Help with mother in law’s hair colour!

[Clareh]

im newly qualified and I'm doing my partners mums hair tomorrow. Her previous hairdresser I think got her foiling confused last time and did 2 bleach to one tint. Then she went on holiday. Then went and put root cover nice and easy on it and we had a nice shade of karki! I cap tinted a very light violet blonde and it looked great but this was a stop gap. She's grown out a wispy pixie with a fringe, 70% grey, level 5 naturally but suits neutral colours than overtly warm or cool. It's currently about a 9 with some 8 and 10 scattered. I've got her back tomorrow to sort it out properly. I thinking of retaining her lighter hair on top and fringe, perhaps doing a few babylights. It has dimension but needs the colour to be less wishy washy.. she likes a creamy, dimensional blonde. I use L'Oréal and will be overseen by the salon manager but want to have some ideas before we strand test

 

[Clareh]

With her wispy pixie I'm wondering whether to do the root colour then brush apply bleach to her Mohawk section and then tone? Gah! I just don't want stripes or a horrible regrowth when the grey comes through!

 

[DanniP92]

do you have any photos?
what is she hoping the result will be?

 

[Clareh]

I didn't ask her if she minded me using her photo- just sent her a message. Seriously her needs are" do what you want as long as it isn't stripy or khaki and still light", I think at my early stage in my hairdressing journey.. I need more guidance! She likes the colour I used for the cap lowlights. She's still a bit khaki so I'm going to use majirel iridescent blonde as befor but globally up to the occipital bone then (does this sound ok) the same in foils, alternating with a blonde tint of her choice and 10 vol bleach fine weaves? My end game is not khaki and not stripy!

 

[DanniP92]

Its difficult because if is a khaki (green) colour, you need to neautralise with a red tone. best bet is to go through with very fine babylights bleach 10vol and make sure to tell her it can take a few goes to fix this issue. I also use L'Oreal and 9.02 makes a great creamy blonde but for now you need to focus on getting that green tinge out. Did you use a high lift for her cap foils?

 

[Clareh]

No highlift on the cap, was just depositing previously..you're right, the khaki tone is actually coming out however it was a permenant she put on, will try to steer her towards a slightly darker base so I have more tones to play with?

 

[DanniP92]

How did it come out? Are you happy with the result?

 

[Clareh]

Hi! Really happy! She loved the irridescent blobde in her hair already and I put more of it a warm gold blonde high lift as her condition was good. The khaki looked just a cool blonde by the time she came in so we had a bit more to play with, plus she had a really good cut. I had a really anxious few hours before during and after though- face sweats lol! Xxx