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Shoutout to the lady who taught me a better way to foil highlights
I had a client last Thursday who used to work in a salon back in the 90s. She saw me struggling to keep my foils from slipping and she just reached over and showed me this trick where you fold the edge of the foil over itself before you put the hair in. It creates a little lip that grabs the hair way better. I tried it on the next section and it worked like a charm. She said she learned it from an old stylist in Dallas 25 years ago. Now I use that method on every foil session. Has anyone else picked up a random tip from a customer that ended up changing your whole routine?
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elliotadams21d ago
Read something in a salon trade magazine a few years back. Study showed stylists who fold a small lip on the foil edge cut their sectioning time by like 20 percent. Less fumbling, less redoing sections. Your random client just proved that old research was right. Those little tricks from the 90s stylists are gold because they've been tested for decades. Dismissing it as extra work ignores the fact that it prevents the problem before it starts. Saves frustration on busy days when you're already running behind.
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elliot451mo ago
Never had foils slip in 15 years, so that lip trick just adds extra time for no benefit.
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martin.paige1mo ago
Foils slipping is seriously not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things. You just slide a tail comb under the edge and push it back in place. Takes maybe two seconds. I get that it's annoying but it's not like you're ruining the color unless you walk away for ten minutes and come back to a mess. Seems like extra work for a problem that barely exists.
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