Hair painting is a true art form and a new way to doing hair that is easily greater than the traditional foil highlight. I discovered this a couple years ago when I started incorporating more ombre’s into my line of work. People wanted a seamless grow out line that looked naturally placed and I found painting it on was the easiest way to do this. At first I started with doing a foil highlight sporadically placed throughout their part line and then pulling the foil out at the shampoo bowl and doing a shampoo cap (shampoo, developer, and bleach/lightener all mixed) throughout the ends by painting it on with my fingers or a tint brush. This produced a more natural effect but wasn’t the results I was hoping for. I then opted the foil out altogether and directly started painting the hair on with my tint brush on small sections. This took about six months of trial and error to reach an absolute perfect technique, but it truly creates the most seamless, perfect ombre. I have found organized chaos is key; when you do the spacing of the painted highlight or ombre too evenly, it doesn’t create that lived in, natural sun-kissed look. I like doing the painted portion in between thick and thin sections of hair. I start around their hairline in the front and grab about an inch above their ear a section of hair (obviously adjust depending on their hair’s thickness and how blonde they want to be). From there I section off a 1/8 inch section (like you would to foil highlight) and directly paint the whole piece with lightener, going easy towards the roots and doing a feathered look towards the top. I start at the top first with the light feathering and then coming down towards the bottom, I apply pressure to the hair a little heavier and use the back of a small paddle brush (Paul Mitchell's "sculpting brush" is what I use) to help distribute the product throughout the ends. Using the paddle brush also helps to keep your hands clean and to immerse the inner part (the back part of your section that’s facing their head) of the hairs ends with lightener. I saturate the ends enough to have even saturation on the front and back section (as an ombre or natural highlight is dark to light) and then let that piece go (gently!) and move onto the next section until I have finished their head. Towards the nape of the neck I do my sections about 2 or more inches apart for a more natural effect (and less damage)! Note: If you are not wanting to do a natural look (like the cute blonde bombshell shown above), then by all means go at it with where you apply for the roots. With her hair, I painted 20 volume at the roots (still feathering though to ease the grow out) and 10 volume throughout her ends to get rid of the yellow blonde she came in with. You should also know that you usually need to up the developer a notch when painting (10 volume to 20 volume). The bleach does dry out so if you haven’t achieved your desired lightness by the end of processing, it’s double processing for you and that’s no fun. As always, up the developer if they have color treated hair or darker hair and apply pressure more where the hair was previously colored or less pressure if it was previously lightened. You also can do this process with a color root touch up by applying the lightener first and then blending the root touch-up color to where you started the lightener. Smudge the color and lightener together a little to break up the line by gently rubbing your fingers up and down it or lightly running your tint brush through the lightener. If it is necessary to tone, tone as you normally would after rinsing the lightener. This takes a lot of patience and practice but it’s absolutely beautiful. You cut the costs of foil, can see the hair process without having to lift foils, and you get more precise results by being able to see exactly where you want to place the next section of lightener based on your last. I have noticed that the hair is less damaging too; it may take longer to process but the integrity of the hair remains intact and you aren’t blasting it with bleach like you are with foils. Also, if you aren’t a hair stylist but are interested in getting this done on your hair, ask your stylist about it. She may not have heard of it or done it but maybe someone in the salon you go to has. And if you are in the Rexburg area, you have me to come to!:) I hope these instructions made sense. If you have any further questions, please comment below!
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Too often Moms are left with worries about their child and whether this or that is "normal." I personally have felt almost every time I go to the Doctor, I forgot to ask something I was worried about or just had a question about. For this reason, I am starting a series on "things you wish you were told at the Doctor." It seriously feels like I learn 50 incredible things per day from nursing school that's mind blowing to me, so I'm assuming you want to know about it too. It is also true that every chapter of every textbook we have, have sections on patient teaching that we are obligated as nurses to tell our patients about. Well let's face it, nurses are just plain busy and a lot of the time things are left out that shouldn't have been. So whether your Doctor or nurse left out these details, I'm going to help fill in the gaps. Enjoy the series!
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I am not pushing immunizations, as I know there are a million reasons why parents choose not to vaccinate their kids but for reference if you are interested, here is a CURRENT schedule for immunizations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This schedule is constantly changing due to new research but this is a reliable website that stays up to date on it. I will say that I have seen plenty of cases that could have prevented a certain disease or illness with an immunization but it is 100% up to you as a parent.
If you look at it closely, you will notice things like you can get the MMR vaccine way before kindergarten even starts if you so oblige. You just have to wait four weeks after the initial injection (at 12 months or older) to get it. Everything isn't as cut and dry as nurses/Doctors/schools make it out to be, so if you want to vaccinate earlier and get their immunizations out of the way or are traveling to an endemic country with your littles, or just want to know when to get them done, this schedule is great for you. Also, if the reason you don't vaccinate is because of cost, there is a great program called "Vaccines for children" that allows parents to help pay for costs, or most the time offer vaccines for free. This is readily available to low incomes, American Indian or Alaska Native, and uninsured kids. They are able to do this through government grants and buying the vaccines at a discount, to then distribute them to different offices where you would normally get vaccinated (lots of Doctor's offices are included). Check it out. Please know that it is common for families to lose their immunization record. Now that there are things like "patient portals" to access your medical records online, you can ask your previous/current Doctor's office for info on how to obtain it. If this isn't an option, it is better to be over immunized and receive certain immunizations twice than to not receive the vaccination at all. Check back for more "things you wish you were told at the Doctor's" series!
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(2014). Retrieved February 07, 2016, from http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/vfc/index.html
Birth-18 Years & "Catch-up" Immunization Schedules. (2016). Retrieved February 07, 2016, from http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines /schedules/hcp/child-adolescent.html
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