Brilliant Blonde: Banishing Home Hair Color Bands By Sally Beauty

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By Lauren Salapatek | 05/12/2014 11:29:00 AM click image to zoom As part of its 50th anniversary celebration, SALLY Beauty commissioned editorial stylist Sandi Arensman to create a special occasion collection, including hair color how-to's. Here she discusses how she created this 'brilliant blonde' hair color.

To banish the bands resulting from home hair color experimentation, Arensman added depth at the scalp and created a color veil to camouflage the model's color history.

'By applying proper tones toward the face, warm in middle headband to cool just below the crown, we neutralize the color wheel while complementing the client's skin tone,' says Arensman, who used the new Blond Brilliance line, a 15 SKU line that includes spray-in lighteners, demipermanents and conditioning toners. 'The hair must reflect natural sunlight, otherwise it will look flat and degraded.'

STEPS:

1. Apply ION Color Brilliance Porosity Equalizer leave-in to prep the hair.

2. Section the hair: one at each parietal, one at crown, isolate temples, nape and face frame. Apply Blond Brilliance Platinum Toner at temples.

3. At the nape, continue with the toner from base to ends.

4. Now apply to two parietal sections: Blond Brilliance with 2 parts Platinum and 1 part Golden Wheat with 3 parts dedicated developer for a controlled warm violet with a touch of gold.

5. Add another shade to the remainder mixture in bowl: Champagne ½ ounce and ½ ounce developer to make a bit warmer, apply to crown and process for 5 minutes.

6. Begin the cut at the fringe. Direct forward and cut straight across, at the eyelid.

7. Bring all the hair down to the back and cut straight across.

8. Blend the lengths to a face frame, all cut at natural fall.

9. For internal texture direct the hair to the top of the head. Take large sections, twist and cut along the twists from mids to ends.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Lauren Salapatek

Lauren Salapatek, Web Editor for Modern Salon | Salon Today | First Chair. (Previous positions: Associate Editor/E-Newsletter Content Production Manager) Since January 2010, Lauren has worked for Modern Salon Media covering salon style, product and beauty trends, and business editorial for both print and online content. As of October 2013, Lauren's role changed to Web Editor-now she manages all online editorial content for modernsalon.com, salontoday.com and firstchair.com. As part of her responsibilities, she creates, edits, organizes and curates content for all Modern Salon Media's websites; manages the creation and production of all Salon e-newsletters; promotes Modern Salon Media's digital content via several social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest); and maintains an editorial calendar to keep all Modern Salon Media's websites timely and current. You can find Lauren on Google+ or e-mail her at lsalapatek@modernsalon.com.