So you just recently started using shades of you as your aesthetic

BLACK TO GRAY BACKGROUND COLOR SILVERY BLUE GREEN/YELLOW BLUE BLUE VIOLET VIOLETY BLUE BLUE VIOLET BROWN TO TAN BACKGROUND COLOR GOLD GOLD/TAN GOLD/VIOLET YELLOW YELLOW GOLD SOUTH POP VIOLET GOLD WARM BEIGE NO BACKGROUND COLOR BLONDE ORANGE/COPPER COPPER/RED RED RED RED VIOLET RED VIOLET So you just recently started using shades of you as your aesthetic and you look at the colour book and you look at these and you are WTF is a background colour. I'm here to tell you what it is. So shades of Q is broken up into three different background colours. Now, the background colour and the reflect is two totally different things. And this is what makes shades of Q special. And this is also what can mess you up with shades of Q. With shades of Q, in most colour lines, you only have to look at the reflect colour. They don't really have background colour. So again, this is where it can really mess you up. But I'm here to explain it for you. So with Shady Q, we have three different colour background. We have black to grey, brown to tan, and no background. So, black to grey background colour. When we think about the colour black, what do we think? It's a darkest colour, it's inky, it has coverage, it's smoky. Well, I guess grey is a little bit more smoky. That's a word that I would use to describe the colour grey. So if you use any of the colours in the black to grey background family, this means that all of them are going to have a cooler, ashiest, darker deposit when used. And if you look at the colour chart, most of the cool and ashy tones live in the Black to grey family. Why is that? Black and grey doesn't have a lot of light to it. It doesn't reflect a lot of light to it. And what if ashy tones? They don't reflect a lot of light. So they live in the black to ground background colour family. Anytime I use a colour that is living in the black to grey background family, I always do a level up. Because since they have the black to grey background family, they're gonna deposit with more opacity and they're gonna deposit a little bit darker because what? Ashy tones don't reflect a lot of light. So if I use a 6P, it's going to deposit more like a 5P. So I'll level my formulation up so the 7P deposits more like a 6P if that makes any sense. So I want you to think about any of the colours that live in the black to ground background family are really good additives for your colour formulation and they're really gonna be good for your zone 1 application for colour retouches and root anything that you would do in the zone 1 application. Next we have the brown to tan background family. Now, if we compare the colour brown and tan to black and grey, brown and tan are going to be much more natural, they're gonna be softer and there's gonna be more natural than black and grey. So all of Our colours that live in the brown to tan family instantly tell me that they're gonna be more natural in their deposit and they're not gonna have as much opacity as the colours in the black to grey background family. So brown to tan is gonna be much more natural in its deposit and it's gonna be more true to level rather than black to grey are gonna be ashy and they're gonna look darker and they're not really true to level if that makes sense. Last but not least, we have no background colour. So what does no background colour mean? No background colour means that this, any of these colours that live in here are true to tone. So you're gonna see a lot of the coppers, coppers, reds, violets, anything like that. Any like fashiony kind of colours or like bright reds or like bright coppers. They're gonna be really good for like all that kind of stuff. They're gonna have more punch to your colour formulation. One thing that you had to be careful with with a no background colour is the V and VB series because they're ashy here cause they're a cool tone, but they do not live in the black to grey family. So V and VB can turn your hair eff and violet because it has no background colour to it. So it's going to be true to tone and it can be violet AF. So next all you have to think about is black to grey background colour or they're gonna be additives and they're gonna be used to control things and cool things down. Even colour correction. Brown to tan are gonna be your natural core foundation colours when it comes to your formulation. You are also going to have some ashy your tones in the brown to tan family, but they're not gonna have as much ashy and they're gonna be way more natural in their deposit compared to any of the ashy your tones in the black to gr family. So brown to tan is gonna be much more natural in its deposit and it's gonna be more true to level rather than black to grey are gonna be ashy and they're gonna look darker and they're not really true to level if that makes sense. Last but not least, we have no background colour. So what does no background colour mean? No background colour means that this, any of these colours that live in here are true to tone. So you're gonna see a lot of the coppers, coppers, reds, violets, anything like that. Any like fashiony kind of colours or like bright reds or like bright coppers. They're gonna be really good for like all that kind of stuff. They're gonna have more punch to your colour formulation. One thing that you had to be careful with with a no background colour is the V and VB series because they're ashy here cause they're a cool tone, but they do not live in the black to grey family. So V and VB can turn your hair eff and violet because it has no background colour to it. So it's going to be true to tone and it can be violet AF. So next all you have to think about is black to grey background colour or they're gonna be additives and they're gonna be used to control things and cool things down. Even colour correction. Brown to tan are gonna be your natural core foundation colours when it comes to your formulation. You are also going to have some ashy your tones in the brown to tan family, but they're not gonna have as much ashy and they're gonna be way more natural in their deposit compared to any of the ashy your tones in the black to gr family. No background colour. Are gonna be vibrant, true to tone, true level brightness, impact. Hope that makes sense.