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Never Tried  Platinum  . . .? . . 

Everyone  must  Once  in  Their   Life

Hair Photo Inspirations : A-List Looks for Autumn

. . . .and how to achieve these looks ??. . . taught and discussed for you through our Google Group and our underground Store .. the link to the Group....... http://groups.google.com/group/killerstrands?hl=en 

the INFO is FREE unless you would like a 1 On 1 Hair Color Consultation with me a Board Certified -16 year Vidal Sassoon - LA Based Hair Stylist/Colorist for $25.00 with $10.00 refunded when you make your first purchase + a 10% discount on all hair color products from then on .

Our underground store has products that you will find no where else. - its a very unique collection of products . . with more interesting products than you will find anywhere . . . . these products work - I am told

How about that phenomenon ! !

I dare you all to begin a learning experience, this is not about me answering the same questions over and over.....this about you taking on the challenge of learning the basics to hair color which I teach in a very basic and easy to understand method. I know its successful because I have had dozens of happy - successful CRIB COLORISTS, That is the AWARD you receive when you figure this out and git-it-done -- - correctly on your own HEAD of HAIR.

I know you can do it, you just must sit down and read . . . and look at some very easy and basic DEMO's I have put together that  are very easy to understand.....I have many happy people with very happy healthy hair. . . . . they did it themselves....and I bet you all can do it as well . . .

Go for the Hair Color Consultation .
 . . if you are insecure about doing this yourself. . .
Just know I let people ask me questions for a couple months, if they need to . . . so far no one has become a headache - they've been respectful of my time . . . . I don't mind answering the questions as they slowly figure them out as the learning process takes place .
so its not a super tough structure.

Get familiar with the GROUP and our Underground store, my 2 managers Nikki and Detour - both of them are super helpful. . . all the color charts are downloaded - so you can look at the color swatches up close ( a big help) - then you will listen to everyone talking and learn how our unique-successful system works (using PAY PAL).
I have not created a regular STORE/Shopping Cart yet - on purpose - -
I want to be sure everyone is learning prior to buying my products.......
they might alter their hair too much in one direction that they may not want or be.

It Boils down to "I  CARE"

I know an unusual sentiment   here on the web,
but it will remain one here on KILLERSTRANDS.Blogspot.com

My Goal here is HAIR EDUCATION.
Hair Color EDUCATION . . Hair Health Education, for its lifetime.

They all end up thanking me in the end, and that is my reward . . . it gives me a great big smile and that is what I need in my life right now .
Smiles - Love - and warmth.
Dakota

your

Killer Chemist

KC

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY ! ! You have been Stefani-ized

Miss Molly You Have Been Platinum-ized

Decided to bleach the left side of the head to "Stefani-blond", leave the right side, bleached just once and not toned as most home jobs are done, so the difference was apparent. It is completely normal to have some shedding with a bleaching, do not panic

Left side was bleached twice with Wellite Oil bleach and 40 Volume ( its not a real head remember)
Prepare for the TONER portion of the process. I have NEVER bleached a head of hair and not toned it.

This shows the COLOUR TOUCH CHART

I decided to use LEVEL 10 > LIGHTEST VIOLET BLONDE ( the swatch on the top <> far LEFT) , which would have the most purple to counter the yellow left in the hair.

This being a mannequin head,

they tint it to get it the color it is, so it is not totally natural Color......although it is human hair.

Application of the Toner

This is the right side of the hair, with only ONE(1) bleaching, which of course you cannot really tell by this lighting.

Here you can tell better I think. The left has been bleached twice and toned with VIOLET BLONDE for 25 minutes. I will attempt some better photos tomorrow in the sunlight.

Can you tell ? See how nice the beautifully Toned hair is? I hope so.

Molly's beige/white Colour is seen beautifully on the left side only

Good Golly Miss Molly You Are Platinum

Bitchin Bleached Blondes Accomplished @ Home

Bleach Your Hair Exactly Like Gwen Stefani's .........exactly

This seems to a very hot subject, not only by emails & comments . . but it is also one of the top Searched subjects with GOOGLE which fascinates me.

I would imagine because it is so hard to get perfect.

I see a whole lot of banana heads walking around so that has to be the reason.

I only work with "perfect" always have

Therefore...we will spend however many days it takes to get everyone's questions answered.

