Balyage opinions

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Please be kind (but truthful).

£200 for a wolf cut and balyage. Firstly I know this isn’t a wolf cut. Fine. I probably need to go to someone who specialises in them.
Colour wise; is it me or is it obvious where the new bleach has been put. I wish it blended better.

I have no idea what’s possible with these things but if you know hair and colour - could this have blended better?

Pics on the way

It doesnt look horrible, please dont panic but that is not bayalage. The colour is nice and there's a lovely shine but the roots just look a bit growing out which is fine, I dont mean it looks scruffy just that its not what you asked for x

It’s difficult without knowing what your hair looked like beforehand (was the lower half very blonde already??) but that looks like poorly attempted balayage, and as you say, nothing like a wolf cut. As the previous poster said, it looks fine but just not what you asked for.

Was this your regular hairdresser? Do they have the skills to do balayage and/or a wolf cut?

looks like highlights rather than balayage and highlights that have been in a while and are slightly growing out

Probably not balayage but it looks pretty and healthy.

Yes lower half very blonde already. Grown out highlights. I asked to be blonde quite close to the scalp so it had time to grow out. I didn’t have a toner this time around and so I think that might be the issue. A toner according to google evens out the colour between old and new.

I’m concerned it looks old because it’s less than a week old. Although I purposefully go for a roots showing look so it can grow out slowly without root touch ups. which I thought was the point of balyage that it should seamlessly blend all the way up.

Thanks for being kind.

I also think the light changing makes it look darker or lighter. The photo with two heads in it looks light all the way up. If I tilt my head down it looks lighter but tip head back and it looks brassier and less blended. I’m hopefully being too picky and it looks fine.
I’ll ask my teenager later - she’ll tell me straight 😆

Definitely not a wolf cut and I would say it’s too light on the top half to be a true balayage, although you did say you asked for the blonde quite high up (but that does make it harder to blend roots to mid-tones!)

I would be annoyed at paying £200 and not getting what you asked for so that’s understandable

OK. First of all I am a hairdresser. If I was to see this for the first time I would say these hi lights are not new as there is a regrowth. It does not look like a balyage but obviously I have not seen your hair beforehand. It definitely isn't a wolf cut but how much length were you willing to lose? I'm not commenting on cost because there is a lot to consider. Products, time etc. Hope that helps

A toner might help the roots... I am always disappointed when I go to the hairdressers... always £200+ and nothing like I want.
Scissors over the sink these days!

That’s not bayalage it’s just poorly applied highlights. You could fix it with some micro highlights to your roots, or the other way - toning more brown into the start of the highlights.

The bottom half of your hair looks uniformly and 100% light blonde. How was she ever going to balayage that unless she was putting some dimension back in via dark blonde/light brown lowlights? What did she say about that during the consultation?

The top half looks like highlights and has more dimension (where the blonde has grown out maybe, so she had more ability to add different tones?).

But it’s neither balayage nor a wolf cut so no, I wouldn’t be happy.

I would go through the lot with a lowlight to break it all up.

I’m very happy to pay £200 for the salon and not at all suggesting it’s not worth it. It is. But for my £200 I do feel I should get a good job. I wish my hairdressers would communicate more and say ok well I can do this or that and tell me why they can or can’t do what I want. I see tik toks of communicative hair dressers and I just want it to be a dialogue rather than me say this is what I want and then I never actually get what I want.

If I paid for bayalage and got harsh highlights I wouldn’t be happy. I’d aam the salon to fix it then find another colourist.

I'm a hairdresser, the best advice would be to have about 3 pictures of the hairstyle and colours that you're looking for to show your hairstylist.
And you can always ask your stylist for photos of her previous work.

I think any decent hairdresser would've told you that balayage by adding some small stripes near the roots isn't going to look like balagage and isn't the best way to phase out that block of blonde. What she should've done is added darker lowlights through all of it to break it up.

It’s not a great look and I would be going back to complain. Just out of interest what is a wolf cut?

If you google wolf cut, you’ll see a load of examples.