expect I have? Like this is getting
crazy already. What are we doing with
these clips? I was like, "Oh my gosh,
she's going to section her hair like
awesome. This is so good. I love when
people section their hair. I'm going to
be so happy. I'm going to do a happy
jump." No, I'm not. This is not a happy
moment. I think she's doing clips to
show where the [ __ ] tail stripes go. I
don't know. But I do have aluminum foil
from the kitchen that I'm going to try
to use.
>> What the [ __ ]
>> And then maybe I like try to kick them
in place with one of those. I don't
know.
>> Okay. I mean, that works for me.
>> That feels fun.
>> I mean, yeah, it's definitely a
professional way to do it. Like
honestly, like putting the the foil down
and then putting clips to hold the foil
is definitely something a professional
would do. I don't see anything wrong
with that. I just still don't understand
where we're going with this,
man.
I don't know. Maybe I need like one more
at the bottom. This is like going
[snorts] just as I would have expected.
[music]
>> Really? I was hoping a little bit better
for you. If this is how you were
expecting, then go off. Okay, let's mix
the developer now, I guess. So, it's
supposed to be two teaspoons of
developer cream with one teaspoon of
color gel in a plastic bowl [music] or
glass bowl. Okay.
>> Okay, we're starting to apply the color
and it's not looking like much.
>> I think I made it too
[laughter and gasps]
I think I made it too thick.
>> Okay.
>> Okay. And I'm going to try to like keep
a little line going.
>> Okay. We are indeed doing the [ __ ] tail
right now. And she started right on her
roots. The part that you're never
supposed to start on. She started on the
roots. That's bad because her roots are
going to be so bright. Like they're most
likely going to take this permanent
color and just go boop so bright. And
then the midsections and ends of her
hair are going to be like not quite
there at all. So her roots are going to
be like three times brighter than the
rest. That's going to be awful looking
and not ideal. Kind of like that.
And I started my timer. I don't know if
this is even going to like be able to
lighten my hair to be honest with you.
And I'm already like
>> it's not
>> What the hell are they talking about?
One one [music] teaspoon.
>> Is she using water to color her
[laughter] hair? There's nothing in that
bowl.
>> Well, I didn't think about it. I'm going
to have to do like the underside, too.
What? Let me just focus on the top right
now.
Oh, this is just getting worse and worse
and worse. Maybe about right there.
Okay, so if you want to do this
properly, what I would do is mix up some
30 volume or 40 volume with powder
lightener. Then I would just actually
section this out correctly, [music] make
the parts all straight. I would start on
the bottom of the section, work my way
up, do paper thin slice of hair, lay on
the foil, paint my lines, bring on
another paper thin section of hair,
paint the lines in the same place, and
keep on doing that until you reach the
top of the section. And then you are
complete. What you can do is put clean
wrap in the top of the section so you
can actually see what's going on through
with the wrapping and you know when your
hair is done processing but you still
keep the heat in your hair.
>> That's how you do it.
>> Right. Right.
>> I've never done a freaking raccoon tail.
>> We know. We can tell. We know.
>> There's no way that these measurements
were accurate because like really a
teaspoon for all this hair. I think I'm
going to go like a bit thick with the
sectioning. So I know I have to do the
bottom of the hair too. I'm using the
light [music] to kind of figure out how
to do the spacing because I can't easily
see the side of my hair. I mean, I
assume I'm supposed to do the bottom,
right? Maybe I should have just been
doing it like as I was going like the
bottom part of the hair. [music] It's
going to be like a bit uneven. Ooh, I
think I made that one a bit longer. I'm
I'm really hoping that it does actually
lighten my hair, but this is like so
freaking unorganized. I cannot I think
I'm now dying a huge strip in my hair.
[screaming]
>> What in the [ __ ] is going on? Why did
you color a 2in section of your hair
when you were doing 1in sections on the
top of your hair? Why are we getting
worse? Usually you're supposed to
progress and get better as you keep
going and doing your hair.
>> Cuz of the freaking curl.
Okay, maybe I just do the rest of the
tip. Like the freaking wave coming back.
She ended up just doing the entire tip
of her hair, like four or five inches of
hair. She said, "Fuck, it's the [ __ ]
tail." She said, "I'm just going to The
bottom is going to be colored." She
don't give a [ __ ]
>> Okay, I'm just going to like do it on my
hand like that because I can actually
[music] see it.
>> Girl, your hair's not even processing.
You're not. Meanwhile, nothing's even
happening. Like, the top of her hair has
not budged even a little bit. It is
still the same color as she started
with. Put it down. Check out what's
going on. And stop. Now she's going and
coloring the underneath of her hair. It
just keeps getting worse. We're going
down my favorite hill rapidly. We're
falling down the Eiffel Tower.
>> We're falling down a landfill pile.
We're falling down your mama.
We're now just going in and painting the
underneath. Just going at it. Like we're
we're not even like we're not sectioning
anything. We're just painting the top
and the bottom. Somehow the middle is
supposed to get colored. I don't know
how, but in her mind, it's going to get
colored.
>> Okay, use the light to show. It is
lightning, but like not nearly enough.
Bro, it's been BASICALLY 2 HOURS.
>> 2 HOURS? [laughter] WHAT? This has been
on your head for 2 hours. B, TAKE IT
OFF. IT'S DONE. I know that box didn't
say process for 2 hours. Take it off.
