Video summary
This video documents an emotional journey of a viewer attempting to recreate Brad Mondo's balayage tutorial at home, starting with black hair and aiming for a complex calico-style two-tone look featuring blonde and orange tones. The transformation begins by removing the dark pigment using Malibu CPR color remover, accelerated by sunlight exposure which successfully reveals her natural brown base despite leaving the hair dry. To achieve the desired lightness, she proceeds through multiple rounds of bleaching with 40 volume developer; while the product works effectively on previously treated sections, it requires re-application on non-bleached areas to ensure an even lift across all strands.
The initial phase of the process involves meticulous preparation where hair is parted into triangles and pulled high before draping down to create dimension, ensuring highlights run higher on top and lower underneath for a natural effect. Although the host praises the successful bleaching results for their good lift and natural appearance, significant challenges arise during application, such as bleach frequently getting into the viewer's eyes despite warnings about using visors. The experts also advise against pushing hair with fingers or foils to prevent squeezing out product, while emphasizing that rinsing must be done section-by-section rather than all at once to avoid uneven processing and potential hot roots on fine hair types.
Following the bleaching success, a difficult decision is made to dye the newly lightened blonde hair back to brown using Wella 4N mixed with developer instead of pursuing the intended calico look or toning it cool. This choice meets concern from the host, who explains that going directly from blonde to dark without filling can result in muddy tones or green hues if porosity varies between sections; indeed, the application appears messy and uneven initially, turning almost black when wet due to high saturation on porous hair. Although an earlier color remover helped lighten some pink-damaged areas, the final brown dye job is deemed too dark and cool-toned for her complexion compared to her previous blonde look, leading to sadness over the transformation away from the original goal.
The video concludes with a discussion on managing damage and future adjustments, noting that while green spots can appear due to previous treatments or excessive bleaching compromising hair integrity, this creator's fine hair handled the process with minimal breakage. The host reassures the viewer that permanent color will fade slightly with washing but suggests semi-permanent alternatives like temporary foam colors for customization if she wishes to tweak tones between washes without further damage. Ultimately, while the final brown result is considered a step back from her original vision and potentially too cool-toned, it offers an opportunity to experiment with different techniques or treatments like CPR before committing to another permanent change that might jeopardize hair health.
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Hi beautiful. Do you think I'm going to
get pissed off today or really
excited? That's the question every
single week. Will I be happy or will I
want to kill myself by the end of
watching these videos? It's mayhem in
the world of hair. goes down all
the time where I'm like, "What are you
guys doing? Why?"
>> You have now moved up all the sections
all the time.
>> We're bringing all those sections up to
the hair ties.
>> Bleach right in the eye. Bleach right in
the eye. Oh my god, I can't even like
help myself.
>> [laughter]
>> Oh, get that off of your face and your
eyes. It's really concerning me.
>> Just in case this hairstyle comes out uh
mazing, Brad Mondo has this technique to
balayage your hair and I'm going to try
it.
Part your hair in three sections.
>> I'm loving the way you say balayage,
badalabalayage, what I don't know what
you said, but it was really cute.
>> Balayage your hair.
>> It's balayage, everybody. It's not just
you, and I'm calling you out
specifically, but everybody gets that
word wrong. Balayage.
>> This is a triangle in front of your
face. You try to get it as close
together as possible.
Second, up high, you drape it down. So,
the thing is it's supposed to go like
this at the end. [music] So, it's this
like natural
with this ponytail in the back.
>> So, she's following my balayage ponytail
tutorial, and I think this is so
underrated. I don't know why more people
don't do it. It is so good if I do say
so myself. Um I kind of ate with this.
So, hopefully it goes really well for
her, because I think I ate.
>> parted it. Behind the ears is the first
part.
What's left, put it up real high, and
then you pull it down.
You're going to put bleach
powdered bleach, 20 volume.
>> Yes. Okay, so you saw what she was
saying. So, you pull up the ponytail
sections really high in your head right
here, and then you pull them down. What
this does is make the underneath really
kind of saggy and then the top really
tight. So, your highlights are going to
go really high up at the top, and then
really drag down to the bottom of your
hair because you pulled that ponytail
down. That gives you a lot dimension in
the underneath of your hair and gives
you that kind of
>> [snorts]
>> look that we're looking for with
balayage where it goes high in the front
and low in the back.
>> We're going to leave about [music] that
much.
Bleach this whole thing through. I'll
put some saran wrap in it. Start the
timer for 20 minutes.
Each section
is different. [music]
So, 20 20 20. Soon as you done putting
the bleach
20 minutes.
>> She absolutely ate this parting up, like
devoured this Absolutely wow. This
is really well done and so far it's
looking really really good. I am
impressed.
>> Then you go back at 5 minutes left and
you put the bleach to that
to this. Cuz you're going to leave a
gap. Then you rinse out each section at
that 20-minute [music]
mark. It's going to be like a natural
balayage. Cuz I love all this stuff, but
I keep cutting my hair so it's all out.
So, hopefully it'll be all through up
here. Yeah, so let's see what happens. I
have no idea what's going to happen, but
we're going to try our best. How to get
even
>> Totally fine to start in the back or the
front, whatever's better for you.
However, I think most of the time it's
better to start in the back because you
otherwise you can't really see much. I
will say though, if you start in the
front, it's easier to wash off in
sections. You can clip it out of the way
once you apply the color, so think about
it.
>> My girlfriend went to Sally's and got me
powder bleach and 20 volume developer. I
did 4 oz of
>> [music]
>> the powder and 4 oz of the developer. He
said, "Do you need a whisk?" I said,
"No, it's fine. I have everything." I
needed [music] the whisk. Here goes
nothing. It's only hair, right? All
right, let's get this one out of the
way, too.
>> [music]
>> So, I can do I want to start in the
back.
This section right here.
>> This you're supposed to wash off front,
middle, back, the way you applied it.
And if you do the front first, it's
really easy to put your head down in the
sink and wash that first. Cuz all the
water's going to keep moving forward,
you know?
>> Really get [music] it in there.
>> Yes.
>> Okay. This is going to be so messy.
>> [music]
>> Good thing my bathroom needs to be
cleaned.
>> Yes. I love how much color she's
applying. Bleach, [music] not color, but
>> like bleach, I'll tell you that.
>> Ooh, she's doing [music] this good as
Do you see how much bleach is
layered on her head? There is a lot.
That is a ton of bleach, and that is
exactly how much we want. Beautiful,
amazing, well done. Bravo.
>> Make sure it's like really in every
hair.
>> Yes, spread that hair apart.
>> the thickest, I should do more.
>> Spread the hair apart and apply more.
When you think it's enough, apply more.
>> pungent.
>> I wrapped it in Saran Wrap. I I don't
know. Let's go to the next side. Both
sides down at the bottom. I'm going to
start a timer. [music]
>> You are doing this great. You are doing
such a good job. The only thing I'm
going to say is that I'd rather you
start a timer counting upwards instead
of setting a time like 20 minutes and it
counting downward. And that's because I
don't know how long your hair is going
to take to process. Everybody's hair is
different. I don't know if it has
previously been colored, which is going
to add more time on the processing
versus virgin hair that is light
naturally. It's going to have a less
processing time. I wouldn't necessarily
recommend this. I would just watch it,
and then once you rinse out the first
section at maybe 32 minutes, you rinse
out all the other sections at 32
minutes.
