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.

OP,

Photo in natural light. Your public awaits.

On the double...otherwise it'll be getting too dark outside.

Can I just ask all the people who think it is expensive how much they earn an hour ? Why do you think that we are worth so little?
If you want it cheap, google " bad ombré" and that's what you will get if you want to pay peanuts.
It's hard to do , takes bloody ages and spending that much time on one client means we aren't doing many others.
What you paid sounds cheap .
Still a lot of money BTW , but for 5 hours work it is cheap . The tubes of colour probably cost around £20 . That makes it not much more than £20 per hour. And breathe 😬

Bingbong, 90 minutes?
😂 😂😂
45 mins to an hour to do colour, then processing time of 45 mins, wash it off, 10 minutes, then put a toner on , wash off and condition / massage 20 mins then, cut and blowdry
If you can do all that in 90 minutes then you aren't doing it very well and I can bet that it won't be with more that £50 ...

I think bingbong is angry because she's obviously a cheap hairdresser.. you get what you pay for..

I had no complaints on my hair taking 4/5 hours to do for the money I paid for it, but then I like my hairdresser and he's always done an amazing job.

I don't think BingBong is a hairdresser.

She wouldn't have had to Google Balayage if she was and she'd also know that there are loads of factors which can affect the processing time of bleach - previous colour build up, the hair being coarse, the hair having a lot of natural red tones or being especially dark, the room temperature and sometimes, seemingly, just because.

You can have one head that lifts clean and quick and then another that appears exactly the same that decides it doesn't want to lift at all.

You cannot possibly give an exact processing time for bleach or even guess at one without seeing the client — so Elle (which is not a trade magazine but a fashion and beauty mag) saying it takes X amount of time, is irrelevant. It might take X amount of time on medium thickness, shoulder length, virgin level 5 hair. It would take a hell of a lot longer on level 1 box dyed, thick waist length hair.

The picture she did come up with and the process she is googling is nothing close to what the OP describes having had done.

Well, fifteen years ago I was paying 70/80 a pop for purple hair with a hot pink underneath layer and fringe. Nowhere near as tricky as a good blended colour mix and it took at least 4 hours. First it was bleached prelightened, then washed well, then dried so the bright colours would take, then after both colours were applied and foiled up I had to sit under a heat lamp, then washed again,then dried and styled.

I love the thought of that galaxy hair but I no longer have the time or money for a process like that!

My normal hairdresser (who I actually trust and is normally brilliant with my hair) said it would take a couple of hours and would cost about £60

It was awful and I had to get it done again properly. It wasn't blended so I had straight lines of colour and it just looked bloody terrible

Lesson learned - if someone says they can do balayage in 2 hours and charge £60 it's going to be shit

Absolute lolz at the "hairdresser" saying balayage would be £50-£80

My hairdresser charges £250ish and takes about 4 hours. He does a mix of highlights, lowlights, balayage and babylights. I love him. My hair is so dark naturally that I very happily pay that to get a natural sunkissed look. Cheap highlights just don't allow for good quality or the time needed to achieve it.

Get it done at Taylor Taylor at Liberty in london before anyone suggests that cost is bollocks.

Wow! Just come back to this thread. Didn't realise so many replies! Am attaching pic though it doesn't do justice to how it did look. Notice I'm saying DID. It lasted about two weeks before having faded significantly and about five to disappear completely. Now what to do? He's cut my hair for years. It's going to be an awkward conversation which I should have had earlier if I wasn't mid-extension!