It's not doing anything. You're wasting
your time. [laughter] It's literally a
half a shade lighter. You need bleach. I
have to buy bleach. I HAVE TO BUY
freaking bleach. I have to spend more
money.
Okay, this video is not going to be
finished tonight. I actually got bleach
this time.
>> Okay, we're on to day two and we have
the bleach now.
>> I don't have the metal bowl
and Okay, so it said two parts.
>> Sorry. What is with everybody in
smelling everything? I understand it's
like the the sense of smell is like an
important part of being a human, but
like why are we smelling developer and
everybody does it. They're like they or
they'll mix the bleach and they'll go ow
like it burns their nostrils. Like why
are you doing it? I don't understand.
Somebody let me know. What is that?
>> I just got the same brand Clarall cuz I
figured that would work best with the
bleach. I'm [gasps] I'm really scared,
but there's this is no time to be a
[ __ ] about it. Okay. So, I'm going to
do two of these. And realistically, I
should have put my gloves on already,
but I'm going to put them on in just a
second.
>> Well, now she has color in her hair. And
she's going to use 20 volume in an open
air application. Well, she might put a
foil on top, but the foils are not like
folded or there's still air getting to
it. The her hair is going to be still
orange because 20 volume is not enough.
30 volume, 40 volume would have been
great. So, she's doing the same thing
again, but starting from the bottom now.
She changed her mind. She's starting
from the bottom. Half of her head over
there is like a warm brown color now
because of the permanent color. And we
are going in with the coail concept
still. I love the commitment. I love
that you're still doing it. She just put
her head down. I I'm at a loss for
words. I didn't even see the top of her
head. There is issues everywhere. Like
it's the most random section just
colored a light brown color. Um
>> this is I don't want like Brad Palumbo
to like not Brad Palumbo. Oh my gosh.
Wrong freaking one. She was about to
say, "I don't want bra to watch this."
Um, hi.
>> Hi. How are you?
>> I'm watching it. Um, [laughter] every
line she puts on this head gets worse.
It is a mess. She said she was going to
talk through the whole thing so she
doesn't have basically an anxiety attack
because this is coming out so [music]
crazy and bad. Just stop at this point.
Get a hair extension. I say this every
week now. There's so many raccoon tails
we're seeing. Is this a resurgence of
[ __ ] tails? Just buy an extension piece
and put it in your hair.
I need a little break.
>> I need a [ __ ] break. You I need a break.
This is so stressful. Now you have one
line going diagonal down your head and
then you have another line horizontal
and they're almost conjoined. Dude, I
fear if we can't put stripes in our
hair, we should just stop.
Oh my god. We just lifted up a 2-in wide
section and just painted the underneath.
The middle of that section, [ __ ] it. The
middle of the section is not going to
get colored, but at least we have the
top and the bottom.
>> Oh my gosh. Like, oh my gosh.
I'm being such a wimp about this. I
>> You should be. You should just honestly,
we should stop. Okay,
>> I'm going to put
some aluminum foil. Try my best to
separate the hair from the other hair.
You know, I know I'm doing this messily.
There's definitely better ways, but this
is going to be the way for now. And now
I'm going to wait a bit. I could tell
it's definitely lightning. Um, but I'm
just I got to wait. I got to wait. It's
been almost 20 minutes with it on, but
I'm going to add
some more to the roots.
Kind of just like that.
>> Oh my god. Your roots are not supposed
to be light. It's supposed to go dark,
light, dark, light, dark, light. Not
light, dark. You start with dark. These
lines are touching everywhere. She also
just waited for her hair to process for
maybe like 20 minutes and then decided
I'm going to do the roots now.
[music]
Um well, it seems like we're adding a
stripe behind the stripes. vertical
stripe, not a horizontal one. All right,
this is your palette. This is your
canvas. You create what you want with
it. Unleash your inner artist. I hope
that's juice. It looks like it's juice,
but it could be wine. It also looks like
cranberry juice. I don't know how old
she is, but I hope she's not drinking
because we're going to go again down the
hill. I don't want to go down it again.
The hill is steep and it's getting
steeper and we're almost at the bottom.
We couldn't actually be any further in
the depths of hell right now.
I don't know. We came back and we just
started painting the [ __ ] bleach on the
other side onto wet hair. Okay. When you
have your hair wet, it's automatically
going to dilute the formula. It's going
to make it much less powerful. You want
to have your hair dry when you bleach
it, unless you're doing a bleach bath
for only specific reasons. Don't just
put a bleach bath on because I said
that. Okay, there's very specific time
to use a bleach bath. I'm not going to
go over it today because I go over it
every single week, but I don't know what
is going on. Also, obviously, the side
we just did does not look good. Lines
everywhere.
>> Second round of bleach.
[sighs]
That's all there is to say.
We keep putting the bleach on different
spots every time. So, if you're going to
do multiple rounds of bleach, you have
to bleach the exact same spots every
time. Or else they're not going to get
lighter. You're just going to start
lightening spots that were dark and
you're going to end up with one strand
of blonde just going through your hair.
And that's what we're doing. It's been
on for about 35
to 40 minutes. I think it looks all
right. Like, it looks lifted enough this
time to add color. I didn't redo the
roots. I'll just redo the roots when
they're a bit thicker. Um, okay.
