Instead Of Covering Grey Roots, This Hairdresser Makes Clients Embrace It With His Powerful Transformations (35 Pics)
It all started three years ago. A woman walked into colorist Jack Martin's California salon and told him that she had been dyeing her hair from gray to brown with at-home box color every 3-4 weeks for years. But she didn't want to worry about her hair color that often; she's retired, enjoying the great outdoors, and wanted to save as much time as possible.
Jack Martin accepted the challenge, and they immediately started bouncing ideas. Eventually, the two of them decided to dye her hair silver, which would give her natural gray hue slightly more polish, which would allow the woman to visit salons less. When everything was said and done, she loved the results. Martin did too. In fact, he was so pleased with his work that he posted the transformation on Instagram. And people noticed. The picture went viral, bringing Martin clients with similar requests.
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"My clients with natural gray hair come two or three times a year, instead of every few weeks," Martin told Allure. The freedom that comes with such a stunning look really is appealing, not to mention the empowering emotions that come with owning your natural gray hair.Martin usually does these transformations over one ten-hour-long session.
As he explained on Instagram, the process starts with using a color extractor to remove any remaining artificial color. Then, while preserving the gray roots, Martin bleaches the rest of the head to prep hair for the new silver color.
Next comes the crucial part. Martin bases the new color on the hair's natural gray pattern. He even asks clients to come in with three to four inches of their roots grown out, so he can analyze the natural coloring of their hair. He then re-creates the pattern on the entire hairdo.
"Some clients have salt and pepper mostly in the front and the back is darker, so I match that and add some dark to it," Martin said. And just like that, about ten hours later, clients leave his salon enjoying the blend of their natural hue.
I like this shade of grey. Beautiful. Matches her light skin tone.
All these women who had been fighting looking old actually look younger with silver hair.
My hairdresser convinced me to go natural 10 years ago. It's the best thing I've ever done to my hair.
They're all beautiful but does he have to bleach the hair out to get the gray in?
this almost makes me want to go to this hairdresser and let dye my hair sliver
Why no men decided to do the same, I wonder? I am going to do this when I have more gray hair. This is amazing.
Lovely hair, but I think is every person's choice to dye their hair or not, I would not take this as the best option for everyone. More than that, every hair looks nice after a professional blow and dry, do you think those ladies will afford or have time for professional styling on a daily/wekly basis? Looking at these pictures "before" and "after", I would dare to say no, like most of us. So, it is easy to sell something when you show only the ideal image, not the real one, from our daily life. In my country we say "the packaging sells the goods".
Most women own a hair dryer. It actually isn't hard to do it at home.
Absolutely! Pros can make anyone look good but when they have to do it for themselves, it's a different outcome, depending on the length of the hair. Obviously shorter is much easier & less maintenance.
Jack did my hair Jan of 2019... round brush/blow dried after color- no products... its now Dec 2020 I never had the dreaded growing out line- he matched it perfectly to my gray/white with mix of dark I have going on. It was totally worth it & still love my hair!
I love the look of grey and silver hair. And these transformations are all gorgeous. But these women just traded one dye job for another. Their own greys won't necessarily look that vibrant or have such depth. I have a few grey hairs (10?) around my temple - they started coming in after a particularly stressful year. I have no intention of dying my hair, but I may someday decide to. As long as we praise both choices, I'm fine with it. We don't need to vilify women who chose to dye their hair.
This was a very positive Bored Panda type of post. There was no vilification of...anything. Just admire, and not project yourself into it.
Just what I was going to say. They will still have 'roots' to deal with, so the hairdresser has not exactly done themselves out of a job. Still, it does make a change...
Ten years ago I asked my hair stylist/master colorist to do this with my hair. He said it couldn't be done. I didn't understand why not, so I suffered through years of growing out the dyed hair. This is just what I wanted to do.
Hair colour has also come a really long way in the last 10 years, particularly with the introduction of products like Olaplex. It is incredibly difficult to lift this much pigment from hair without damaging the ever loving shit out of it, because to get to grey, you essentially need the hair as close to unpigmented as possible for the gray to take. You can also see in many of the pictures that the quality of his clients hair is totally changed, which leads me to believe that he's focusing on restoring the health of the hair while he's colouring, which would be with a product like Olaplex (I keep dropping this name and I'm sure there are other products similar but none that I'm aware of). I think, at the time, what your stylist told you might have been correct and the truth.
