DIY: the High-Lift Root Touch Up Technique
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- Hi lift colors for blonde hair. I use a level 12N neutral. Gives a balanced cool ash tone to the hair. No more brass. No more roots. Easy at home hair tutorial! I show you a little more advanced way to lighten hair. In this case here I'm showing how to to a root touch up to match blonde highlight and base. I am using a level 12N high lift. I explain how when using a high lift you use two parts developer and only one part color, and using a 30 or 40 vol developer. A high lift gives many more levels of lift than color does and sometimes almost as many levels as bleach can. So why use high lift instead of bleach?! Because high lift developers the cancel out color as you lift, so toning is no longer needed becausue its technically toning (or deposting orange-canceling tones. So much quicker and effective. Thanks for watching, please subscribe and happy lifting!
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You are a genius. Last night I was desperate for a root quick fix. I usually have my hair done at the salon and pay a pretty penny each time. This was my first ever attempt at doing my own hair and your way is fool proof! My hair looks amazing and the colour is better than what my hairdresser does. It cost me 1/20 of what the salon charges!
LOVE THIS! this has been such a huge help to me! i have been doing my own hair for so long and when it was really dark it was easy to do alone, but since ive been on this blonde journey since October you have helped me so much!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
Your advice has made all the difference for me - getting me to maintain ultra natural beautiful blond without spending hundreds every few months. Thanks you SOOO much!! I'm very grateful.
Its just to soften the root everyone. The original root was darker.she's saying she does this to root color then does the highlights to get her overall color.
Silvia, I love your videos! I had been paying way too much to leave the salon feeling like I didn't really get what I wanted since going blonde. After the last bad appointment with hair that was way too yellow I started watching your videos. I was able to put some low lights in and tone the yellow out at home for a fraction of the cost that my stylist would have charged. Well, now it was time for roots and I was very scared to use the higher volume developer but after watching this video I did it and it is FABULOUS! No orange/yellow mess! Didn't need to tone and it looks way more natural than what my stylist had been doing. Thank you so much for all your videos!
I've been watching your videos for a while. You are becoming so much more comfortable and natural on camera...you're doing great!! Keep it up because I learn so much.
This was an absolute life saver, I can't believe how well this worked. Thank you!!!
This worked perfectly for me. I did leave it on for 20 minutes. I would say I'm a level 6/7 naturally. It did come out perfectly toned and blended well into my already lightened hair. This is definitely becoming part of my hair lightening regime. Thanks! 😉
I cannot thank you enough for this video, and all of your other videos!! I tried using this technique and it worked so well. I am thrilled and recommend your videos to all of my friends! Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much for sharing your hair formula!! You have saved my hair life!!! Keep making great videos!!
Omg..thank you so much for this video on touching up the roots tip..I love it..way better than bleaching the roots.. I really appreciate your videos on hair coloring..THANK YOU!!
Hey silvia I just used your tip on how to lift your roots using the wella toner im a level 5 and I used 12a frosty blonde definately lifted me up atleast a level or two and prepped me for my highlight thank you so much for your videos I love them !!!! Your amazing have a great day ! -Tyler
I tried this, but I am using 12AA - thanks for demonstrating your technique. I am a natural blonde whose color seems to have faded! I get brassy quickly. I had colored my hair about ten years ago and use Loreal lightest ash blonde and found the ends became dry and tended toward blue. I have been successful using the Wella products and am now adding the violet toner to the mix of color with developer. It seems to work!
Loved this video, thank you so much I just did this to my hair with wella 12A and 30 developer. It looks amazing, you saved me so much money and you have by far the best videos out there. Thanks again for these!
Felicia Federighi how long did you leave it in your hair?
Did it came out lighter than this?
What is your natural color?
