How To Silver balayage technique with L’Oreal Professionnel
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00:00 Hi guys, thanks so much for tuning in to our Facebook Live.
00:05 I'm Maureen Sheen, Senior Editor of American Salon here today at L'Oreal Professional Academy
00:10 in Soho and I'm so excited to be here with Sebastian Langman-Curtly, L'Oreal Professional
00:16 Educator.
00:17 Sebastian, talk to us a little bit about what we're going to be seeing today.
00:20 Cool.
00:21 Hi everybody.
00:22 I'm Sebastian Langman-Curtly.
00:23 I'm a National Balayage Artist for L'Oreal Professional.
00:27 Thank you so much for tuning in to our Silver Balayage Tutorial.
00:32 We are here live at the New York City L'Oreal Professional Academy and I'm so excited to
00:37 share with you some tips and tricks that I use in the salon every day.
00:42 So please ask questions, show me some love.
00:45 It is an open forum and I think let's just jump into doing some hair.
00:50 Awesome.
00:51 Do your thing, man.
00:52 All right, man.
00:54 So this is my lovely model, Sarah.
00:57 Sarah is a natural level 6 and what we're going to be doing today, we'll be doing a
01:06 foil conversion and adding some lightness through her ends.
01:10 So whenever I am designing a color technique, the first thing that I do is I look at where
01:16 I'm starting and then I think about my goal.
01:20 So in Sarah's case, she's a natural level 6, foil conversion.
01:24 She's got some heavy foils going on through the surface of her hair.
01:32 I also need to think about where I want to go with her as far as the tone of silver.
01:39 Silver is a light color.
01:41 She has an olive skin tone.
01:43 So really I want to take her more into a sandy sterling color and that means that I need
01:47 to lift her up to about a level 9.
01:49 Now, Sebastian, since you have to lift her, what is -- yeah, I just wanted to show the
01:56 before.
01:57 Yeah, let's show the before pictures.
02:01 She just had a nice haircut from Madison.
02:06 Cool.
02:10 So what I'm going to do, I'm looking at her haircut.
02:14 She's pretty much one length in the back with some very soft layering, which means that
02:19 I don't need to start down here on her nape to get lightness in the surface of the hair.
02:26 Balayage is really about working smarter and not harder.
02:30 So what I'm going to do is I've sectioned off her crown and I'm just going to start
02:34 painting some soft single pieces throughout the area underneath her crown here.
02:41 So with balayage, I like to start painting the hair at about a 45-degree angle.
02:52 45 degrees from the head will give you the maximum amount of tension that you need to
02:58 paint your piece.
02:59 You can't paint a piece of hair if you don't have enough tension.
03:03 So as I'm moving down through zones 2 and 3 of the hair, I'm dropping my elevation to
03:09 the natural fall of the hair.
03:14 One thing that I like to do, rather than going from left to right, left to right, I like
03:20 to go left, right, left, right because if I continue to start on the left side all the
03:28 way up the head, the left side will actually end up being lighter.
03:34 So soft single points.
03:36 My formula for Sarah is Multi-Techniques Powder from Blonde Studio and that is with 40 volume
03:48 and I've added to that Smart Bond because I need to ensure that her hair stays in beautiful
03:54 condition.
03:58 So I'm going through here again, painting the surface of the hair.
04:03 And with balayage, the full saturation happens on the bottom third of the head, the bottom
04:13 third of the strand.
04:14 So I'm coming back in here again.
04:16 These pieces are really not all the way up to her root.
04:20 I'm leaving her a little bit rooty.
04:23 Balayage really imitates a child's hair.
04:25 And if you think about a child's hair playing in the sun, on the beach, anything that's
04:31 not on the surface, really the highlight, natural highlight doesn't end up connecting
04:37 at the root.
04:38 So even though working with silver is more of a fantasy shade, I like to imitate nature
04:46 in everything that I paint because that way the grow out is beautiful.
04:53 And I really think that Sarah is going to love the effect of it.
04:57 She's never had balayage before.
