Patchy lowlights on bleached hair

[Eviestyle]

So I’ve been taking my bleach and tone client back to foils. This week I foiled bleach highlights and also a lowlight with Wella color touch 7/03 and 1.9% (gold for prepig) and only dragging it a little past her root then feathering bleach up into it to get a soft result. I also tried to take fine sections for it to blend. It still came out super spotty. I’m redoing her soon. What would you do? She has a ton of hair on the finer side and it’s super straight so you can see everything.

The time before I tried to root shadow her on wet hair and that also went a little spotty.

 

[AcidPerm]

I suspect it’s due to the bleach inside the foils expanding and covering the section that you’ve feathered. It’s less of a problem when you balayage and just use foil underneath to separate the sections as the bleach doesn’t really creep as much.

How long is the smudged section? 1inch/3 inches (2cm/7cm)?
Do you have a dolls head that you can practise on and make it 2 and 3 times twice as long and see if it makes any difference?

 

[cassies97]

I agree with haircutz its probably due to the bleach expanding in the foil. If I were you I'd just do the lowlight and the bleach highlight and wouldn't bother doing the 2 together in the same foil.

To give it more dimension you could do a 7 (depending on her natural depth) at the root, going into 8 midlengths and 9 ends.