Hello? Lol
This worked amazingly well. I wanted a change and thought about just coloring my face framing blonde pieces dark then saw this tutorial. It made my root hair color a nice cool ash blonde, a bit darker then I expected but it blends well. I went with Ash Blonde, HiColor Hilights from Loreal and the tone looks fantastic, no brassy/orange like I would have had with my wella bleach. It's now a great toned down blonde for fall, so I'm happy! To mix double, use a food scale. My really light blonde got a little color on it and went a little blue (she mentions that this can happen and to be careful) so I stress not getting ham with brush, which requires lots of practice. Great tutorial!
I love your videos! Your amazing, very informative and helpful (: Thank you for posting them:)
Great video! Thank you so much, I have become so involved in the process of lightening my hair. You have helped me so much. I used bleach to do my initial blonde, but bleaching my roots scares me. I really liked how this helped prolong my hair color!
Girl, thanks to your techniques my hair looks waaay better than before, Esta Lindo Agora!!! Yayyy
Hi love your videos I've learned more from your tutorials then from Cosmo school. I tried this & it came out glamtastic! Getting lots compliments! Thank you!
You are beautiful! Great technique for a little in between salon visits touchup. But as a professional I would suggest to any viewers that you try to understand this concept. In layman's terms we hair stylists say that 'hair color does not lift hair color' meaning the 12N being using is not intend to significantly lift natural or previously colored hair. The end result we see here looks a bit brassy and not as cool toned as most viewers would probably like to see. So instead of using a hair color cream, I suggest you look for an extra high lift cream that tones the hair as well. Many brands have their own versions (I prefer Redkens Color Fusion Extra Lift series), and most come in tones such as V (violet tone) , N (neutral tone) , B (blue tone) , T or S (titanium or silver tone). Mix this type of cream with 20 - 40 volume developer depending on your natural level and process it for 30-90 minutes in open air or covered with a plastic cap, depending on how much your scalp can take. I know the timing sounds crazy, but all professionals know that some rules can be broken. In the case of having a dark natural hair color and trying to get a lighter cooler result this extended timing is necessary. Best of luck!!!
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To make it a little easier can you write down exactly what products your using please. I'm trying do my hair roots which is exactly your hair color in this video and i wanted use the exact products but it's hard catching all the names from the video. Thank you. Your amazing!!!
+ellebangs You are amazing!! Thank you for this video!
Sylvia what toner do you use to get your pearly hair?
Goldwell root touch up
I love your videos and you've helped me so much. your hair color is so beautiful!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips for us! This will definitely will be an option for me to come in the future
Worked perfectly for me! Thank you!
Beautiful hair, beautiful technique.
I kinda wish u would go back to this cut, color and style! Beautiful
It's so refreshing how you're not all into yourself. You call it shy. I call it refreshing. Especially since you're so pretty. I love the ymms, and looking away. Here's a TH-cam tip. Do the same videos over and over again; we don't learn very fast, and miss things you said, but we might catch it again in the next video. Like even though I watched all of them, I loved the one on developers only, which was a total repetition. You could do one on semi permanent vs permanent. Lots of us are gray so there's that. You could do one on just colors. What's Wella N or W, for example? And I'm glad you share your color, since it looks so much darker on camera than the color looks on me, so it gives me perspective. Thanks a million!
LOVE your videos, thank you so much for all the tips and help!
Question: How do you match your eyebrows?
im an ashy level 6 and im gonna try this on my roots next week ^_^ thank you for this awesome explanation and demo video
Did it ever work?
This worked great! Roots were level 4 and this lifted to 8-9. I used One 'N Only Argan Oil Hair Color Hi-Lift Neutral Blonde (11HLN) . A pro handled the initial lightening from a dark red-purple to my current light blonde with low-lights. It took 3 visits and some major $$$. The bleach did a number on my hair even with her being very careful, so I'm hesitant to go that route just yet. This was much kinder and I love that it's so reasonable.
I'm looking to do this at home.... I'm a student, and to do my hair is so expensive! So.... We'll see. I love your voids!
im obsessed with your hair color
Love your channel!
