Hairdressers price increase - can’t afford to keep hair colour up

I’ve got hardly any hair left. It’s always been thin but now it’s almost non existent. But my hairdresser still charges me the same for a trim as she charges for someone that takes at least ten times longer. So I just don’t bother any more. Just chop a bit off every now and again and have a wig to wear if I need to look presentable!

MayBee70

I’ve got hardly any hair left. It’s always been thin but now it’s almost non existent. But my hairdresser still charges me the same for a trim as she charges for someone that takes at least ten times longer. So I just don’t bother any more. Just chop a bit off every now and again and have a wig to wear if I need to look presentable!

DH doesn't have a wash and blowdry (!) and a trim costs him £10.

I’m with Monica here. I’m 72 and use Superdrug’s semi- permanent lightest brown colour. It is the most natural looking colour I have found. The permanent colours are a block shade which I think make you look older.

ruthiek

Can you put a box dye on bleached dyed hair ?

No .....you need a good toner to neutralise.....you risk going brassy orange

Norah

Have you considered letting it go silver?

I've a bob, blonde baylayage worked into the silver.

I had to look up baylayage, Norah, I'd never heard of it, is it a new technique?
How long does it last?

It looks lovely, but my hair is shorter than yours (just had it cut from a bob as it didn't work) and I'm not sure it would be suitable on shorter hair.

Perhaps I should think about the auburn low lights as I had many years ago. Perhaps they don't use those awful caps any more.

Fabulous hair Norah, is that straight from the salon or can you style it like that yourself?

I stopped having my hair highlighted when the lockdowns came but they had long abandoned the awful caps Callistemon, using foils instead. Those caps were torture, guaranteed to give you a headache - and I remember one hairdresser who pulled the hair really painfully through the holes (perfect job for a sadist!).

Jaxjacky your color and cut look great! If I may ask, what shade of Nice n Easy do you use?

Germanshepherdsmum

Fabulous hair Norah, is that straight from the salon or can you style it like that yourself?

I stopped having my hair highlighted when the lockdowns came but they had long abandoned the awful caps Callistemon, using foils instead. Those caps were torture, guaranteed to give you a headache - and I remember one hairdresser who pulled the hair really painfully through the holes (perfect job for a sadist!).

That picture is of hair my hairdresser mimics, I'd not be able to take a picture of the back of my head. My hair falls same to the model. I've silver hair, as the model, since I was 40, before the blonde baylayage (with foils).

We were living in NYC with my brother, awaiting successful surgery, I was moaning about my hair. My brother came home from work with a picture and asked to treat me to a spa day - something suitable to my hair (he was tired of my moaning I suppose and he has a good eye to all things regarding women). The stylist was excellent with my fine hair, voila.

I am so lucky with my hairdresser. She was so patient with me after lockdown and tried various things till I was happy. Now she just combs colour through, shampoo, good cut, quick finish for £68, usually done in just over an hour. I have short thinning hair but she knows how to make it look its best, sticking with my natural light brown colour. ( I shall let it fade eventually, I guess. ) She also doesn’t chatter mindlessly or try to push products.

Germanshepherdsmum

Fabulous hair Norah, is that straight from the salon or can you style it like that yourself?

I stopped having my hair highlighted when the lockdowns came but they had long abandoned the awful caps Callistemon, using foils instead. Those caps were torture, guaranteed to give you a headache - and I remember one hairdresser who pulled the hair really painfully through the holes (perfect job for a sadist!).

That's all I could remember. The first time I had it done was with a cap and I swear he used a needle to pull the strands through. Torture!
The next time wasn't so bad but it shows how long since I had highlights or low lights.

baylayage (with foils)

It sounds a lot less painful 🙂

Callistemon21

^baylayage (with foils)^

It sounds a lot less painful 🙂

I didn’t think anybody used the cap pull through method anymore. My hairdresser has used foils for years….🤓

Shinamae

Callistemon21

baylayage (with foils)

It sounds a lot less painful 🙂

I didn’t think anybody used the cap pull through method anymore. My hairdresser has used foils for years….🤓

I haven't had it done for years and haven't taken much notice; I'll ask my new hairdresser.

It was an effective method, though, if painful, because the strands pulled through were tiny and the end result very natural looking.

Callistemon21

Shinamae

Callistemon21

baylayage (with foils)

It sounds a lot less painful 🙂

I didn’t think anybody used the cap pull through method anymore. My hairdresser has used foils for years….🤓

I haven't had it done for years and haven't taken much notice; I'll ask my new hairdresser.

It was an effective method, though, if painful, because the strands pulled through were tiny and the end result very natural looking.

Yes I do remember having it done. I think it was back as far as the 80s and it was bloody painful…😳

sukie

Jaxjacky your color and cut look great! If I may ask, what shade of Nice n Easy do you use?

Thank you sukie 9A ash blonde.

Go on Facebook and look up haircut and colour models. You can get free or very discounted. I paid £30 for colour at Daniel Galvin. The next time is free because it’s for an exam. I had a brilliant free cut there

Georgesgran beautiful colour.

Have you a training school or college locally that does hairdressing they often do very good supervised colours at a knock down price. I am not sure where you live but several hair academies in London also do this. I always went to vidal Sassoon
when I worked in London

Thank you Jaxjacky, I may give it a try. My salon has had a big increase in price recently too.

My hair when young was a rather lovely copper colour, which I didnt appreciate at the time, but went grey quite early. With very limited money , hair colouring came nowhere in the list, as I do dislike seeing roots etc., so it would have cost me a lot to keep it the way I like it. So my lair is white now, I go swimming once or twice a week so it gets cut about every 6/8 weeks and that is it. Wash it and condition it myself, using whatever decent shampoo is on cheap offer when I need some more. I love classical music, art, gardens , travel etc so what cash is available goes on plants or whatever. If keeping your hair special is you special thing then I think the idea of modelling for a hair college course would be worth checking out, Good luck finding what suits you.

I stopped having my hair coloured when my hairdresser went on mat leave. It’s a lovely colour now - better than it was and half the price when I go (and half the time). Hope that helps.

I had to stop colouring - or cutting - during lockdown and afterwards I decided I like my natural colour which is a very creamy grey - almost platinum blonde. I’ve noticed many more people my age with different colours of grey and I expect it is for the same reason. All the photos on here look great, I think.
The one thing I do now is dye my eyebrows with Schwarzkopf dark blonde eyebrow dye which takes just 10 minutes and is quite cheap. It comes out quite dark and is very good for creating a more youthful look, I believe.

I am 90% silver now after chemo this year and I lost all my hair it's now an inch long and there's a lot of it now waves but so soft no chemicals so I have decided not to use dyes and the only thing is what style to have.

I can’t afford to go to the hairdressers, so cut my own hair and colour it always looks ok, if your living on state pension there are other priorities.

I stopped going to my last salon when I had to cancel because of illness. I was told off by the receptionist and charged a cancellation fee. The cancellation fee is fair enough, I understand it’s a business (that has been getting £100-ish ever 6 weeks from me!) but I don’t like being told off for getting ill!