Tammera called in an emergency. New to the area, she tried a couple of recommended salons, only to be disappointed, so she tried to fix her hair herself.... the result... very damaged hair with an ashy lilac tone...

My first concern was the condition of her hair... Our 5 step conditioner to the rescue. The first step clarifies to remove as much of the ash tone in a gentle way, then her hair was packed with keratin. 15 minutes later, she had hair I could work with.

She wanted depth, dimension, and lots of blonde.... she chose a photo from our collection of color look books as a guide, and the work began.

About 3 hours later she had the look she always wanted, a constant professional with a modern edge that easily rocks at night!

Color & cut class model Barbie came to us with extremely over processed hair. She goes to salons, and does it herself. Her passion is being at the beach and fishing.... The challenge... create a natural blonde, and get the color to hold!

I put Barbie's natural color, (lightest brown) from her nape to her occipital bone. This would lay the foundation for the contrast needed. Then I high lighted her with decolorizer, low lighted her with a medium blonde and her base color. She was later toned with the lightest of neutral blonde glazes. We then did a 4 step deep conditioner, the 5th step remained in her hair.

Barbie wanted to keep her length, but the ends had to go, so her cut was fresh long layers, with a face frame.

We sent her home with sulfate free shampoo, a spray leave in conditioner, a cream conditioner she could use as a styling aid, directions how to properly shampoo her hair, and lots of info on how to protect her hair from the sun and salt water... 6 weeks later she was back for a partial high light, and we were all delighted to see some of her dimensional color still in the hairl... Good job Barbie!

Bianca was a head turning red head but was tired of the upkeep. Every month, she'd talk about going 'natural'. Then one day she did it. She brought in a photo of Emmy Lou Harris with her glorious white mane. I'm ready she said... can we do it?

Sure I said... do you have all day? She did, and so the work began. Painstaking sections, paper thin, to remove the red color, at the same time a color to darken and neutralize the red. A chrome colored glaze sealed the new look. Amazing!

Makeup by Jai

November 23, 2009 Makeovers

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