If you are doing teasy lights in your salon — or planning to add them to your service menu — having the right tools makes all the difference between a clean, precise result and a frustrating, messy one. In this post we are breaking down every tool you need for teasy lights, what each one does, and why it matters for your final result.

The Essential Teasy Lights Toolkit

Teasy lights require a few specific tools that work together as a complete system. Here is everything you need at your station before you start your first teasy lights service.

1. A Professional Hair Color Board with Built-In Teeth

This is the most important tool for teasy lights — and the one that changed everything for colorists worldwide. Before boards with built-in teeth existed, doing teasy lights meant holding the tease in place with one hand while trying to paint with the other. It was awkward, imprecise, and inconsistent.

The Cooboard is the original professional hair color board with built-in teeth — designed specifically for teasy lights, foilyage, and highlights. You slide the Cooboard into the hair against the tease, the built-in teeth grip the hair and hold it flat against the scalp, and suddenly both of your hands are free to paint. The board also serves as a stable platform to apply your lightener on — giving you more control, better saturation, and cleaner results every single time.

The Cooboard comes in three sizes:

Cooboard 5x12 — The original and most popular size. Ideal for short to medium length hair. The go-to board for most everyday teasy lights services. Starting at $21.99.

XL Cooboard 4x16 — Extra length for longer hair with a slightly narrower width for more precise sectioning. Perfect for clients with long hair who need full coverage from root to end without repositioning. $24.99.

BIG DADDY Cooboard 5x16 — Maximum size for long, thick hair. The extra width and length means fewer repositions, faster services, and cleaner results on your biggest, most voluminous clients. $25.99.

Not sure which size is right for you? Most colorists start with the 5x12 and add the larger sizes as their teasy lights clientele grows. If you do a lot of long hair color work, the Triple Threat Kit gives you all three sizes at a special bundled price.

2. A Foiling and Teasing Comb

A good foiling and teasing comb is your second most important teasy lights tool. You need a comb with a metal tail end for precise, clean partings and slices, and teeth that are perfectly spaced for controlled backcombing.

The Cooboard Foiling and Teasing Comb was designed specifically to complement the Cooboard workflow. The metal tail creates sharp, accurate partings. The teeth are wide enough to create a full, even tease but fine enough to maintain complete control over every section. Use this comb to create your tease, then slide the Cooboard into the hair — the two tools work together seamlessly for the fastest, most precise teasy lights workflow available.

3. Professional Hair Color Foils

Standard foils work for teasy lights — but professional pop-up foils make the process significantly faster and more organized. Instead of pulling foils from a stack, a pop-up dispenser delivers one foil at a time with one hand — keeping your workflow moving and your station clean.

Cooboard Pop-Up Foils come in 500 sheets per pack in a convenient pop-up dispenser. The heavy emboss texture grips the hair during color application so your foil stays exactly where you place it. At 5x11 inches, they are perfectly sized for use with the Cooboard 5x12. Available in eight colors including Tease Me Teal, Plumped Up Purple, Blush Me Gold, Pretty In Pink, Big Apple Red, Into The Blue, In Full Bloom, and MoonLight Silver.

For long hair clients using the BIG DADDY board, the Cooboard XL Flat Sheets at 5x16 inches give you full coverage from root to end without overlapping or repositioning.

4. A Professional Color Brush

Precise lightener application is everything in teasy lights — and a professional color brush gives you the control you need. Look for a brush with firm bristles that deliver smooth, even product distribution across the board without dragging or pulling the hair out of place.

The Cooboard Color Brush is lightweight, easy to grip, and compatible with all professional lighteners and color formulas. It is the brush our team uses in every teasy lights service.

5. A Toner or Gloss

This one is non-negotiable. After processing and rinsing your teasy lights, always follow with a toner or gloss. The toner customizes your client's final color, eliminates any unwanted brassiness, adds incredible shine, and ties the whole result together. No teasy lights service is complete without a finishing toner.

Use the Cooboard Glaze Brush to apply your toner or gloss evenly and precisely — the soft bristles distribute product without disturbing your color placement.

The Complete Teasy Lights Tool Kit

If you want everything in one purchase, the Coo-Lux Kit gives you all three Cooboard sizes plus the foiling comb, color brush, and glaze brush — the complete professional teasy lights system at a special bundled price. It is the kit serious colorists reach for when they are ready to fully commit to the Cooboard workflow.

For colorists just getting started with teasy lights, the Coo Kit includes the Cooboard 5x12, foiling comb, color brush, and glaze brush — everything you need for your first teasy lights service.

Shop All Teasy Lights Tools at Cooboard

Everything in this list is available at cooboardtools.com — designed to work together as a complete teasy lights system. From the original Cooboard to professional pop-up foils and every tool in between, we have everything you need to deliver stunning teasy lights results for every client.