Easy FOILAYAGE Technique | Less Than 20 Foils Used To Create Blended Balayage

hey guys balayage doesn't always have to take hours and hours of application time to create the perfect blended balayage see how i use the foilage technique in under 20 foils to create this beautiful blended foilage you can follow me over on instagram at christy at the cottage hey guys i'm heading to work right now and i think the color i'm going to be doing today is going to be pretty easy last time she did kind of like a toned down today i don't know if we're going to be brightening up for summer i feel like or spring i feel like people are kind of in this like transitional period where it's not quite yet summertime springtime but it's not like fall anymore so they're kind of wanting to lighten up but not go full-out blonde yet just because it's not summer so i kind of find myself being like what are we doing today and not really knowing what my clients are gonna want because you know we're kind of in that middle time of the year where it's not fall but it's not summer so anyways i think today her hair is pretty her hair is pretty fun and it usually doesn't take a whole bunch of time i don't think so i think whatever the service is i don't think it's gonna be like ever super blonde or super bright or super heavy and whatever it might just be a partial balayage but she generally does like a bigger like a brighter streak like right on her forehead so um so yeah i guess we'll just see what it is that we're doing so i'm just gonna head to work right now and um start but stop at starbucks good old starbucks um i wanted to say thank you to you guys for all of your kind thoughts and prayers and all of that stuff after um posting the video from my sister passing away and i really appreciate all of you guys and how understanding you are and how kind you guys are and all of that stuff so i i know at the end of the video i said that i wasn't going to be responding to comments because it was just too hard and um i didn't really so don't think that i didn't see them if you guys didn't get to the end of that video um know that i saw your all of your guys's comments and i appreciated them so i just wanted to thank you guys for that okay here's my clients before and you can see that it's just got that nice bright piece up front and this lighting kind of makes it look a little bit more yellow but it's actually very very ashy looking okay so my clan is here and we're just gonna be touching up the blonde pieces and the front and the color that i used on her previously was the agora vibrance we kind of toned her down a little bit and it actually like her hair still looks really ashy and really nice i'm really shocked like it when i say really like agora vibrance because it has a lot of longevity and it stays nice and cool like i feel like this is just a perfect example of why i like it so much because her hair is still very ashy it didn't lift very much it didn't fade so i feel like that speaks to um the line and why i like it so much so she does not want like a whole bunch of blonde but she just kind of wants to feel sun kissed a little bit so we're just gonna go through a highlight around her her hairline that we normally do pretty bright just in that area and then the rest of her hair just a little bit softer and more natural and just bringing the blonde up a little bit oh and i'm just using my short scoff on me with 20 volume and olaplex all right so to start her service we're gonna go through and do my hairline foils that i always like to do if you watch my videos then you know that this is usually how i always foil my clients around their hairline to have that nice bright money piece but then also it will help blend towards the back of their head when they pull their hair back they won't have any stripes or heavy streaks or anything and then it will also grow out nice and soft and subtle so we're just going to do really fine weaves kind of like really soft baby lights the first two foils and then the last foil that i'm gonna do i'm just going to do a little bit thicker of a weave so this is how i always do these foils usually if i'm just doing a partial foil i'll probably just do like two to three foils but if they're doing like a full foil or a heavier foil then i'll go through and do like four to five foils this way or also if they have very dark hair then i'll usually do a little bit more just to make sure they feel nice and bright and blended so we're just gonna go around her temples and pop in these foils and that's all we're gonna do for her money piece and her hairline and then we'll go up and do the top of her forehead so i know at the beginning of the video i said that you can do this service with under 20 foils or i did the service with under 20 foils but nine of those foils were to create her brightness around her face so that means that we only used like nine to ten foils on the rest of her head and i feel like that's pretty good like sometimes we just feel like we have to go in there and do so much work and whatever i know we're also just kind of doing like a partial balayage on her we're not going in super heavy-handed but even just doing those few foils that we did throughout the rest of her hair i feel like that still even got really good coverage now she also doesn't really have much layering in her hair she likes her hair being one length so i feel like that really makes a difference too if somebody has a whole bunch of layers then that top layer of the hair isn't going to extend through the full length of the hair it's going to kind of stop kind of midway down their back or depending on how short their layers are so you might have to do more foils especially if they