Advice on reducing hairdresser cost please

[Merryclaire]

I’m due to go on maternity leave in a couple of months and not sure I’ll be able to sustain my current hairdresser cost - which is currently close to £100 for each appointment (usually every 5 weeks).

This consists of a tint and wet cut.

I have quite difficult big, thick wavy hair that is completely grey underneath my hair dye. Cutting my own hair doesn’t feel like an option as I have so much unruly hair.

I previously used to dye my own hair but it looked quite lacklustre whereas now the colour is fantastic.

I feel miserable for those last two weeks when my roots start to look bad, and not ready to embrace the grey at this stage in life.

If I were to colour my own hair, the brand the salon uses isn’t sold to the public and I wouldn’t even know where to start with choosing something new.

Any advice on what I can do to still have good hair for less money?

I don’t want to leave my hairdresser as she’s great, but not sure I can afford this anymore.

When I was making my appointment for first cut and colour after lockdown the first question I was asked by the receptionist was “have you used a box dye”. I asked the stylist ( who’s my friend ) who said the first wave of appointments were recovery missions of bad dye jobs (and cotton wool texture). You might argue he would say that. Generally speaking there’s nothing wrong with wanting your hair to look nice when your body might not feel like your own. I’m not sure given the post birth hair loss I’d particularly want to tackle that myself with an unfamiliar product. Also I’m sure if anyone needs to “get over themselves” it’s not the OP.

Ask your hairdresser for the exact dye details and the ration/amounts she uses and then you can do every second dye. This is what I do now. You will be able to find the dye she uses online easily enough once you know what it is. Depending on where you are on the country, it does seem expensive though (sorry if I’ve missed that info).