05:01 So basically just taking her from two-dimensional to three-dimensional.
05:04 Balayage, my mentor Nancy Braun says, it's not about the highlights.
05:10 It's about the space between the highlights.
05:12 So you're really using the negative space between the hair to create that dimension.
05:20 And if you can zoom over here, I work very tightly booked behind the chair in the salon
05:26 and I'm all about working as efficiently as possible.
05:30 So what I've done here is I've put perforated plastic along the mirror.
05:35 That way I can just go ahead and grab it off.
05:38 Sebastian?
05:39 Yes.
05:40 Could you show our audience the name of the bleach that you're using again for Lightener?
05:48 Sure.
05:49 It's right over here.
05:51 It's L'Oreal Professional Blonde Studio Multi-Techniques Powder.
05:55 And I'm using that with 40 volume for max lift and Smart Bond for max protection.
06:05 So now working in the crown here, she's got a very soft foil.
06:09 It was done really, really well.
06:11 So I'm going to start painting up at her root a little bit more.
06:15 I like to switch brushes.
06:17 I use a larger brush.
06:19 This is a Dialite brush.
06:20 I use that to paint bigger pieces and I use a smaller brush to paint my smaller pieces.
06:25 It's just like a painter does not just work with one brush, neither do I.
06:30 And Sebastian, for people who are just tuning in right now, could you share what your mix
06:37 ratio is?
06:38 My mixing ratio for this, it's one part Lightener to two parts of Developer and Smart Bond.
06:49 Different people have different preferences for mixing ratio.
06:56 I like the product to be a yogurty consistency.
07:00 When it's a yogurty consistency, what I mean, if you can zoom in here, it has a bit of shine
07:05 to it.
07:06 And when I can see the shine on my product, I know that that's about how I like it on
07:10 the hair.
07:11 So here I am.
07:12 I'm painting a soft triple point up at the crown.
07:17 My end result is really, I want to smoke out her root.
07:21 I want to shadow it after I'm done.
07:24 That'll give her a lot of longevity from this look.
07:27 And then I want to gloss her ends with something beautiful and silvery.
07:31 So a lot of this old highlight is going to get smudged out, but she'll also have some
07:36 connection where it counts.
07:41 So again, I've got a big piece here, and I'm dropping down my elevation.
07:48 Started at 45 degrees from the head for maximum amount of tension.
07:54 Now I'm working down to the natural fall of the hair.
07:57 And balayage is great because you're painting the haircut.
08:01 It's a bespoke service that's custom to your client.
08:07 So it's really, really, it's amazing.
08:09 And I'm looking at this area here.
08:13 I like to step back from my work, and I feel like if I don't paint a little piece here
08:18 and then on the other side, I'm going to be missing something.
08:21 So here I go.
08:23 Starting at 45 degrees, I start a little bit below the new growth, and I feather up towards
08:30 the scalp.
08:31 Then I ribbon out through zones two, which is the mid-length of the hair, and zone three,
08:37 which is the ends, the bottom third of the hair, full saturation.
08:42 She's already very light on the ends, and I know that I've used Smart Bond for protection,
08:46 but I'm just dry brushing a little bit to open up that cuticle and brighten her up.
08:50 Stashen, where did you learn balayage?
08:54 Well, I learned balayage through the L'Oreal Professional NYC Academy.
09:02 I started, I'm an artist for L'Oreal for about eight years now, and I was able to assist
09:08 Nancy Braun, who is amazing, balay mama.
09:14 I was able to assist her when she was working in Boston, and she told me about the academy
09:20 and the program that had been created.
09:23 I just said, "I'm going to commit to doing it."
09:26 So I started with the LP Balayage Certification Program, and it's changed my entire life,
09:32 really.
09:33 I'm so passionate about it, so passionate when I go to work every day because every
09:37 head is a canvas that I can paint.
09:42 Now I work here.
09:43 Yeah, do you want to talk to us a little bit about your classes?
