? for people who can’t use bulk

This may be useful to someone working with bulk.........(from the
ProStyles class)
more info here.......
http://talk.hairboutique.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=
29511&PN=5

HANDLING THE FIBER
They recommend you just take a small portion of the packet to
blend at a time incase you choose the wrong colors and waste
the whole bundle. Holding the bundle in the dead center in one
hand, then use your other hand to pull apart a small section.
Place the unused fiber giving it a slight twirl on the ends as you
lay it flat on the table (still holding on to the fiber you just pulled
apart) This insures the fiber stays together and it does not start
to separate too much. When you pick up the fiber you always
want to hold it in the middle. The ends of the fiber must line up
as evenly as possible at all times. When the fiber is not in use
you can always tie it in a loose knot in the middle until you are
ready to package it again for later.

BRUSHING THE FIBER CORRECTLY
For brushing, hold the fiber in front of you (tightly fisted in the
middle). Starting with small strokes on the bottom. (with the
brush going in a more backward direction�never flipping up
the ends, as you will cause the fiber to ride up and want to
tangle). Move up the fiber always brushing back towards your
elbow. This is the correct way to brush the fiber. Then turn the
fiber to the other side and repeat. Brush always in a backward
motion.

COLOR BLENDING
Mixing, say 50% base color, 25% tone color and maybe 10%
glint color. They said it was good to just half down the amounts
of each color you add on�in the order of importance. Starting
with the biggest percentage of color (base) and halving the
next amount (the tone color) and then decrease to about 10%
for the glint color.

Place the base color centered in your palm, add the tone color
directly on top of the base color. Always making sure your ends
match up perfectly in length on both sides. Close your fist and
turn your wrist around (fisting your fiber dead center
pointing towards the ground). Take the conditioning mist spray
and mist the fiber down lightly. Then take the blending brush
and start brushing as described above, mixing the two colors
together. Now turn your wrist up (like you were going to box)
and while you are holding the fiber fisted in front of you�thumb
the fiber around, spreading it out over your fist, then brush
again.This helps to give you a better blend.

Then separate the bundle of fiber in the middle and pull apart
with a nice tight grip of the fiber. Place one bundle back on top
of the other and keep repeating (he said it was like shuffling
cards). You have to take great care to match up the ends
evenly each time. Once you have done this several times over
and over, then cup your fingers together (one hand
overlapping the other-so your thumbs come together and
overlap...cupping the fiber). Start mushing the colors together
with your thumbs and spreading it out slightly, mixing the colors
into each other as you go (where you still have control of it).

Then once again, separate the fiber in the middle again and
pull apart. You can switch the fiber around and place that
bundle on top of the other. Again keep the ends matched up
evenly on both sides. Keep mushing the colors together with
your thumbs. Repeating this technique until you are happy
with the blend and there are no streaks left in the fiber. Only
then do you move onto adding the next color, which would be
your glint color. Again use the spray mist and brush through.
Repeat ALL the steps above until you have a perfect color
blend.

You can add as many colors as you want, but this is the
general rule of thumb. Keeping the fiber taunt and matching up
the fiber ends evenly as you work, will insure a happy blending
experience with bulk/loose fiber. You should lose/waste no
fiber if you follow these directions correctly.

TEXTURE BLENDING FIBER
You may have hair that doesn�t quite match the fiber textures
available. You can make your own blend here. Say you have
someone who is in-between wavy and curly you would add
50% of each texture together to create the perfect texture
match. Or use the percentage needed depending on the end
result. You may need 75% curly and 25% wavy. Mix according
to your needs.

You have to make sure you separate the curly fiber really well
with your fingers first before starting to blend with the natural
wavy fiber or you will have a big tangled mess.

Once you have selected you texture %�s and bundle sizes
(holding the fiber fisted in the middle) spray the fiber lightly
with the conditioning mist. Now very gently start at the ends
brushing the tips only very gently until they allow the brush to
pass through. This will not move as fast as the color blending.
You work at it until the fiber starts allowing you to get the brush
through the fiber easily. You will feel it start to slide through
moreeasily with each stroke. Once you are able to glide
through the entire fiber then turn the fiber around and repeat on
the other side, with the same exact steps above.

When you have blended the fiber to the desired texture,
then you can hold the fiber and choose how much of the curl
you want to put back in. By selecting random strand and ringlet
ting it with your finger twisting it right down the fiber and then
releasing it, It will give you that doll like curl. They said it looks
more natural when you don�t ringlet every single strand. As it is
very rare to have a person with each curl perfect and smooth.
There is usually a mix of more messy slight frizzy curls. So you
will just do enough to create a perfect match to the natural hair.

Edited by Save~A~Stray