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01.21.2020
Are You Applying Color Wrong?
Stylists are busy, salons have peak times, and not everyone can have an assistant! Does that mean that you can compromise important steps like consultation and application if you know the client’s formula? The answer is: no. There are six very important things to assess and do before your client starts processing.
6 STEPS:
- Consultation: It is really important to pick the right products based on what your clients’ lifestyles. Only after taking the time, five minutes, to listen to your client’s likes, dislikes, and commitment level, should you have the right to formulate a color best suited for him or her. Even if this is a repeat client.
- Formula: Hair + Formula + What you do = result
- Tools: If your tools are messy or unorganized, you are not setting yourself up for success.
- Mixing: Mix in your developer! You must completely mix the developer that goes up the side of the bowl, otherwise, your mixing ratios will not be what you intentionally put into the bowl.
- Using a comb and color brush: Placing a comb in the opposite hand of your color brush will not only section the hair cleanly, but it will also hold the section down while you apply color.
- Application: Colorists get into the habit of sweeping hair color through the hair, section by section. This is wrong, especially for resistant gray clients. You should be placing the hair color onto the fine sections of hair, similar to a stippling effect like a make-up artist uses for full coverage foundation.
Watch Master Color Expert and Signature Studio Artist, Victoria Thurman Hall, show you all 6 steps in 3 minutes…