09:47 Yeah, so at the academy here, at L'Oreal we have two academies, one academy in New York
09:54 City and one on the West Coast in California, Newport Beach.
10:00 We offer classes in hair color and balayage, styling, personal development, and cutting.
10:08 So it's really a full package.
10:13 I mean, you can take classes in whatever you would like.
10:17 We have a balayage certification program, and that is going to be three classes.
10:23 The first is called Methods, the second is called Techniques, and the third is Balayage
10:29 Live.
10:30 We recommend that you take about a year to do it so you can really, really absorb the
10:35 information.
10:36 And after that, you are certified in L'Oreal Professional Balayage.
10:41 It's a French company, it's a French technique, and it's really, really...
10:46 I just love the heritage of it.
10:49 So now what I'm doing, I'm actually going to pre-section the hair.
10:53 This is another one of the things that I do behind the chair.
10:57 I pre-section before I paint because that way I can just pick up a section, paint it,
11:04 go to the next, and it takes a little bit of the guesswork out of what I'm doing.
11:09 So here I've got on the heavy side of Sarah's part, I'm doing a diagonal forward at her
11:16 part followed by a diagonal back section after that.
11:20 So I'm painting a braid into her hair.
11:24 Diagonals create visual blends in the hair, and I want to blend these foil lines out of
11:31 her hair.
11:33 So any questions from America out there?
11:37 Well, what is the difference between foil and balayage?
11:41 The difference between foil and balayage, if you can picture a foil...
11:47 I'm a fan of both.
11:49 I have nothing against foils.
11:50 I just really love balayage a lot.
11:53 With a foil, you're taking a few pieces of hair and you're painting the strands top to
11:59 bottom full saturation from the roots to the ends.
12:03 So it would be putting the foil under here and painting fully.
12:06 With balayage, I'm taking a larger section of hair and I'm sweeping the product onto
12:11 the surface of the hair.
12:13 So my dimension's coming from the section underneath.
12:18 Balayage is three-dimensional.
12:20 Foiling is more 2D.
12:22 There are beautiful ways to do both.
12:24 Perfect.
12:25 And a viewer is asking, "What toner are you using?
12:31 Will you be using?"
12:32 I will be off camera, and I should tell you this now, in the comments section, there is
12:37 going to be an after photo of Sarah.
12:39 I won't be toning her on camera.
12:44 But I'm planning to smudge her root with Dealight, which is our super shiny, beautiful color
12:52 gloss at a level 6.1, which is a six blue base.
12:58 So I'll smudge her root out with that, and then I'll go in and gloss the mid-lengths
13:03 and the ends.
13:04 I believe my formula is going to be 9.11, which is a nine double blue, equal to 10.22,
13:13 which is a level 10 double violet, and a pea-sized amount of Majerle Blue Mixer.
13:22 So it should get a lot of the brassiness that's existing there out of the hair.
13:39 So I'm going ahead here, and I'm going to alternate painting smaller and larger pieces
13:42 in here.
13:43 The difference in effects between painting a small piece and a large piece with balayage
13:48 is pretty...it's a big difference.
13:51 A small piece is going to give you the most foil-like balayage.
13:55 A small single piece will give you a pop, where a large painted-looking piece is going
14:01 to give you a softer diffusion with more movement towards the ends.
14:08 So here on the hairline, I'm just looking at those foil lines from before.
14:12 I'm really not trying to make too much more work for myself, and I'm just connecting there.
14:18 And dry brushing, this is already almost a level 10, so I'm just going to dry brush over
14:28 that.
14:31 And then back in through here, I'll do a larger piece.
14:45 And the thing with balayage is how it looks when you're painting it into the hair is how
14:49 it's going to look when it's all finished.
14:52 So really, I like to take a piece, step back from it, paint again.
14:57 And if there's anything that I don't like about it, like this I'm not loving, I can
15:02 just move it around a little bit until I like it.
15:05 It's a very organic approach to doing hair.
15:12 So again, moving down, my tension is strong.
15:16 I warn Sarah that I might be pulling her hair a little bit.
