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Why Modern Highlights Are So Expensive

• Modern hair highlighting has evolved from straightforward foiling to a highly artistic and customized process.
• Stylists now use advanced techniques, extra education, and creative vision to tailor each highlight to the unique features of every client.
• Every foil is placed with thoughtful intention, making the client the muse and the result a personalized work of art.
• This approach requires more time, expertise, and product than traditional foiling, which was less detailed and often needed multiple sessions for similar results.
• Traditional highlighting was simpler and less customized, while modern methods deliver natural, low maintenance looks in one appointment.
• The higher cost reflects the increased effort, skill, and artistry involved, as well as the fact that more product is necessary to achieve these lasting, low-maintenance results for clients.
3 REASONS WHY TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS ARE SO EXPENSIVE

Here’s Why Modern Highlights Cost More Than Traditional…from the hair gurus at BEHIND THE CHAIR

Have you noticed the days of straightforward foiling prices are over? Gone are the days of the full vs. partial, as modern foiling techniques evolve and require more education, time and product to achieve the looks today’s clients want.

The Highlighting Techniques Have Changed
One of the reasons modern highlights are more expensive is because the application takes more time and precision. It takes more work in one appointment to create an effortless result, that requires less maintenance, than with a traditional approach. And it also takes expertise and knowledge which comes from extra education and experience.

*Note: The finished look also saves the client money, because less maintenance is required between appointments.

  1. Traditional Foiling Doesn’t Require As Much Detail
    Modern foiling requires more work, customization and product to give the results that traditional foiling would in multiple sessions. The client, you, are paying for more work and a result that would take multiple sessions if approached in a traditional way.
  2. Custom Foil Highlight Placement Is An Art
    No two heads are the same, so a great stylists knows when to switch things up for a custom look on each client. Every foil is thought about with intention. From start to finish the client is the muse, and the result is one that…is pure art, says the gurus at BEHIND THE CHAIR.
  3. Traditional Foiling Doesn’t Require As Much Detail
    Modern foiling requires more work, customization and product to give the results that traditional foiling would in multiple sessions. The client is paying for more work and a result that would take multiple sessions if approached in a traditional way.

A designer handbag costs $600 and up, a 15-minute Botox appointment can cost $600 and up, an hour cleaning at the dentist costs $150, and most breast augmentation surgeries require less time than it does to take a client from brunette to blonde. Hhmmm….

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