My client is also my daughter and she is a Cosmetologist who loves to mess with her hair. My challenge was all this, plus when we started she was a very light blonde all over. I have done many ombre colors where we only had to deal with the ends. This was really some reverse thinking for me. Obviously, I finally achieved what I set out to do, but it took many steps to get there.
First I painted from the scalp out to two and three inches from the ends, alternating. I started at the nape and took 1/2 inch subsections. I figured alternating how far out I went with the color would keep the color line, where the colors change, soft. This worked, but when we were done with step one, she simply looked like she had bad regrowth.
Time to rethink! It did not take long, when we put our heads together, to figure out what we needed to do to change this situation. I carved out a large, very jagged, star on the top of her head. While doing this I had to take into consideration where this hair was going fall when the dark color was applied. Once I had all that I wanted carved out, I applied more dark color all the way out to the ends of my star. This worked well.
Next we mixed the color to go on her ends. since she loves to play with her color, I kept this semi-permanent. Of course this was the easy part, I could simply go through the hair and apply the color I wanted. I did not have to worry about overlapping because of the color being semi-permanent and the fact that I kept this color in the same color family as the color applied to the new growth. The only requirement was that both colors need to be warm in order to keep her light blonde hair from looking 'muddy.'
I know there has got to be an easier way to do this! Please BLOG!
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