Which Hair Highlighting Technique is Better – Foil Or Cap?
You may have had your hair highlighted with a technique that hair stylists refer to as “foil highlighting”. The foil highlighting technique has become popular over the last ten years. In fact most hair stylists don’t know how to highlight hair any other way. There is also the perception that foil highlighting is done only in expensive salons, that any other methods won’t give you a great look and are not professional. In the hair styling business we are always looking for new ways of doing hair either using different techniques of highlighting hair or cutting or styling hair. Sometimes new methods are really innovative such as using a round brush and a hand held hair dryer instead of rollers to style hair and sometimes it can be gimmicky such as the use of electric clippers in place of regular scissors to cut women’s hair. As you may have noticed, it didn’t catch on. What is the reason for using foil? Foil is very flexible and malleable and therefore lends itself well for covering the