>> So, here's my hair starting out for
today. I do have like jet [music] black,
but I think it might make more sense to
do like a very dark brown and make
[music] the raccoon tail part more
apparent, especially on this side. But
yeah, I am going to finally do the hair
dying part today.
>> Okay. Okay. Well, we ended up with most
of our head just blonde and we lost the
brown. She's going to try and paint it
back in though, like she said, with
semi-permanmanent color, which at this
point, go off. You're going to do
something to paint the lines back in
because they're gone.
>> I am going to just use off the rest of
my
um
my phone just sucks so freaking much. I
I can't like I the amount of that I just
had to delete.
that around.
>> We are doing a bright pink which okay
fun. I feel like it's giving my [music]
shirt a lot right now and I'm I'm into
it. But my other question is why didn't
we go like all the way to the front of
the hair? Like you have a little strand
in here that is brown and then it ends
up blonde halfway down.
Huh. But the pink looks really vibrant
which is fun. All right. She's getting
through that section and I was hoping
our technique would improve by now. She
started off putting the stripes in and
then she like goes into the section
behind the stripes and then just starts
painting vertically instead of
horizontally. Want to rip my skin off
right now. Oh my god. It might turn out
a bit like green honestly because my
hair didn't lift up as much as I hoped.
I might end up getting [music] 40 volume
cuz I was using 30 trying to damage my
hair a little bit less. But maybe it
would have been worth the damage but a
little too late now. Some of it's going
to be kind of like mixed cuz [music] I
don't care at this point.
>> It's all going to be mixed. The blue is
also very dark, too. So, thank god these
colors are pigmented because it's going
to help conceal all that kind of orange
and yellow weird going on underneath. I
just don't know why we couldn't [music]
just pick a vibe, you know, like paint
this part pink and this part blue. Maybe
it'll be cool. Maybe it'll be like a
tie-dye vibe. I don't know. All right,
we moved on to the other side of the
head. And that side is just getting a
full blue treatment. So, let's finish
that up and we'll see the final result.
>> Okay, so the purple flopped and I
clearly didn't get it on everything, but
it's okay. Um the purple doesn't even
look purple. Looks blue. Okay, so we got
to get um stronger developer next time.
But this part I think turned out pretty
[clears throat] okay. Um I really like
the pink. And you know, the blue came
out more like a teal. I like it. Just
something to do. and I haven't dyed my
hair in 5 years. So, felt like it was
time to start doing it again.
>> Okay, let's just get the bad out there.
It's not perfect and um I feel like it's
barely what she envisioned in the first
place and it's barely what I envisioned
with the co and tail didn't really work
and the color is all over the place. On
to the good part. I think it's fun
overall. I think it's it's whimsical.
It's creative. It's art. It's whatever
you want it to be. I feel like she is
showing her inner self through her hair
now, and I enjoy that a lot. I enjoy
that much better than just having brown
hair that she doesn't resonate with. So,
I prefer this look over the look before.
We'll get it better next time. We'll put
the black between the pink so it's
actually a cool tail. And we'll do, you
know, sectioning. She's going to get a
solid two for that one. Yeah, that's
best I can do. Sorry. All right, let's
see what you guys sent me on Tik Tok and
Instagram and everything this week.
Yo, she thought they were thinning
shears, but they were full-on scissors.
>> Oh my god, that's not my texturizing she
lying.
>> Shut.
Oh, I don't know what I would do.
>> What?
All right, whatever. It's fine. You
know, like it's in a place we [music]
can hide.
Oh my god, that would piss me off so
bad. Oh, I mean, the only thing you can
do is just commit to the look now. Like,
you got to just I guess cut it all the
way across and just No, you should
definitely just part your hair on the
other side.
>> I just can't freaking believe I did
that. Girl, what [laughter]
>> my hair mantra when you mess things up
is, oh, it's fine. like it'll be exactly
what I was wanting in a month.
>> At least your haircut goes with that
vibe, you know? I would say it just adds
to the the funkiness of the whole cut
for sure. Um everything's kind of all
over the place anyways. So, it's cute.
It's fun. It's edgy. It's cool. You
know, it's fun.
>> If you know how I feel, why would you
say that?
>> Okay, this video is not in English, so
bear with me. But it's going to be
[ __ ] crazy. I can feel it because
this says, "I dyed my hair rainbow
colors with school pen. She colored her
hair with permanent markers." Okay,
that's what it shows. And the thumbnail
looked really cool. So, I think we're in
for a treat.
>> Okay, we see what's about to go down,
right? She's about to color her hair
with these markers right here. She said
she's going to mix them with water, put
it in a spray bottle, and then spray
color her hair with them. I'm very
intrigued.
Oh my god, her hair is so pretty and so
long. I believe this is all her natural
hair. It goes down to here. I feel like
it's probably not her natural hair, but
we're going to see in a minute. Um yeah,
let's just I guess see what she does
with this color.
Okay, this is interesting. So, she's
opening up the markers, taking out the
ink cartridges or whatever you call
them, putting two of them in a bottle
with water, mixing it, and then she's
going to color her hair with it. So,
that's a whole lot of work and a lot of
steps. And she has so much hair. This is
going to take forever. But, I feel like
the payoff I was going to say the payoff
will be good, but I'm like, this is just
[ __ ] darker. Why don't you just use hair
color? Call me crazy, but like why not,
you know?
