AIBU to resent the cost of maintaining blonde highlights?

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Does anyone else hate spending so much money on maintaining blonde highlights??

Does anyone have any good recommendations for hair lightening shampoos/sprays?

Which spray please and is it the tub or bottle version of the conditioner that you recommend? Thank you 😊

We’re all lovely in our uniqueness, you don’t need to change how you are for some perceived attractiveness, often dictated by sleazy men.

YANBU. I wish I’d never started with them but I had to do something as I was already dying dark brown which was needing to be done almost 2 weekly. It’s lower maintenance in terms of time than that as I let it go a long time (I’m about 35 per cent grey). But the cost is ridiculous.

i wish i’d never dyed at all post pandemic and just let it grow out naturally. Stupid me.

Try your local FE college the salon in my nearest one charges £20 for a full head of foils

I am brunette but with almost 50% grey in patches. I had been box dying brown but hated the white roots. I've started having blonde highlights, £200 every four months. My hairdresser is excellent and does it is a clever way which matches my natural white so thw regrowth looks dark. Worth every penny to me at around £50 a month.

I couldn't justify it anymore, and am now growing it out.

It's a luxury we can choose or opt out of.

@Girlwithavibe that sounds really beautiful!

Is it easy to use?

You would need to decide whether you want to persevere with the blonde colour. You can wing it with a home dye if doing a brunette block colour or red but blonde home dying rarely works properly imo.

It's super easy. I have mousey / dark brown hair. I wash my hair the day before doing it. I pull the hair through the cap provided. Bleach is on for one hour or around 1 hour 10 mins at the most. Wash off. Job done and looks as good as when I had it done at a salon. Timings will differ depending on hair type and colour. I built up to 1 hr 10 as it was slightly brassy at 50 mins.. so I added 10 mins each time I did it until I worked out the optimum time for my hair.

It’s a darkish blonde? Bit of a nothing colour, so perhaps lightening it a bit might be enough!

It’s resenting the cost, rather than the actual act 👍

Have you had a bad day 😬

It’s resenting how much it costs 👍

Oooh, good idea!

Try local home hairdressers, I pay £45 for half a head of highlights including blow dry.

My daughter does mine for me, especially the back. I use jerome russell its £6. Im happy with that.

Thanks - I’ll definitely have to look into this!

I spent 18 months growing out my blonde highlights. I looked dreadful - my mousy hair with grey streak was ageing and looked thin and poor. I went back to highlights 3 weeks ago and have no regrets. It is really expensive though.

I use John Frieda spray. Spray just onto roots of wet hair and comb through with a wide toothed comb to create streaked highlights. Blow dry. Occasionally it starts looking too brassy and then I just wash with a purple shampoo to reduce the yellowness. Usually it looks natural as if streaked by the sun.

You resent a deliberate choice you made?

Bonkers

I used to resent the cost (and the time!) for doing mine (natural blonde but going darker - unless I’d had a fortnight on a beach in the sun!)

I started brightening it up with John Frieda’s ‘Go Blonder’ spray - very gradual, so never needed any roots done. You apply to wet hair, the dryer activates it. A bottle lasts me for ages.

Many years later I still use it every few weeks - I am pretty ancient now but have never gone grey - it’s genetic, from DM - what they used to call a ‘strawberry blonde’ - who still wasn’t properly grey when she died at 97.

Ask your hairdresser for something that will grow out better? I have balayage and specifically requested as natural a blend as possible while still getting a decent colour lift. Hairdresser did a great job, I can honestly get away with an annual top up now.