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Why does nobody talk about how hard it is to blend grays on coarse hair?
Had a guy come in last month, salt and pepper all through his crown. I tried my usual blending technique but the gray just sat there looking like chunks. He asked me if I was "scared of the white". How do you handle heavy gray blending without spending an extra 20 minutes?
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emma_baker611h ago
Oh man, that's rough! It's like the gray just decides to rebel against whatever you're doing (which I swear happens more with salt and pepper than solid white). I've noticed it's the same thing everywhere in life - when something is halfway between two states, people get all weird about handling it. Like painting a room that's half old gloss paint and half new matte finish - the transition never looks smooth unless you spend way more time than you planned. For coarse gray blending specifically, I've had the best luck switching to a smaller brush and using a really fine, almost watery product that soaks in rather than sitting on top. But yeah, that extra 20 minutes is just baked into the job sometimes, you know?
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