That doesn't look to be doing much.
We're getting very little color
saturation on her hair. It's looking
kind of just like a pastel color. So,
hopefully she does a little bit more
than that because I'm a little
disappointed so far.
First of all, her hair is extensions. I
lied. It It's not all her natural hair.
I don't know why. It was [music] wishful
thinking. What a platinum blonde has
hair down to her ass? I'm nobody at all.
for
Okay, we've now resorted to inserting
our hair into this concoction of marker
and then taking the other marker and
coloring our hair directly with it. She
doesn't give a [ __ ] about her hair. Not
even a little bit. I mean, it is a dye,
so it will go in your hair essentially.
Um, I don't know what the long-term
effects of this is going to be. Like, I
don't know if it's going to stay long or
wash out in a few rinses. I don't know,
but I'm still intrigued.
[music]
>> [music]
>> She is dead ass just taking that marker
and coloring her hair like a coloring
book. That's commitment. Is she going to
do her entire head like this? Oh my god.
No, this is all over your head. Next
time, just use some Xodo color. Super
red. It'll actually be red and it'll
actually just go on your hair very
evenly and nicely and easily and it'll
deep condition your hair and you'll get
better hair post coloring. I don't know
why you're doing this. It is dripping on
her face and her eyes now.
>> [music]
>> I don't think it's going to stop
dripping. That's the issue here. Like,
it's just going to keep on dripping into
her eyes this entire time.
We have now opened the orange. So, we
have the front colored pink, I suppose.
I don't know how it got so saturated.
Like, now it looks saturated. I don't
know. Now it looks like it's going to
work.
[music]
My girl is committed to the bit. I mean,
this takes so much work. Imagine the
mess in person. Like, it is all over her
already. And she's only done the front
of her hair.
[music]
>> [music]
>> Okay, so she's now pouring burning hot
water basically on her hand and then
blowing the color out of the little ink
tube again. The commitment to this is a
next level. Wo!
[music]
By the way, absolutely no gloves, of
course. We are just raw dog in our
hands. We're going to get them all
stained and nice. Just how I like it. I
love to see it every single [ __ ] week of
my life. [music and singing]
>> [music]
>> So, it looks like we're going with the
orange right back here in front of that
pink section, which okay, it's going to
be like stripey rainbow extensions
luckily take color really well. They
color like that. They pick up on
everything. I don't know what that is.
It's definitely the types of chemicals
that the hair extensions are treated
with. [music] It just really attracts
color for some reason. I got to look
into that. But, it's going to be
pigmented. pigmented. Yeah.
>> [music]
>> Oh, so that's a lot more pigmented than
before. That looks way better. I mean,
now we're getting really deep orange. Oh
my god. And she luckily doesn't have to
actually color it by hand. Well, like
with the marker, [music] like on her
hair. I mean, obviously by hand, but
like this is a lot easier. I just think
she needs to [ __ ] home comb it throw
after this video is over. Buy a comb.
Okay. [music]
Oh, you type B people should have a like
like I don't know a type B person day
because I don't know how you do it. I
don't know how you do anything you do.
Sometimes I've had one stain from like
coloring my hair. I have one stain on
one finger right here for 2 days. Guys,
I'm telling you, my life feels like it's
over. I sit there scrubbing it for 2
hours because I can't stand to look down
and have a stain on MY FINGER. Y'ALL BE
COLORING YOUR ENTIRE BODIES.
[music]
This brings up a good topic. Liquid
color, spray color like this. It can
definitely be done with professional
grade color. You can put literally just
pigment in a spray bottle like this and
color your hair with it. I have thought
so many times of making a sprayon color
that goes
and it's semi-permanmanent. How cool
would that be? But then you think about
the logistics of [music] it and you go,
"Oh yeah, that's why nobody did that."
Because it would be a horrible, crazy
mess.
[music]
Look at her orange hands.
[music]
>> [music]
>> Okay, so she just finished the green.
This color palette is actually insane. I
don't know what's more insane, coloring
your hair with markers or doing pink,
orange, yellow, and green hair. Now
she's going to do blue, indigo, and
violet. So, we're going to do the whole
[ __ ] rainbow.
>> [music]
[music]
>> Is that turquoise? Cuz I'm kind of sad
that she's doing like another green
color next to the last green color. I
feel like I would love for her to switch
it up now. Like where's the blue? It's
very turquoise. But I feel like it's
also mixing with her hands and the
previous color and everything is just
getting everywhere. Imagine if she did
like just a splat color. Like I've done
that before with squirt guns. It was on
my channel a long time ago. But it'd be
cool if she just kind of sprayed [music]
this color all over her hair, different
colors, and then just like left it and
shampooed it and had like spray colored
hair. Do you know what I [music] mean?
Do you think that'd be cool? Let me
know.
Oh my god. She is [ __ ] covered covered
in hair color like head to toe. Holy sh.
It is all over her clothes.
[music]
Oh my god, it keeps getting worse. What
[laughter] the [ __ ] It is dripping down
her entire arm. Oh my god.
