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Tried a new toner mix on a client and it went totally green
I was working on a client with stubborn yellow tones in her hair and decided to blend a violet toner with a blue one, thinking it would neutralize better. After 20 minutes, her hair had this weird mint green tint that was not in the plan at all. I learned that even a tiny bit of blue can swing things way too cool if you're not super careful with the base color. Anyone else had a toner disaster that taught them a hard lesson about color theory?
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the_jana1mo ago
It's a good reminder that small tweaks can have huge results, which happens a lot outside the salon too. You see it with recipes, where one extra spice changes the whole dish, or in home projects where a slightly different paint shade throws the whole room off. It's that gap between the plan in your head and how things actually turn out. Getting the base wrong before you add the fix is a lesson that applies to way more than just hair color.
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the_zara1mo ago
Oh man, tell me about it. I once tried to "adjust" a cookie recipe by eyeballing the baking soda. Ended up with a pan of bitter, puffy crackers. Or that time I thought "eh, close enough" on a cut for some trim work. Suddenly nothing lines up and you're back at the store buying more wood. That tiny gap between "should work" and "actually works" is where all my weekend plans go to die.
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