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Couple of things.
You know, we need to talk about Leitner.
I know some of us can get so crazy about the Leitner. So we need to understand what we're doing here.
You can go broke buying lightener. Now, yes, blondes are forty percent of what we do in the salon. So having a good tool, a good lightener is so, so important.
I think we're overdoing it a bit. We're looking we're looking for the bleach or the lightener to be a miracle that it's gonna get you exactly where you want every single time, be wonderful, blah, blah, blah. It's not gonna happen.
It doesn't work that way, because we're working on all different fabrics. You know, it works this one works great on these people, and this one works great on these people, and this one works great on these people because of all the different fabrics we're dealing with. Instead of trying to buy products to fit all of this, wouldn't it be easier if we could just take our Leitner and adjust it and adjust it to all the different fabrics? Understand when you're working on the fine hair, the medium hair, or the course hair, how to change your lightener.
You know, make it stronger, make it weaker. You know, on my on my fine hair clients, I can just squeeze, you know, an ounce of conditioner.
Any mask, squeeze it in there, and it'll lower the pH a little bit. And it'll be a little bit more gentle and not be so aggressive and lift you too too fast on this client. I can just use it straight up like the directions say on my, you know, normal medium hair clients.
And on the and on the other clients, you know, maybe we're going up a volume in our developer, trying to work with the time aspect, getting it where we need to be, not too fast, but at least getting us there. And I find when I have a lot of these conversations and I've just been coast to coast literally on the East Coast and the West Coast in front of all these stylists in in the last month listening to a lot of this. And what about with this situation? And what about with this situation? What about with this situation?
We need to be able to just have our Leitner and understand the different fabrics that we're working on so we can adjust it, lowering it, making it more gentle for some, keeping the way it is on others and and strengthening it on others. And other things we can do always, every conversation about lightener, we're always talking about Get Pure. Absolutely, one hundred percent have to do a demineralizing treatment prior to bleach.
That's where you're gonna get the damage. It's from the metals in the hair, we've got to demineralize.
So that's always a part of the conversation.
By adding conditioner, lowering the pH, a little bit. I'm telling you just lowering it a few points makes it ridiculously more gentle that we can do it on those fragile hair clients. And and it's not too aggressive, and we don't have to, you know, buy bond multipliers. We can do that ourselves.
You know? There there is only one real tool that I think we need that that one powder lightener cannot cover with these fabrics, that we can make it more gentle, keep it normal, strengthen it. There are certain fabrics of hair or certain things we're doing with lighteners that we need a cream bleach.
Sometimes having that one tool for certain fabrics, the the lightener doesn't dry up, or it sticks better to their hair or you're doing it on scalp.
Certain hair fabrics in certain situations absolutely require that we have a good cream lightener in our background as part of our toolbox.
I love this one. Blissey cream, also imported from Italy.
The the cream consistency, then as we add the developer, we can we can adjust the consistency.
If you want it even creamier, you can add a teaspoon of oil to it to make it even creamier. But for certain hair fabrics, this is the way to go. Doing on scalp lightening, we need a little bit more conditioning, just a little bit more where that's going to be sitting on the scalp. It's already got the conditioners built into it.
Absolutely, when I'm doing on scalp lightening, I always use a cream bleach. Certain fabrics, I'll use a cream bleach. And it's one of those situations. It might not be part of your daily or weekly, But when you have that certain client that this way, this way, or this way doesn't seem to be working, you just can't get it.
And instead of going broke trying to buy every lightener out there for every single situation, I can buy one and adjust it for most of the clients that I have. But in those specific situations on scalp and certain hair, this is the way to go.
Get a good one. It's not something that you're gonna be using all the time. You might eat you might even use it half the time. I do know some stylists who absolutely use cream lightener half the time.
They find they like the consistency better in their foils or some find that they like the consistency better just applying freehand. And it's completely up to you and your creativity and your style, but you should have one as part of your toolbox. Buy it once, try it, see how it feels. At that point, if you're not loving that and the way that works, at least you understand the category of what you're doing for shopping purposes.
But absolutely, as a colorist in your toolbox, a good cream bleach is exactly needed next to all of the other tools that you're using for certain situations that's gonna make it to the finish line for you so easily.