Awesome love your hair color
I used this method with one bottle of wella 12N high lift and 2 parts 30 developer. My roots are amazing!! They are a cool blonde color. I only left on for 20 minutes and that was plenty long enough. I started with a root color of a 5 brown which is dark. I am so happy with this it is all I will do from now on. Thank you so much I love your videos!!!!
hello Cynthia :) I have a question for u . what color are ur roots? I like ur idea and I want to try this but my roots are sorta dark.
Lupita G My color is dark brown. Don't leave on very long or it goes to next level which is more towards blonde. This just makes the brown easier to deal with. I was just looking for a lighter brown. I left it on 20 minutes.
thank you im going to do this right before thanksgiving day =D& yes I want that golden or light brown look because it looks like its easier to keep up right? so how often do you retouch?
Cynthia, i did this exact method...it turned out super bright....I feel like a total blonde :) I might need to put some dark low lights in next processing. My under part of my hair is my natural dark brown...so there's some contrast that looks nice. Thanks for your advice. I left it closer to 30 min. Next time I'll try 20-25. With 30 developer it did it's brightening that's for sure. I have thick fine hair. Guess it lightens pretty quickly.
Hi Cynthia! I'm surprised and shocked that this worked for you! I'm very tempted to try myself but wonder if it's worth the hassle. I do my bleach regrowth around every 8-10 weeks. My natural level is around a 4 (guessing!) and I always was told by hairdressers that high lifts will not work for me. Roughly what level would it take me too in your opinion? Not sure whether to try or not and if this is actually drying for your hair anyway. Joan
I followed this perfectly and it turned my teen's roots brassy. I had high hopes!
Love it ! And may I add how beautiful your skin is 😊
THANKYOU THANKYOU THANKYOU I recently dyed my hair platinum from dark/dirty blonde and dreading going through the bleaching and toning process again for my roots. I will try something like this instead!
I LOVE your videos. I just had my hair done two weeks ago but noticed she missed my roots around my crown so it was driving me crazy to have those visible. So after watching this video, I went to Sally's to buy the supplies! It worked like a charm and I was able to get it to match my color perfectly!! From now on, I will always use this to touch up my roots on my own to add me some more time in between salon visits! Thanks for your wonderful, instructional videos!! :)
I love the fact that you yourself are your model.
great tutorial thank you!
Your makeup is beautiful!
I saw little difference. But am subscribed to your channel! Thanks for all you do for us Gals!
Thank you for the videos
You have amazing skin!
I don't know how you keep everything so clean! Everytime I do my hair I make a huge mess
Great channel!! I just have one doubt, with this new technique are you still having the low lights process as in the video before?
Hi Silva, Love your channel and this has really helped so much. Do you think it makes a difference using 30 vs 40 volume developer for highlift? I am scared to use 40 because I would like to use oleplex however then I would have to use 50 volume which is sorta scary !
I absolutely love the color of your hair in this video. I am seriously thinking about doing a Hi lift color. Can you please tell me what color of high left I should purchase and what toner and the type of products that you bought in order to achieve the color in this video?
Hi I wanna thank you so much, alot of your videos helped me. I have a question, my roots are a level 3 would this work on my hair to get it to a level 7??
Can you do a video explaining how you match your eyebrows to your hair?
Thank you so much. BTW you're so beautiful and talented.
OK - I typed the below part before getting to my question, which is long so my question is, since you now use the high-lift root touch up, what is your schedule & formulas for keeping your hair blonde now? Have they changed or just the root touch up technique?
I've watched all your hair dying videos, several times each. Studying them. I'm tired of spending too much money on getting my hair done. And then I'm not completely happy with it. If I was it wouldn't be so bad. I like it at first, but then it goes brassy. At least that's what I learned from your videos. A few months ago I did break down and buy a box kit. Ended up orange. Called the company, they told me to get another kit and do it again, then tone it. They told me what to buy and how to mix it to tone it. It was fine, but what I should have done was tone it again or get a really good blue shampoo like you suggested. Anyway, I love your color and from all you've said I think we're close to the same natural color. You maybe a bit lighter, but I think I've learned enough from you that I can adjust. I've watched several video's on how I went from Brown to Blonde, and some of the video's are way out there. I've seen orange hair and they thought it was blonde. Or it's someone with no idea what they are doing, fumbling around and get lucky and reach blonde, but after they have destroyed their hair. You video's are very well done, very professional and the icing on the cake is you have cosmetology schooling. Thank you. I will be trying this and I'll let you know how I make out. If it works, I'll owe you one.
