Is Balayage over?

[SirRaymondClench]

I am 44 and for the past year have had balayage which I've loved as my hair is very dark but it's been lovely having the blonde ends especially with a toner.
I am due to have my hair done but don't know whether to have the same again or whether that ship has sailed. What do you think?

I came on to find out about balayage but seeing the other posts about red, I had to warn you!

Years ago I did a home dye red to make my mouse brown hair look a bit more exciting, and as it was a temporary dye and washed out in weeks, thought nothing of it again. Then a year or so later attempted some blonde lights (at home sadly!), and it went horribly wrong, apparently the red was still lurking there although not visible to the naked eye. It turned me orange, and I mean the actual colour of an orange, not auburn or a tint of warm. Bright, bright orange. Almost luminous. Spent the next day in a hairdressers having the whole thing bleached out and corrected whilst the hairdressers tutted and laughed!

Soooo, I would be a bit careful about doing any balayage where you want the colour lifted from where it is at the moment, rather than sticking with the present colour showing through. And glad you're thinking about doing it at a hairdressers!

Thanks for the warning!

I've heard all sorts of horror stories about dyed red hair too and how it can have greenish and copper tones that are really hard to shift.

My hair is quite light already, so hoping that the dark tint will go on ok, it's the highlighted bits I guess I need to be careful of.

Also, I stupidly bleached the front of my hair a couple of months ago in a fit of 'mid life crisis' and dyed it bright blue, so those bits are now a funny dark/navyish colour which he said will probably be the trickiest bits to sort.

There's no way I would try and do anything with it at home!

I thought bayalage referrred to the method of application, not the colour itself. Painting the hair makes it less blocky and chunky than the traditional methods. Unless dying your hair is over, bayalage isn't over.

I do think the hair needs some texture and curl to it, though, otherwise it's just dying your ends and, when straight, looks a bit mad.