I have begun bleaching a mannequin head giving it "roots" . . so I can demonstrate "overlapping"... "touching up" "timing", "toning" and any thing else you can dream up

Let this be the new home of: Bleach your hair like GWEN'S - .........exactly

When I repeat myself it is because I have discovered many of the newer readers have not gone all the way back to the beginning...and expect to be all up-to-date by reading the past 10 posts...which doesn't really work. I'd probably do the same thing myself, although I wouldn't if I was truly trying to learn this shit...but anyway. When the repeats happen its beCAUSE I feel its important enough to say it again > FYI

One of my better kept secrets is the online beauty supply WIMEX www.wimexbeauty.com , their prices are so great...doesn't matter about shipping charges. I know there are some Cosmo students out there and then some of you that really want to do your homework so your hair turns out perfectly. For all of you I would suggest purchasing at least one doll head from them. They have about 40 different types and the really top notch ones even are under $25.00 !!... they even have a miniature human hair head for learning that is $16.95 !! The normal sized models have real human hair heads designed so you can practice color, highlights, blow drying, hair cutting ( practice fringe trimming {bangs} ), bleaching, they have some with Grey roots, or with colored roots ...they even have a 4 section head each quadrant has a different learning technique.

The experience is invaluable....the price incredible.....I cannot recommend it enough if you are really interested in learning & perfecting the craft. Remember if you take what I teach you, learn it >> practice it, you can save yourself a carload of cash over your lifetime....besides having the level of hair you see on magazine covers.

It just hit me to spend the next couple weeks or days whatever it takes to thoroughly cover bleaching hair....Level 1 through Level 8/9 so everyone will have every single question answered. So get your pad & pencil ready I want EVERY single question that has ever occured to you about this subject so I can address it, photograph and if necessary video an explanation. {this is terrible but I have still not figured out my camcorder - but I WILL I PROMISE!! }

No one warned me you had to become a techno geek in order to become a blogger !

Don't get me wrong . . . I Love electronics, I don't mind them at all, its just the "TIME" involved

Bleach For The Stars (cont)

Part 3 (final) of the ONLINE Directions :

"HOW-TO-BLEACH-YOUR-HAIR : White

(not yellow) Leaving Hair In Excellent Condition

Quest for Platinum (part 3)

11.)Determine from a color chart or as best you can 15 minutes before the time is done, you are looking for a pastel yellow-white....the one major problem made by people bleaching hair is... that it is yellow. What does being yellow indicate? .... they have taken the bleach off too early... or that it was put on once....and not put on again. Many times...let me say, most times, the bleach needs to be applied twice. If the client has very light hair to begin with, Level 7 is the breaking point, a Level 8 would be darkest you can be to get away with one bleach is a pretty good guess.

Remember the porosity, the texture of the hair have a lot to do with how fast hair lightens...so it will be different all the time. You need to understand that person A with Level 8 VIRGIN Hair and person B with Level 8 VIRGIN hair can both have completely different lift speeds. Person A has straight, very porous fine - level 8 hair...while Person B has straight - non porous - coarse level 8 hair.....with my experience I will guess that person A will be light enough when all is said and done and person B will need an extra 30 to 60 minutes.

Just know that when hair is wet with this product on it....it will never look totally white,EVER...so do not look for totally white, what it looks like is a pale yellow-white, when it is dry it turns to white. Why do you not want it to be totally white? It will be over done....the product will be on too long creating too much damage. I do not mean to sound confusing, I mean to try to teach you everything I know through words, I want you to understand this process through reading words as much as possible.

12.)About 15 minutes before you think it will be finished, remove the cotton from the scalp area. Apply the lightener to the hair near the scalp with the 1/8-1/4" partings, very very quickly...(figure 16-54). If at this point you are running out of bleach prepare a fresh batch - at this point I would make up a batch of regular bleach - using 40 volume developer, to help speed things up.You have all the hair covered in the oil bleach so the oil is on all of your strands in order to protect it. The cuticle opens and lets the OIL IN....which helps the condition and controls the damage to the hair. If you just have some spots or stubborn areas put the 40 volume bleach on them and work it in with your fingers, rubbing it into the hair strands briskly and hard with your fingers..

Process and perform your strand test until the entire shaft has reached the desired stage of pale yellow/white.