>> Let's get the second section going.
>> [music]
>> I have to keep removing my gloves and
putting new ones on because
I'm going to get a old towel
be my friend because I need to go to the
next section and I don't want to touch
all this stuff with bleach all over my
hands.
All right, [music] next section. Let's
get these out of the way
so I can do that. Okay. New gloves, new
sections. Oh, let's put some cling wrap
out.
>> I'm already
>> so proud of her like this. She's doing a
great job, and this is just so fun to
watch. Usually, I'm over here screaming
and, like, mad, and this one's really,
really fun, and I am I'm enjoying this.
So, thank you for the little break from
all the you usually watch.
>> Section second second
second section down.
>> The other thing she could have done is
comb the bleach through, which I don't
know if I did that in my video, but
combing the bleach through with a
wide-tooth comb or something that's just
kind of, like, not a fine-tooth, you
know, not very fine, cuz you will not
get through the bleach, but most other
things, like a detangling brush, like a
wet brush, will go through the bleach
and get [music] this really even and
nicely saturated, and it's super
helpful. So, she could have done that as
well.
>> I really feel like I would love to do
this on somebody's hair
because [music]
um so, at 36, this comes off because
it's so hard to just maneuver everything
by yourself. This would be so easy to do
with your girlfriends.
Like, this would be fun to do with your
girlfriends. If you're not afraid of
bleach, you're not afraid your hair's
curled out.
>> She's totally right.
Definitely, everything with hair is
easier to do on other people, but um in
the front of her hair, I wanted to
highlight the fact that that little
section, the little triangle, the reason
why it's pulled to the front and not to
the middle of the section is because
when we do overdirection, which we are
doing slightly here on the little
triangle section, [music]
when we have overdirection, it's going
to make sure that that really tippy top
piece is almost to her scalp, and then
this piece is just down by her eyebrow
because we overdirected the section and
put that tie on there.
>> It would be so much easier just to be
looking at someone's head and doing this
instead of doing this to your own head.
Um
hopefully, I have amazing results
because I would love a violet [music]
ash. I want Express Your Martini hair
every day of my life.
>> All right. I think you're going to love
it.
>> Like, see, [music]
you have to, like, leave these sections
down
be
So, it [music] would be easier to
um
>> Yeah, you see now how difficult it is to
color the front of your hair. It is
definitely going in her eyes and it's
not fun. But unfortunately, there's no
way around it. This is how you need to
do it if you want it to come out right.
Just protect your eyes, you know, just
don't go blind. And nobody sue me. Um
>> Cuz you can't like flip it up cuz then
the bleach will get on all the spots you
don't want biology.
>> Exactly. Yes.
>> So, it's easier to do the back first
than the front. Oh my god, the bleach is
smelling.
The bleach is a smelly.
All right, I forgot to
tell him [music]
I forgot to get my Saran wrap that time.
>> I wish she was going a bit higher on
these sections because the front is the
one you want to really punchy. You want
it basically up to that elastic, maybe
just an inch or so underneath it, but
you want it really really close because
that's what's going to give you that
money piece, that beautiful
money piece in the front.
>> I bleach all over the bathroom. [music]
We're going to be washing this bathroom.
All right.
Got a little Saran wrap on her. Wash my
hands. Wait to 20 minutes. Oh, what time
is it? 17. Okay, so 1 minute after that.
This one.
Take some cling wrap.
>> Just be careful guys with anything like
foil or cling wrap. Don't push. We never
want to push on hair, okay? We want to
let that hair live and breathe and just
be natural and vibe. The reason why we
don't want to push is because you end up
squeezing the bleach off of the hair.
The bleach is just a little icing on the
hair. If you put your finger on a cake,
the icing is going to move. We don't
want to move the icing.
>> The first section, we're going to bring
that bleach up.
>> [music]
>> I have plenty of bleach. I made more
than enough.
A little cheat sheet for my numbers me
what time to start rinsing stuff off.
I'm back in and I'm really making sure
that every hair is covered. [music]
>> It's lightning.
>> can see the nice lift
that it's doing. It's really working
well.
Um
>> I mean, that to me is done. We don't
want the hair to be too light because
then you'll have this drastic difference
between the really dark hair and the
really light hair. It'll be more of an
ombre rather than balayage. Balayage is
a more natural kind of sun-kissed look.
Ombre is more of that very drastic kind
of color blocky look.
>> Ombre effect going there.
I think I need a full 20 minutes on each
section. We are
So, I have
Um
I still [music] have 3 minutes to start
putting it up on the um
root section.
Got a lot of lift. I'm very happy with
it.
>> Sam.
>> I'm just going through each section and
making sure that they're all covered.
>> Now, I'm at the 15-minute [music]
mark. So, I need to come back to these
ones in the back.
Start applying to that ponytail.
>> Yes. Okay, so this is the next step. You
bring the bleach up to where the
ponytail is. And what that's going to do
is increase this ombre effect even more.
It's going to make that perfect
diffusion from dark hair to light hair
because you're applying more of bleach
up to the ponytail, which is going to
sit on the hair for less time than the
other hair processed. So, this is going
to create that ombre effect because that
part's going to be less light than the
rest. So, it's going to be like brown,
light brown, blonde, you know?
>> You kind of just
really
just try to get that cuz you want it to
be a diffused look so it doesn't look
like black and white. So, you're just
kind of going to this section right here
and you're getting some bleach in there
to the
to that ponytail section.
>> Sweet sassy
And when it's a blend out really nicely,
everything looks amazing.
>> [laughter]
>> Now we're at that ponytail section. Let
me get that out.
All right.
>> I love how confident she is while doing
this. Like this is, I think, her first
time doing something like this at home.
I mean, doing balayage is typically
really hard to do at home, but I think
that I made it very easy. And she is
absolutely devouring. I Have you guys
seen me this happy in a long time?
Because I'm truly
>> [music]
>> very happy today. I think this is the
most happy I've been watching a video in
a long time. It's just good vibes. It's
a great video.
>> I think I dyed my hair tie. Oopsie.
It's only 5 minutes. We're good.
All right. So, yeah, I'm just really
dying into that
section, cuz we hit a 15-minute mark.
And for 5 minutes, you want the bleach
to be on
>> [music]
>> that section right where you left off,
so it's very blended and beautiful.
I love that the color Look at this color
that we got.
>> It's looking gorgeous.
>> Guess what? If I don't like it, it's
hair. I will dye it a different color.
Leave it alone. I don't care. Wear it in
a bun.
Section, section, section. Okay.
I've now moved up all the sections all
the time.
>> We're bringing all those sections up to
the hair ties.
>> Bleach right in the eye. Bleach right in
the eye. Oh.
>> No! They definitely sell like clear
visors on Amazon. So, if you guys are
trying to do this, maybe buy a little
visor, and it will not get in your eye,
and it will protect your eyes. So, if
you want to invest in that, or wear
clear sunglasses.
>> Oh my god. I can't even like help
myself.
>> Oh, get that off of your face and your
eyes. It's really concerning me. Turning
my smile into a
frown.
>> Let's just get the bleach on the hair
and then I'll
do something. I don't know what.
