Going Grey | The REALITY Of GREY Transformations | Full Application & Formulations 

I tried this on my client the other day, and her hair would not lift pass a level 8! I even bleach it while it’s wet, still didn’t budge! I told her this will take at least 2 more sessions. It’s so much work! They see Instagram photos but really don’t know the process behind it . Thank you for explaining everything!

I really appreciate you going through your thought process and showing how it's not always as easy as oll of these instagram posts make it seem. I recently transitioned my mom to grey and it was on hell of a ride!

I was stressed watching this, it’s so frustrating when color doesn’t lift past orange lol! The end result is so beautiful! Great job❤️

I love your videos! They bring me back to reality, knowing that color is a process and we can only achieve what the hair lets us do.

Amazing transformation being an ex hairdresser I can appreciate this was so very difficult. Well done fabulous job and it suits her so much x

I love watching you do your thing YOURE THE BEST I always learn so much I cannot believe that last colour was a level 5!? It looks like she grew her hair out like all grey. I just can’t, my mind is blown !

So I’m not even a hair stylist, just at the beginning of my gray grow out process, but I loved how you explained everything. It’s so easy to see pictures on Pinterest and think, oh that’s nice, I’d love to do that, never thinking about all the time, energy, and money that goes into it. You also saved me from attempting color remover on my hair. I was already having nightmares about trying it and my hair turning orange.

7-21 tones really dark. It sits at level 7 but looks way darker. It does fade beautifully though into a very ashy level 7. It's basically a great shadow root and correction color. Also, very good brunette toner for anyone who hates warmth in their hair. Wow! That came out beautiful and a TON of work! People don't realize how much work it entails and hence the expense.

Love this video!!! I'm only a few mins in but I grabbed a snack kicking back and learning- love your videos and techniques. I learn so much from you

Beautiful & really hope she's happy. Issue is we ALL have put on random permanent/demi/semi colors, so you NEVER know what's underneath. YOu're a PRO!

I really appreciate this, I've been trying to go mushroom brown to blend my gray in for a while and the hair stylists I saw were not able to convey why it's so difficult or expensive. At both consultations I was told that it would be 2-3 appointments and I'd have caramel colored hair for a while. At least I understand more of the process now while feeling dejected by the going gray process. Great work.

The end result is gorgeous! Love it!

So glad you posted this! I have a similar service later today that I’ve been STRESSING over. I feel a bit more confident now. Absolutely going to use your talking points for a second consultation before I touch her hair!!!

The Guy Tang is great for this service. I pretone with the titanium and clear and then tone with the 10ss. His shadow ash will cool it down a bit at level. I love it. I use the 7 and 9 all the time to cool down a natural. The dark shadows sirs at a 5 and can be added to ANY color to smoke it out and works great in your formula for those paint between "peppers." I do the entire top and sides /crown with super microslices. And lift it all to a 10. I have battled that level 8 too much to know I can't get "Smokey silver" from an 8. This turned out so nice.

Just running across this video and reading the comments but will watch tomorrow . I had a consult 1.5 months ago about this and long story short, she got me to a level 8 and toned it, yucky orange still. Then toned again. Yucky. Then another stylist with a different brand toned. Yucky. I wound up with cut damaged hair and 400 out. So today I purchased multiple direct dyes and used pravana silver semi on my root and mystic fog purple pulp riot on the rest. Plan A didn't work so plan B will be silver roots and multiple purple and grays throughout for the next 2 years. Developer will never touch THIS head again.😁 But as I can already see in the comments, you're a dedicated and HONEST stylist, kudos to you!😊

WOW! Can't believe how beautiful that turned out.

I enjoy when you go in full detail when you do a service. It is very educational.

This is what I want to do to my hair, I'm getting so gray, but I have natural dark hair, so I wouldn't care if my hair was dark, as long as the gray was blended in, and I didn't have to color it anymore. LOL.

So beautiful! I'm blown away at all the steps but I love how open you were with her about the reality of time and costs

My experience; Color removers generally take away enough where all you’re left with is this orange tone- the bleach takes it over that hump

Absolutely gorgeous, Kristi!! You do great work!! I love it!! Have a wonderful day, Kristi!! 💖💖💖

Damn girl! Your client flew all the way from AZ to Washington! You’re in the big games now 😝

Her hair turned out fantastic Kristi! As far as you talking through the vidio well, that's exactly what I like, since I need information how the coloring process is done plus the dos n don't and what to expect when you visit a hairsalon as far as costwise. Definitely tons info thanks ❤

Great job. I love how I can see you thinking it through. And how honest you are❤️👍🏻

Kudos to you for even accepting this task. Personally, I would’ve done baby lights with 30 vol and a major haircut and did a paint between with lightener and toned with a titanium. Don’t be afraid of a stronger developer. There’s a time and place for it. But wow, you did an amazing job! 🙌🏼 Also, for all the steps you took on all that hair, your timing was really good. It would’ve taken me a decade.

