How do you blend?
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Topic: How do you blend?
Posted By: BirdOfEden
Subject: How do you blend?
Date 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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Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 6:01pm
| synth or human? |
Posted By: BirdOfEden
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 6:50pm
| Synth. |
Posted By: CyberMane
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 10:39pm
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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! All my best, Charlene ------------- http://www.cybermane.com - CyberMane.com |
Posted By: delin
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 10:43pm
| Hi Cybermane; Intriguing.... but I'm a little slow. Can you interpret for someone who needs pictures to tie a shoe? |
Posted By: Chris H.
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 11:16pm
i kinda don't follow, either.... 
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Posted By: CyberMane
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 11:40pm
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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 ------------- http://www.cybermane.com - CyberMane.com |
Posted By: LuckieDuckies
Date Posted: May 25 2005 at 11:42pm
| haha cyber i love that thats so cute |
Posted By: amm
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 12:00am
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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? ------------- http://shrinkies.net - Extension Supplies & Virgin Brazilian Hair |
Posted By: CyberMane
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 1:14am
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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 Charlene ------------- http://www.cybermane.com - CyberMane.com |
Posted By: Chris H.
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 7:42am
gotcha 
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Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 8:28am
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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. |
Posted By: Scotchyroo
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 3:21pm
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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. |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 3:25pm
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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... |
Posted By: Scotchyroo
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 4:03pm
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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. |
Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 4:33pm
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oooh where are you? I'm a lovely model. Really. I even have haar... |
Posted By: Scotchyroo
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 7:16pm
| Petoskey Michigan. Nowhere, basically, with beaches and ski hills. |
Posted By: Jenny_RR
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 7:24pm
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. :) |
amm wrote:Posted By: mochachip
Date Posted: May 26 2005 at 8:06pm
| damn and I already bought plane tickets to calgary instead of driving. I could have just stopped by on my way... |