That cheap pink lotion from the beauty supply is actually ruining my foils

I mean, I was totally skeptical when my coworker told me the bargain brand developer I was using was causing banding. Figured it was just brand snobbery, you know? But after three back to back clients getting that weird line across their highlights, I finally swapped to the mid tier stuff from CosmoProf. The difference was night and day after just one retouch. No more hot roots, no more muddy gold bands. Now I'm wondering what other cheap products I've been ignoring. Has anyone else had a beauty supply product mess up their formula without them realizing it?

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clairen8523d ago

Night and day" is right, but I gotta gently push back on the "broke brand snob" thing @burns.jenny said. It's not about being snobby, it's about knowing what ingredients actually do. That cheap 40 volume probably had less hydrogen peroxide than it claimed, so your color wasn't lifting enough and got brassy. I wasted six months on a dollar store toner that literally did nothing, thought I was just bad at my job. Turns out the cheap stuff just doesn't have the stabilizers to keep the formula consistent from bottle to bottle.

olivia39823d ago

Four bucks saved on a bottle of 20 volume cost me a whole redo on a balayage last Tuesday. @burns.jenny you gotta stop beating yourself up, the cheap stuff is designed to look like a deal till your foils turn orange. My rule now is if it ain't from a pro store I don't risk it.

burns.jenny23d ago

That whole "night and day" difference you mentioned hit me right in the wallet. I spent two years wondering why my color came out brassy, turns out it was the cheap 40 volume I was hoarding. Guess I was the brand snob in reverse, a broke one at that.