HI!!! Great video, i wanted to know which base color i can use to darken my root with a platinum blonde, to make regrowth blend in more and let my hair recover from so much bleach? Thank you!!!!
How can people not as skilled as you prevent overlap? Thank you!!!! Please answer🙏🙏🙏
Thank you, this was so helpful. I'm thinking of trying a blonde shade, but didn't want to have to bleach and complicate touching up my roots. I have medium reddish brown hair with silver sneaking in that no dye covers for long.
I just wonder if I can use a high lift this way, and maybe not go as light?
Hi! What if my dark roots have a little grey? Can I still use this technique?
You are gorgeous!! Great video too!!
Please would you do a video showing how you section the back of your hair and do the roots.
Hi! first off, i think your videos are amazing and so informative! You're my go-to hair TH-cam guru lol
I had a few questions and hopefully you can help me :) So I have dirty blonde (bleached) hair. My natural hair color is a medium brown. Anyways my roots are growing out and my blonde is starting to get a little brassy. What do you recommend if do about both? I was thinking doing a high lift on my roots like in this video, and then toning the rest of my hair. I'm just afraid of doing too much damage to my hair because I'm going to be a bridesmaid in mid Sept. Any advice would be greatly appreciated :) thanks!!
Hi Silvia, Thanks for the great vids. As for the back do we just get someone to do it for us or is it possible to do it on your own with a two way mirror....curious.
I just realized on my previous comment I asked a lot of questions..Sorry for that! Please answer if you can and love your videos, and love love your hair!
Love it ! Also do you use a eye pencil or powder to get your color on eyebrow or is that natural? and what’s the name of it thank a bunch for your videos you don’t drag them out lol.
You have beautiful skin!
DO YOU PERSONALLY USE 30 VOL. OR THE 40 VOL. DEVELOPER?
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
MANY THANKS
Great vid Elle. Q: Would you recommended this as an in-between for a scalp bleached blonde? It looks great on you with highlights wondering if it would work with mine? I am a level 7 naturally.
I'd use the CHI developer for the CHI product. My salon uses Goldwell (I recognized the developer bottle) and it's usually smarter to use the dedicated brand with the color. For instance, Goldwell just reformulated the colors and developers for better conditioning, but with other color lines, it may render the color impossible to develop. Just some info! You're hair is gorgeous btw.
My hair is naturally a level 7 and I used high lift color (Loreal Mega Blondes) to get the result you see in my picture. During my last process, I used highlighting bleach safe for the scalp to fix my roots instead of the high lift color because I felt it wasn't lightening as much as I wanted. I now want to add more dimension to my color (it is now just allover blonde - no highlights - my hair lightens more in some places than others so it looks like I put highlights in but its just a one process color job.. - anyways I am afraid of going too dark/ruining my color. The technique you used in this video would most likely make my hair look 2 different colors (horizontally) right at the root line. Your color is perfect for your complexion and I was just looking for some tips specific to my pale and prone to redness skin in terms of a more dimensional color. I apologize for the long post but would love your feedback!
Hi. Really excited to have come across your videos. We have similar hair and I'm about to follow your routine. After watching all of your videos over and over, I have three questions. 1) do u high lift roots and then bleach highlights on the same day?
2) following highlights are you toning with wella over the 12n too?
3) I've made the mistake of bleaching my highlights from root to end so that hair is very porous. Do you think low lighting with the 8n will be okay? Can I do anything to prep the middle section? Thanks for any help.
LOVE your haircut!!!