15:24 Onto the planchette and release.
15:35 The tools that I'm using are really, really important.
15:38 Tools are everything with balayage.
15:40 So I explained having two different brushes, and I usually like to keep a couple of different
15:46 combs on my tray.
15:48 So here I have just a tail comb with wider teeth, and this is a regular cutting comb.
15:55 And I usually have two to three different types of clips, anywhere from just basic butterfly
16:01 clips to these are Crux clips.
16:04 They're great because they're rubberized, so they really hold the hair well.
16:10 I've got perforated plastic, and I do have to the side a little bit of cotton just in
16:14 case I need that.
16:15 We do teach at the L'Oreal Professional Academy, we teach balayage, the basics by using cotton.
16:25 But once you've learned the rules, I'm a big fan of breaking them.
16:29 Once you've got your foundation in place, then you can really get artistic from there.
16:34 So in this case, I'm not using cotton.
16:36 If I was painting underneath her ponytail, I would probably use cotton for the weight
16:40 of it, but in this case, I'm just free-handing and having a lot of fun.
16:46 Sebastian, a viewer is asking, they've tried to learn balayage, and they're still not very
16:55 confident in it.
16:57 What recommendations do you have on becoming more confident when performing balayage?
17:03 Thank you for your question.
17:05 I certainly appreciate that, because when I started doing balayage, I was not good at
17:10 all.
17:11 It took me a very long time to gain confidence in it.
17:13 I would say take as many classes as possible, and just be patient with yourself.
17:24 It's an art, it's not a science.
17:26 And there are certain things with balayage that, if something's not coming out to my
17:31 liking, I have a checklist that I go through in my head to ask myself, is my tension correct?
17:38 Am I using the correct brush?
17:43 And is my product consistency right?
17:48 And it's basically just, it's over time.
17:52 And once you get rolling with balayage, it's like riding a bike.
17:56 So I would say just be patient with yourself, and come take some classes at the academy.
18:01 Amazing.
18:02 And for those viewers just joining in, could we show them the formula again?
18:09 Sebastian, a viewer's asking, when you have a client with a lot of flyaways and unruly
18:15 hair, how do you handle that?
18:18 One of the things that I'll do, I will wet my hands and towel dry them, and just run
18:23 my hands over the surface of the hair.
18:25 Pretty easy.
18:26 I don't like adding too much product to the hair.
18:29 But yeah, flyaways can be a problem.
18:32 Now Sarah's got a few flyaways here towards the root of her hair.
18:36 So what I'm going to do is reverse my brush stroke back towards the scalp.
18:43 And sometimes that helps to get into those flyaways a little bit.
18:49 So the formula again is Multi-Techniques Powder 40 Volume for maximum lift, and Smart Bond
18:55 for protection.
19:03 Now I'm looking here, and she's got foil line, foil line, foil line, foil line.
19:08 And you can see the highlights and lowlights through the end of the hair.
19:12 To translate that to balayage, I just need to connect those pieces and saturate zone
19:17 three.
19:18 It's not like a rocket science.
19:19 It's really just an equation.
19:22 Would you ever flat iron or blow dry hair that's unruly, that has a lot of flyaways?
19:30 Probably not flat iron it, but I blow dry it, absolutely.
19:34 One thing, I always work off the natural parting of the hair.
19:39 So if the hair is really frizzy, I'll smooth it out and just work from there.
19:47 Flat ironing it, I feel like that could cause undue stress on the hair, and so I would prefer
19:53 not to do that.
19:54 And typically, how long does it take you to do a half balayage?
20:01 For a surface balayage, which is like a partial balayage, typically in salon time, it takes
20:06 me about a half an hour.
20:11 I do a dry cut first.
20:12 I also cut behind the chair.
20:13 So I'll be booked anywhere between 45 minutes and an hour for a dry cut and balayage.
20:22 That being said, most of my clients have been getting balayage for a long time, so it's
20:28 easy for me to go in there and just connect the dots.
