Comments on: To balayage or not to balayage

By: Bella

Bella — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:32:49 +0000

I went to my hairdresser asking for a semi permo to cover my regrowth (dark roots, growing out blondes), to my surprise she insisted that I DON’T colour my hair as people are playing top dollar to get what I am trying to cover up! So I have a semi natural balayage look going on! Also the best hairdresser who actually cares about my hair and not the dollars in the till!!!

By: amyspeak

amyspeak — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:18:03 +0000

When I was travelling through San Francisco at the start of last year I had a hairdresser stop me in a shop and ask if she could colour my hair. I’ve been terrified of colouring ever since I went dark as a teen and spent years getting it back to blonde.

But I was curious and she was insistent that it would look natural and sunkissed (and I was about to return to summer in Australia after a basically sunless winter in North America).

So after checking about 500 times that it would look natural and grow out looking natural, I said yes. I’ve been a fan of (subtle) balayage ever since. BUT I do think it’s all about the hairdresser you get (make sure they are on the same page with what “subtle” and “balayage” mean).

By: kai

kai — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:31:38 +0000

Some of the more subtle versions look lovely, but when the contrast is really high, I have to say I’m not a fan…

By: sailorgirl

sailorgirl — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 03:16:29 +0000

what’s with the pic of jessica alba???

By: Miss-T

Miss-T — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 09:37:21 +0000

Mila Kunis is a great example of this technique looking good.

I have had this done on my hair, gold on the ends of my red. It looked quite good, but it was too subtle for me to get it done again. And I wouldn’t want it any stronger.

When my hair was it’s natural colour, it always did this.

By: TheUrbanMum

TheUrbanMum — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:14:14 +0000

unfortunately I was one of the “spent a few hundred dollars and looked the same as before” brigade.
Will try again in summer though as I do rather like the look. x

By: Free

Free — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:08:14 +0000

I love balayage — had it done two days ago and I choose that method over others for a couple of reasons: 1. it’s faster and I can’t be bothered spending three hours in a salon (which is how long foils were taking) 2. you don’t have to go for that ‘glass half full of bleach’ look that some of the slideshow pics had. I get it down from top to tips and it looks really natural.
Nice hair Miss Foster. Wish I cold get mine to do the same…

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 04:07:29 +0000

Zoe looks very like Kristin Scott Thomas in the after photo – in a good way

I love the balayage look although I haven’t tried it myself.

By: Jude

Jude — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:34:24 +0000

I had it for a while only because I was growing out my hair back to its natural colour and I absolutely loved it. Can’t bring myself to pay for it though, that was the whole reason behind growing it out in the first place. Got sick of spending all that money.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:49:10 +0000

I am a complete coconut as I thought that look was just celebs and the rest GROWING OUT THIER COLOUR. Opps.

On a slightly different topic… I am intrigued by the hair dipped in pink (or other strong) colours. Sonja Kruger did on an ep of DWTS. Is this a trend?