have layers but for somebody that has just one length hair not really many layers or anything then i feel like it's kind of easier to do this and get away with less because all that hair is going to hang over the top of the rest of the hair and you'll just see everything that's on top versus having to get much coverage through the rest of the hair so being able to just throw a few foils in and give somebody a nice amount of brightness i feel like doesn't have to take you know hours and hours especially for me because i know that i will overwork sometimes so it's nice to be able to have this option of just doing like three foils on either side and then three or four in the back and call it good so also here we are going through doing her money piece and i'm just doing three weaves back to back and no subsection the very very first foil that i'm doing on her hairline was very fine and more of a baby light but because she does like a little bit more bold and bright i'm gonna go through and do like heavier weaves these next few foils right here all right so for this service we're gonna go right off of her part i'm kind of going to do like a heavier weave and then backcomb it pretty nicely and i feel like the way with getting away with not having to do a shadow root is to get a really nice backcomb and tease it really good especially all the way up to the root and then make sure you're really feathering those peaks up into their like into the root area if you kind of just do like apply the bleach in a straight line on the foil and not feather it up into maybe like a w or v pattern up into the roots then you're still just getting a heavy line it is gonna be diffused a little bit and much more softer looking but if you're just slapping the bleach on there in a thick line and not diffusing it at all then you're still gonna kind of have that blunt mind appearance no matter how much diffusing and you know feathering you're gonna do if it's still just like a straight line of bleach it's not gonna be as blended so you can see here i'm kind of doing some higher peaks of bleach and that's gonna really help blend the roots a lot more and not have to do a root shadow if somebody has really dark hair i might go in with the root shadow just to make sure it blends really nicely but generally i don't do root shadows i try not to unless i absolutely have to and that's just because eventually when they need a retouch again you're gonna have to re-lift through all of that color that you deposited in the root shadow and it can create warmth or banding or whatever so i try not to have to do a root shadow if i don't have to i try to blend it really good with the back combing and weaving my sections and then like kind of feathering up into the roots so that helps me from having to do a root shadow and i feel like that is a really good way to help diffuse the line of grow out and to get the best blend possible i don't know if that makes sense when i say like you're laying the bleach down thick like imagine if you're just doing a regular foil and you're just pushing all the bleach into one spot and you're not like feathering it up that's kind of what i mean when i say laying the bleach down in like a straight line so you guys know that sometimes i like have to think about what i'm trying to say and explain it to you because i don't know if i make sense or not so um anyways now we're gonna flip over to the other side so again on the other side that we just did we only did three foils and now we're gonna go through on this side and do the same thing and i'm not really doing much subsections in between i'm just kind of weaving a few pieces to leave out so we're gonna go through and paint these peaks that are kind of in there feather up into the roots a little bit more and then sometimes like you'll notice that some of the foils i'm dropping down and i'm not painting as high up into the roots and that's gonna create some more depth in the hair and it's going to give some variation of brightness so because she wants to be a little bit more sunkissed i don't necessarily want to take the lightener all the way up to the roots for every section so here's my subsection that i'm gonna be leaving out and then we're gonna go through and again always flip back and check your work make sure your subsections are the same make sure you're doing like the same amount in between the same amount of a weave whatever so that way you have balance on either side of the head and so i'm gonna go through and you'll notice that in the next foil or so i'm not gonna bring the lightener up as high and that's going to leave some dimension and it's going to help blend a little bit from being kind of soft and more subtle up at the root area with the blonde and then towards the midsection through the ends is where it's going to fade and get a little bit brighter through the ends so if you just did your sections and if you took the lightener all the way up to the root for every section then you're gonna have really heavier blonde like all the way up to the roots all the way around but you'll see here in this one i'm gonna drop the bleach down probably just like through the mid section i'm not gonna go all the way up to the roots and that's gonna leave some of that dimension there and it's gonna preserve a lot of her natural to where she's gonna still feel nice and rooty it's gonna help blend the hair but it's just gonna fade really softly and get nice and bright through the ends just a little bit at a time we're not just going to do like a heavier amount of bleach and like overdo it leaving more dimension and depth is kind of key with these services because that's what's going to make the blonde pop a little bit