20:31 Definitely, if you're starting out with balayage, allow yourself more time.
20:36 Book your balayage client as the last one of the day.
20:40 And again, just be patient with yourself.
20:46 So here I am.
20:47 I'm coming up towards the top of the head, taking bigger pieces.
20:50 I want a lot of softness.
20:53 Silver can be grayish tones.
20:55 You walk a fine line between it being harsh, so you definitely want to add an element of
21:00 softness.
21:01 And so that's why I'm taking these large pieces.
21:03 And a viewer is asking, do you ever balayage on clients with a level five hair and below,
21:11 or do you prefer to foil in those cases?
21:14 I balayage everybody pretty much.
21:17 I just choose my product differently for a level five and below.
21:23 I might up my developer.
21:24 I might make my product a little bit thicker.
21:27 It all depends on the case.
21:30 So getting back to different types of silver for different clients, Sarah here has slightly
21:39 olive skin.
21:42 So for her, with her natural level six, I'm going to choose to leave a little bit more
21:48 pigment in, and that's why I'm also doing a root shadow, because she's got slightly
21:56 darker eyebrows, and I feel like if I made her too light that she could get easily washed
22:02 out.
22:05 Lots of different versions of silver.
22:06 Silver is trending so much right now.
22:08 You're seeing silvers anywhere from a sand, which is like a silver blonde.
22:12 It's almost a platinum with a little hint of a gray to it.
22:17 Sterling gray, a little more pigment.
22:19 That's something like I want to do on Sarah.
22:21 Like a gunmetal for maybe a darker skin tone.
22:25 And definitely the darker the skin tone, the more root shadow I would use.
22:31 I look at eyebrows all the time.
22:33 Eyebrows are a big telltale for how light I'm going to take my client.
22:39 There needs to be just the perfect storm of contrast and lightness for the client.
22:48 And I also take into consideration how, when are they going to come back?
22:53 Because you can take someone all over silver, and it's absolutely stunning, and they look
22:59 like a screen goddess, and it's amazing, but they want to come every six months, and that's
23:05 three to four inches of grow out.
23:08 And that's the color correction coming back.
23:09 So for a lazier, low-maintenance client, I might suggest silver balayage.
23:16 If someone's willing to come and spend a lot of time and money in the salon, and they want
23:21 to come every three weeks, I'd absolutely do a double process.
23:25 But a wonderful thing about silver hair is that when it fades out and the toner's gone,
23:32 it's just a cool blonde.
23:35 It's very, very wearable.
23:41 Now I've got this smaller subsection towards the top of her head.
23:45 I'm going to split this in two.
23:50 I always like to paint the center, and then her power piece coming off the part, I'll
23:56 hit from the front and from the top as well.
24:00 Sebastian, everyone is loving what you're doing.
24:05 They're saying it's an amazing application.
24:07 They love it.
24:09 Thanks.
24:10 Thanks, everybody.
24:11 You know, education is the cornerstone of being successful as a hairdresser, and I really,
24:18 really think that 2018, I mean, it's going to be a great year for hair.
24:24 Social media has changed the way that people think about we as hairdressers.
24:29 We're truly artists, and so I definitely encourage you, check out the classes.
24:35 I teach some of them.
24:37 We have two academies, again, in California and New York City, lpregister.com/balayage
24:44 for balayage classes.
24:46 And you can also book me for in-salon programs through that website, because I'd love to
24:50 come and visit you in your salon as well.
24:58 So I'm moving down the hair.
24:59 See my tension?
25:00 If she didn't resist me, I'd actually be moving her head, but you need that tension to be
25:06 able to paint on this surface.
25:10 So that's a four-point there, and I'm pretty much saturating almost all of her ends at
25:16 this point.
25:17 Especially for a client that comes in with very dry, damaged hair, what would you do
25:25 before highlighting or balayage?
25:30 Consultation is so super, super important.
25:33 It's vital to know the history of the hair, so I always start with a good consultation.
25:38 If someone's not a candidate for balayage, they're not a candidate for most hair color.