So, we're just getting
>> Don't go blind on me, God, please.
>> We're just diffusing that look. So,
we're just bringing out right to that
Look at what what beautiful color we
got.
>> It's beautiful. It's like this caramelly
blondie
brownie all the colors.
>> lifted so [music] beautifully. I love
it.
Oh my God, bleach in the eye. Okay,
[music] so I don't know because I'm not
a mannequin, I'm not sure how is this
supposed to work.
>> Cuz I'm not a mannequin.
>> She's referring to Miss Mannequin in my
video. You guys are all my little
beautiful mannequins.
>> So, like I'm just supposed to rinse out
each section separately at the 20-minute
mark. I don't know.
>> Okay, what you can do is you can just
look at your hair, okay? You can wipe it
off with a towel and check how the color
is processing. You feel me on that one?
Once it's the tone that you want, you
rinse it off and then you time it.
Everything else the same amount of time
as you timed that first section that you
rinsed off.
>> I'm going to try my best. I'll be back
to show you the final result. Everything
[music] is bleached and my eyeball.
My whole bathroom. Stick around for the
results. It's almost time. Come with me
as I rinse out my Brad Mondo hair.
>> This [laughter] is my final hair.
>> [music]
>> By a large technique that he invented.
It's really difficult to do by yourself.
You have to rinse out each section.
>> I'm sorry it's so difficult. I feel like
it's not. Your opinions are yours, okay?
I tried to make it as easy as possible.
It's just not an easy thing to do.
Genuinely, it takes hairdressers so long
to learn how to do this properly. We
don't do it like this, but it's really
hard in general just to color and bleach
hair properly. This is more of an
artistic color thing as well. It's not
just like slapping some bleach on and
calling it a day. This is like full-on
art.
>> As it goes along
as the 20 minute goes. Ooh, I don't want
to spill.
This is how I'm doing it. I'm not even
sure if this is correct.
>> This looks correct.
>> I hope it comes out beautiful.
>> The color looks really good so far. As
she's rinsing it out, I just think it
looks great. It's like not too light.
You don't want the hair to be blonde or
else you're going to again have that
really severe ombre look. We're not
looking for with this. So, this is
perfect and she's doing a great job. I
don't know why you feel so uh not
confident about your work. You're doing
a fabulous job and everything's coming
out how it should be. And I'm feeling on
the top of the world.
Eiffel Tower, the top of the Burj
Khalifa, the Empire State Building.
That's it. I'm just feeling on top of
all those things.
>> Oh, and on top of your man.
I don't know how you're supposed to do
this by yourself.
And
>> You're doing it.
>> not on a mannequin.
>> You're doing it.
>> great when they're not on a mannequin.
>> You don't need to wash it yet. We can
wash when everything is rinsed out. Just
rinse, put a towel on,
>> [music]
>> and wait for everything to be finished.
Then go in and
everything. I don't think the front
pieces are done yet. You just rinse out
the back. Why are we going to the front?
Don't piss me off now. We came so far
and I was so happy. Please, please don't
mess it up.
>> Can't wait to see the final result.
Oh, my toes are cramping now from being
in this position.
Cuz I worked all day yesterday. Oh, my
feet hurt. Oh, my toes are cramping.
>> You can also do this in the shower. I
mean, I know she's trying to film this,
so she can't exactly like be naked
[music] and like be in the shower. But,
you can do this in the shower. And the
steam, as long as you just don't get all
the sections in the water at once.
That's the hard part. But, you can
always go in the shower, take a 5-minute
break, [music] sit there, go on your
phone, do the next section. That way you
can just stand up and wash this. That's
also a way of doing this. Plus the steam
will help the color process faster and
better and lighter. My girl is in hell.
She hates this so much.
>> [laughter]
>> Like look at her face right now. That's
the face of somebody who wants to kill
Brad Mondo. Like absolutely kill me.
>> This is crazy or what?
Oh my toes cramped.
Oh I'm sorry.
>> [laughter]
>> Oh we are making this so much harder for
ourselves though by washing it like this
in ponytails. Like just take out the
ponytails.
>> Look at the color we got.
>> Oh my god it's so light.
>> Come back for the final reveal. Okay,
each section is rinsed out. It's taking
a lot of bleach in this eye. As you can
tell it's really red. It's not for the
faint of heart trying to rinse out your
hair
section by section cuz I'm not a doll
head that can go in the back sink.
>> She's shading me so hard with this
mannequin head. That's why we started in
the front so you can rinse out the front
easily.
>> I just put a um collagen [music]
treatment on my hair. It's 5 minutes
just so I don't damage it with all the
bleach I just put on there. Going to get
it rinsed off. I'm going to blow dry
style. I'm going to show you the end
result and I am so excited to bring you
along.
>> Okay, she's not going to tone her hair.
It could be okay. Sometimes you can get
away with not doing toner if your hair
just lifted very nicely. Toners end up
washing off over time anyways. We have a
Super Gloss toning line all these
different colors you can choose from.
You can just do it at home. It's super
easy. It has no peroxide in it so it's
not going to damage your hair at all.
There's no risk. It's going to make it
feel better post coloring which is a
great thing to use for something like
this.
>> Oh my god hun.
Dye my hair.
It's almost time [music] for the big
reveal. It was really hard rinsing it
out section by section by myself. I'm
really [music] excited to see it done
and
I want to blow dry my hair, style my
hair, put makeup on, and have a big
reveal.
>> I hope this isn't too [music] red.
>> I didn't pull too much red. I hope I
left it in long enough. It's so hard to
tell. I have all faith that Brad Mondo's
techniques work because I have been
doing his butterfly cut forever. I love
his techniques. [music]
They're easy. They're DIY home stuff
that really works. Section, section,
[music] section. Now that we got all
that done, I'm going to blow dry my
hair.
>> I love the sections. Yay!
I love sections. If you don't already
know, you know though. You know how
excited I am about sections.
>> We're going to go in sections.
Oh.
This is my hair straight. I need some
light. And it's supposed to just be like
a progression down the side. Like see
how it just goes naturally goes down
like because of the way we angled our
hair. I'm so impressed.
>> She's not done. There's one more part,
but this is already looking amazing and
I'm gagged. It's still straight and it
looks really good. Like usually people
wear their hair curly with balayage
because it makes it just blend better
and look better, but straight even looks
awesome.
>> I love coloring my hair, especially when
it's curled. Now, I hate my hair down
like this, especially in the middle. It
does nothing for my face shape or body.
I can go buy some toner and put it on,
but I honestly think if I sit in the sun
for a couple hours today, it'll lighten
up even more and with every wash.
>> Again, she's not done, but I wish she
put the toner on still. Like after I'm
seeing this straight result, I just wish
she toned it because the toner will make
everything super even. Like this could
look salon quality if she just put a
toner on there. Right now it just has
this few variations of tone going
through the highlights and if we brought
it all together and made it more
cohesive, I'd be like mind blown. But my
mind is still blown.
>> This is what my hair looks like not
curled.
I love these blonde pieces up here.
These pieces were a little bit lighter.
I should have left them in longer. Hence
why you only rinse out one time.
>> kidding
>> I'm going to go with my BaByliss Pro and
going to curl it. Look how cute this
looks already. And then we take a piece
and we brush it out for smoothness. Oh
my god, I am so obsessed with my hair
already. It's not even funny.