more versus doing kind of overkill which i know that that's something that i do sometimes is i kind of do too much blonde too much bleach or whatever so that's why i feel like this service is perfect we're really just doing these three foils on either side and then doing um like three to four and the back of the same thing and because we're leaving so much of her natural i feel like that makes those blondes pop a little bit better make them stand out and feel nice and bright because we have left so much dark and dimension in the rest of her hair [Music] sorry guys um it's like an anxiety thing like i'm so worried that i'm not explaining to you what i'm doing the right way or that i'm not making sense so because i'm worried that i'm not making sense i'm gonna explain to you in 500 ways possible any way that i can try to explain it to make sure that i'm explaining it to you guys in the right way so now i'm going to over explain to death what i'm talking about and so that's what happens in my videos is that i get so anxious about what i'm trying to tell you that i'm going to talk in circles for 10 minutes about it to make sure that you understand what the hell i'm talking about okay do you understand what i'm saying i know you understand what i'm saying so as we're finishing our application here i also want to let you know that a few people have asked me how to um like come out and detangle the hair after a backcomb so i'm gonna show you the products that i use and also how i wash the hair out to kind of help um pull the back come out a little bit more and then also some other people have asked about how i style my client's hair so i'm not gonna show you like every crawl that i do but i'm gonna show you how i style the hair too if that's something that you're interested so make sure you watch the through the end of the video if you're interested in watching the detangling and also if you're interested in the styling part of the service all right nine foils around the hairline and nine ten foils around the rest of her head and calling it good so we're gonna pull these foils out and because she wants to be more sunkissed and not necessarily super ashy just kind of nice and bright i'm not trying to lift her super white to get her nice and ashy or anything we're just trying to lift to like a 9 10 and um give her like a nice brightness but you know it's okay if she's a little warm at the same time okay so we just got done processing and i washed her out the shampoo and we're going to tone her now last time when i toned her hair um she wanted to be very cool but she doesn't want to quite be that silvery right now um so i think i'm just gonna tone her to be nice and bright and cool but not necessarily like ashy so i'm gonna use paul mitchell the demi 10 v 10 pa and a little bit of 9v just to try to get any of those pieces that are still kind of warm and then i'm not going to use any rose gold because she already has kind of that pre-existing warm thinner hair so we're just going to use this in tone and i'm going to use half and half basically 10 pa 10v and just like a little smidge of the 9v so when i first started combing my hands through her hair that backcomb was right up to her roots but this is a good way when you're conditioning the hair just pull the backcomb down with your fingers and this will help eliminate quite a bit of the backcomb before you go to comb it out all right so we're gonna towel dry the hair pretty good and i always use a serum this is gonna help comb the back come out it's also gonna protect the hair from heat give it a little bit of a nice shine keep the flyaways away but make sure you're using something that doesn't have too much alcohol in or anything some of them smell so strong of alcohol and it can really dry the hair out and then this is also the blow-dry spray from kenra it's kind of slick feeling so i feel like this aside from the fact that it smells amazing but i feel like this kind of helps comb the hair out also and then i'm also going to take some shine spray and i'm not going to um spray it all over her head but i'm just gonna spray it right where that backcomb is because i don't want it to make her hair oily or anything but i'm just gonna spray it right where that bag comb is and because shine spray also is a little bit more slick that's really gonna help be able to comb the backcomb out also and then i know a lot of people are like oh if you use a brush they'll help comb it out but i personally it depends on the client if like my client's hair right now is very fine and i feel like a brush a wet brush whatever brush i feel like sometimes they snap the hair and they tear through the hair too much so i don't always like to use a brush that's why i'm using a comb because i feel like i can really get through the hair a little bit better it's not going to tear through the hair i feel like because the bristles on a brush are so like they move around so much where a coma is nice and steady i feel like i can come out a little bit easier just take smaller sections but sometimes the brush does work better so it just depends on the person and i'll kind of go back and forth so just take small sections when you're combing out the teasing area take small sections and just do it however you feel best some people have to actually dry their hair like if their hair takes so long there's been people that have literally taken 45 minutes to comb out their hair and i've realized that if i dry their hair first then their hair is easier to come out so everybody's different no one's the same some people are easier than others to come out other people you have to dry their hair to comb it out so those are just some things that work for me but i