‘Expensive looking highlights’

[WineNoMore20]

I’ve seen this expression In a number of places- on here, In books. So I’m interested to know what it means. I’m sure if I went into a salon and enquired, they would be confused, as price is so relative. So what do people mean when they say someone has ‘ expensive looking highlights’? What are the alternatives/ cheap looking highlights?

[EyebrowChallenge]

I take it to mean competently done and vaguely natural, not stripy like this-

[ZenNudist]

The alternative is a cheapy box dye with single colour that shows roots in a short space of time.

Highlighted hair isn't cheap to maintain. I have a home hairdresser so I only spend £70 a time and stretch to 8 weeks but that's £420 per year. At £130 (what I paid in a salon) and every 6 weeks it's over £1,100 a year.

[ZenNudist]

@EyebrowChallenge yes but that could still have cost a lot. I packed in the expensive hairdresser after they cut my hair unevenly. I met my home stylist as she originally worked for another salon who had to correct an (expensive) colour job gone wrong. I stuck with her when she went mobile as in my long experience of over blonding and stylists not listening to me at multiple salons I know a good colourist and competent stylist is hard to find.

[Muddyinthesticks]

You avoid looking like the picture above, not thick stripes like that but subtle and blended in highlights. I have blonde and then a slightly darker blonde to hopefully look more natural. And I get mine done every 8 weeks.

[EyebrowChallenge]

@ZenNudist

@EyebrowChallenge yes but that could still have cost a lot. I packed in the expensive hairdresser after they cut my hair unevenly. I met my home stylist as she originally worked for another salon who had to correct an (expensive) colour job gone wrong. I stuck with her when she went mobile as in my long experience of over blonding and stylists not listening to me at multiple salons I know a good colourist and competent stylist is hard to find.

I can see how you might end up getting charged a lot for bad highlights. I still don’t think you could describe them as “expensive looking” - they look like my hair did when I used to do my own as a teenager with a cap and hook 😂

[TheWelshTart]

I would say they are ones that have the right tone for your skin colour initially. Obviously the amount of contrast is a personal choice. The straight hair is a more natural look whereas the wavy is a more obvious fashion choice. Regardless the technique is what is important too. No Ginger Spice looks. The pic given up above shows bad technique.

[DaVariance]

With they expensive highlights they use around 3 different shades

[WineNoMore20]

I see the difference- the stripy look takes me back to the highlighting cap of my teens 😂.
Im taking from this that what people mean when they say this is very well done .