I'm obsessed.
This is only [music] going to marinate
and look more beautiful as I sit in the
sun, get chlorine, [music] and it just
lived in and you wash it. This is
exactly what I needed in my [music]
life. I hate being a full head of dark
and my hair is extremely dark right now.
This is [music] absolutely gorgeous. I
love the depth and dimension it brought
to my life.
Look at the back.
Mhm, let me see.
I didn't look at the back yet.
Oh my god, girl.
It suits my skin tone and personality
perfectly.
I hope that you enjoyed
>> Holy
>> Wow.
Wow, we wow, we wow, we oh
my
god.
>> Yes, girl.
>> As if I didn't think the front was good
enough. The back, the blend on the back
of her hair was like
Oh my god, everything is just perfect.
Again, I do wish she toned her hair. I
think it would have just pulled it
together just a little bit more and just
with an ash base toner, you could cut
out some of that yellow and orange we're
seeing and it will just make this thing
look so professionally done. And she did
the butterfly cut. This whole thing is
brought to you by Brad Mondo. I don't
know your name, but you as well. She
also mentioned that she did this in 1
hour and with I think $28 worth of
bleach. You can't get much better than
that, can't you? This made my whole week
and I am just so happy for you. You look
confident, radiant, gorgeous.
>> I'm dying [singing] my hair back to
brown. I'm just chilling in my bathroom.
Just like last year when I bleached it.
Honestly, I think I might cry. It's so
dumb and I understand that.
>> My girl's going back to brown. I'm going
to be honest with you, I'm a little sad
about this. I'm actually very sad about
this because I feel like her complexion
works so well with blonde hair. Like so,
so well. Almost too well and I just
think that doll going dark, it's not
going to look right on her. Unless her
natural hair color, but like
the blonde looks so good. Am I the only
one? Tell me you agree. Or am I just
being a blonde lover?
>> I think I'm having such a hard time
dying it back because when I dyed it the
first time, it was such a new chapter in
my life and after bleaching my own hair,
I [music] felt like I could do anything.
A lot of people who were in my life when
I bleached it and before I bleached it
are not in my life anymore. [music] I've
grown more in the past year than I ever
have before in my life and I do kind of
accredit that to my hair having been
blonde. It just
I can't even explain it.
>> I agree. Guys, hair can really change
your whole outlook on life. It's crazy.
Like you end up feeling like a different
character every time you color your hair
a different color and that's why my hair
changes so much. I like to see the world
in different ways through my hair color.
You know what I mean?
>> I um sectioned it and then I got
nervous. Brad Mondo, if you're watching,
I'm afraid.
>> [laughter]
>> I'm afraid as well because you can't
just go from blonde to dark. You need to
do a filling step where you put like a
coppery orangey color over this and then
you go dark. If you go too many levels
down at once, you'll end up with this
kind of muddy green ugly color.
>> Also, I'm afraid that the red I got is
really dark, but the brown I got is
really dark and pretty cool tone, I
think. So, like hopefully it covers it.
>> Okay, so she is doing red first.
Yay.
>> Okay, my biggest fear is having splashes
of red hair in the brown, but if I
saturate it enough that won't happen. I
bought two boxes, two tubes of the brown
that I'm using. I'll show you that when
I get to it. But I bought two tubes so
that I can just
>> [music]
>> pour it on if I need to cuz I'm not
having like random red pieces when I put
my hair up. But we're feeling it. That's
good.
You're welcome, Brad. All right, I'm
going to shake it cuz I'm nervous.
>> [laughter]
>> Sorry, I'm choking, but I love when you
guys talk to me and prove to me that
you're doing something right. It makes
me so god damn happy. I have been
smiling all day today. Today is a great
day. It's just vibey today. I was also
scrolling through TikTok today and it
was like a bunch of fortune telling
people
that were telling me that like the day
is great
>> [music]
>> and I was like, that's interesting. I I
was already feeling great and now you
guys are telling me it's supposed to be
great. How do you know that? What's
going on here? I'm feeling the synergy
today.
>> This is so fun for you. It's horrifying
for me. You just get to watch this video
and see how it turns [music] out all in
one sitting. I don't get to do that.
We're back and more nervous than ever. I
brought makeup wipes in case I get it
all over my face. [music]
Also, I brought gloves.
>> Wow.
>> Now I have to mix the color. Nervous for
that. Okay, I'm going with one part
[music] this, one part developer. I
probably should have made it easier to
be able to measure it, but you know
what?
>> Yeah, girl, you don't look like you're
measuring anything to be clear. Like I
don't think there's a measurement
involved here. What the is that?
>> Ah, [screaming] what the
>> So, I don't know what's happening. I'm
scared because she's just squeezing in
the middle of that tube. When you're
squeezing color out of metal tubes like
that, start from the top and work your
way down, please. Or it'll make it very
hard later to squeeze this all out.
>> It's looking a little more red at the
bottom of the tube. Um, that's very
nerve-wracking that something went
wrong. Hello, manufacturers.
>> Sometimes the color can oxidize a little
bit weird and like the bottom can have
had a little bit of exposure to oxygen
because of the [music] filling process,
but the color is probably fine.
>> Look, it's very pink in the middle and
white on the outside. This is scary.
That's an understatement.
>> I hope if this is demi-permanent color,
I much prefer filling hair with
demi-permanent color because you just do
not need anything above like a 2% on
your hair, which is like 7 volume. We
don't want to put 20 volume on this hair
and blow out that cuticle and have
everything just not stick properly.
>> All right, guys. It's um this color now.
It's a a lot more red um in person than
on camera. I can't believe I'm back here
in my bathroom doing this and it's going
back to brown. Okay, I'm going to start
with the back section cuz I always have.
It's never
>> [music]
>> failed me yet. All right, we're about to
go for it. I can't really see what I'm
doing. Do I use the brush or do I use my
fingers?
>> Either one.
>> Maybe I'll try with the brush. I really
just went in. I wasn't even
>> What?
>> Holy.
This is what I haven't put it on yet.
>> When you're wanting to go dark and your
hair goes dark and you're like, "What
the is happening?" Like, "What,
babe? What's wrong?" This is how it's
supposed to be. You're trying to go
dark, no? Yeah, it is going to be red.
You're coloring it red and this is
looking appropriate. It's processing
very fast though. Damn.
>> Yeah, I'm using my fingers. I don't
[music] really care.
>> [laughter]
>> Okay, this is going to be a darker red
than I thought, I guess. Wow. Okay,
guess we're just
going to pile it on there. I'll be
careful. Screw sectioning, anyways.
>> Oh, screw sectioning. Why would you say
such a thing?
>> [snorts]
>> Why would you do that?
>> [laughter]
>> I cannot believe this is what's
happening right now. Okay, I just can't
leave any spots blonde, but either way I
get a do-over.
>> Comb it through.
>> Okay, well now I know what it'll look
like dark. Not like I have a choice at
this point. This is what it looks like
in the back.
>> Oh, that looks like you're missing a lot
of hair because you're not sectioning.
The
>> I will catch back with you guys when all
my hair is this dark red. So.
