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.

BingBong you're beyond rude, and talking crap to boot. I've had my hair coloured dozens of times, and by dozens of different stylists over the years. I've never had a simple full head colour, cut and blow dry take less than 2 hours in ANY of those salons, which have ranged from very cheap to very expensive. It takes at least 30 minutes just to blow dry my hair properly - more if I want a fancy blow dry. No way could you do highlights and colour on my hair in 90 minutes.

Hairdressers don't charge by the hour so the time scale is irrelevant really. The cost would be calculated based on the salon charges for each procedure, plus their set price for a cut and blowdry.

I pay anywhere between £86 - £110 for highlights and a cut.

bingbongnoise
you are talking nonsense, and the photo you are showing is nothing like the work the OP had done. Yes, it's a balayage, so similar techniques, but different colours and a different work altogether.

And £139 to £250 is laughable. The normal price for normal people in normal salons in the real world, is £50 to £80.
I happen to live in the real world, and I can't even get a half-head of highlights for £50 to £80. Lucky you if you have a fantastic hairdresser so cheap, I tried many over the years and my expensive ones do a fab job, but they are pricey. The crap ones are pricey too to be fair...

Sounds reasonable actually...
My best pal has her own salon and gave me a free do before Christmas last year - all I asked for was red streaks, so no where near as complicated as a bala-whatsit... and that took 3.5 hours, and still wasn't finished (I needed to leave for the school Christmas show, I'd not realised it would take quite that long), but the hairdresser was quite slow, and the bleach took a while to work on my hair.
The main thing is, are you happy, and can you afford it? If yes to both then great. Sounds lovely.

In the absence of a pic from OP, I think she's describing this kind of look.

That's the going rate where I live to get it done in a decent salon and well worth it I think. You can get more mileage out of a balayage than other colour techniques.

If that's what you charge BingBong as a hairdresser, you need to up your prices (and slow down), you could clearly be making more money from your trade

I have grey at the roots but just a few. You don’t actually have the colours painted at the top, just the base colour which you can have touched up cheaply. The painted baleyage bits start about eye level. I had just blonde bits done last time and it does last ages. Will post a pic in the natural light tomorrow.

I thought it sounded more like this

Wow I think that’s stunning and it’s not my normal ‘thing’.
For a cut and colour I did pay ( before my hair fell out) around the £100 but I had very thick hair, use a lot of colour and am in the south east.
It’s growing back curly and wirey :/

Looks nice statistically and also as the woman in the picture is dark, presumably the hair that is being dyed blue and pink needs to be pre-bleached which will take way longer than just doing blonde highlights.

I paid £95 for balayge, cut n blow dry. But that was with a 25% discount. worth every penny.

Oh blimey - I had to Google to find out what this was. But then I found this article and it keeps mentioning how fast it is…. www.elleuk.com/beauty/hair/beauty-tips/a37306/balayage-hair-highlights/

Mine cost £205 with a cut too (London)

That was for a landmark birthday gift from DM. Yesterday I chopped all my hair off with kitchen scissors and chucked on a £5 toner. Bob's your uncle

I think that's possibly closer stealing - mine's got a bit more green and pink rather than blue.

To be fair, he’s cut my hair all my life and I knew it would be at least £100 as it cost that for just blonde fine with bleach last time. We chatted for 20 mins, he put lots of highlights through with bleach, each of which was backcombed to avoid harsh lines, it took ages to lift as hair was dark, then it was washed and took ages to comb out the back combing, then the three colours were painted in individually, then it had to set, then be washed and conditioned, before being cut and blow dried. He didn’t see any other clients in that time (to be fair he does normally but was quiet today for some reason)

it took 2 hours to do the pre-lighten, that's with loads of foils and done randomly in small sections so it blended and didn't look like he'd just dipped my hair in bleach. Then it was rinsed.

Then the dye was put on, which took another 1hr to apply and develop.

Then it was washed, which took another 20/30 minutes to get it all out and condition.

Then another 30/45 mins to dry.

It was all done professionally, and he only went to do one other customer while the bleach was developing, not running off to do another 10.

Sounds about right to me - I've been investigating it and am hoping to have it done once we have (hopefully) moved house and I can spend my money on something other than stamp duty and removals firms!

FWIW I have long fine hair but a lot of it. If I have a full head of highlights plus a cut and blow dry then it takes about 4 hours - and that is with being whisked out from under the heat lamp the moment the colour is ready, so no excess waiting about. I fully expect the balayage to take longer. I don't mind - I'm paying for it to be right, not quick.

I looked into getting my hair 'interesting' and what you've said sounds right. I was getting mine lightened in parts prior to colour change (to spread cost/less time in salon when colourful bits put on)) but then I decided I actually really liked it at the halfway stage.

@bingbongnoise as an actual qualified hairdresser I think you’re talking balls. You should know how long a decent balayage takes without having to google it for a start. In addition to this you know absolutely nothing about the colour/condition of OP’s hair before hand, so you’ve no idea if there’s pre lightening or pre pigging needed.

Price seems high but I’m up north in a ‘cheap’ area for things like this. Can’t wait to see it OP.

Sounds about right. I once paid £70 for it in London, but the hairdresser didn't speak English...

That 50p is ridiculously OTT