I've followed him on Instagram for sometime but if you know the amount of hours he spent in removing the 'box dyes' on these ladies...I think some people might afford to do it when they have the money and time.
It took me 5 hours to go from black to a dark blonde. They actually made it darker again after bleaching it, so that it was a proper colour and not some orange-y stuff. So I really don't want to know how long those styles took.
I have the grey COVID stripe right now with a light brown/blond base color Thanks to my stylist back in February. Today’s the big day...taking these pictures in to see what we can do. Wish me luck!!!!
I hope you've changed your stylist and got it done to your liking now ☺️
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Why "years"? Why not just cut your hair to just above the shoulders and keep trimming it into shape until it's nothing but grey? At your age, very long hair just makes you look old.
Well, we can't all have Karen-like hair. There's no law against long hair in women over 40 and frankly, it looks good as hell
Lovely hair, but I think is every person's choice to dye their hair or not, I would not take this as the best option for everyone. More than that, every hair looks nice after a professional blow and dry, do you think those ladies will afford or have time for professional styling on a daily/wekly basis? Looking at these pictures "before" and "after", I would dare to say no, like most of us. So, it is easy to sell something when you show only the ideal image, not the real one, from our daily life. In my country we say "the packaging sells the goods".
Most women own a hair dryer. It actually isn't hard to do it at home.
Absolutely! Pros can make anyone look good but when they have to do it for themselves, it's a different outcome, depending on the length of the hair. Obviously shorter is much easier & less maintenance.
Jack did my hair Jan of 2019... round brush/blow dried after color- no products... its now Dec 2020 I never had the dreaded growing out line- he matched it perfectly to my gray/white with mix of dark I have going on. It was totally worth it & still love my hair!
I love the look of grey and silver hair. And these transformations are all gorgeous. But these women just traded one dye job for another. Their own greys won't necessarily look that vibrant or have such depth. I have a few grey hairs (10?) around my temple - they started coming in after a particularly stressful year. I have no intention of dying my hair, but I may someday decide to. As long as we praise both choices, I'm fine with it. We don't need to vilify women who chose to dye their hair.
This was a very positive Bored Panda type of post. There was no vilification of...anything. Just admire, and not project yourself into it.
Just what I was going to say. They will still have 'roots' to deal with, so the hairdresser has not exactly done themselves out of a job. Still, it does make a change...
Ten years ago I asked my hair stylist/master colorist to do this with my hair. He said it couldn't be done. I didn't understand why not, so I suffered through years of growing out the dyed hair. This is just what I wanted to do.
Hair colour has also come a really long way in the last 10 years, particularly with the introduction of products like Olaplex. It is incredibly difficult to lift this much pigment from hair without damaging the ever loving shit out of it, because to get to grey, you essentially need the hair as close to unpigmented as possible for the gray to take. You can also see in many of the pictures that the quality of his clients hair is totally changed, which leads me to believe that he's focusing on restoring the health of the hair while he's colouring, which would be with a product like Olaplex (I keep dropping this name and I'm sure there are other products similar but none that I'm aware of). I think, at the time, what your stylist told you might have been correct and the truth.
I've followed him on Instagram for sometime but if you know the amount of hours he spent in removing the 'box dyes' on these ladies...I think some people might afford to do it when they have the money and time.
It took me 5 hours to go from black to a dark blonde. They actually made it darker again after bleaching it, so that it was a proper colour and not some orange-y stuff. So I really don't want to know how long those styles took.
I have the grey COVID stripe right now with a light brown/blond base color Thanks to my stylist back in February. Today’s the big day...taking these pictures in to see what we can do. Wish me luck!!!!
I hope you've changed your stylist and got it done to your liking now ☺️
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Why "years"? Why not just cut your hair to just above the shoulders and keep trimming it into shape until it's nothing but grey? At your age, very long hair just makes you look old.
Well, we can't all have Karen-like hair. There's no law against long hair in women over 40 and frankly, it looks good as hell