>> Oh,
we did color the roots, too. This is the
issue that's going to happen here. You
should have definitely avoided the roots
because now your roots are going to pick
up very red, and it's going to be really
hard to cancel that red tone out on your
root area. You don't need to fill your
roots because they're already filled.
They're already your natural hair color.
They don't need any more filling with
red.
>> This is what we're working with right
now. My biggest fear with dying my hair
back to brown is that I'll look like
Aneska from Jane the Virgin, Petra's
twin sister with the brown hair, cuz her
hair is kind of green. Like the dye is
supposed to look kind of bad. So, I
guess I just don't want to look like
that. Anyways, I guess I'm feeling good
about the decision.
>> The color is very clean, like she didn't
get it on her face, which I'm loving.
So, that's great.
>> I guess I don't really have a choice
right now. I kind of have to feel good
about it, but I'm just going to try and
clean up, and then wait 25 to 30
minutes. The ears are very red.
Hopefully it all comes off. Feeling
surprisingly okay. Okay, I'm about to
wash it out. Looking really red.
>> [laughter]
>> I guess that's the point. Little
nervous.
>> I love how shocked she is that her hair
is red after coloring it red. That's my
favorite part of this whole thing. It's
like, "My hair is red."
I wonder if that was the point. You know
what I mean?
>> But I think the brown is dark enough to
cover it up. I'm just hoping I don't
have red hair. My hair has so much in
volume.
>> Woah.
>> Also, um you can see my breakage a lot
better right now.
>> Holy What is that breakage, babe?
Oh, no. It's really badly broken. Damn,
good thing you have a lot of hair
because that is
This is a good tone to work with though.
It's kind of red, it's kind of pinky. Um
this will ensure that it doesn't go too
warm when you put the brown over it.
Sometimes when you make it too red
before you put the brown on, it makes it
like a red brown and that's also [music]
not cute. It's very tricky filling hair
and getting it to the right natural
brown color because brown hair has the
perfect mix of red, green, and blue in
it. It's very tricky.
>> It does [music] have so much volume.
Um
>> Ooh.
Ah. Yeah.
>> Now I'm kind of scared because it's not
even. But either way, this has some
color in it. It's either not even cuz
your porosity of your hair was very
up. Like it's just some parts are
really porous, some parts [music] not as
porous that will end up giving you this
uneven result. Or you just applied it
really poorly. We may never know. So I
don't think it'll turn green. I'm just
nervous now. Okay, we're sectioned
[music] and it looks weird in this
lighting. Actually, I don't even know
what it looks like. It's not very even
and I don't know if I didn't leave it on
long enough. I left it on for longer
than the time it said, but
>> It seems like you left it on long enough
then.
>> Cream hair color in a 4N medium brown.
>> It's longer than the time they
recommended. I would say it's long
enough.
>> It seemed not very red toned.
>> We're doing a 4N.
Holy The thing with filling hair
and applying a color over it on very
porous blonde hair is it usually takes
one to two levels darker. So, if we want
a level four, we should choose like a
level five and a half or even six
sometimes. It'll end up giving you a
level four because of how much your hair
holds on to that pigment. The permanent
color you're showing right now is built
to go over natural hair color, which is
very resistant. So, it needs a lot of
that lifting power and that pigment to
really latch on versus your hair that's
already been lifted and colored and
bleached [music] and everything. It's
not going to react the same to the color
in both of those scenarios. have to be
cautious of that.
>> There's so much we have. I have so many
of one pair of gloves left, so I have to
do this all in one shot. I added an
extra section, so hopefully that helps.
Um here's what it's looking like.
>> Wow. Okay, we are getting that color on
there and it's already turning dark and
I am getting a little excited. I mean, I
still think the blonde was looking was
looking better than the brown. Like,
it's not like this is going to look bad.
I just like the blonde was so good.
>> I have all of the dye in. And I'm
honestly really nervous because it looks
black. I'm leaving it in now for like 30
minutes and then I'm going to wash it
out.
>> Okay, we have the color on.
>> Guys.
>> [laughter]
>> My forehead looks so big.
>> [laughter]
>> Oh my god. Okay, let me go brush it.
I'll come back Holy
crap, is it black? Literally literally
black.
Oh my god, I need a fake tan.
>> I don't think it's black. What?
>> I don't love it. From what I've seen so
far, I think it looks really even, which
is good. God, it's so
>> [laughter]
>> It's so dark. Oh my god. Listen, okay. I
picked this color, obviously not
expecting this. I thought it was a
little bit darker than my natural color.
And because I So, I it over blonde, I
know it's going to fade a little bit,
but I think because the red was so dark,
maybe it looks like this. I'm going to
give it a few days and let you know what
I think. Sorry, I keep looking at myself
cuz I cannot believe that this is my
hair right now and that I went from
>> [music]
>> so beautifully blonde to this. I feel
like the blonde hair fit my personality
really well, so this kind of doesn't.
>> For me personally, I don't like it. I
would have much preferred you just stay
that beautiful blonde color you were
before. why'd you do this? Why did
you do this?
>> It's definitely dark. It's definitely
too dark and it's definitely too cool
tone for you. Luckily, this will come
out over time. I mean, it's not going to
come fully out, but it will fade and it
will get lighter.
>> But I agree with you. It's just It's
just something It's not right. Damn it.
You just went back to dark. Now, next
time you guys, you know, you can also
use semi-permanent color. Again, super
gloss. You can use a dark brown color
like 5N and you can actually remove it
if you don't like it with something like
a Malibu CPR treatment will get rid of
most of this color or any kind of
semi-permanent color remover. Those are
made to fade out versus a permanent
color like this, which is not made to
fade out. Damn it. Ah,
damn it. I was kind of hoping I'd be
surprised, but I'm not. I don't really
like it, but you're beautiful and I love
you.
>> Today, I am bringing it back to 2016 and
dying and cutting and bleaching my hair
all by myself in my bathroom. And in
loving memory of the last time I ever
went into a salon, which was in 2016
when I tried to bleach my hair by myself
at home, messed it up and had to go get
it fixed and then I never went back. I
could do better. I just need to get the
actual tools.
>> Oh, so we have a history. Hopefully,
this isn't like the last time and
hopefully you get it right. That's all
I'm going to say cuz it looked like last
time was a disaster.
>> So, anyways, I feel like I'm fairly
qualified to do this. I'm going for a
calico. I am not doing chunky stripes.
That is not the vibe that I'm going for.
Inspo pics.
>> Oh!
So, we're going like for really intense,
difficult, creative color. What could go
wrong? I'm excited um for it to go
right. Like, I hope I'm expecting the
worst, to be honest with you, cuz this
is complicated. You look like you're
starting off with a good base, though,
because your hair looks to be just like
a light brown color. So, this, in
theory, should lighten quite well and
easily. But, I don't really know what's
on your hair.
>> Do you get it? Cool, cuz I don't. This
is my current hair, by the way. Like, a
very small bit in the back that is pink,
and then the tips of my hair are all
pink. While doing your hair at home is
cheaper than going to a salon, doing
your hair at home is not cheap. I went
to Sally's.
>> You know what's at Sally? Excellent
color and hair care.
>> What I bought that all cost me $106 was
Wella T18, Good Dye Young's Toxicity. I
just love Hayley Williams so much, okay?
I also got this cream bleach, which I've
never tried before, so that'll be fun.