Why did we just do green? Oh, we still
have one section in the back. Okay, but
why is it so much green? Like, that's
what I don't understand this color
palette at all.
[music]
>> [music]
>> I'm also just so confused why she keeps
piling the hair on top of her head like
that. Why not just leave it down? What
are we getting out of the piling thing?
Like, why are we just clipping
everything together? I feel like these
colors are going to run into each other
as well if you do it like that. So,
definitely not a good idea.
We are finally doing the blue. Thank god
we needed this.
Wow.
[music]
You guys, that's the first time she
stood up and it's down to here. Her [ __ ]
hair is down to her hips. This is going
to be crazy. I hope it comes out good
because if this comes out good, she will
have this beautiful Rainbow Pony moment
and I'm going to be like,
Oh my gosh,
>> it does look really fun and satisfying
to do. I'm not going to lie. Like it
does. Like if you really want to just
make a [ __ ] mess, maybe just do some
spray bottle hair dye if you want. The
difference between using something like
Xono Color versus like a marker is well
our products are tested to go in hair
and have the ingredients that are meant
for the hair first of all along with all
the health benefits but you're getting a
hydrating based color rather than just
ink on your hair and you don't have the
mess like this. So you can do either
really but uh I would definitely choose
the semi-permanmanent exon color route
if it was me.
for
[music]
Oh my god,
the hands with the hair with the
sweater. Like it is a whole moment. It
It's like a work of art. Like her entire
body right now is just a work of art. Um
it's pretty. It's very a lot, but it's
pretty.
Shut the [ __ ] up. Do you just see how
much hair she has left in the back of
her head? Girl, do you have enough hair
in your head? Because I thought you were
done. You pull out an entire bun back
here that is about this thick. Oh my
god.
Damn. I'm a little sad about this purple
though. It's very light purple. It's
very um lavender color. I'm not loving
it. Yeah. Like I do wish it was just
very pigmented, punchy purple. That's
what I want here. But I'm not getting it
and I'm very sad about it.
Okay, we have the purple all saturated.
I think that's purple. I don't know what
the [ __ ] color she's on. I lost track.
Hopefully she's doing violet because
that's the last color in the rainbow. So
when she turned her head, all I could
see was missing spots everywhere. Like
all these little blonde spots going
around her head. I hate to see it. If we
have any missing spots, it's going to be
like right in your face.
[music]
>> Wait, no. Now we're doing Violet. I'm
lost. I I thought she did indigo a long
time ago. I thought she did the blue
already. I don't know. Maybe it's just
me. I am kind of sweating. It's really
hot in here and I'm losing it a little
bit. So, maybe she already did it. But
now we're doing the violet. Thank god. I
also just keep thinking her hair is done
and then she whips out another section.
I just don't know where they're coming
from.
>> [music]
>> Oh, that one's very pigmented. Overall,
that one is the best I've seen yet.
Like, she got it down. It only took her
five sections to get to this violet one
till it actually ended up working
correctly and getting nice saturation.
All right, we got our purple section all
complete. She's going to let it process,
I guess, and then we're rinsing it out,
styling it, and we'll see the finished
result.
Her sweater is actually pretty cute,
though. Like, I like this this design we
have on here. I wonder if that's going
to wash out or stain because I hope it
does stain. [music] That's really cute.
She got a little hair color and a little
tie dye all at the same time.
>> [music]
>> That floor would give me a [ __ ] panic
attack. Girl, put a like a trash bag on
the ground. Anything. You just don't
give a [ __ ] What? It is everywhere.
[music]
>> [laughter]
[music]
>> Oh, okay. So, she blowdried half of it.
The back looks a hot mess. It's fun, but
why the [ __ ] is there blonde everywhere?
Oh, yeah, cuz she spray colored her hair
and didn't section anything really. like
she did big ass sections and then kind
of just spray it on the top part.
Hopefully the top part is evenly
saturated so that the top looks good. I
guess that's all that matters, right?
>> [music]
>> Oh my [ __ ] god. I don't know if I hate
this or am absolutely obsessed with it.
I can't decide. I'm feeling like the
pink in the front is really pretty on
her and it's my favorite part. She also
got really really good color payoff, but
where the yellow meets the orange, it's
a little bit crazy. It's a whole lot of
orange next to a whole lot of pastel
pink. I don't love that at all. But
overall, oh, okay. Like, I think it's
cute. Like, I do think it's cute. And I
think she actually rocks the rainbow
hair. And that's hard to do. Look how
much hair she has. Somehow she got it
all colored enough so it looks okay. But
damn, this is a fun look. And that's
going to get a four on the monometer.
Holy.
>> It is currently 1:30 in the morning and
all of my hair is falling out. So, let's
chop it all off.
Babes, you got to stop with the hair
falling out. Please, like, please stop
bleaching your hair till it falls out.
Please. Oh my god. Now she's going to
cut it off, I guess.
>> My parents are asleep right now, so they
won't know until the morning. These are
the really crappiest scissors I have,
but I don't think it's going to be an
issue because my hair is very, very
thin. I'm going to go in with the
L'Oreal.
>> Her hair is 10 different colors [music]
and fried.
>> And then a little bit of oil so it's
easier to brush. Now I'm trying to part
it, but it's just super dry.
>> Why is it green, purple, blonde, brown?
What did we do before this video?
