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Hair Color Techniques

Blurred Lines
By Amanda Lenz, Haircolor Expert and Product Club Educator (@alchemyhairamanda)

For those of you that get to experience all four seasons or at least encounter a little touch of autumn where you live, this is a great time of year for transitional hair color. The dry and faded hair color battle from the summer is ending - leaving lots of fun new options for clients to refresh their look. With this next trend of seasonal hair color coming in, we will be seeing lots of quiet luxury.

Blurred lines, softened roots, and melty tones are entering the chat. This certainly does not mean sacrificing brightness or dimension, just relaxing their origin.

Stylish woman viewed from the back with soft, wavy blonde hair featuring caramel highlights, in a modern hair salon.

Decisions

Consider the questions we ask ourselves and the decisions we make as hair colorists:

  • Weave or slice?
  • Wide weave or baby light?
  • Diffused root?
  • Feathered root?
  • End light?
  • Backcombed or not?
  • Diagonal, horizontal, vertical?

These decisions will influence the outcome of a hair color’s design and impact. Although we may conceptualize beforehand and choose the method we believe will be best for the situation, everyone experiences moments and outcomes where we wish we did something differently.

Solutions

As colorists, we work in the business of solutions. Solutions for our clients, and often for our own unexpected results that may need adjustments. Whenever possible, I look for solutions to soften the origins of my foil or balayage placements. Additional solution options may include using the correct tool to correct an unwanted situation and using multiple glazes.

Close-up back view of a woman's blonde wavy hair with natural highlights and lowlights, showing depth and texture.

Options

I love using a variety of brushes. My favorite Product Club tools for blurred lines are the Angled Brushes, the Blending Brush Set, and the Color Blending Brush. The Angled Brushes are the cousin of Product Club’s Ergo brush. With firm bristles that won’t stain or get frayed from lightener; they help create a more feathered look during the application process. The Blending Brush Set includes both a synthetic and a natural bristle brush that mimic the compact blending impact of a makeup brush. Using these brushes for blending lightener upwards during a balayage or foil application is a terrific way to soften without sacrificing brightness. Alternatively, using these brushes to smudge a root glaze over highlights can create an amazing color melted look.

The Color Blending Brush is a fun alternative if you decide to incorporate a wet balayage into an existing color, especially to just bump up and brighten the ends of an existing highlight before glazing. It also seamlessly distributes glazes and toners to blend a root, mid, or ends glaze into one another without the risk of any harsh lines.

For applying multiple glazes, especially in small detail areas and for root smudges, it’s helpful to use smaller, precise tools for application. The caps of our full-size applicator bottles can be mixed and matched if you’re using multiple formulas, helping you keep track of the corresponding colors efficiently.

The color concept of quiet luxury lends itself to all these tools and techniques. The personalized approach that you use to create blurred lines provides a renewed combination of options to satisfy your hair colorist desires and your clients’ requests.

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