My salon started a quick three question checklist after a similar mess. We ask about weekly workouts, if they swim, and their typical morning time crunch. It stopped us from giving a high maintenance balayage to a nurse who works twelve hour shifts. Now her lowlights grow out gracefully even after six months.

Yeah those cheap ones are a total trap. They get hot enough to melt solder but the tips are garbage. Mine oxidized in like a week and wouldn't transfer heat. Spent more time fighting it than actually fixing anything. Finally got a decent station and it's night and day. Never going back.

Yeah, I read a whole article about that once (in one of those trade magazines at the dentist, of all places). It was all about how the first guy on site, usually the surveyor or the concrete crew, sets the tone for the whole project. If their work is off by even a little bit, that mistake gets passed down and made bigger by every single trade that comes after them. It's like a game of telephone, but with buildings. Makes you really respect the guys who get those first steps right, because they're quietly making everyone else's job possible.

Sounds like your boss missed that lesson.

Used silk on a vintage book cover last year, it's still holding up perfect. That smooth glide is worth every penny.