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Preventing Hatbanding/Haloing

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Roll Walls Like A PRO!

What happens here

It is essential to paint a 'wet edge' by constantly working into wet paint. If the cut-in areas dry before rolling the main wall, you risk hatbanding or haloing (a visible difference in color or texture). This occurs because brushed paint (cut-in) and rolled paint (main wall) are applied differently, creating a textural contrast that can also lead to color variation. This difference is more pronounced with cheaper paints and vibrant colors. To prevent this, always ensure cut-in areas are still wet when you begin rolling the adjacent wall section.

Goal: Avoid visible lines and color differences between cut-in and rolled areas

Tools and materials

  • Paint Clare — Coloring the walls

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doing the cut-in so always good practice especially this now if I was to do if I was working on myself but if I did all these cut ends went out had a sandwich took a break some like that and it was dry and came back and rolled my walls there is a high high likelihood that I'm gonna have what is called I'm half bamming or haloing once again and that's gonna be a difference in color to your eye to the human's high of where the cut ends were versus where the wall was rolled and some of that you know it could be attributed to if you do your cut ends and you just brushed your cut ends and then you roll your walls where it's brushed the paint is actually applied differently and it leaves brushstrokes and then you go back and you roll your wall you're having stippling and so you're gonna see that difference and this is going to be a color difference so you're high and sometimes it's actually a texture difference same within the middle of this wall if I roll this wall and I stop right in the middle of this wall go off take lunch and then dries right here and then I continue more than likely I'm going to see a difference of a color difference where I started and where I stopped and in a color like this and you know if you get into really really high-end paints high-end paints are less likely to cause happen a halfpenny or halo II but there are some really expensive paints to just do it anyways so Lucas is gonna get he'll get his cut ends done top and bottom and then I'll start rolling we're using this is blue tape this is blue frog tape so we're less likely to get any bleeding underneath or on to our baseboards using

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