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TUTORIAL: How To Blend Synthetic Hair
For this tutorial, we'll be using kanekalon jumbo braid from Modu, but the same principles apply to any brand or fiber you might want to use. This tutorial will show two colors being blended together evenly, but you can get creative and use more than two colors or different proportions. Refer to the "recipes" at the bottom for ideas!
What You Will Need
- Two of more colors of braiding hair - available here!
- Scissors
- Lots of practice and patience! :)
Instructions
1. Pick two or more colors of hair. Here are the two colors we'll be using for examples: navy blue and emerald green. When its all said and done, we'll have a nice deep turquoise color. However, you do not have to limit yourself to two colors, and you don't have to use equal amounts of each either.
2. Seperate a small section of hair from each color -- about 1/4 of the bag will be more than enough. If you find that working with that amount of hair is difficult, try using less.
3. Next, place one of the colors directly on top of the other. It does not matter which color goes on top, because eventually they'll be mixed together equally.
4. Now, split the hair in half right down the center. When you're done, each piece will have approximately 50% of each color.
5. Now, place one of the pieces on top of the other and repeat. I recommend at least 20 splits to ensure a thorough blend.
6. Here's the part that seems to cause a lot of people trouble: you must, I repeat MUST, seperate the hair completely before doing the next split. Otherwise, you'll end up with a small knot that will become increasingly worse until there's nothing left to do but cut it out. This will happen more easily with kk silky or jumbo braid than it will with yaky, toyokalon, and most European human hair. The image below shows a knot that formed after only three splits.
Another important thing to pay attention to when blending is small chunks of solid color (an emerald green chunk is circled in the image below). Take special care to split these until they're gone if you want a complete blend; if you leave the small chunks, you'll get more of a marbled effect.
7. Once your hair is blended, trim any stray hairs from the ends, and then you're done!
Here's a shot of what some dreads from the finished product look like. Amelia's accents are the same 50/50 blend of emerald green and navy blue.
Recipes
Now, onto the fun part! The color possibilities for blending are virtually limitless, so by all means do not confine yourself to the list below. These are just a few potential color schemes to get started with.
1 part Navy Blue + 1 part Emerald Green - Turquoise blue-green
1 part Sky Blue + 1 part Emerald Green - Seafoam green
1 part Burgundy + 1 part Red - Cherry Red
1 part Cobalt Blue + 1 part Navy Blue + 1 part Dark or Medium Purple - Midnight Blue
1 part Red + 1 part Orange + 1 part Yellow + 1 part hot pink - Bright sunset color (an orangey, pinkish red) 2 parts Burgundy + 1 part Dark Purple - Cranberry
4 parts Burgundy with about 1 part Red - Hot Red (yes, I'm talking about that elusive color from Zury that's been on backorder for ages!)
1 part white with 1 part of any other shade - a pastel version of the color.
You can also try mixing natural shades to get a closer match to your real hair color. For example, if your hair is just a tiny bit lighter than #6, try blending in a little #8!
Blending is also a great way to use up any natural or similar colors you've got left in small quantites.
Examples
Its generally difficult to show subtle blends on camera, but here are the best examples I could come up with :)
#51 and #44 blended with silver white to create a light grey color to match the client's natural hair, with blends of red/burgundy and navy blue/cobalt blue in the accents. (The dark purple is solid).
The blends in this jewel-toned set consist of varying amounts and combinations of neon violet, emerald green, navy blue, dark purple, and black. Some of the blends include up to 4 colors.
In order to match the yellow/lime/turquoise/blue wool accents in these falls, there are blends of cobalt blue/yellow, emerald green/sky blue, emerald green/navy blue, emerald green/cobalt blue, and lime green/cobalt blue.
To match another weird colorway of wool, these blends contain #30/light auburn, purple, hot pink, burgundy, #130/red auburn, and very small amounts of orange.
And the final example, a wig that was supposed to be in the colors of a night sky. There are varying blends of cobalt blue, purple, navy blue, and black in this one. You can make nearly any color significantly darker by blending it with black.
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