Other things that I usually don't buy. I
got some gloves, cuz you should use
those, and wipes to get it off of your
skin, I guess. I've used wipes before
that get it off of surfaces, but they
didn't have those, so I got this
instead. That is all that I got. It is
suggested to use the same brand of
developer as whatever bleach or toner
you're using. I'm not doing [music]
that. I will be using 20 volume and a
tiny bit of 40 volume in there, and some
other things that I have. Mixing bowl
and brush, measuring spoons, hair caps.
If you don't have these, use a plastic
shopping bag. Foil, use normal aluminum
foil. Purple conditioner.
>> Oh! She's got everything we can possibly
need to do this, and I'm happy about it.
She is full on prepared as sh- and I am
hyped. Is today just going to be like
the best day [music] Oh, wait. I was
going to say today is just the best day
ever for Hair Dresser Reacts, but like
we the last girl was just solid. I think
I'm still like in a daze from that first
transformation.
>> [sighs and gasps]
>> The balayage was so pretty.
>> My plan for today [music] is to bleach
and then tomorrow I will do coloring.
I've never had a plan when doing my hair
and it's always turned out fine. Right.
Yeah, totally. Anyways, I spent an godly
amount of time just [music] running and
not sectioning off my hair. Don't know
why, but eventually I did get around to
it and I decided to use the comb and my
eyebrows, I guess, as [music] guides to
kind of standardize how it was sectioned
off to hopefully make it easier in the
future and I think it did. I think it
worked. So, basically it was length of
the comb back from the start of my hair.
>> She is doing an incredible job
sectioning. This is making me very
happy.
This sort of calico moment she showed as
her inspiration definitely had
sectioning similar to this where the
whole front of the hair was colored kind
of lighter than the rest. So, I'm glad
she's doing the sectioning correctly and
she's going at the apex and working her
way [music] down to the ear, which is
exactly what I would have done. So,
great job.
>> Down to the ear and then ends of the
eyebrows around [music]
to get the bottom section. I did also
take a chunk of brown [music]
up from here
for some reason and I did arch of the
eyebrow back and then the width of my
dye [music] comb.
>> Oh, she's getting this precise. Okay.
>> Let's be real here. It'll It will be
good enough. It was. I think it Ooh.
I was going to use color remover. I
should be responsible
and use color remover. I got this I
don't know how many years ago. I don't
even think you can buy it in the US
anymore.
>> We have expired color remover and we're
going to try and remove the color with
that.
Cool. I mean, the color remover worked.
She just got to the next shot and it
actually looks a whole lot lighter and a
lot of that pink is gone. So, I'm happy.
I'll take it.
>> Hi. The sectioning's really the only
important part that a future LoLo needs
[music] to explain to you.
>> Okay, she's coloring everything at once,
but she already has lightened hair.
Like, there's some pieces that are
already light from that previously pink
sections. The sections that were pink
that she then color removed and now
they're blonde. We don't want to go over
everything at once if we're really
trying to preserve the quality and
integrity [music] of the hair. I prefer
you going on the dark parts first and
then work the bleach through the blonder
parts later after the other darker parts
have already lifted.
>> But here bleaching the hair now, always
remember you bleach the rest of your
hair and then you bleach the roots. You
don't want hot roots. We don't do that
here.
Always do your roots last when you
[music] are bleaching.
>> We're wrapping up the hair and putting
it in foils. Hate to see that.
>> it.
>> Just lay a foil down and put the hair
on, put the bleach on, and lay another
foil on top. I say this week over week
now. Guys, stop trying to fold your god
damn foils. You don't need to fold it.
You can just
plop another one on top. Things are
looking really good so far though. Like
this is pretty well done and it looks to
be evenly colored. So I'm getting very,
very, [music]
very happy.
>> My hair dryer is no longer working. My
roots are perfect. Beautiful, beautiful
girls. Love my roots. The rest of it
however, do you
Why is this green? The only thing that I
can think of that would turn this green
would be the black version of this
overtone that I used in September.
[music]
It is currently February. Tomorrow's
Valentine's Day. It's weird that it's
only like in this one spot right here.
>> Damn it. This happens in the salon
all the time. You guys just don't see
your hair when this happens, right? Like
the hairdresser is just working on it
and then all of a sudden it's like boom.
It looks beautiful. But we see issues
like this all the time when we're
lightening hair. We see green spots, red
spots, blue spots, all kinds of
going on. What we do now is we tone it.
Usually the toner will conceal all this
Because the is so
light in color, you can easily get away
with toning [music] this and having it
all look even. So, I'm not worried. I
understand why she's worried because
she's not a hairdresser and she doesn't
know that.
>> Besides of that and the parts of orange
and pinkish
>> Is that a float trip?
>> the parts that were pink, so that's all
gone. That worked. The rest of it where
it's still pink, the color lifter just
didn't work on non-bleached hair. I'm
learning something. How do I do this?
>> Okay, we're bleaching it again. Again, I
would have just put a a dye permanent
toner over this and knocked out all
those weird colors with that, but
bleaching it is another option. It's
just much more damaging and it's going
to compromise the entirety of your hair.
She is doing so much We're getting
there. We're doing the second process
and I am just scared of her hair is
going to break off. Like this is so much
bleach over more bleach over more
[music] bleach over more bleach.
>> Good morning. Besides a couple spots,
the blonde has turned out pretty good.
I'm not going to lie. There is a
This bit right there is still pretty
orangey colored.
>> Wow, the blonde is actually really well
done. I didn't know what to expect, but
this looks incredible. Woo!
>> Let's start by sectioning off my hair
and then I'm going to get to the dye and
the toner.
>> Wow, we are doing a whole lot of
sectioning. I don't know what's going
on. She doesn't either. She even wrote
it on the screen. I'm going to trust the
process cuz it looks like she feels
confident and knows what she's doing, so
I'm just going to sit back and go,
"Okay, take the wheel, baby." All right,
we are now coloring all of that blonde
stuff orange. If that was the case, I
wouldn't have applied that second round
of bleach. No way because your hair was
already light enough. The orange would
have covered up all those issues we were
seeing anyways. Just kind of damaged
your hair for no reason. At least it's
nice and pretty blonde now.
>> Well, you're going into a lot of places
with the orange. I mean, this is mostly
going to be orange, which is cool. I
just thought we were going to do more
blonde. I don't I don't remember what
the references looked like, but I feel
like it was a lot more blonde. Am I
crazy? She's now applying toner onto all
the blonde hair, and I just wouldn't do
that. This calico thing is supposed to
be pretty yellow in tone within the
blonde sections, so I would have just
left the blonde as is. It's already that
kind of raw yellow tone that again the
calico color is always have, so
inflicting more damage on the hair for
no reason. What the
>> Ooh, would you look at that? Oh my god.
This turned out so much better than I
thought it was going to. The orange is a
bit brighter than I had anticipated, but
honestly that's fine. I'm not mad about
it. It's been about four washes since
then, and the first two washes that I
did, I put purple conditioner everywhere
that was not brown. I did not love how
bright the orange was. It was just too
halloweeni, but the purple conditioner
did help a lot, which was nice. The
orange [music] did bleed a little bit
onto the blonde bits, but not in a way
that it was like unbearable. If I were
to refresh this again, I would probably
section it off a little bit simpler
rather than that weird like V-shape that
I had in the back and stuff, and I have
like a chunk here that's orange, and
then the rest of it's blonde. I would
probably either just do this half
blonde, this half orange, or everything
orange except for everything that's
bleached right here. It's just not worth
the hassle. I do really like this. This
is one of the more fun things I've done
my hair journey. I've had just about
every colored hair except for orange.
