Hair ripped out by hairdresser foils

[Sarah557]

AIBU to think this is not normal? Or is it? I love my hairdresser and the colour she does my hair. However, every time I have foils, she back combs the hair so bits of the lighter colour goes on some strands and the rest remain darker. I think this is fairly normal. The problem comes when she washes the dye out. She brushes the hair (to get the back comb out? And she is SO rough. She doesn’t do it gently at all. When I went yesterday I had tears in my eyes it was so bad. My head is in agony today. I could literally hear my hair been pulled out / snapping. That’s how rough it was. Surely this isn’t normal and there is a way to be a little more gentle? I completely understand there is bound to be some pulling but this was another level.

That's not how my hairdresser does it. She portions the fine strands off by sort of weaving with a tail comb. No back combing at all.

It must be really bad for your hair too!

Awful and no.

Er yeah no backcombing here either, my hairdresser combs a flat section and the. weaves in and out with the tail of a long tailed comb to separate the strands to be coloured. They are gentle when removing foils too.

I have hair that falls out easily (thanks thyroid) and I’d be really cross about this

Wow, thank you so much everyone. I have just googled and can see the way you’re talking about with the weaves. Honestly, my hair falls out a lot as it is so it has really not done me any good. I feel so angry about it now. Time to find a new hairdresser!!!!

Time for a new hairdresser!

Years ago I remember sitting beside another customer at the sinks having our hair washed. The lady beside me was crying and saying to the girl washing her hair that she was hurting her.
After she left, I watched a few hairdressers in the salon laughing about it.
Im not suggesting your hairdresser thinks it is funny but it is not normal to feel pain in a hairdressers!

Oh my gosh @Sunnyevenings that is awful!! My hairdresser works on her own so nobody to laugh with but still, I’m wondering now if it is a bit malicious. I’ve been onto her Instagram now and can see that she uses the weaving technique in the videos she has uploaded!!! I’m wondering if she does the back comb thing if she’s in rush / can’t be bothered / not filming!? I definitely won’t be going back there!!

My hairdresser back combs when she is doing balayage.

I was going to ask if it was balayage as that can sometimes involve backcombing

Yeah backcombing is done for balyage but they shouldn’t be rough.

That’s awful. I had a male hairdresser be so rough with me and he burnt my ear badly with hair straighteners. I didn’t even want straighteners used on my hair.

Never went back, I wish I’d complained.

I get bleached highlights and she doesn’t backcomb it like PPs said, she just weaves it through

The back combing is called ‘teasing’, I believe, it’s supposed to make the blond bits blend with the darker bits (I think!).

They can do something called ‘air touch’ which gives a similar effect- where they use a hair dryer to blow out/separate the short strands in a section and give a very blended look.

However in any event I would be speaking up and saying this really hurts, what can we do instead?

The reason for back combing is so you don’t get a line and gives you a root smudge effect or balayage effect Just ask her next time please can I have woven highlights. No issue! It’s a pretty standard technique. However her removal of them is incorrect. (Hairdressing Lecturer here)

The reason for back combing is so you don’t get a line and gives you a root smudge effect or balayage effect Just ask her next time please can I have woven highlights. No issue! It’s a pretty standard technique. However her removal of them is incorrect. (Hairdressing Lecturer here)