I'm currently a really light blonde (not plantium, but it's a light blonde) I'm just wondering if I can put highlights ontop of my hair?? My hair has been bleached acouple of times. And I would LOVE to get multi-tonal shades of blonde on my hair so it looked more natural. Would you advise for someone whose hair has been bleached many times?? Thanks x
Hi thanks for the video! Did you say you leave the color on for 15 or 50 minutes?
Sylvia, I have some greys can this same technique be used with greys? Is there anything i can do to cover a little? Thanks in advance :) ps. love your work over here in Australia too
What a gorgeous woman. So knowledgeable.
Balayage VS High-Lift roots confused
Hi Silvia, first I know you most hear this a lot, but let me start by saying thank you, for taking time to give us the woman out there advice on how to look and feel better about ourselves. Silvia my level color is 3-4 and I did some highlights and they came out pretty good, that was for Christmas but when I got home I saw that my roots were like kind of orangey / brassy so I saw your video and I went running to Sally and bought the T12 toner and I was super happy to see that that ugly brassy color was tone down almost 70 % . Silvia the thing now is that it is going to be almost a month and I know that in the next week or so I need to re touch my roots, years ago I used to do it with L'Oreal Excellence hair color 9 light ash blonde. But now I hear a lot people saying that if I use 20 V I don't need to use the Ash but others tell me the Ash blocks that brassy / cooper color and now watching your videos I see you do Balayage and high lift in both video you did the roots. I wanted to know if its true that Ash kill the orange/brassy color? and from this 4 colors which one do you recommend, 8A- light ash blonde, 8n- light blonde, 9A- very light ash blonde or 9N very light blonde? the thing is that if I go for a medium blonde then its going to come out to dark and I want to go lighter. Please any advice I will greatly appreciated. Is that here in Miami to do a touch up is like $35.00 and that's with out blow dry or anything and at this moment I can't. Sorry for the bother and thank you again .
In your messages I sent you a video of more or less the color of my hair .
High lift can only work on hair that doesn't have color in it, right?
Thank youu :)
I have hair your colour maybe just a shade darker than yours, with alot of red undertones. I followed the techniques in your video, but I left it on much longer. I ended up with a strawberry blonde colour.....redish almost orange really. Should i have left it on for less time or should i have used the 12A
Hey Silvia! Quick question... So I have blonde hair at the moment maybe a couple levels darker than yours but I just did a root lift using 8N like you used to do to lift my regrowth a tad. Do you think it'd be okay if in a few weeks I do the highlift? Or will the highlift not lift my natural color (level4) and the 8n color to match my level 8 blonde hair? I just want to avoid two different color roots lol. Love your videos btw!! You were my inspiration to go blonde!
I love your content! I have a question. I am a natural medium brown hair with quite a bit of grey roots. I recently bleached and coloured my hair a dark beige blonde. When it comes time to touch up roots would a high lift blonde cover the greys and lighten my dark regrowth to blend nicely with my blonde ends?
hey silvia i'm from switzerland and i love your hair colour. i'm a level 5 and i coloured my hair three times with wella 8/1 and used a 20 vol developer. now i'm something between 7 and 8 maybe a 7/3 but it's very gold (for me orange but my hairdresser says gold). what would you recommend me? do a lot of highlights? or a highlift like in this video but on my entire hair not just on the roots? i'd be so happy if you could answer me. it would really help me. thank you! :)
and what about to do it with a toner?I am so afraid!
Your videos have been very helpful! i attempted a highlight retouch and was happy with the results......on the pieces I got right. The very front however got totally ruined, I used a horrible brand of foil that had the see through part and it kept coming undone and sliding down my hair, spreading the bleach everywhere. Beyond frusterated I rinsed it out. I had previous highlights and wanted more all over blonde anyways. The problem is, there are some sections in the very front that have a line of brown still, and the hair in the front is still very much orangey/darker yellow. The other pieces are the nice light ashy blonde I wanted. How do I fix all the spread out splotches and orange highlights WITHOUT overbleaching the already very pale blonde highlights? I'm very afraid of overprocessing the blonde sections to where they pretty much disenegrate, as I've had a pricey salon do to me before ? HELP!!!
