HOW does hair foil help coloring your hair?

Like, in salons.. you see the stylists put hair foil onto the hair after the application of the dye.. what is the foil used for?

HOW does hair foil help coloring your hair?

it's to keep the colored section separated from the rest for one. Also to create a "greenhouse effect" (ie: cook the dye into your hair), so that the colour saturates your hair strands.

HOW does hair foil help coloring your hair?

*traps in heat and moister and helps prevent the color from fading into other parts of your hair

HOW does hair foil help coloring your hair?

I think it prevents color from getting on more than one section of hair.

HOW does hair foil help coloring your hair?

its special foil not just aluminum foil... and to keep the hair moist until you wash it out.

HOW does hair foil help coloring your hair?

Its not special foil, its regular foil you buy at the super market. And it keeps the color or bleach from the rest of the hair, like when you get highlights, and you don't want to use a cap, and you don't want to add heat to most bleaches and color, it says so on the label.

HOW does hair foil help coloring your hair?

all the foil does is seperate the hair that is in the foil (and being colored) from the hair not being colored. the only thing "special" about this foil is that it is cut differently than the foil you would buy at a store, it may also be a different color. but it is just aluminum foil.

and you can add heat to bleach and color, but you have to know what you are doing!!