Client told me my highlights looked 'striped' and I got defensive at first

I had this one client last month who sat down and said my highlights looked like zebra stripes. I was honestly kind of annoyed because I thought I did a solid job. But she pulled out her phone and showed me a picture from a salon in Austin that had these really soft, blended babylights. I realized she was right. I was still doing thick sections and keeping my foils too far apart. So I went back to doing smaller slices and alternating my weave pattern every other row. Now I even use a finer tail comb and take my time. Anyone else had to completely change their sectioning technique after someone pointed out it was off? What did you switch to?

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ivan2119d ago

The smaller slices thing is key but you also gotta watch your foil placement angle. If you keep the foils too horizontal you still get that banded look even with thin sections. Try tilting them at more of a 45 degree angle and stagger the ends so they don't all line up in a row. Also make sure your saturation is even from root to tip, patchy color can exaggerate the stripe effect.

jordan6538d agoProlific Poster

lol my friend literally just went through this exact thing last week. She's been doing foils for years but couldn't figure out why she kept getting these weird stripes even with tiny slices. I told her to try the 45 degree tilt thing and she messaged me like "omg why did nobody tell me this before" because it made such a huge difference. She also wasn't saturating her foils evenly so the color was way stronger at the roots and barely there at the ends, which made the stripey look even worse. Once she fixed both those things her highlights came out so much softer and blended. It's wild how such small details can totally change the result.