Beachy blonde highlights - why is it so hard for hairdressers to get right?

[Anonymous]

OP, how old are you? I have beautiful natural highlights. As I've aged, my hair has gotten darker and duller. Highlights just don't look as good. You may need to move to a two-step process to get what you are looking for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bring in a picture of what you want.

Np, as a person who has colored her hair upmteen times over the years and via different colorist, not once has a picture helped with achieving the look I wanted.

[Anonymous]

Op, I am here to lament with you. I just spent $400 last weekend on a poorly done bleach job that promptly turned a brassy orange. I know you should wait 48-72 hours to wash, but at the 40-hour mark, I promptly used a toner shampoo and put a semi-permanent rinse in to "calm it." There was no way I was going to work like that. Since semi permanents are harmless, I plan to color my hair as needed to cover the horrible bleach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I get highlights in the summer on my dark blonde hair and they always come back looking weird color due to toner. They either come out very ashy, too warm or sometimes even kinda mushroomy. It takes several shampoos for the toner to was out and the highlights to look somewhat close to what I want.

Why is it so hard to get beachy/sunkissed blonde highlights around here? What should I be asking for at the salon?

I think the phrase that is popular now is "lived-in blonde" Look on IG for stylists that use that phrase, and then of course, look at their pics to see if you can find one or several that match the aesthetic you're looking for. Here are a couple I found after a quick google search.

https://www.instagram.com/d.c.blondie/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/natashacoloristdc/
https://www.instagram.com/hairbydevs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I get highlights in the summer on my dark blonde hair and they always come back looking weird color due to toner. They either come out very ashy, too warm or sometimes even kinda mushroomy. It takes several shampoos for the toner to was out and the highlights to look somewhat close to what I want.

Why is it so hard to get beachy/sunkissed blonde highlights around here? What should I be asking for at the salon?

I think the phrase that is popular now is "lived-in blonde" Look on IG for stylists that use that phrase, and then of course, look at their pics to see if you can find one or several that match the aesthetic you're looking for. Here are a couple I found after a quick google search.

https://www.instagram.com/d.c.blondie/?hl=en
https://www.instagram.com/natashacoloristdc/
https://www.instagram.com/hairbydevs

Thanks, PP - out of the 3 you linked the last 1 is probably closest to what I want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bring in a picture of what you want.

Np, as a person who has colored her hair upmteen times over the years and via different colorist, not once has a picture helped with achieving the look I wanted.

You don't know that because you can't magically see what you might have received sans picture.

[Anonymous]

I think you need balayage, not highlights

But also, I also have naturally dark blonde hair with natural highlights that used to be very blonde when I was younger and now are not, except that if I go out in the sun with lemon juice on my hair I get them back, so that is also my suggestion for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you need balayage, not highlights

But also, I also have naturally dark blonde hair with natural highlights that used to be very blonde when I was younger and now are not, except that if I go out in the sun with lemon juice on my hair I get them back, so that is also my suggestion for you.

I am going to try the lemon juice this week.