>> Brittle and so it's really hard to like
try to scoop it forward wet. Now that I
have both of [music] these parts up,
it's not going down because it's so dry
and wet at the same time. Here is what
my brush is looking like.
>> It's time for a full shave, full
restart, wear some wigs for a few
months. Yikes.
>> We're just going to go for it.
>> Oh.
Oh no.
>> We're going to need to cut off a lot
more than that. That's just putting
layers into her hair. She's just doing a
butterfly cut. And we're going to need
to do at least this much length cut off.
Please.
>> Here is the first little bit. I'm not
sure if I want to go shorter yet. I'm
just going to cut this part first.
>> The issue is that her hair is breaking
like near the root, not at the ends.
Here
are the two pieces. We're just going to
go a little bit shorter.
>> Yeah, please.
>> Here,
>> guys. Remember with the butterfly cut,
you're not necessarily cutting length
unless you cut off a ton of hair. You're
just cutting layers.
>> Come on.
>> There is something very stress relieving
about this. Like, even though it's very
stressful, her cutting this hair off
does make me happy. I'm really, really,
really scared to take all of this off.
Have these teeny tiny little scissors to
try to do a little bit of point cutting.
Now, it is time to take it out and see.
>> Of course, we're [ __ ] point cutting.
>> I kind of wanted to go shorter, but I'm
not going to.
[ __ ] Here is what front is looking
like. Let's take out this one.
>> Oh no, it almost looks worse. [ __ ] Oh
god,
I want that shorter. Just watch when I
pull it.
>> Okay. Okay.
>> It just comes out.
>> Hold on. Don't pull it. Okay. When your
hair is wet and it is this damaged, the
last thing you want to do is pull it.
You can put tension on it when it's dry.
I mean, I wouldn't put tension on it at
all, but if it's dry, sure. Your hair is
elastic when it's wet. Don't pull. I'm
back with it up again, and the parting
sucks really badly, but I don't really
care. I literally cannot believe I just
cut off that much freaking hair. She is
very, very, very short. [laughter]
Where the [ __ ] did the hair go? Why is
it a bob? Where did the hair go?
>> I'm really sorry if I'm being annoying,
but like that's all my hair, bro.
All my hair
is gone. There's like the most random
chunk that is shorter right there. But
that is it for cutting my hair.
>> I'm shocked.
>> Tomorrow my mom is bleaching my roots
and then we're doing vivid colors.
>> Okay. So then she colors it.
[music]
And I think this is the final result. I
don't even know what to say. That was
insane. Let your hair recover. Don't do
it again. It's kind of fun. I don't
know. All I can see is the damage and
the dryness, unfortunately. So, K18,
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>> Okay, so I am going to be attempting
[music] to highlight my entire head.
It's going to be more than just
highlighting my head because I want to
make as much of it blonde as possible.
So rather than like weaving each
section, I'm just going to take slices
[music] and they're going to be back to
back and I'm basically going to be like
as blonde as possible in one process,
[music] I guess, cuz I don't want to
bleach on top of my bleach. So, this is
just going to be like how I do it all in
one go. So, yeah. So, the first thing is
I've sectioned off from my crown to my
ears and I've just put that in two flaps
which I've clipped [music] in place cuz
then I I think this is going to take me
quite a while to do the back. So, I
don't want to have to keep be like
clipping them up and this was just the
easiest way to get everything out of my
face.
>> Okay. So, the title says she's going
from brown to blonde and it's an extreme
transformation. So, I'm guessing very
very light blonde. She is starting at
the bottom of her hair and she's doing
beautiful sections which I'm so happy
about. Yeah, I mean this is going to be
a huge undertaking to do herself. I
don't know how she's going to accomplish
this. Her hair is naturally pretty dark.
I mean not that dark, but she has a
whole lot of hair and it's multicolored.
She has some grownup balayage or
something going on and she's about to
try and make this I don't know a solid
blonde or something. Platinum, I don't
know. And so I had all of this hair down
at the back and I've just sectioned off
from my ears backwards. [music]
And this section is going to be the
first section that I'm dealing with. So
I'm using the Olex standalone treatment
[music] which is £950. It comes with the
part one and part two and it's just like
good for a single use. Just going to
start by adding the part one to my
bleach mixture.
>> I love a bond builder in a bleach
formula. If it's going to help my hair,
I'm going to try it. you know, we don't
know what your hair would look like
without it. So, you never know actually
if it did much, but the insurance is
there. That's how I like to think about
it. If you can afford it, do it. You
know, put the bomb builder in the
formula.
>> Yeah. Basically, all I'm going to do is
I'm just going to split that hair in
half. And then I'll just start [music]
with this one section here behind my
ear. And I'm going to direct all of the
hair forwards and pop a foil as close to
behind my ear as possible so that I can
keep the tension [music] nice and tight
and make sure that my foil doesn't slip
out of place. So, I'm not very concerned
with the roots. I don't really care how
they look. I'm just trying to get
[music] as all of my ends covered as
much as possible. And then at the end,
I'm going to go in with like a root drag
anyway. And the hair on the top, like
where my parting is and that sort of
stuff, that's where I'm really going to
concentrate on the roots and making sure
that it's like a really nice blend.