Hi beautiful, I did my first set of highlights last Saturday, to later have your full color. Anyways, my questions are the following: I have a lot of gray hair, should I be doing high lift instead of coloring on my roots? If I could do high lift instead of coloring, would I still leave it 15 min? sorry but what is the difference between high lifting and hair dye color? Last but not least, what is the purpose of high lifting when you do your next set of highlights? Is it for bleaching to react faster and have less brassiness? Thank you so much!
Hi Sylvia thanks you for your videos. I have to re-bleach my hair that is too dark and brassy at the moment. Would you advise to use this Chi Ionic colour or another stage of bleaching+toning ? (Im a level 3 and at the moment my hair is a an orangish 7) Which method you reckin is the most suited for adding a higher lift to already bleached hair please? Thank you
Love your eyeshadow, what color/brand?
I have a level 6.5/7 hair, and this turned my roots orange :( using 30vol. I followed all packaging directions. I noticed they turned orange right away as it started lifting, and stayed there.
I am going in to the salon for color correction now. I feel like I ruined my beautiful blonde highlighted hair trying to do something that should have been left to a salon. Ironically this was meant to extend my trips between the salon, but his has made it necessary for me go in sooner than my typical appointment. At home color is definitely not for everyone. Count the costs!
Could you use a hi lift with a 20v? Love your videos by the way, your very informative!
I am wondering to... She has a video where she does a highlift with a 11A and 20 volume. But that is more to brighten up the lenghts. She says you have to do the roots first. But someone who responsed to that video said her roots turned orange. So dont really know...
Thank you very much for that example I am in desperate need of a retouch(12/blonde and highlights) ...my question is if my root(2/dark brown) is 5inchs grown can I do this lift process on myself ? If not what color will it turn out ?
awe I wanted to see how the hell you do the back on your own lol
Exactly...she is dumb...
She only does the top and front....otherwise she would’ve shown the rest. She has other videos that show how to do the back..
My hair is a few shades darker than yours, with a lot more golden yellow tones. My roots have grown and they are a dark brown color, i did not want to bleach my roots, and i want to try this method of yours, but i also want to lift all of my hair to a platinum blonde with purple/blue undertones. Is it okay to do my roots first and then apply the rest to my hair?
Thanks, thanks
I want to see the rest of you doing your hair. Especially the back. The back is so hard. Especially for me because I have thick hair and a lot of it. What's the best way to do the back? Any comments appreciated... And Elle I watch all your videos. You are the best and so informative on all of your videos! I would like to see more at home cuts for med-long. I am single mom so money is tight. Xo
Your hair color looks so good. Do you have full highlights? It looks like you just colored your hair blonde.
Hi Silvia, I have been using this technique the last few applications. it has been perfect. I had my hair chemically straightened (Brazilian keratin) about two weeks ago. need I say more??? My hair is yellow with orange tint and some level 10 blonde. At this point I want to go back to a medium ash blonde (my hair is damaged). Maybe I throw some blonder streaks around my face. There is about an inch of dark root growth. My natural base is a 6N. Please any suggestions!!! Trust me if I could afford a visit to Cali and have you work on my hair, I would!!! Ty
I can still see your roots. How do you do the back of your head?
Hello, what can u recommend for highlights for dark brown hair color?
I love your cut. How can I tell my stylist to cut my hair similar to yours. I have long layers and a long side bang now and my hair is brunette with Carmel highlights
Show her this video
Is there a way to change the highlights base color?
How many levels can a bleach wash lift I have dark drown hair dye on my hair and I want to get a dark blonde or a light brown
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I love this idea to do at home the roots for inbetween until next highlights with this amonia free Che IONIC PERMANENT color.
Could you do more video with this color even for grayish hair.
This looks very natural.
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