Oh man, I heard a podcast about this exact thing last month and the guy said the real danger is password reuse, not the manager itself. He said when one site gets hacked, your login gets tried on a hundred other sites within hours, which is how people get wrecked. He also said most of the big password apps never actually see your passwords because they get scrambled on your own device first. So yeah, your old way was way riskier, and your brother is kinda wrong on this one.

The part about foils only being for old school highlights is what I'd push back on a little. Foils are just a tool, they don't care what kind of color you put in them. You can do a soft lived in blend with foils and still get that melty look, it's all in how you place them and how thin you take the sections. Plenty of people have been doing foilayage for years and it looks nothing like those chunky 90s stripes. Sounds like the real change was you finally letting the hair type tell you what to do instead of the other way around.