>> Hold on a second. I need to read
something really quick. I need to read
this description. Yeah, she is a
professional hairdresser. This is going
to be good. The foil she just did, I was
like, "Wo, woah, woah, woah. How did she
just do that that easily and that
cleanly?" And she's doing vertical
foils, which is going to create a lot of
diffusion and make a really pretty
result.
>> I'm going to be directing every section
of hair forwards so that I can see what
I'm doing the entire time. And also
taking these diagonal vertical sections
means that even if my blend to the root
isn't completely perfect and seamless, I
won't get any harsh horizontal lines,
which will be really visible when I've
got my hair out. I'm also going to make
sure that I fold all of my foils
properly. Sometimes you could be lazy
and just fold them in half and then fold
it in half again. But I'm going to make
sure that I'm folding the sides of each
foil in as well because that's going to
make sure that my lightener doesn't
[music] dry out, but also it's just nice
and secure. Okay, it seems like she's
going platinum because she is not
leaving any hair out between the foils.
If this was all she was doing was just
wanting to do like a dull process, a
much easier way of doing this would just
be to use say a 30 or 40 volume and just
bring the bleach all through the hair
open application, apply cling wrap all
over that section to let it process or
just paint everything horizontally and
just lay down big sheets of foil. I
would rather use my hands if it was my
own hair, you know. I should put a
disclaimer up though. Every hairdresser
has a different technique. [music] It's
totally fine. I'm not saying I'm right.
I'm just purely analyzing what she's
doing. And sometimes when you do things
with hair, hindsight is 2020. You look
back, you're like, why did I even do it
like that?
>> So, that's the first half done. And then
I'm just going to do exactly the same
thing to the other side. Watching this
video back, the sections that I was
taking were definitely not as thin as
they felt. So, that's just something to
consider if you're doing it on yourself.
And you feel like you've taken a thin
section, probably half it.
>> See, she's already calling herself out.
She knew those those sections were not
thin enough at all.
>> Wow. So, that's how much it's lifted
already. And now we're just going to
move on to the next section up, [music]
which is this top section. I'm going to
just put that click there just to kind
of keep them all in place. And then I'm
going to move up a section. And then I'm
just going to go in with exactly the
same um
technique as last time. So, the pre-
lightener that I'm using is by the brand
L'Oreal Professional and it's the eight
level lift lightener. And I'm going in
with the 20 volume developer. I mean,
okay, she's doing the same thing again
on this next section. I just think
you're over complicating this. Like, I
always say this every week, like I'm not
really a big fold the foil type of guy
unless I need to. I'm not really folding
[ __ ] Like, I'm just laying the hair
down, laying another foil on top, moving
on with my life. If this was my own head
of hair, I would definitely just do the
technique where I use my hands, comb
everything through section by section,
just let it all be out in the open. Let
that process, if it doesn't lift high
enough, I rinse it out and I apply
again. but she's still going to get a
good result doing it like this.
>> Because I am putting my hair in a foil,
I don't want to go in with a 30 vol. I
think that's just going to be a bit
harsh on my hair, especially for the
first foils that I'm putting in because
they'll probably be in for a while. So,
I'm going to go in with my 20 vol and
also with odlex. That is just going to
maintain as much of the integrity of
[music] the hair as possible. So, I'm
going with a low peroxide and then I'm
also going in with odex. Now, she has an
issue here because she has to rinse out
the back section by herself before
[music] she rinses out all this because
she did the back and by the time she
gets to the front, it's going to be
another hour and the back's going to be
done. So, how are we going to rinse that
out? What's the plan there?
>> I'm going to start taking out these
bottom ones cuz I don't want them to
overprocess. The reason I'm doing slices
instead of weaving is because my goal is
to be as blonde as possible in one
process. So, going from brown to blonde
is never going to be the exact perfect
color in one go. But if you imagine that
a weave is a 50/50 split, so you've got
50% brown and 50% [music] of the hair is
going into a foil. Okay, now I'm going
to take out this side. So that means the
lightener is only going to be lightening
50% of my hair and the rest will be left
dark. So overall, the color won't be as
light. So going in with slices just
means that I'll be getting as much
coverage as possible, which is just
going to be the fastest way.
>> I mean, yeah, you're doing a double
process. We're not really highlighting
the hair here. We're just doing a double
process. That's why she's not doing
weaves. And then now I'm going to work
on this top section here. This top
section is going to be really important
because it's going to sit over all of
these parts. So this is going to be like
the top most visible outer layer, if
that makes sense. So these foils I'm
going to [music]
weave like highlights rather than just
um like taking slices. And I'm going to
be a lot more careful to take really
small fine sections.
>> Well, now I'm fully confused because
again prefacing this by saying whatever
you want to do is your prerogative.
>> [music]
>> you know, do you have fun with it and
you're the hair stylist as well? I just
don't really understand why you would
want the bottom of your hair to be the
lightest [music] and then you start
weaving on the top. Unless she's going
to take a toner and tone down the
underneath of her hair to a darker color
and leave the top light. I'm sticking
through it. Let's keep understanding
what's going on. I don't know her full
process yet, so I'm listening
>> because, as I say, I want it to be like
really nice and well blended. So, that's
what I'm going to do. Starting here, I'm
just going to take little diagonal
sections across the whole section. So,
there's not going to be like I'm not
going to come back on myself. I'm just
going to go like this and just continue
to go back and back and back. And as I
said, I'm going to take really small
sections.
