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3. dfsrjs- Long Layered Cut

Monday, 10 September 2007

Here is dfsrjs's Long Layered Haircut: Her daughter Milan is waiting until she too can get this cut

See more pictures below

So with alot of my long haired clients I start in the front
1. I section the hair straight down the middle(so now I have 2 sections left and right)

2. start your guide line on one side of the head bringing it straight forward (see diagram)
Cut your desired length.
( I found that you can cut it pretty short in the front and if the hair is really long you still won't loose Lent when you bring everything to that guide in the front.Also lets say you have someone with super super long hair bring all the hair to your front guideline and thats all you need to do. It will have the layers all around the face and slightly in the back and you will still have all your long hair. It looks so scary because all that hair that hangs around the face comes off and it looks like you cutting ALOT but the length remains.

3. keep bringing all your sections straight forward until you have cut every thing on your right section.Then go to the left section match your guide with the other side and continue to bring everything forward to that guide.

4. then if you need shorter layers in the back bring hair straight up from the head, cut desired length and bring everything to that guide(you can tweak this so many different ways depending on the length of hair and desired layers but I get unbelievable results with starting my guide in the front and bringing everything to that. Don't be afraid to cut the front layers staring at the chin even with long hair you will keep your length (well if hair is to the butt you should adjust the length around the face if you cut that real short then bring everything to that point you would obviously loose length because the hair is to long for that short around the face.)

Difference Between Redken Color Gels & Fusion

Friday, 07 September 2007

By Michael Quick & Jennifer Hernon

I was talking to Michael (Southern) about this question and without going into alot of detail, Gels and Fusion are callibrated a bit differently. If you look at the two charts side by side, levels 1-6 in Fusion goes like this:

1-black
2-dark brown
3-medium brown
4-light brown
5-lightest brown
6-dark blonde

Gels:
1-black
2-DARKEST brown
3-DARK brown
4-MEDIUM brown
5-LIGHT brown
6-dark blonde

Fusions level 5 is lighter than Gels level 5. According to Southern, gels runs a shade darker than Fusion at the lower to mid levels and then catches back up at the higher levels. Even though Redken is a 10 level system, according to what Southern told me; Redken snuck in a lighter color with Fusion because Americans have lighter hair at levels 5-6 than Europeans. Gels even though it's a 10 level system, tends to run darker and more opaque like a 12 level system but is not as opaque and flat looking as other color lines. Fusion is more translucent in tone and tends to not give the great grey coverage as gels which is also why Fusion came out with the NN series for grey (which I LOVE LOVE LOVE).

Southern I hope I'm explaining this correctly because you filled my head with a bunch of info that is still bursting at the seams here...lol

Ok...so moving on and getting back to the question of how to formulate...so when working with the gels mid-to low levels, formulate 1 level lighter than desired level up to level 7. Then at level 7, formulate at the correct callibration of level per level. Still use 20vol for 2 levels, 30vol for 3 levels and so on. So...when when going 2 levels lighter use 20vol and formulate 1 level lighter on levels 1-6....make sense?