adamlea87
Well-Known Member
I am mobile and taking over a number of clients for about 12/18 months from another hairdresser while she takes maternity leave.
She has only ever used L'Oreal and I use Goldwell and trained in Wella. She has written down what she has been using on each of the clients for me, as most of them want to carry on with their L'Oreal colours as they will eventually go back to Elaine.
I have been reading the L'Oreal technical manual and I have booked myself on some of their courses but they are not for a few weeks and I have got one client that I have just done a consultation for and am a bit unsure how to proceed.
She is a natural base 6 with about 70% white hair. For the past 10 years Elaine has been colouring her hair with Majirel using 1/2 base 7 and 1/2 7,4 with 20 vol. Elaine has never taken the colour through to the ends. She had some bleached highlights done in the middle of February and since then has just had her root regrowth done because she is worried about the condition of the bleached hair (it does seem to be quite dry).
So at the moment she has got just over 6 weeks re-growth, a band of the Majirel 7,4 of about 1 to 2 inches and then the faded out colour with bleached highlights.
She now wants to move away from the copper colour and go a level lighter. She is keen on trying majirel 8,31.
Having read the technical manual I am a little unsure why Elaine was using the base 7 with the 7,4 and not the base 7,3 or 7,03 as the technical manual says to use 7,3 as a base to cover 70% white hair when using the warm colours. The only thing that I can think of, is that she wanted to try and neutralise the copper tones a bit in the 7,4 as the client didn't want it too bright.
If I use the 8,31 with a base 8, will this turn it more into something like I imagine and 8,13 would be, and a bit flat? If I use the base 8,3 is this going to make it much more golden than using the 8,03 with the 8,31?
Sorry, so many questions. I think it will take a little time for me to get used to working with a new colour line...the courses can't come quick enough.
Molly
Molly you are correct about everything you have said... My concern would be the lengths and ends though, they would need cleansing of the old colour if you want to take her up to a 8.31 and obviously condition seems to be a issue.
If removal is not possible and the tone though the ends have faded I would consider changing her root colour to 7.3 and running dialight 7.31 though the ends- the secondary ash will help to neutralise some of the copper and will give the hair more shine. At the same time I would add the highlights and then tone them with dialight 8.3 (or diarichesse 8.31).
That way you can gradually change her colour and she can have some of the lighter gold that she wants. Of course you should technically remove the old copper first, but I am just thinking of something that might work commercially for you. Let us know how you get on, maybe someone else here will have some more ideas for you..
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