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SEARCHFrom box brunette to beautiful blonde, “This has been our journey over the last five months,” Kalen Keele, says. Keele, (@colorbykalen), a salon owner and balayage specialist in Lehi, UT, shares the slow and steady work she ...
From box brunette to beautiful blonde, “This has been our journey over the last five months,” Kalen Keele, says. Keele, (@colorbykalen), a salon owner and balayage specialist in Lehi, UT, shares the slow and steady work she took to achieve her client’s dream hair while maintaining its integrity.
STARTING POINT: “She started off with a level 2 box-dyed brunette, an inch of level 7 virgin regrowth, three inches of level 5 colored hair and the rest of her hair was a level 9. Her goal is an allover white blonde."
THE PROCESS
STEP ONE: Bleached out the three inches of level 5 color with Joico Verolights and 40 volume with Olaplex and let that process until it was the same color as her ends.
STEP TWO: Went through and did 20 volume and Olaplex and Verolights on her roots and then dragged that same lightener through her ends for the last ten minutes.
STEP THREE: At the bowl, toned her roots with Redken 7NA on her roots, 6T on the midshafts (where the previous level 5 color was) and 9N on the ends.
STEP FOUR: Rinsed and did an allover glaze of 9T 9NA to even everything out.
FINISH: Finished off with an Olaplex treatment.
“A little patience and Olaplex is all you need! And voila!”
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