Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Colouring Hair with Texture

Hi Everyone,

As you know I love colouring cute little people, and I often get asked how I go about colouring hair.

So, I have put together this tutorial with a video! ( My first video - EVER!!!!) for you to hopefully enjoy and learn from!

As Copic addicts, when we first learn to colour we often use the Basic Blending rules that we know to colour hair. That is, colour in circles and aim for a 'seamless blend'. The outcome often looks like this ...

As you can see the hair is very smooth, but also very bland!!!

If you colour a little differently, you can add some texture and 'streak-i-ness' to make the hair look much more interesting...like the image below!

Here is a closer look at the difference between the two colouring styles:

So, without further adieu, here is my video tutorial on how to Colour Hair with Texture!
(pssst let me know what you think!)



Happy Colouring...Mandi-Lee

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17 comments:

  1. Tracey FeegerJuly 13, 2011 at 9:52 AM

    Fabulous tutorial Mandy. I am still one to start dark and then do the light colour but will have to learn to change my ways. Sound was a little soft but was a great little vid. Great angle. Great technique.
    mwah
    Trace

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  2. Tracey MandersonJuly 13, 2011 at 10:16 AM

    Thanks Mandy. Am teaching myself, and i feel relieved when i find some tutes, and see i am going ok! lol. Yours is great!
    Thanks again
    Tracey

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  3. UnknownJuly 13, 2011 at 11:32 AM

    Thanks Mandy! This was very helpful! http://visionsofpaper.blogspot.com/

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  4. AnonymousJuly 13, 2011 at 1:14 PM

    I love the end result of more textured hair too...thanks Mandi.

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  5. UnknownJuly 13, 2011 at 3:11 PM

    Great video Mandy!!

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  6. Teresa AbajoJuly 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM

    Awesome Mandi! I always like to watch other Copic people at work :)
    Thank you for keeping the video down to around the 5 min mark - that's about as long as I get before one of the kids needs a drink or snack LOL.
    And I love the nails too LOL, but I don't think the shine on those is due to your amazing Copic skills ;)

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  7. GretchenJuly 14, 2011 at 10:47 PM

    Thanks for the great video.

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  8. SammiJuly 15, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    Nice work Mandi! :)

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  9. EmbossingQueenJuly 15, 2011 at 11:10 PM

    You make it look so easy Mandi-Lee!

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  10. SusanJuly 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM

    Great work Mandi! Thanks for taking the time to make a video for us... I know how busy you are!
    Susan xxox

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  11. JennyJuly 18, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    Fabulous video Mandi! Yes yes yes! We would like to see more from you. Your clear and easy instructions are fabulous! Jenny B x

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  12. KylieJuly 18, 2011 at 10:05 AM

    Awesome video Mandi. Thanks. Now I know that streaks are ok and you've shown me in simple steps how to get that sun streak, look out!! lol.

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  13. jacquiJuly 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM

    love this video i was doing my hair all wrong. now with your tutorial i can blend my colours just right to achive the results. thank you so much. my work comes to life again

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  14. Petie S.July 26, 2011 at 8:05 AM

    Thank you for sharing! Am looking forward to practicing this. I think you did an awesome first time video...Keep posting more!! Blessings! Petie S.

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  15. StarJuly 28, 2011 at 2:32 PM

    This is absolutely fabulous! Thank you for sharing this technique...I cannot wait to try it out. I'd been doing the normal blending, and getting so frustrated. Thank you again!

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  16. AngelaAugust 3, 2011 at 10:49 PM

    Great video! Really cleared it up for me!, hair is so hard!!!

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  17. Marion Kuipers-van EijsdenAugust 6, 2011 at 9:39 PM

    What a great video... love to see how you do it! And you gave me confidencen through this video. I colored like this recently and it's great to see that there are more who do this.
    Thanks a lot!

    Hugs
    Marion

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