25:43 So I might just encourage them to get a gloss, a clear gloss or deep conditioning treatment,
25:50 and I would coach them through the process of nourishing their hair enough that maybe
25:55 in three or four months, I could have them back to highlight.
25:59 But I won't touch hair.
26:00 That's completely compromised.
26:02 It's our integrity as hairdressers.
26:06 It's important for colorists to be able to say no.
26:10 Absolutely, absolutely.
26:14 I don't like saying no, and I like the finance that clients bring in, absolutely, but if
26:21 something is...
26:22 I have no problem referring a new client to another stylist if I think they'll be a better
26:29 fit.
26:30 So if someone wants heavy-duty, heavy, heavy foil highlights, I'm going to refer them probably
26:38 to someone who has a passion for that, like I do for balayage.
26:44 Would you ever suggest a silver balayage for a client that has 50% or more natural gray
26:50 hair?
26:51 Yes, I would absolutely suggest that.
26:53 I'm going to have you move your head down slightly towards the side.
26:57 Perfect.
26:58 Yeah, absolutely.
26:59 It's a great way to transition a client that may be salt and pepper and wants to go natural.
27:04 But doing silver hair, upping the silver in someone that's already non-pigmented, it's
27:14 great.
27:15 It looks beautiful.
27:16 I mean, there are a lot of different ways that you can do that, from painting pieces
27:19 or maybe just having them come in for a gloss.
27:25 The more sparkle, the better.
27:28 So I'm coming up here to the top of the head.
27:33 I'm working.
27:37 See how that's getting a little bit messy right there?
27:39 All I have to do is, don't panic, step back, and I like to just use the tip of my brush
27:47 to move the product around a little bit.
27:49 No problem.
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28:19 We just finished up our Academy Artist Development Session for 2018, and this is just going to
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28:28 Okay.
28:29 And especially for clients with long, thinning hair, would you want to do a balayage on them?
28:43 Thinning hair?
28:44 It depends on why, the reason why it's thinning.
28:47 If a client just has fine hair, absolutely.
28:51 If it's falling out because of a hormonal reason or a medical reason, you know, it's
28:57 just case by case.
28:58 But fine hair balayage is excellent.
29:03 My way of painting fine hair is going to be different for sure.
29:09 With fine hair, if you take too many teeny, tiny little pieces, it becomes problematic
29:14 because the pieces disappear.
29:16 So for fine hair, I generally will go and take larger pieces so I can really see those
29:23 highlights.
29:24 Perfect.
29:25 And for our viewers just tuning in again, could you show the formula that Sebastian
29:32 is using?
29:35 So if you're just tuning in, my formula for beautiful Sarah's balayage here is Multi-Techniques
29:42 Powder with 40 volume, L'Oreal Professional Blonde Studio Multi-Techniques Powder and
29:49 Smart Bond to protect it.
29:57 So again, I have pre-sectioned out the entire left side of the head.
30:03 We're at about 30-ish minutes right now and I'm wrapping up my partial.
30:11 But I've still got probably 10 more minutes to go.
30:18 So starting at 45 degrees from the head and back down to the natural fall for the
30:27 elevation of the product.
30:34 I want to talk a little bit about getting into the new growth area.
30:39 It's very important that you understand the anatomy of a brush.
30:45 So you've got the center of the brush and the corner of the brush.
30:50 The center of the brush I use to spread the product.
30:52 The corner of the brush I use to get into the new growth and create a smaller point.
31:05 So I'm removing the product from my planchette horizontally.
31:10 It's applied vertically.
31:11 And I'm just going to go in with the corner of my brush right there to get nice and close.
31:23 And as I work down the rest of the hair, I'm going to fan it out with the center of the
31:28 brush.
31:30 I use like three strokes before I add more product to my brush.
31:39 And sometimes what I'll do, I feel like this is a little bit too dark in here so I'll just
31:43 add a little dry brushing through there.