13.)Rinse the hair thoroughly with tepid water. Shampoo gently with a Sodium Lauryl Sulfate--FREE shampoo.

14.) Apply "After-Treatment" of choice for a minimum of 5 minutes to get the pH back to normal.{Remember Wella's "In-Depth" is only $4.00 at Sally's and is an EXCELLENT Deep conditioner + an "after-treatment" as well}....this little step is one of those tricks that I added that makes a huge difference in this process, many discard it...don't! You want the best tricks? Use them. You will see why in the condition of your hair.

The idea is to perform only the necessary steps,in a Salon setting you are in a massive hurry,in my days in Salons,there was never enough time for people that wanted their hair done, ever...yet doing this step was one I would never axe. Only the necessary ones are on here I promise you.

Re- condition with the best conditioner you have for a couple minutes.

15.) Towel Dry the hair....under a cool dryer.....find out which way your toner needs the hair its about 50-50 1/2 the toners want your hair damp the other 1/2 want it dry.... if dry....be sure to dry very very gently and on a lo-warm temp. treat the hair with care its just gone through Hell and back.

16.) Examine scalp for any abrasions (See Figure 16-55)Analyze the condition of the hair. Proceed with toner application.

{ as a warning the color of this is too yellow (Fig.16-55), I would apply bleach one complete more time for how this looks.... it is in the yellow stage..... and needs to be AT LEAST in the yellow/white stage - - - see the DeColorization chart I posted... the lightest says "pale Yellow"...I cal it Yellow/White...because it is ...Yellow White }

the Decolorization chart shows what stages the hair goes through as it loses its color with bleach on it. As a Colorist we are trained to use the word "lightener" in front of clients...talking to each other we say "bleach" that's what it is and its easier

when bleaching the first few times....Click on it and Print it out....save for reference..

At this point you are completely done with the Bleaching process....your hair will feel kind of funny.....it will smell kind of funny...I LOVE IT ! ! ! .oh and why do I like this procedure better than any other in the world of hair???? Did you figure it out?

Its because it is the single procedure that changes the hair the most....at times going from black to white...especially when applying to hispanics or Asians. Also when it is done like this....with a gorgeous icy beige toner...there is nothing more beautiful. You will see once you do this.. You basically are changing hair from 'black' to 'white'....the more change I can do,the more I feel like a true artist within the world of hair. The very first bleach I did was to an Asian girl from Pepperdine College, she had come to Sassoon to get her hair done for free.... we had her for 8 hours,that was the penalty for "free hair" 16 years ago. I can't believe I can still remember that she was an Advertising Student so she was an ARTIST herself.....she let me put a 2 inch band (surrounding her entire hairline) of PURE White Hair so she had a GORGEOUS white frame around her face and then I took her Level 2 darkest brown hair and made it Level 1 > black-blue...so it was the complete opposite ends of the spectrum...as my VERY FIRST bleach. I cannot believe my mentor ( Lucie Doughty) had me do that first, but as she used to say, " it IS only hair". She had this great attitude toward hair which took me about 10 years to acquire, I had always held my hair dear to my heart....but as I matured and as I had quite a few severe tragedies happen in life...it finally hit me.....it TRULY is . . . . . . .ONLY Hair! Its the one object on the body that WILL grow back....!

Now find your Toner...this is as important as the bleach. You never want to leave it Un-toned that is like making a birthday cake and not frosting it. You can eat the cake and I suppose some would consider it done, but my Lord how much better is it WITH the Frosting!!

ITS THE BEST PART, just like the frosting is!

(Toners are tomorrow)

**** Just a note...I have gone through and added a few very important points to both posts that I both forgot and changed my mind on, so be sure to re-read them...if you have gone through the headache of reading all this. Sorry its so long, I wanted to cover everything....and I know I will still have questions.....

PLEASE >ASK ALL THE QUESTIONS YOU WANT....I WANT TO SEE IF I HAVE MADE THIS CLEAR ! ! ! ! and what I might have forgotten or what you do not understand.... I want you all to fully understand it.....PLEASe . . . ASK, ANYTHING ON YOUR MIND.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A DUMB "QUESTION"

Coming in a day or so will be the Numbered thorough Directions to.......Bleaching Previously Treated Hair Blonde:White Blonde.