feel like one thing that helps the most is when you're conditioning the hair to like pull like drag your fingers through the ends of the hair and kind of pull some of that back at the shampoo station all right let's start drawing the hair and here you can see how nice and soft and subtle and blended it looks on the hairline there's no heavy streaks or stripes or anything and that's gonna help the hairline grow really nice and subtle to where they don't feel like they have like heavy growth or anything and i just love how it looks when you pull the hair back and you just see how nice and bright it is so look at all that dimension that's kind of through the ends and then those nice bright pops of blonde so we're just gonna keep blow drying this and i just wanted you to be able to see it because sometimes i feel like when the hair is all styled like sometimes you can make anything look good but i just wanted you to see it just kind of like in raw form you know not styled and you can really see how pretty the color is and how nice and pretty those soft highlights are and how pretty they turned out so we're just gonna finish this part of the surface up and then start curling her hair so i'm just going through and smoothing her hair and making sure that her ends are nice and straight i like the ends to be a little bit more straight and loose if somebody has a lot of frizz then i would normally go through with a flat iron and smooth out the roots and then also if their hair is really curly then i would go through with the flat iron also and kind of straighten it out a little bit more so we're gonna go through smooth roots and pull it through the ends to straighten the ends out and then i'm not taking the curling iron like all the way up to the roots i kind of want it to be softer out through area and softer through the ends but still like kind of in the midsection have like a really nice soft wave so the way that i do my curls is for every section for every curl i'm curling away from the face i'm curling towards the back center of the head all in the same direction i know that there's a lot of people that kind of go back and forth like they're they'll curl one curl this way and then towards the front of the face and towards the back and so on and so forth but i personally don't do that i curl everything you'll see goes towards the back center of the head and that's how you get those nice waves where everything kind of forms together and it kind of blends and creates this just really nice big body wave and some people like that style some people don't like that style if you want more of a disconnect in the curl where not everything flows together then you could still curl the hair in the same direction and then maybe the next section you can curl it like towards the front of the face or do every other crawl like back and forth from i always do away from the face no matter what but then maybe like after you do the first two curls away from the face then maybe at the corners of the head you could do like towards the face if you want a little bit more of a disconnect whatever so this is just how i like curling my clients here is everything all the time goes away from the face i never curl ever curl towards the face and then everything goes towards the back center of the head [Music] do all right now that we're done curling we're gonna let it sit for a few minutes and cool down and then we're gonna spray it also but make sure before you comb it out that everything's cooled down or else you might lose some of the curl it might go a little bit flat so we're just gonna take the hair and i'm letting the top section sit out first just to make sure that it cools down all the way and then we're going to comb through everything just comb everything straight down comb everything back together and that's what's going to give you that nice wave where everything just kind of curls and forms together but because i'm using a larger curling iron i'm using the jagger from jay-z styles you can follow her on youtube and she has all of her tools and everything but if you get a curling iron that is like one and a half inches or so that will help you get the same curl or you can use a flat iron so um just comb everything out and then all the curl will kind of get like a nice loose body wave so this is how i like to curl my client's hair this is my favorite way of doing it and um after you've combed it out i like to spray it again just to get any of those loose little flyaways and then just re-comb it all back together again so yeah that's how i like to style my clients here and i hope this was helpful for you guys here's my clients before again pretty natural limited blonde except for that little piece around the front of the face that she always likes and then now here she is look at how nice that blends into her roots we don't have to use a shadow root or anything and look at how much coverage that is like 20 foils or less and majority of that like half that was around her hairline so 10 foils through the rest of her hair that's a really good coverage that's a really nice blend so use the foilage technique i feel like that helps get really good lift and then also you know just placing the foils where you feel like is best that's going to give your client the most brightness you don't always have to go underneath just kind of stay up on the top especially if you're just doing a partial even just a partial you don't have to do a heavy amount so thank you guys so much for watching i hope this was helpful and don't forget to like and subscribe you

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Length: 32min 2sec (1922 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 08 2021