Spent 45 minutes trying to figure out why my foil highlights were bleeding, turned out I was holding the brush at the wrong angle the whole time

I must have redone three sections before a coworker walked over and said hey you're dragging the color sideways instead of straight, has anyone else had a basic technique suddenly backfire on them like that?

2 comments

2 Comments

sandra_bennett591mo ago

...and honestly I'm not convinced it's that deep lol like yeah angle matters but 45 minutes? @tyler854 you saying it clicks eventually but I've been doing fine for years and never thought twice about it. People act like a millimeter off ruins everything but half the time it's just product quality or the foil itself. I mean sure maybe you were dragging wrong but sounds more like overthinking than some huge technique flaw lmao.

tyler8541mo ago

Wait why would the angle even matter that much though? Honestly I had the same thing happen with balayage, thought I was going crazy. Tbh its wild how much a tiny tilt in your wrist can mess up the whole section. Ngl I think most stylists have that moment where something clicks and you realize youve been doing it slightly wrong for months.