Dirty Blonde

From raw lift ➡️ refined blonde 🤍

A half head of foils, carefully placed to brighten all the right places and create that seamless, expensive-looking blonde ✨

Swipe through to see the process — from the foil placement, to the raw lift, toner working its magic, and finally… that finished result. 👀

It’s not just about getting lighter — it’s about creating a blonde that looks dimensional, glossy and completely bespoke to you.

✨ Half head of foils
✨ Bespoke placement
✨ Toned to perfection
✨ Soft, seamless blonde
✨ Finished with beautiful movement

Want your blonde to look like this?
My books are open — DM me “BLONDE” to book your consultation 🤍

As someone that has major body dismorphia and was told by a therapist a long time ago to take photos of myself when I liked what I was wearing.

These outfits are sometimes on repeat in the salon!

But I’ll start post more often what I’m wearing I think!

Do you want to know where anything is from - comment!

Let’s break the blonde up on the bride and appreciate this lovelies natural colour. I am so unbelievably jealous of Misha’s natural grey hair at the front. We use to colour the front of Misha’s hair blonde to blend the grey in. Until one day she came out in a weird rash on her face. So we stopped colouring and having tried again since.

She also has abit of PTSD when coming for a haircut that’s a big change. This won’t seem like much to anyone else - but when she was younger she went from hip length hair to a posh spice bob in one go 🫣 great for the first week. So for years Misha didn’t have her haircut then when she started tattooing me 10 years ago we started building trust. I use to trim her length and maybe sometimes cut a heavy fringe in.

Today, came in hand with photo on Pinterest, we had a change. Using how her fringe has grown out as a guide line - added so many more layers using my razor to do an almost wolf like cut. Just not short short layer and a longer flicky fringe!

BTW this is Misha who tattoos me - Misha
She co owns Cosmic Fox Tattoo Co.

STOP SCROLLING if your blonde has started feeling a little… meh. 👀

You might not need a full head.

Sometimes a strategically placed half head of foils is all it takes to bring the blonde back to life — adding brightness exactly where it matters while keeping beautiful depth and dimension underneath.

For this transformation I used Blonde Solutions pre-lightener with 4.5%, finished with Schwarzkopf 9.5/49 🤍 in a scalp foil application (let me know if you want to see how I do my scalp foils).

From the slides you can see how the hair had lifted clean from the foil pull to after the wash.

The result = soft, expensive-looking blonde with dimension.

Because blonde should look intentional — not like you’ve just bleached every hair on your head. 😉

Would you choose this kind of blonde? ⬇️

Well this is a massive transformation. 8 hours almost of pure shenanigans. Stripping out old colour. With some lovely green on the ends. A massive cut and restyle. A wee grey blending and jobs a good’un.

One day I got a messaging asking if I could do this hair. Of course I said yes! This was a whole day session. I made a joke that it was going to take eight hours. It took 7 and a half! If you swipe, you’ll see what we started with. And this wasn’t virgin Hair. There was years of colour to remove.

I started off by using the CPR by Malibu C just to start the process as I feel it’s a nice and gentle. This was followed by using the Schwarzkopf colour remover with 3%. I then did a very gentle bleach. This was applied all over the Hair. I used using 4.5%. Starting on the end, then the mid length. I didn’t apply to the roots as we wanted to do a wee root shadow so the grow out wasn’t harsh. The bleach was left on for an hour.

I told using Schwarzkopf vibrance,
Roots 6.16
Mid lengths 8.19
End 1.1

not gonna lie, it went really dark and it scared me. And my Client.

Results sleep for themselves though!!

So good I couldn’t fit all her hair in the top photo!

This is raw lift. Using only with 4.5%

Obsessed!

This colour change wasn’t for the faint hearted one little bit.
Swipe to see the before.

This is a work in progress to get to milky blonde and I dont think I did too bad getting her to this colour from her before.

This however took 7 hours, 840g of lightener (over 12 bowls) 3 and half hours of back to back teasy lights, 2 bowls of toner and one very happy girlie!

Why are blondes such a vibe?! Swipe to see some hair p**n! It’s so satisfying!

Also apologies for not posting lately. IYKYK!

Sometime a blonde just doesn’t need toning. This is raw lift. Lifting low and slow to save rapidly lift the hair and having to tone but you’re working with an undertone from hell. I let most of my bleach clients cook for on average an hour. Some need a little longer.

Something important to remember aswell is what lightener you are using and its active lift time. I use which has a 2 hour active lift. Some have a short active lift tome of 20 to 35mins.