Patent ID: 8069863

Claim:
A hairdresser's masking aid, for masking selected strands of hair from other strands of hair while the selected strands are treated, the masking aid comprising: at least two panels of flexible sheet material which are capable of being hinged apart to receive the selected strands and subsequently brought together to envelop the selected strands, and at least one of the panels further comprising: a substrate of a flexible and transparent plastics material laminated over at least part of its area to a metal foil substrate, said plastics substrate being laminated to the said metal foil substrate by a laminating wax; said metal foil substrate is laminated to said plastic substrate at least along the lateral sides of said panel; an elongate strip of said metal foil substrate is laminated to said plastic substrate along each of said lateral sides of the sheet; the region between the said elongate strips comprises at least one transparent region; said region between said elongate strips comprises at least one opaque or semi-opaque region; and said opaque or semi-opaque region(s) divide the non-laminated part of the sheet to provide a plurality of separate windows in the sheet.