Realized I was sectioning hair wrong for 6 years after a stylist in Nashville called me out

I used to just grab chunks randomly when doing foils, thinking it saved time. Then a senior stylist watched me work and pointed out I was leaving half inch gaps between sections without realizing it. She showed me that you should see the scalp in a clean straight line after each row, not a messy zigzag. Now I part in a grid pattern using the tail of my comb to check every row before moving on. Anyone else have that moment where one simple correction changed the whole outcome?

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jason7329d ago

Yeah keep going with that grid thing. The biggest game changer for me was realizing you gotta part each section the same width as your foil. Used to just eyeball it and end up with some fat sections and some skinny ones, but now I measure with the comb teeth and it's night and day. Another thing nobody told me was to actually lift that section up and look at it from the side before you place the foil. That way you see if you missed any hair underneath instead of just assuming it's all flat and even. Once I started treating it like bricklaying where every row has to sit perfect, my foils stopped looking like a hot mess.

wyatt51329d ago

The comb teeth trick is solid. I started doing that after wasting a whole box of 6x8 foils on sections that were too wide. Also if you press the section flat against the foil with your thumb before you fold it over, you can catch any flyaways that would've slipped out. Saved me from having to redo a whole section yesterday.