Shoutout to the stylist who told me to stop mixing brands in my color bowl

I was at a workshop in Denver 2 years ago and a senior stylist named Diane pulled me aside after she saw me mixing a tube of Wella with a tube of Schwarzkopf for a demi gloss - she said that's how you get weird muddy tones and uneven lift. Last week I tried it again thinking I knew better and sure enough, my client's blonde came out patchy and greenish on the ends. Has anyone else had a color mishap from ignoring that 'don't mix lines' rule?

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ninal9122d ago

The mixing lines rule is overblown honestly, I've blended Goldwell with Redken for years with zero issues if you know your chemistry and processing times. Might be more about technique than the brands themselves sometimes.

park.adam22d ago

Oh wow, I gotta disagree a bit here @ninal91. Mixing brands can work sometimes but it's risky because different manufacturers use different buffers and pH stabilizers that don't always play nice together. Even if you get lucky a few times, it only takes one bad reaction to ruin a head of hair.