31:50 And again, you can see exactly where the product is going to live and that's how it's going
31:54 to look when it's dry and beautifully styled.
31:58 Can you talk to us a little bit more about Smart Bond and why you love using it?
32:03 I love Smart Bond just because it gives me the freedom to do a fashion look like this
32:10 without worrying about compromising the hair too much.
32:16 If you're familiar with hair at all, you understand that the lighter you go with color, the more
32:23 compromised the hair can be.
32:27 So it's just really important to add that into there so her hair stays shiny and supple.
32:37 If the color is beautiful and the hair is in poor condition, it's just they work against
32:46 each other too much.
32:49 I love Smart Bond.
32:50 I've started pretty much Smart Bonding everyone that sees me behind the chair.
32:56 It makes the hair feel brand new.
32:59 It's a great seven-minute add-on service and now there's a product that you can also use
33:05 at home.
33:11 So how many of you out there in America are going to sign up for a balayage class at the
33:17 Academy?
33:18 Everyone.
33:19 Everybody, do it.
33:21 It's such an amazing experience and I went through it myself so I can speak to it from
33:25 that angle as a stylist.
33:27 I own a salon in Massachusetts and my business has grown immensely since I started focusing
33:35 on balayage.
33:36 I'm totally committed to it.
33:39 The L'Oreal Professional Balayage Certification Program, it was a game changer for me and
33:45 I believe in it.
33:47 So lpregister.com/balayage and again we are doing an amazing 20% off promo for the month
33:57 of January with the promo code.
34:08 So I've got my Well Brush and my Well Brush I keep in the bowl at all times.
34:13 I put the product vertically on my planchette with the Well Brush.
34:18 That brush goes back into the bowl.
34:19 My application brush never goes into the bowl.
34:22 That way I can keep my application nice and neat.
34:25 So here when I'm doing a foil conversion I'm just looking, bring your head slightly over
34:30 to the side, I'm just looking for the lines that I need to connect.
34:33 That's objective one, saturation on the ends, objective two.
34:40 So I'm removing product here.
34:42 I've got a bead of product on my brush.
34:44 This is my last section so I'm about to wrap it up and I'm just connecting those pieces
34:52 except now they're going to be more three dimensional and I won't have to use low lights
34:56 because the space between the highlights are more important than the highlights themselves.
35:11 Just fanning out my product with the middle of the brush.
35:17 Just making sure that it looks nice and smooth because I know, again, the way the product
35:21 looks on the hair is the way that it's going to look when it's dry.
35:25 And I'm looking here and I see I'm going to have too much darkness right there so no problem.
35:30 I'm just going to add that little accent right there.
35:38 So that's my look.
35:43 So cool, Sebastian.
35:49 I can't wait to see what the look is going to be like afterwards.
35:56 Me too.
35:57 So the after pics will be on the comments section of this feed and also on American
36:04 Salon's Facebook page and L'Oreal Professional Facebook page as well.
36:09 Perfect.
36:10 And for those of you just tuning in, I'm Maureen Sheen, Senior Editor of American Salon and
36:15 I have been here today with Sebastian Langman-Kurtley who pulled off an amazing silver balayage
36:23 technique.
36:24 Again, you can check out the after fully finished look on our Facebook Live.
36:30 Sebastian, really quickly before we go, where can we find you online?
36:34 You can find me at Sebastian Colorist on Instagram and on Facebook I'm Sebastian Langman-Kurtley.
36:40 I do a lot more on Instagram so definitely check me out there.
36:44 Find and follow.
36:45 And then also, again, the promo code for the 20% off for the month of January classes at
36:54 the Academy is FBLive20 and you can enter that in when you sign up at lpregister.com/balayage.
37:01 Amazing.
37:02 And you can tune in here again to check out more of our Facebook Lives and follow us along
37:09 on Instagram, Instagram Stories at American_Salon and on our web at americansalon.com.
37:17 Thanks so much for tuning in everyone.
37:18 Thanks for tuning in.
37:19 Bye.
37:20 Bye.
37:20 (laughing)