How much do you spend on your hair??? Specifically coloring?

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Anonymous wrote:I switched to Madison Reed for color and still see my regular stylist for cuts. Color is crazy expensive on this area. MR color bars do a good job.

Can you explain them? Do they just give you a bottle of dye to apply at home and you're paying to buy that? Or do they do your hair for you?

So you can buy their color and do it at home if you want. I have mine done by them at their “color bar”. It’s a similar concept as a “dry bar”.

You make an appointment for color. They keep your info with your account, so it doesn’t matter who’s doing your color, they can access your info so your color stays consistent. They can help you pick the right shade if you need it. Color is applied, you sit until it’s done, then they wash it out. You can also sign up for a blow dry if you want. Otherwise you can dry and style yourself at their dryer station or just leave either wet hair.

I have to be careful with color as I’m allergic to ammonia color, but I’ve been fine with MR color for the last few years. I actually pay for the membership so I can get my roots done anytime I want. I like that it’s fairly easy to make an appointment at the last minute. For example, I made an appt earlier today for tomorrow morning.

I have gotten face framing highlights a couple of times and they came out nice. They’re not going to be a replacement for high-end highlights and lowlights though. And you don’t get to pick your colorist, which can be a bit of a bummer, especially if you add on a blow dry. They usually do a nice job with that though.

I’m very happy with the experience. They make it easy to maintain my color at a reasonable price. And when I’m traveling I can go to a Madison Reed anywhere and they have all my info and can take care of my hair same as if I was at home. They have really democratized hair color. It’s a good business model.

DP. This sounds great, I might try it! I guess they don't cut hair there too?

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That’s about what I pay as well when I get color and a cut, but I get color every four weeks and only get a cut every three months.

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My cut is $90 and I go every 3 months. My color which is basically just a root touch up is I believe $120. I go every 3.5/4 weeks. I wonder why color is so much more expensuve than a cut when my cut takes over an hour of active work and my touch ups take 15 min. And of course I tip 20% on top. My SIL decided to go grey and regretted it. It aged her like 20 years. People would ask if her kids were her grandkids so she went back to coloring. In my case, I’d consider going grey if I didn’t have to deal with the awkward growing out phase. For all the money I’m spending,y hair looks awful for 2 out of every 4 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been completely grey since my late 30s, and cut my own (very curly) hair. I drew the line at a $100 cut 15 years ago. No regrets, though I’m sure all of you still investing in this process look fantastic. I realized I didn’t care and my DH has never noticed. My friends seem torn between want to stage an intervention and mildly envious.

DH doesn’t mind either but my keratin guy said all his women clients who went gray during COVID went back to coloring cause the husbands complained and put up a fit. This is in mclean.

Doesn’t sound … accurate.

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I do membership at Madison Reed too and get roots touched up every 3 weeks or so. It’s $75/month which is pretty reasonable. I will sometimes add a gloss or moisturizing treatment which costs a little extra. Easy to book through their app the morning of.

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I go every 6 weeks and she charges me $115 plus tip

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I do my own highlights every six weeks and I tone again once in between but with just a semi and conditioner (no developer). It works out to $10 per job and I control the look completely. At this point I know exactly what I’m doing and how to fix it if I mess up. This is because, after the pandemic, when I went back to my regular salon (Dessange in FH), they quoted me $650 (plus tip) for cut, partial highlights and a bonding treatment. I left literally laughing. It had been $250 in 2019 and they were already pushing it a bit.

I have had a good experience at Ferro downtown since then but they do too much (too many highlights) for my taste. I think the woman who did it goes by the handle dcblondie on social media. If I were to get back out there, I would seek her out.

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Anonymous wrote:How on earth are you guys going every 3 months? After 3 weeks I have roots to cover up :-)

I have dark brown hair. I've been dying my hair at home for years with henna and indigo, which are very cheap, but do take longer to set than a modern dye.

It’s the highlights and lowlights that op mentioned. It lightens the hair so it takes a while for grey to start really showing. If your hair is dark, then it’ll show sooner with the contrast

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I have (had) medium brown, straight hair, just below my shoulders. It's slowly going more grey. I had never dyed my hair or gotten highlights and trim the ends myself in less than 5 minutes, so I'm very low maintenance when it comes to hair.

I use Clairol Natural Instincts no ammonia hair rinse. It's the non-permanent type of hair dye that says it rinses out in 28 shampoos. However, now that I'm going more grey, I use it every other week, for about $8 a box. I mainly put it on my center part and temples and along my hair line. Wait 20 minutes and rinse out.

I was using a clarifying shampoo, as I have oily hair, but I think it was stripping the dye color out faster, so now I use mild Suave shampoo every other day. After rinsing out the dye, I use Suave to get that squeaky clean feel.

I also found a powder compact for root touch up (no odor), so if I haven't had time to do the box dye, I can quickly cover up my center part or along my temples. I put a slim comb under the hair line to keep any powder off my face.

