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SEARCHThis client had dreams of platinum blonde, but then all of a sudden, she wanted to go red! This was a big change from platinum, so colorist Lauren Barton made SURE this was what her client wanted. Her client said to go for it!
"My guest has been coming to me for awhile with dreams of being platinum blonde," says Lauren Barton (@laurenbartonhair) of Heaven the Salon Experience, Winchester, Virginia. "After thinking it over for months, she came in with a new idea...red! When we had our consultation, I made sure she was 100% ready for this change as it would take quite awhile to be back to her once platinum locks."
Here Barton shares the details:
"First things first, I needed to fill her hair to even out porosity and re-pigment her hair so that the color would remain even and vibrant. I filled her hair with 8R PM Shines for 10 minutes. I wiped away the pigment instead of rinsing. I refreshed her natural regrowth with 5VR with 2 ribbons of 6RV and 5N Paul Mitchell the Color.
I then pulled through the ends with 5VR PM Color, 1 red color shot and 1 blue color shot with 20 volume, alternating with 5VR with 2 ribbons of 7RV and 10 volume Paul Mitchell Shines XG. This was processed for 30 minutes."
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