Amy E: Hello! I'm Amy E. I am here with ScissorBoy and we're going to be interviewing Fernando Guzman at his studio Hair Studio 28.

Fernando Guzman: So what I'm going to do is going to make more defined highlight because the highlights that she has are really too thin. I'm going to make a little bit more thickened highlights to go more lighting on the top and keep the same color on the bottom to have the nice and bright color on the bottom.

Amy E: Oh! Yeah it's beautiful. Is this natural?

Fernando Guzman: Yeah, no it's not. It's dye. But I think she did it like about month ago but if you look at the color it still have - it's healthy in color.

Amy E: It's very healthy and so can you show us the texture and the width of the highlight?

Fernando Guzman: Well. The texture I'm sure it's going to be more techniques easy because she has a long hair. Normally the client didn't want to spent long time at the saloon. So that what I'm going to do is making a big like a chunk highlights. It's going to make it more defined at the style, more younger style.

Amy E: What's important to know about sectioning before you start a highlight?

Fernando Guzman: The real important thing to know about the section for the highlights starts when we're looking her face so it's just kind of with a the natural color. I mean she has the natural texture of the hair. She don't -- she don't use blow dryer too much. I'm just want to let it cut down. I see I'm going avoid the part of the head that's over here.

Amy E: Right so that's her natural hairline. So you want to highlight based on where the natural hairline is as opposed to where you think it should go, right. So, working with the hair, more clips though. You know ScissorBoy has clips, they hold a lot of hair. And what you're using in your bleach?

Fernando Guzman: What I am using? I am using a little bit of that violet tone, because I don't want my highlights turning yellow to orange. So the violet tone already is here with the pre-liner. So when I take off the highlights this time with the color already, I don't know if it was two times, like bleaching first and then tone it and then color. So it is all in one.

So I'm going to start in the back, I keep that but the good things above this section the triangle is there because this is going to be my guy. I get the guy along about an inch. But this is going to be whole like highlight is falling all the way down. Because if you do their highlights like a zigzag, some of the highlights are going to disappeared because the hair is not even. Some hair is break. I just want to get it bigger size of highlight there.

Amy E: You get the whole chunk.

Fernando Guzman: The whole chunk, yeah.

Amy E: So you did triangles on all out and then you went and you found your triangle and that all you're going to be highlighting, right?
Fernando Guzman: All along the triangles;

Amy E: Or are you going to do another layer?

Fernando Guzman: No. Another layer but at the top. It is going to be at the top.

Amy E: And then down here are you going to do what you're doing?

Fernando Guzman: I will put the color to make the color event.

Amy E: You're going to put color and then you're going to color the top, okay. So what you're doing?

Fernando Guzman: So what we're going to do is we're going to apply the color, it's going to be gold and copper brown.

Amy E: So you're going to put gold and copper brown in the whole head.

Fernando Guzman: In the whole head because we're going cover the highlights, the widths of the highlights then we're going to cover the tint color to get more bright and more tone.

Amy E: Okay. Fernando has washed her hair and blow dried it straight and I was a bit concerned because secretly I thought he turned her hair gray but could you explain that to me again?

Fernando Guzman: Okay remember when I first started, I told you I'm going to use some violet to keep the orange and yellow away.

Amy E: So you put violet.

Fernando Guzman: The violet is turning is going close to silver kind of close to black, because the braid lining is it's the bleach with the little bit violet, it's turning like blue and violet.

Amy E: Because she has got such natural like dark hair. When you put the violet in, it brings it to closer to what you want rather than an orange. Well, orange looks good on my shirt it doesn't look so good on the hair does it? What can we do to make it look great, we're doing an Updo?

Fernando Guzman: We are going to do that.

Amy E: We're going to do an Updo.

Fernando Guzman: Let me show the techniques to do an Updo. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to use the same texture of the hair she has right now not curly, totally straight out because we use the blow dry only a little bit of brush. So what I'm going to do now is I was thinking to do the Updo without curling iron without plump iron, just only bobby pins so I'll work with that. How is that?

Amy E: That sounds great so no straightening, no curling iron no extra heat because we're not damaging the hair, only bobby pins and rubber bands.

Fernando Guzman: This is going to be my first section. I am now going to use our roller band here.

Amy E: Can you show us how you did that? Because you just made like a knot in the rubber band and then you attached the bobby pin to it. So wrapped the linked rubber band around each other and then you stick the bobby pin through and then you tuck it in through the pony tail.

Fernando Guzman: If you don't use the bobby pins just the rubber bands, the rubber bands is going to break your hair.

Amy E: Oh! So instead of tightening around you wrap it with it and then secure it with a bobby pin and so then it doesn't break your hair and we like that. That was so pretty, you can just see like how it would go on.

Fernando Guzman: The hairspray is the another one, that I am holding here in my fingers. The holding head on my fingers, I am going to press this first, like here, you twist it, you hold it, then you hold that again, hold that again.

Amy E: And finally it's like a circle.

Fernando Guzman: Hold that again, now it's like -- then put it anywhere where you think you need more color, the frame.

Amy E: And then you finish this one off and this one goes exactly the same. Alright, so let's see you finish that and then we'll see what you do with the front, okay. So the back is two pony tails on top of each other and then curling around your fingers and then pinning it into...

Fernando Guzman: With that curling iron and without flat iron.

Amy E: Without flat ironing just this is the finger Updo, Fernando's finger Updo.

Fernando Guzman: So what I'm going to do is giving little bit body here because I don't want to get too flat. So I am going to press a little bit here and then I'm going to pull this all the way down.

Amy E: That is beautiful. You can really see what you've done with the highlights. So yeah - are you supposed to see the bobby pins or you're supposed to hide them?

Fernando Guzman: No.

Amy E: You are not supposed to see the bobby pins. Hide them as much as possible. Oh, you do a little one. That is so cool and it just blends in into the rest of it around, behind of that, nice. The final curl and that...

Fernando Guzman: That is my finger Updo.

Amy E: That is his finger Updo. Okay spin her around so we can see it. The finger Updo, well thank you very much Fernando, it looks great and we'll see you soon. Can you give a snip, snip?

Fernando Guzman: Snip, snip.