>> She's going to do this herself. Oh my
god, I would die. Oh my god. Okay, so
she's doing a weave slice, weave slice,
I think. Or she's just leaving out like
a couple of hairs in between. I don't
know. It's hard to tell what's going on,
but she's putting in the work and only
leaving a few strands out. Like she
said, she wanted to be as blonde as
possible, and baby, this is going to get
her there for sure. So, she's taking
that brush with bleach on it and raking
it through the ends of her hair. That
way, she has a sort of ombre on the
pieces she left out, going from brunette
to blonde. I mean, she's only going to
have a few of those natural pieces left,
>> right? So, I didn't get this all on
camera properly. Basically, what I did
here is I just removed all of the foils
that were at the back of my head from
both sides. So, the only foils that I
had left were the ones on the crown of
my head at the very top because those
were the most recent ones that I done.
and like the bleach I put through the
ends were still developing. So I left
those ones in. I took the bottom ones
out and I washed them and then I towel
dried them and I just platted them to
get them out of the way. So for the
front section of my hair, I'm going to
work in three sections. So I'm going to
go through my parting here and then I'm
[music] going to take two sections up
the side and then everything underneath
here is going to be pretty solid blonde
so [music] that it blends in with the
back which of course is also solid
blonde. And then just on the top here
I'm going to do foils. So there's going
to be brown blonde brown blonde brown
blonde. So, she rinsed out the back and
now she's doing the front because she
applied the back first. She rinsed that
out first. That's what I always tell you
guys to do
>> is I'm just going to take all of the
ends that I've left out in my
highlights. And I'm going to run some
bleach through the ends just to lighten
them up that bit more so that it does
blend in with the ends of my hair a
little bit more. And yeah, that's what
I'm going to do. So, I'm going to work
first of all, I'll section this part out
of the way, this section here. And then
I'm going to work up the sides of my
head first [music] and then I'll do the
top last. All right, we've made it to
the front. We're doing some more
diagonal foils. Oh my god. I mean, she
just keeps going. But she really is just
like retouching her uh new growth right
now. All that brown hair and not really
going on that existing blonde hair. And
that's going to prevent her from having
breakage occur. We don't want to bleach
hair that is already blonde because it's
already blonde. If we bleach it again,
it'll break off
>> and you will die.
>> Okay. So then these parts here, I'll
probably tease it a bit and then put
some of the blonde through the ends. But
I'm actually going to do the ends of
this [music] now just so that they all
develop at the same time and I can wash
them out together. So what I'm going to
do is I'm going to take a foil and just
place it underneath
here. Now clip it in place. I'm just
basically going to just like blayage
this section. So we'll start with
teasing it a bit. And then I don't want
it to be like a solid line where the
blonde starts because then it just won't
look natural when it falls out.
>> All right. She's repeating the same
process on the other side of her head.
Oh my god, you have a thousand foils in
your head already. And the process isn't
even done. This is what it takes to do
professional level color at home. This
much work.
>> And then you just want to take another
slice directly behind that. Really fine.
You want to make sure you're getting
right into that [music] point there at
your parting. And then for this section
here, I'm going to take a small weave.
So, a really, really fine weave.
And then I'll just do the same on this
side.
>> [music]
>> And then I just connect the two in the
middle with another highlight.
>> So she's middle parting it and she's
doing a mohawk section [music] of
highlights on both sides of her head,
but she's also doing them sort of at a
diagonal um as she gets past these front
pieces. That way it's a little bit
diffused and she gets more of a sheet of
color going through her hair instead of
just lines going through. That's the
difference between doing it horizontally
[music] perfect going up like this
versus diagonally like this. Also,
please don't be like me and please
actually wear a top that you [music]
don't like or a color cape because I
don't know why I didn't do that and I've
ruined this top.
>> All right, we're finishing up the top
section and I am so excited for her to
be done. This has been like therapy for
me so far. I feel [sighs]
a sense of relief. I get to watch an
actual professional work. I don't let I
don't treat myself to that a lot, but
when I do, I love it.
>> Okay, so now all of my foils out. I'm
just going to wash my hair and then tone
[music] it. I'm just going to put a 912
all over it and then I'll be back. Okay,
so my hair is um blonde,
but it's a bit late and I'm just going
to go to bed. I'll do my hair and makeup
and stuff tomorrow. I'm blonde.
>> Okay, so she's rinsing it out. I think
she's doing the toner and we're going to
see the final look.
>> Okay, so this is the finished hair
result. Um I'm really really happy with
how the color came out. It was exactly
basically how I hoped the color would
come out. But yeah, I'm really pleased.
I feel like condition of my hair
actually shockingly is not bad at all.
And I definitely put that down to Ollex
and I put that down to just making sure
that you're taking out the foils as and
when they need to come out. But yeah,
for the most part, I'm really really
happy with how this turned out.
>> Holy [ __ ] it came out 10 times better
than I was expecting. That creamy
champagne beautiful glistening blonde
color is a dream. It almost looks
healthier than what she started with. Do
I think it would have been easier to
just dual process the entire head like I
keep saying and then do a root drop
after? Yes. I mean, the way that she did
it is definitely beautiful. And that is
definitely a five on a nightmare for
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