The trick to creating seamless color when using pastels? For Kesli Johnson (@kesliann), it’s understanding the hair’s pigment and how it will take to your formulas.
For this perfect Redken pastel, she used two formulas for the gloss because she knew from the freshly-lightened root and down two inches the color would grab easily, but the midlengths and ends would not be as vibrant. So she diluted the first gloss with clear, allowing the color to be the same from roots to ends. Get the details, formulas and steps below!
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