The Back Room · No. 03

The Foil Usage Calculator, The Back Room No. 03

The Foil Usage Calculator

Every foil on your trolley is a number you can plan around. Pop in the foil services you do, on an average day or across a whole week, and it works out your foils and boxes for the month.

What this covers

From face frames through to full heads and tip outs, with the foils each service takes set to how you actually work, so the count is yours and not a guess.

What you get

  • Your foils a week and a month, and how many boxes that adds up to.
  • The pack that fits how much you use, and roughly how often you'd reorder it.
  • Free to use right here on the page, as often as your column changes.

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Foil maths, but make it easy.

Pop in the foil services you do and you get your foils a week and a month, how many boxes that adds up to, and the pack that fits how you work.

How do you want to count your foils?

Tell us an average day behind the chair and how many days you work.

Your foil services

ServiceHow many a dayFoils each
Face frame
Quarter head
Half head
Three-quarter head
Full head
Partial tip out
Half tip out
Full tip out

Foils each is a starting point, so change it to match how you work.

Everyone in the salon who does foils. Working solo? Leave it at 1.

52 weeks minus your holidays and time off.

Your numbers

Foils a week

Foils a month

Boxes a month

Boxes a year

Every box holds 500 foils.

Your best pack

The pack that fits how much you use, and how often you'd reorder it.