To pay £139.50 for Baleyage?

[Fianceechickie]

Or however you spell it! I’ve spent 5 hours at the hairdressers today after having seen an ‘oil slick’ effect baleyage in Pinterest. It’s like blues and violets over an icy brown base. It looks lovely and all but I couldn’t believe the price and the time it took! Have I been ripped off? There was a lot of work involved...had to have highlights put in, dried, then the colours, then washed, dried and cut.

Sounds about right to me - would love to see the photo OP

Mm. Seems to be the going rate. You can get a car serviced, get an Opticans appointment plus a pair of glasses,or get your teeth beached for the same price.
I think it's just ends and probablIty the mobile hairdresser can do the simple process for £30. However that's not what you've paid for.

Balayage

In fact, they can be done in 90 minutes!

www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+long+does+balayage+hair+take&oq=how+lo&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i57j69i59j69i60j69i61.2368j1j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

5 hours indeed!

I really can't see why people think it is expensive? Five hours work from a qualified hairdresser including a cut and complex colour at a salon -they have to pay staff and buy products and pay bills! How would it ever be profitable to charge £60?

Cut and blow dry with this for me is £60...granted I don’t live in a city but like fuck does it warrant £250 and 5 hours. The whole lot takes 3.

I really can't see why people think it is expensive? Five hours work from a qualified hairdresser including a cut and complex colour at a salon -they have to pay staff and buy products and pay bills! How would it ever be profitable to charge £60?

It does NOT take 5 hours.

Where the hell are you getting that from?

www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+long+does+balayage+hair+take&oq=how+lo&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j69i57j69i59j69i60j69i61.1293j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

It takes 2 hours tops! Sometimes only 90 minutes, AND the hairdresser would be doing other things including the hair of other customers while they were doing YOUR hair.

And £139 to £250 is laughable. The normal price for normal people in normal salons in the real world, is £50 to £80.

www.google.co.uk/search?q=cost+of+balayage+uk&oq=cost+of+bal&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.3702j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

I swear that some people on mumsnet live in a parallel universe where money trees grow in the woods near their house !!!

Depending on the hair and including a decent cut then I can see it being close to 5 hours tbh. I have long, thick hair. My last appointment was highlights (bleach) and colour to roots, developing time, wash, dry, colour, wash, cut, dry - that was just over 5 hours. Ballayage with several colours would be similar.

bingbong - are you a hairdresser?

Yes I am a hairdresser.

if the hair has to be lightened, you bet it can take that long.

I had mine prelightened and dyed purple before summer in a baylege type hairstyle, my hair goes from deep purple down to an attractive pastelly purple at the ends.

Cost me £100 and took a good 4-5 hours to complete with blow drying at the end.

Depends where you are I suppose, cities do seem to be more expensive whereas living rural as I do the most I've paid for any treatment on my hair is £80.

Looking forward to the pic!

And it does NOT take 5 hours. And £139 to £250 is NOT a normal price.

It takes half that time usually, and less than £90.

Alright, calm yourself down -I said I don't think it is expensive. No need for sarcy money tree comments. I don't give that much of a shit!
Clearly it DID take five hours for some reason. Who knows why apart from the OP. We haven't got the hairdresser here to ask. She said there was a lot involved. I don't doubt some people can do it in two hours -brilliant. My friend has such thick hair a decent blow dry alone takes a good 45 mins. Surely the OP was quoted beforehand? Or at least asked for a rough cost? I appreciate I live in an expensive area, but it really isn't a lot to pay here at all.

Wow 😮 I’m getting mine done tomorrow and it’s £50 with a cut and blow dry. Living in the car north has its advantage!

It appears to be a trend for spending a hell of a lot of money to get your hair to look like your growing out a dye job. I don't get it.

Mine takes 5 hours as it takes forever for the bleach to lighten my hair. It cost me about 100 including cut and blow dry which I'd say was average for here (London suburbs). Have just found a new hairdresser who is cheaper and is amazing so I'm over the moon

bingbong - given you are a hairdresser it's odd that you have chosen to post a picture that bears no resemblance to what the OP describes!

Please, pictures or it didn't happen.

It's not going to take 90 minutes to have the base colour lightened, strands bleached and then coloured with 2 separate colours and then a cut and dry. That's absurd. Just the developing time for bleach and 2 dyes would take a couple of hours.
What a patronising post BingBong.

Waiting for the pic!

Normal highlights conditioning treatment and base colour
Cut and blow dry costs me £100-£120
Up North too.
Think it's reasonable as in hairdressers for 31/2 hours usually
Nice coffee thrown in.

Bongbong where do you live? In the SE it is normal for just a cut and finish to be around 50 quid. I pay £120 for highlights, cut and finish. That's pretty standard and certainly not expensive where I am. Also, I spoke to my hairdresser briefly about balayage last time I went and she said it can take ages because they might need to strip existing colour from the hair. Also, your picture does not match what the OP is describing (although it does look gorgeous).