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    Posted: May 25 2005 at 4:56pm
Okay, I just got my hair and because there wasn't much of a color choice, I bought both light and dark colors.  The color I need is somewhere in between the two.  So I obviously need to blend.   How do you actually do that?  Do you just take both colors and mingle them together or is there some other process that's more involved?  Seems like when I try to mingle two colors together, I get streaks instead of a solid blend. 
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synth or human?
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Synth.
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Hi Bird of Eden!

I can teach you!  That is my favorite part of synth!  Okay-

1. collect desire ratio amount to equal 100% {ie. 25% color #1 & 75% color #2}

2. place them together to look like a long tower,  

3. grab onto a section {25th floor} of the tower, brush,  

4. grab another section {20th floor}, brush

5. keep grabbing different 'floors' and brush to blend, using your thumb to spread color apart, as you brush you may add in color #1 or #2 to create the perfect hue.

My teacher once told me that yellow and green synth create Blonde!

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Hi Cybermane;  Intriguing.... but I'm a little slow.  Can you interpret for someone who needs pictures to tie a shoe? 
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i kinda don't follow, either....
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oh boy, ok Delin & Chris;

Hold the long tower of loose synth {mine is about 30"}- brush, separate, brush, separate, repeat while holding different sections of the tower.

Can you picture it?  Give it a try!

All my best, Charlene
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haha cyber i love that thats so cute
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Yeah, I can visualize that. Sounds like a great technique.

Is it ok to do all that with PH 28 & 50mm, I wonder?
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I'm sure you can definitely handle something like that Amm, you're awesome and very intelligent!  Just as long as you're using loose hair, I believe in you!  I myself mix synth textures and not just colors!

Have fun in the color mixing lab;

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Didn't SAS give a long explanation of synth blending in her ?Prostyles? course description.

also with straight you can collect the desired ratios.  split the big one in half.  lay half down flat on the table.  put a little of the other color on top.  now add the second half of your primary color.  Brush.

divide in half repeat.  always dividing slightly differently so that you spread the second color around.
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It's great that this came up.  I agonized about blending and mixing good colors of synth.  I think you just have to go for it and figure you're going to waste a little hair learning how to blend.

     I really think think two colors at least should be used.  The closer the hair is to solid, the better the blend needs to be.  It takes about 1/2 hour to get a really good blend IMO.
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What do you mean the closer the hair is to solid scotchy?  the victims er, I mean clients hair or the extensions hair?

I also really like to blend on the tip.  You can't really see that in pics unless you have contrasting colors ( like for **crazy colored** streaks) but I do it for natural colors too.  It's different work than blenind the bulk.  Not really any harder though...
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Yeah, mocha, that's a better way to put it, the more solid the color is the better the blend has to be.

    When I was at my extensions course, the teacher could blend colors like paint.  She could make any color and make it look "solid".  Thats what I want to be able to do,  that's why I just dropped $400 on a huge variety of Plastikhaar.

     I figure I'm going to invest in doing some models with great really natural looking colors instead of going to another class this spring.
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oooh where are you?

I'm a lovely model.  Really.  I even have haar...
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Originally posted by amm amm wrote:


Is it ok to do all that with PH 28 & 50mm, I wonder?


I think it's OK with the 50mm; dunno about the 28mm. When Issac blends the 50mm, he sort of shuffles it between his hands, brushes it together here and there, and occassionally runs it through the hackle. I think it's the same techinique he'd use for straight synth. :)
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