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Last updated: January 03, 2025

Toning with Permanent Color: How to Avoid Banding

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Gray Coverage: 3 Application Tips to Avoid Banding 

Hot roots, harsh banding and a multiple-step gray coverage service—who has time for that? In an exclusive class on BTC University, #ONESHOT Winner Ashlee Norman (@ashleenormanhair) is sharing her hybrid toning technique for covering grays, creating a shadow root and color melt ALL IN ONE SERVICE. Did we mention she uses permanent color? 

 

Tip #1: Tone with Permanent Color

Shadow root 🤝 gray coverage. Learn how to avoid unwanted warmth AND harsh lines of demarcation in ONE STEP with Ashlee Norman on BTC University. 

 

 

Tip #2: Formulate TRANSLUCENT Gray Coverage 

Want to create low-maintenance gray coverage—WAIT WHAT? Hit play to learn exactly what is translucent gray coverage… 

 

 

Get full access to Ashlee’s complete color theory formulation (plus more diagrams!) on BTC University

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Tip #3: Rethink Your Application 

Universal root retouch? Think again. Learn how Ashlee adjusts her gray coverage technique to avoid unwanted banding and give her clients a low maintenance gray coverage service on BTC University! 

 

 

Ready to get some hands in some hair? Subscribe to BTC University to get unlimited access to Ashlee’s Hybrid Toning class!

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