AirTouch: Your Complete Guide To The Blow Dry & Foil Technique

AirTouch Blonding: How To Create Consistently Bright Blends 
You’ve seen those viral AirTouch blonding videos on Instagram—that blow-dry and foil technique that creates seamless blends with high impact brightness—but where should you start? Blonding specialist and AirTouch expert Danilo Bozic (@danilo.bozic) is sharing his best tips on the basics below, plus some technique videos that break down EXACTLY how it’s done! Keep scrollin’ and learn how Danilo sections with a dryer, controls brightness and adds depth to his blondes … PLUS MORE.

Products Used

Hair Color

IGORA® VARIO BLOND PLUS POWDER LIGHTENER

Schwarzkopf Professional

Hair Color

BLONDME® Premium Developer

Schwarzkopf Professional

Hair Color

tbh – true beautiful honest Permanent Hair Color

Schwarzkopf Professional

Demi-Permanent Color

tbh – true beautiful honest Tone Softener

Schwarzkopf Professional

Demi-Permanent Color

IGORA VIBRANCE®

Schwarzkopf Professional

Hair Color

IGORA VIBRANCE® ACTIVATOR GEL

Schwarzkopf Professional

Blow Dryers

Dyson Supersonic™ Hair Dryer Professional Edition

Dyson

Watch The Video Below To See What AirTouch Is All About! 

 

 

 

 

 

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1. How To Prep, Section & Control Brightness With The Dryer

• Prep: AirTouch works best on an even and sleek canvas, so Danilo always uses a clarifying shampoo and blow-dries the hair straight to ensure even saturation.
• Sectioning: It’s super important to work in clean, thin sections for AirTouch so the lightener can penetrate the hair easily. 
• Control Brightness: Determine how light or dark you want the ends results to be. Based on that, adjust how much hair you blow-dry out of each section.
  • For brighter blondes, push less hair out so there is more hair in the foil.
  • For darker blends, push more hair out so less hair is in the foil.

Watch The Technique From Start To Finish Below!

 

 

 

 

 

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OMG! Just Look At THIS Seamless Blend 😍

2. Where To Direct Airflow For Consistent Blends
The KEY to AirTouch is keeping the technique as consistent as possible—this will make the retouch application process seamless. To ensure this, Danilo combs through each thin, clean section with a fine tooth comb and ALWAYS directs the airflow at the root.

3. AirTouch For Corrective Color
Using AirTouch to blend out unwanted yellow, heavily highlighted hair? Danilo adds depth by alternating thin sections: foils with lightener, and shorter pieces between with tbh – true beautiful honest Permanent Color by Schwarzkopf Professional. This will add depth and erase previous harsh highlights or banding. Just check out these corrective formulas below!

Tap The Beaker For The Color Formulas!

• Formula A (foils)

  Schwarzkopf Professional IGORA® VARIO BLOND PLUS POWDER LIGHTENER +  7-volume BLONDME® developer

• Formula B (between foils)

  Schwarzkopf Professional tbh - true beautiful honest 8-19 + 8-51 + tbh Tone Softener + 6-volume IGORA VIBRANCE® Gel Activator

• Formula C (all over gloss and toner)

  Schwarzkopf Professional IGORA VIBRANCE® 9-1 + 9-4 + 0-11 + 6-volume IGORA VIBRANCE® Gel Activator

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4. Toning AND Glossing Blondes With Permanent Haircolor
AirTouch and blonde balayage clients expect low-maintenance outgrowth, but you want to lift their base—what do you do? Danilo uses tbh – true beautiful honest Permanent Color to shift the base without causing a harsh line of demarcation during the outgrowth process. Then, he mixes another formula using the tbh – true beautiful honest Tone Softener. This allows the permanent color to shift from opaque to translucent, transforming it into the perfect gloss formula. 

Just Look At This REFRESH! 

 

 

 

 

 

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Watch Another How-To Video & Read The Breakdown Below! 

For The Client Who LOVES To See Warmth…

 

 

 

 

 

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💥TBH highlift 💥 This client of mine likes to see warmth in her hair! I always used high-lift color with 40vol, but the problem is she doesn’t like to be brassy (who does, right?) I decided to switch to @schwarzkopfusa ‘s TBH because if you mix: -cool tone 10-51 (blonde golde cendre) that gives you modern smoky tones that help control underlying warmth, and -warm 10-56 (blonde gold chocolate) that has muted rose undertone, with 40vol, you’re gonna get perfectly balanced soft warm color! Love my TBH! What do you think?! . . . #betbh #schwarzkopfusa #behindthechair @behindthechair_com @schwarzkopfusa

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