Your patience! Excellent work.

WOW beautiful 😻😻 sooo much work put in!!! So much pressure considering she flied in to see you 😂 good work!!

So glad I have very short hair. Saves me a mint!

I’m too far away from any gray hair artists. So when I got about 2 1/2 to 3 inches of gray hair grown out, I just shaved the rest of my hair off 😂 quick and easy. My hair was back to a good length within two years and I was surprised at how well I pulled off the shaved super short hair considering I have a long face.

I appreciate how much you talk, you are a very relatable stylist! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences and sharing your knowledge of color!! I learn so much from you!! A video idea could be how you break down your pricing strategy? And how you determine how you schedule your clients to accommodate the time you suspect you need for each client. I understand this is a very touchy subject and a lot of people would rather not talk about their prices but It’s just an idea. Lol Thanks again!! You are awesome!!

This is how i made my hair!!1 after years of struggling with grey hair,,,finally discover the best color for my fine hair.. i will post a video on my channel with my transformation!!!

thanks for sharing this and for the pro tips of communicating well with your client! I've learned a lot on this video

It looks really good! I would be thrilled if I could get my brown hair to that color while I grow out the gray.

Absolutely beautiful color. It all blended so well.... I appreciate you talking and explaining through the process.

Nice work Kristi!! My question is, how is she gonna maintain that darkish grey tone at home? I don't think a purple shampoo would be strong enough to do that tho.🤔

Your authenticity is so inspiring… beautiful job, and talk all you want… it literally gets inside my head and validates the individual struggles and self doubt that we all battle.

That was one of your most stressful videos for me 😮😂

It turned out beautifully! Good job. I'm in transition to gray myself i had no idea this could be done..

Silver is the way to go 😁

Soooooo nice Kristi!!! Thank u for sharing all of your product details 🤩🤩

Ty for explaining in detail. Clients dont realize how much work these color inspo. instagram and/or pintrest pictures are. Beautiful job ❤

The first one I ever did took me 5 hours and the clients complained about it taking 5 hours! LOL. This service requires an hourly charge that includes the color and mask costs. It can easily take 12 hours. It sometimes costs $100 in color, removers and treatments, alone. I have broken it down in 3 sessions for them. They just go lighter and lighter blonde, and it requires picking up all the dark pieces with a full head of foils. No surprises for the cost. Th he consultation shpuld include a range. A starting cost and the hourly BREAKDOWN and the high end cost.

This looks exactly like my hair…..orange and grey. Trying to go all grey but it is hard. Can’t afford this type of service so am just biting the bullet. Thanks for the explaination.

You truly are amazing . Her hair looks stunning 😘. I'm sure it was a long 2 days for you . Great result. X

Wow, it looks beautiful ❤

How on earth !! Hats off lady 💚

Thank you so much for posting! Your videos are soo soo helpful and is so appreciated! It looks soooo beautiful 😻😻

Allot of people want to be light like right now. And sometimes to not compromise the integrity of the hair you have to tell them, this is going to be a process. I went from level one blue black to platinum blonde. But we did color remover, heavy highlights. And I looked crazy for about a month, because my hair had been red before I went black. And then the next sitting we heavy highlighted it and I started to look more normal. And this was all before olaplex came out. And I had no idea how to take care of blonde hair!

Beautiful. Love, love, love love love amazing job. She looks stunning.

Wow. The more of these videos I watch the more I think I will cut my dyed hair off and live with a pixie cut and wigs for awhile.

This gives me secondhand anxiety for you. I feel like I've had clients like this so many times before. You handled it really well but she made it harder by wanting the impossible. I want to blend my gray, but be ashy but also light. Yikes! I always say it goes sideways when they try too hard to drive the bus. I'm the stylist, I drive the bus! The end result was beautiful but I agree with you.... could've saved a bunch of time if she'd gone with your initial recommendation.

Love this !!!! 💜💜 Beautiful Job!! you out did yourself on this one most definitely looks wonderful My dream hair color seriously 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

If she is whole (or part) Asian, Indian, native American or Latine, then that might have made both her hair lifting and processing more difficult. Guy Tang talks about that in his videos. I'm so glad that you made it through!

