Any hairdressers...

[Outofplacetoday]

Hi ladies,

Does anyone have any advice how I should bleach my hair to create a balayage?

I realise this could go very, very wrong haha but I can't afford a hairdresser and look beyond a mess so needs must.

I've already used colour b4 a month ago to strip the box dyes out and this is what is left.

Do I just apply the bleach in a v shape and ignore the different colours near the root?

I will be toning afterwards so is that when I'll be aiming to blend my natural roots and the warmer colour from the Dye?

Any advice is welcome. If it goes hideously wrong I'll post photos and we can laugh together 😅

Ignoring the fact you might end up with orange hair (or no hair at all if you burn it so it snaps off)... It takes a looonnnggg time and a lot of precision to balayage. My arms are aching just thinking about you trying to do the back yourself! Not to mention that for me it would take so much time that I would need to be rinsing off the first sections of hair before way before the rest.

How much experience do you already have with hair dying?

I will be toning afterwards so is that when I'll be aiming to blend my natural roots and the warmer colour from the Dye?

I hadn’t clocked this when I first read your OP. No, that’s not how toner works. Toner isn’t dye.

Seriously... it’s not worth it. Don’t do it. Go and watch a load of hair fail videos on YouTube and step away from the bleach.

Omg do NOT do this OP!!! Balayage is a technique where the hairdresser backcombs your hair in sections to avoid having a hard line of dye, then does freehand painting of individual highlights to blend it in.

If you just paint it on it will really look awful. Toner isn’t to dye the hair either.

Either just do a flat box dye or save up and see a hairdresser. You will not be able to do what you want at home

I'm scared for you! I think it'll end up more expensive to fix what goes wrong!

I can recommend Brad Mondo videos on bayalage. I’ve been pretty much watching them on a loop since the beginning of lockdown.

I love Brad Mondo.

That's my main concern - the time it would take and it over processing on one side.

Gah in my head I know I can do it but you're right it might be too hard without being able to get round the back.

I've got a day off on Monday so I've got the weekend to ponder but I really need to do something. A highlighting kit might be a safer bet