So, I don't know how long I'll keep it,
but the next time I change it, bet your
there'll be a video.
>> Oh, god damn, guys. I got to be honest
again.
Sorry. Um, the orange is just way too
orange. We need to go with a very
natural looking copper tone next time,
and a much lighter copper tone. Like a
level eight copper would be beautiful.
This is just giving a little pumpkin
Halloween to me. It's not really giving
me like calico vibe. Calico colors are
kind of like muted [music] and like
natural in tone in a way. All I'm seeing
is the orange. I don't know. I'm not
obsessed. I don't hate it. It's cool,
but I'm sure it's going to look a lot
better in a few washes. Sorry, I hate
giving bad reviews. It's just like I got
to be honest, guys. I got to. And if you
love it, then I love it for you, you
know?
>> Hello everybody. Welcome to today's
video. I'm going to be doing a full hair
transformation. At the moment, I have
black hair. I don't think it suits me. I
think it makes my face look pretty dead.
It didn't help that I've been sick for a
week.
>> Okay, that's crazy, though.
>> how I feel about this hair color, but I
still want to do this change. I have
everything set up here, so I'm just
going to go through the process that I
plan on executing in my hair. Then we'll
just get started. I'm going to start by
removing the black pigment out of my
hair. I'm going to be using Malibu CPR.
Instructions are really simple. All you
have to do is take 4 oz of hot water and
then add the
removal crystals.
>> Okay, so she's trying to remove just
like a layer of color off her hair. CPR
is a vitamin C based, so it can be quite
drying on the hair, but it is quite
effective at removing just that excess
[music] layer of color off the hair,
especially with semi-permanent tones. I
mean, it can it can do any hair color,
but I find it most effective on
semi-permanent, [music]
personally.
>> Allegedly, it will remove most of the
dye without lifting any of your natural
hair color out.
>> So, DDL by Malibu is actually a more of
a bleach. It's literally [music] bleach
powder. And DDL stands for direct dye
lifter. But that will lighten your
natural hair color versus the Malibu CPR
treatment, which is vitamin C based,
which does not lift your natural hair
color.
>> I have virgin like level
four, maybe level five hair underneath
[music] this black dye, and I would like
to get back to that natural color. So,
to me, in the research I was doing, this
Malibu [music] CPR seems kind of like
the perfect formula for the hair that I
have on my head and the results that I'm
[music] wanting. After I have removed,
hopefully, all the pigment out of my
hair, I will be going in with the Wella
Blondor Multi Blonde 7 [music] mixed
with the Wella Wellaxon Perfect 40
Volume um cream developer. This is my
inspiration.
>> Hold on. If this is your inspiration,
why are we CPR-ing our entire head? I
mean, I don't actually know if she's
doing that. I just think it is made it
up. I guess I should just watch because
I'm just saying you don't need to
lighten all your hair if you're trying
to make everything dark in just that one
section light.
>> Let's manifest. What if this goes right?
You know, what if it goes right? What if
it looks incredible? Here I have about 4
oz of hot water. So, you [music] can see
it's kind of steaming up on the inside,
so it is hot. Now, I'm going to be
adding in
the Malibu CPR packet and the directions
say to put it into an applicator bottle
and shake it until it turns into a gel.
I do not ever have them in my house, so
I'm going to be using like a glass
snapware container and be shaking it in
that. Ooh, that smells really strange.
Okay, so I have the mixture in this
bowl. I'm going to put this lid on. It
says to do this until it forms like a
gel. Although, there's a lot of chunks.
You could definitely see that. There's a
lot of chunks of this stuff. This looks
really disgusting. Okay, let's mix.
It's turning kind of dark. What did you
say? I don't know why, but I assumed it
would be like a white color.
But, it's kind of like a grayish.
Um
>> [snorts]
>> I hope that's fine.
>> Okay, so usually when I do CPR, I put it
in a color bottle, like one of these,
and just shake it. You can also just mix
it with a brush. Shaking it is a little
bit easier. Both ways are fine.
This is a little crazy this way.
>> Stop fighting, everybody.
>> I've never seen anybody mix it in a
Tupperware container, but go off, I
guess. It'll probably work.
>> I'm going to go quickly hop in the
shower and shampoo my hair with um the
Malibu Undo Goo pH of 9 clarifying
shampoo. I'm going to be scrubbing that
to help it exfoliate out anything that's
on my hair that I don't want anymore.
I'm going to leave it at that, set
[music] the lid back on, bring this into
the shower with me. I'm going to be
seeing you in just a few minutes. So, I
just got out of the shower. The color
remover is in my hair and a little bit
in my eyebrows since I used a permanent
dye to dye my eyebrows black.
>> We're using the color remover on
everything. I don't get why because the
inspiration picture we just saw had
black hair everywhere except for like
one or two sections. So, I don't get it.
>> Also, um I did use gloves and I scrubbed
that through my hair with hot hot
water. You can see some of the dye has
already started to come off on my hand.
Um now I'm going to be
popping on one of these professional
processing caps. The instructions say to
apply heat to the hair. So, I am lucky
enough to live in the Mojave Desert.
[music] I'm going to be going outside
and taking advantage of the very very
hot summer sun that we have right now.
Um
>> Sunlight for removing color is the best.
It's a humid very intense heat that is
so good for lifting color. So, that's I
love that. If it's summer where you are
and you're lifting out your hair color,
go outside while it processes with the
bag on because you don't want your hair
to dry out either.
>> Instructions on the packet state that
you need to be in the heat for 15 to 45
minutes. I'm going to go for 45 since I
have black on my head. I'm probably
going to wipe this stuff off my
eyebrows. I do see that a little bit of
the dye has already started to come out.
I do have naturally very dark brown
eyebrows. So, I'm not actually super
worried about my brows and I don't want
my skin to get irritated on my face
since that's not [music] very cute. I'm
not enjoying this portion of the video.
Usually I avoid the sun like the plague,
but here I am baking baking baking in
the heat.
>> What I usually do is just put on foil
over my head and then I put a beanie on
so that [music] it keeps all the heat
in. It works for me that way. Like if
I'm doing my own hair, not on a client.
I wouldn't do that.
>> The things you do for beauty.
>> I love how she's just like standing in
the sun trying to bake her hair.
>> Right. It's officially been over 45
minutes that this has been sitting in my
hair. It's still warm from the sun. I'm
now going to be hopping in the shower.
>> Ooh, I can see the black like melting
off her hair, which is a great sign.
>> And rinsing this out with like the
hottest water that my shower can muster,
and I'm going to be shampooing it with
the um Malibu Undo Goo three times. Um
that is so that all of the crystals from
the Malibu CPR
>> I love that you're following the
directions. This makes me so happy. Yes,
rinse for a long amount of time with
very hot water. It'll help remove that
artificial color pigment from the hair.
