What is "filling" the hair?

Have you ever heard the term “fill the hair” and wondered what in the F that means? Here’s a quick summary of filling/repigmenting:

⚡️ When we lighten hair with bleach, we eliminate the natural color pigments in the hair

⚡️ When we want to go darker (2 levels or more), we need to add back in the missing pigments we eliminated

⚡️ And those missing pigments are all warm: golds, coppers, reds (because the underlying pigments in everyone’s hair are warm)

⚡️ We don’t add back cool tones because no one’s hair naturally has underlying cool pigments

⚡️ If we don’t add enough warmth, the color may look muddy, drab, greenish

⚡️ Sometimes I do this in a 2 step process & sometimes I just add a lot of warmth into my formula

If you want to learn more about this topic, I filmed an entire tutorial on filling for my education platform BCU. Click HERE if you’d like to learn more about joining BCU! BCU is commitment free so you can come hang for a bit and then cancel if it’s not the right fit for you!