So I spend about $16 a month for color, and total time is under 30 minutes for each box. I get them at Walmart and alternate between 6 and 6G.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do my own highlights every six weeks and I tone again once in between but with just a semi and conditioner (no developer). It works out to $10 per job and I control the look completely. At this point I know exactly what I’m doing and how to fix it if I mess up. This is because, after the pandemic, when I went back to my regular salon (Dessange in FH), they quoted me $650 (plus tip) for cut, partial highlights and a bonding treatment. I left literally laughing. It had been $250 in 2019 and they were already pushing it a bit.

I have had a good experience at Ferro downtown since then but they do too much (too many highlights) for my taste. I think the woman who did it goes by the handle dcblondie on social media. If I were to get back out there, I would seek her out.

Can I ask how you do your own highlights? Do you mean foils?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have (had) medium brown, straight hair, just below my shoulders. It's slowly going more grey. I had never dyed my hair or gotten highlights and trim the ends myself in less than 5 minutes, so I'm very low maintenance when it comes to hair.

I use Clairol Natural Instincts no ammonia hair rinse. It's the non-permanent type of hair dye that says it rinses out in 28 shampoos. However, now that I'm going more grey, I use it every other week, for about $8 a box. I mainly put it on my center part and temples and along my hair line. Wait 20 minutes and rinse out.

I was using a clarifying shampoo, as I have oily hair, but I think it was stripping the dye color out faster, so now I use mild Suave shampoo every other day. After rinsing out the dye, I use Suave to get that squeaky clean feel.

I also found a powder compact for root touch up (no odor), so if I haven't had time to do the box dye, I can quickly cover up my center part or along my temples. I put a slim comb under the hair line to keep any powder off my face.

So I spend about $16 a month for color, and total time is under 30 minutes for each box. I get them at Walmart and alternate between 6 and 6G.

Can you tell me more about the powder compact? I didn’t know about that!

[Anonymous]

I use Naturtint root touch ups every 3 weeks. I think it’s around $10-12 a box.

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Anonymous wrote:I color at home about once a month. I use 2 boxes each time, so about $30. Loreal Excellence has the best gray coverage.
If you want to try it with a little more support, you could look at eSalon, I use them from time to time.

I was a blonde but would be all-over dark gray if I grew it out. Light brown hair looks good on me, but it's too hard to maintain (grays come back too fast) so I dye it blonde, and then I dye "soft silver" over it to make it more beige than yellow. If my natural hair would ever go silver/white, I'd grow it out, but I don't like the dark gray.

This is what I do. Two boxes, once a month. Medium auburn. I get highlights at the beginning of summer, two cuts a year as my hair is very long.
Besides being very expensive, studio color takes way too long. I’m not interested in spending three hours at a salon monthly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I do my own highlights every six weeks and I tone again once in between but with just a semi and conditioner (no developer). It works out to $10 per job and I control the look completely. At this point I know exactly what I’m doing and how to fix it if I mess up. This is because, after the pandemic, when I went back to my regular salon (Dessange in FH), they quoted me $650 (plus tip) for cut, partial highlights and a bonding treatment. I left literally laughing. It had been $250 in 2019 and they were already pushing it a bit.

I have had a good experience at Ferro downtown since then but they do too much (too many highlights) for my taste. I think the woman who did it goes by the handle dcblondie on social media. If I were to get back out there, I would seek her out.

Can I ask how you do your own highlights? Do you mean foils?

I’m not the previous poster. I’ve done home highlights using both foils and a cap. When DIYing I prefer the cap because I can’t work fast enough in foil. The results are usually decent and saves me around $2K per year at the salon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have (had) medium brown, straight hair, just below my shoulders. It's slowly going more grey. I had never dyed my hair or gotten highlights and trim the ends myself in less than 5 minutes, so I'm very low maintenance when it comes to hair.

I use Clairol Natural Instincts no ammonia hair rinse. It's the non-permanent type of hair dye that says it rinses out in 28 shampoos. However, now that I'm going more grey, I use it every other week, for about $8 a box. I mainly put it on my center part and temples and along my hair line. Wait 20 minutes and rinse out.

I was using a clarifying shampoo, as I have oily hair, but I think it was stripping the dye color out faster, so now I use mild Suave shampoo every other day. After rinsing out the dye, I use Suave to get that squeaky clean feel.

I also found a powder compact for root touch up (no odor), so if I haven't had time to do the box dye, I can quickly cover up my center part or along my temples. I put a slim comb under the hair line to keep any powder off my face.

So I spend about $16 a month for color, and total time is under 30 minutes for each box. I get them at Walmart and alternate between 6 and 6G.

Can you tell me more about the powder compact? I didn’t know about that!

Clairol Temporary Root Touch-Up (Medium Brown for me). I always make sure to shampoo between using the powder (it's like eye shadow) and the color rinse dye. I think the rinse needs plain hair without any product to work most effectively.

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