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Toning With Permanent Color: How to Avoid Banding

Artist—Ashlee Norman

By DinaC·January 03, 2025

Gray Coverage: 3 Application Tips to Avoid Banding

Hot roots, harsh banding and a multiple-step gray coverage service—who has time for that? In an exclusive class on BTC University, #ONESHOT Winner Ashlee Norman (@ashleenormanhair) is sharing her hybrid toning technique for covering grays, creating a shadow root and color melt ALL IN ONE SERVICE. Did we mention she uses permanent color?

Tip #1: Tone with Permanent Color

Shadow root 🤝 gray coverage. Learn how to avoid unwanted warmth AND harsh lines of demarcation in ONE STEP with Ashlee Norman on BTC University.

Tip #2: Formulate…

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