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Hot take: My old instructor was wrong about mixing developer for color corrections

She always said to use a 20 volume developer for every single color fix, no matter what. I followed that for a year until a client came in with a major banding issue from a box dye. I tried her method and it barely lifted, so I switched to 30 volume on a small test section and it worked perfectly. Has anyone else had to unlearn a strict rule from training that just didn't hold up in the real world?
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linda305
linda30541m ago
Oh man, that reminds me of my own training disasters. I once followed a rule about mixing so strictly I turned a client's hair into straw. @felixw68 is right, sometimes you just gotta learn from your own mess.
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felixw68
felixw688h ago
Rules are just someone else's past mistakes.
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