To get maximum lift trap less hair and cover foil completely

Finally ordered blonde solutions over Black Friday it’s soooo expensive 😩 but am dying to try it. Also fyi I tried k18 on a client and on myself last week and HOLY SHAT!!! You aNeed to try it!!! Next time I’m still gonna add Olaplex to my bleach and spray the k18 on hair for some double protection/healing but damn that shit is sorcery. I wouldn’t try it for years bc I’m dedicated to Olaplex but just did it and am in love

This is awesome Kristi!!! I appreciate you taking the time to make the videos that you share. You can never learn enough or too much about color! I'm going to buy some of that color remover. I was gifted Pravana's Color Remover from a friend about year to year and a half ago. Because I had never used it before, I tested it out on a mannequin. It smelled like rotten eggs. It...was... HORRIBLE!!! I threw it away. It took a few months to get rid of the smell on that mannequin's hair. Thank you ma'am.😁~APRIL LIPKE

Awesome video, as usual!! And again, every time you say something about people complaining about you "talking too much " I just scream at my phone because they are on YOUR channel and can go somewhere else if they don't like it!!!! Ok, rant over lol Question for you - Why did you leave the ends out when you put the 5 on her hair at the end?

Hi kristi I’m wondering if you’ve ever tried the bleaches especially formulated for dark hair? They have a lot of blue in them that can really help with the orange stage

Good job Kristi!! You did an awesome job at that!

Gonna watch this tomorrow as I prep for my sons birthday party

Wow, it just melts together 🔥

Beautiful, Kristi! I am so proud of you when I hear you going through your consultation & price quote. Well done! (One day I may stop coloring and find myself in your chair.)

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL 😍

This endresult is so pretty, but what a big job and so many steps! I have a question, have u tried the cool lift additive to the bleach ? I think it lifts and Tones it at the same time when i have really dark hair or colored hair😍👏🏻

Wow, great freaking work!!

You did amazing, Kristi! 👍🏼😍

Wow! How gorgeous! Amazing job.

Hi Ms. Kristi, you did a great job!

Wow end result looks fantastic

That is beautiful! You did good!

Amazing!

A lot of mistakes were made here but that’s how we learn and get better, props to you for posting it! I was scared for you tho Kristi the client was giving me Aileen Wournos for the whole 2 days!

Great work, excellent effort . Thank You!🤓

It actually looks lighter then when she was at that brassy stage. Much more depth. Do you have any videos with grey transformations on dark boxed died hair?

I love your videos! It teaches me so much- but perhaps the bleach didn’t lift as high as you wanted because the first application of the bleach her hair was wet! Maybe that’s why? But stunning work as always❤

Stunning !!!!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

fascinating, I still can't understand how the first mix with 7-21 on 8-11 and 8 ... making the background for the next coverage of 5 ... but that 5 corresponds to the tint level ... or is it a reflection? truly surprised by the result. Great job❤️🥇🏆🎉

Absolutely beautiful!

Wow! Very helpful. Thank you.

That looks super nice love your work 💗

That is beautiful 😊 you did a great job ❤

I did this in the UK and once the toner wore off after 4 weeks it looks terrible. I’m currently growing my grey hair again as I had to chop it off. It’s ok if you want to go back every few months for a toner but if not it does end up looking blonde again. Well mine did and I only used the products I was told to.

I was turned off immediately. The big "ohhh, I know " was enough! If you're bored don't Bore me!😮

What the keratin treatment you use? Can you make a video?

Watched the complete breakdown your truly the best and she flew out there I could fly and most definitely it'd be my honor North Carolina is where Im at if I was to do that it would definitely be to you!!!! 💜

Guy Tang makes a clear color so that you could customize the levels. It might have helped in this situation. (I'm not a professional but have watched almost all of his hair videos.)

Would the hair still lift if you use 10 vol with perm color? Specifically asking this to use a 10 vol with Wella Color Charm Perm Liq Color 050 Cooling Violet mixed with Wella Color Charm T16 Toner. My hair is porous and color deposits even with 10 vol.

Where are you located? I'm in Oklahoma and people complain abt having to pay $150 on a service that takes me 4-6 hours 🙄 I've done hair 18 years, I know my worth, im Abt to start charging more especially w the price of everything going up. Btw I appreciate your videos 💛

Wow it looks soooo good!!!

What a tough Job! so much work, She’s pretty young; I think she should have gone short and just start letting it grow out she’s really not that gray. Good effort, result is beautiful,

Wow looks so beautiful!

Loveeeee This !

Beautiful color!

for colors...I go to hair dressing schools...and get it done by students..their supervisors checks...unless you want some funky colors

Hi! The 5 shadow ash by guytang is it a blue base or green?

In my opion a ash blond treatment in the length would have been sufficient to create a smooth transition to the grow out.

Damn, you did that!

You did the good job loveit

The hair came out beautifully! I know how much you stressed when the color doesn’t come out what you want to. I was wondering if you put guy tang 5 all over the hair or left some part of the hair and did you use demi permenent developer with Guytang 5 permenent? Is there reason for it?

My stylist is helping with my gray transition by doing a partial highlight every 5-6 weeks! Despite that, the top is mostly white!! This is very expensive and not sure how to find someone who has more experience?