>> I've heard that if you don't shampoo
them all properly out of your hair, they
will turn your hair pink. I'm going to
hop in the shower, scrub it with the
hottest water that I can, and hopefully
all of the black is out. Listen to my
hair.
It is so
dry. I can just feel it. Usually after I
shampoo my hair, it has like a little
bit less slip to it.
>> Yeah, the thing with um CPR, it's a
vitamin C base, which is very [music]
dry. So, you got to put that moisture
back in your hair after.
>> But, my hair maintains its moisture
really, really well. Based on what I can
see kind of like in the sunlight from my
window here, it's back to brown more or
less. Um this is usually what my hair
used to look like color-wise [music]
when I would hop out the shower. I'm
going to let this air dry. It's like
every fiber [music] of my body to not do
a deep conditioning treatment because I
absolutely hate when my hair feels like
this. So, it's probably going to look
absolutely absurd when I come back to
the camera um because it's
>> [music]
>> bone dry and there's no product in
it, and I have curly hair. We'll see if
this was successful or if I need to do
another round of color remover. Uh
hopefully I don't. That worked like a
charm.
>> Wow.
>> I'm actually like kind of in shock.
>> Yeah, I'd say that worked. Damn.
Yeah, that really lightened your hair a
lot. Maybe three shades. So, that's
beautiful. And now we're just going to
go back dark. So, what the
>> I was convinced that I was going to have
to do at least another round. The first
round, it like completely got all the
dye out of my hair. My hair is back to
its original glory. I now feel confident
enough to proceed with the bleaching. I
have my bleaching developer. Okay, so
I've measured out about 21 g of this 40
volume developer. I'm going to be
putting in 10 g of the powder lightener.
>> I love that we're measuring and she's
using the powder lightener and 40
volume, which is a little spooky, but I
think it'll be fine. I think if her hair
can handle it. I don't know what her
hair feels like cuz I can't touch it.
But, 40 volume could be fine if it's
open air application or she doesn't
leave it on the hair long or too long.
Otherwise, it might be a little too
strong and make her hair a little
stringy and gummy and break off.
>> The sectioning is complete. I finished
sectioning off my hair, mixed up my
bleach, and then here I am just taking
small sections of those sections that I
made and fully deeply saturating my hair
starting from the tip and working my way
slowly to the root. So,
the bleach is fully applied.
>> Whoa. That is lightening so fast. She
had permanent black color on her hair. I
am impressed. It is like literally
platinum blonde already. What?
>> Um since this is a 40 volume developer,
I'm already seeing a significant lift.
I'm going to leave this on for about 20
more minutes.
>> Guys, that's honestly the power of fine
hair. It lightens like a charm. I have
her time. But, also she did the color
remover, which is a great step. And she
used 40 volume open air application, so
that was probably the right call on
this. And it seems to be pretty even
even though she did the the roots and
the ends at the same time.
>> I'm going to rinse off with cool water
starting from the side and then working
um
in the order that I applied the bleach.
Yeah, I have high hopes for my hair.
Hopefully, the 40 volume isn't too much.
>> We've reached the end of the timer.
>> It's not quite done yet. Check a strand.
[music]
Take the color off a strand of your
hair, and you'll really see what it
looks like. When it has a thick
>> [music]
>> coating of bleach on it, you can't
really tell what it looks like.
>> Colorless at the moment. So, I'm going
to quickly rinse this out and see you in
a second.
>> I just finished rinsing out the bleach.
We're looking quite peachy. So,
unfortunately, I will have to do a
second round of bleach.
>> You see what I'm saying? When there's
bleach on it, it looks completely
different. It is so peachy. Now, we're
going to do all again.
>> Totally fine, though. I did expect that.
I was hoping we could do it in one pass.
So, I'm going to quickly blow dry these
sections using the same formula. I'm
going to do the 40 volume developer
again. My hair still feels fine. Um
we'll see about afterwards, but yeah, I
didn't get any breakage. Everything's
still the same length, and um no
stretchiness or anything. And I could
comb through it pretty easily with my
fingers and with a um fine-tooth comb. I
will not be filming that part because it
feels kind of redundant. So, I'm just
going to see you after I've rinsed out
the second round of bleach.
>> She applied round two off camera and
rinsed it off camera, and now we're
going to see the results of round two of
bleaching.
>> Here is the wet result of the second
round of bleach. I am very happy with
this color, especially since at the
start of the day, this was black. Um I'm
really happy with the tone. This is wet.
>> [music]
>> So, once I dry this, I'm assuming it'll
all be like basically a pale yellow,
which is perfect. And I'm actually going
to hop in the shower, do one more round
of the clarifying shampoo.
>> That looks amazing, and I think it's
going to be the pale yellow you're
looking for. yeah.
>> Just to make sure that all of like the
bleach and the color remover and any
like gunk or Aquaphor from my face is
[music] just off my hair, so that when I
do the color, I'll have a nice, clean,
even base. Hey, hi. I'm in the sunlight,
so I can show you guys like the true
tones of it.
>> Wow.
>> I am
ooh, hello. I am pleased with this
color. I think it's a really good base
for the purpley gray that I'm planning
to put on it.
>> I would agree that it's a great base to
put on the toner. And she's using a
semi-permanent toner to do this, so I'm
into it. You can definitely use
semi-permanent, you can use permanent,
you can do whatever you want. You can
use Supernova, Supernova blonde [music]
toning collection in particular, our
hair mask to tone it, but whatever you
want.
>> All right, everything is shampooed. I'm
fresh out the shower. I think the
placement is so cool. I'm very much
excited to put the toner on. I'm really
digging how the blonde looks at the
moment. Um, so this is really exciting.
So I've gone ahead and re-sectioned out
my hair, and then I dose out the dye,
and go ahead and start applying it.
>> She's applying this purple base toner to
all the blonde parts of her hair. Now,
you really don't need to use a brush.
Damn, you're doing this very precisely,
but just get it on. It should take like
1 minute to apply. [music] Just go
and then comb it through. But, I will
take it. I would rather you do it like
this than it up, you know what I
mean? I'm going to leave this on for
about 30 minutes. I don't want it to be
too purple. I just want to kind of tone
it a little bit, [music] so.
I am going to go do some bull for 30
minutes, and I will see you when I get
back. Okay, I did the classic YouTube
hair dye video thing and forgot to
record a clip that same day, but here is
it the next day at work. Um, it's kind
of blue.
And then here is it a few days after
that clip. I wish you just kept the
black you had in the beginning, and then
added the blonde, and then just used
like a
Supernova foam to tone your hair. If
it's two-toned, you can just rinse it
out because Supernova foam is temporary
hair color, so it can just rinse out
right away. And every time you do your
hair, you can make it more toned or less
toned. You can kind of like customize it
however you want. That's what I do with
my hair. That's why it sometimes is more
yellow, sometimes more gray, sometimes
it's more whatever neutral toned.
>> Much more white, very cute, not gray
though. So, I think as I touch this up,
I'm going to use a different toner.
>> Okay. Yeah, so
>> [laughter]
>> I'm not happy because it was all going
so well and then it just went
crashing down to hell at the last
minute. The manic panic over toned your
hair way too much and I'm just not
vibing with it. You win some, you lose
some. It doesn't look horrible, but I'm
not like dying over it.