Asking for a friend if this pricing and process seems right.

[u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

My friend had a color correction and balayage done by this stylist a year ago and it took her 2-3 sessions. Now she was looking at getting it darker with the blonde pieces and getting a cut like the pic. I told her the pricing seemed high and didn’t understand way it would have to be totally bleached? The first pic is her hair now, second is what she’s wanting and third is her text chain she sent me. She was quoted $565, with full bleach out and color correction? Thank you!

[u/blondeasfuk]

Yea that seems about average depending on location and the stylists experience. Color corrections are usually around $100 an hour

[u/NearbyJuggernaut1361 → u/blondeasfuk]

Oh wow ok, why does she need a color correction if she’s going darker?

[u/blondeasfuk → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

Because the amount of work that has to be done to even out the color would be considered a correction. And it’s not just darker there are much lighter sections and a specialized technique.

It would probably be more expensive to price it out as an all over color, partial foil-full foil, plus a potential bleaching of the roots, toner and cut. If my clients cart is going to be way more expensive by me breaking it down by each service, I’ll charge as a color correction.

[u/WhitestTrash1 → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

They need to match her previous blonde to her grow out. Then they have to lift and tone that blonde to the photo.

Then they need to fill her previous blonde areas and then color them. If they don't get filled the color won't be warm it will be greenish. Then they need to cut and gloss so it's not going to rinse together the next wash. It's like a 5 to 8 hour correction. That's not a bad price. Especially with her length.

[u/buy-the-lips → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

Because the whole OTHER SIDE needs to be bleached to pale blonde. Are you serious? Not to mention… her hair is thick, long, and curly. And you can’t just slap bleach on the light side. To be that light you need to do back to back foils, separate out the already lightened pieces so as not to break the hair, then you have to go BACK BETWEEN the foils and make sure root is bleached. Then you have to watch every single dam foil for being processed. Then you need to tone. Never-mind the other side. JIC you are the friend….

People have no idea what goes into a color like this. And btw …. Friend…. That’s big change. Hope you’re not thinking of going back to that natural looking highlight anytime some because that’s a major, dam near impossible feat. Eventually… sure but make sure you’re sure. Also does friend understand that her hair will need to be straightened everyday to have this look?? Because curly with this color won’t look even remotely the same. Also…. Bleaching to platinum straightens curl significantly so lets’s say you (friend) DO want to wear it curly. Brown side will curl fine and blond side will be less so. Trust me that I know what I’m talking about. That is a high maintainance color rt there. Will need to touch up and tone bleach roots often. I always liked to paint the real picture for people because if they are not happy in long run they will want to blame me for not warning them.

[u/BreadyStinellis → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

She's not just going darker, she's also going from hilights to a solid bleach out in spots. Then her other highlights will need to be filled, then colored. This is a double process color, at least.

[u/Dependent_Fly_6299 → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

A color correction is when you go either more than 2 shades lighter or darker than your hairs current color :) hope this helps if she wanted to do it more cost effective she could do partial low lights in her blonde to slowly start filling in that color to get her to the brown base that she wants

[u/dreamerweaverrr]

My guess because first ,client has a lot of hair-it’s gonna be a ton of product she has to use. Takes time to section out and also fill the other Light stuff and make sure it stays in there or we call that filling or evening out the porosity. and that blonde is also to make it lighter. That’s more time so all of those would entail the color correction . And she really has a lot of hair so that does take longer along with the curl in. It takes more product too, and time to work with.

[u/AngelicLatina888]

I live in Cali & just did a full balayage refresh & trim on a thick haired client earlier today. Totaled to $500. It seems your hair is thick and needs to be lightened for that platinum blonde , the brown in the inspo pic is also lighter than your natural. You’re ultimately are going lighter all over not darker. This kind of service and application takes time. Hope this helps ❤️

[u/AngelicLatina888 → u/AngelicLatina888]

You also have to straighten your hair everyday for it to look like the inspo pic , if that’s not feasible maybe look up “curly hair color block ideas” instead, the inspo pic is fine/thin hair, so might be an unrealistic expectation when it’s all finished.

[u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

Ok! Thank you guys I’ll show her this!

[u/Sinifican]

I don’t see how that could be considered a color correction. If she’s going darker with highlights or blonder pieces she wouldn’t need to be entirely bleached first. Her whole head being bleached would ruin her curl formation. $565 is way too much for what she’s wanting. If I were her I would get a second opinion.

[u/NikkiBit]

Location would be needed to make that judgement. I will say I would charge about $280 for this.

[u/buy-the-lips]

I mean… i guess it’s not whole side blond but you get the point. And even though the desired pic looks messy or as if it has texture… it doesn’t. That’s straight hair styles to look messy. Much more fine in texture than current hair.

[u/Ill-Indication-7706]

Pricing seems about right,

[u/heatherdazy]

I don’t think it’s wise to choose color from a pic with straight hair and bangs for her curly hair w/o bangs because she has no visual on how it will look on her. The way the stylist didn’t even mention that or try to find a curly color block pic leaves me worried, not the price.

[u/Hugnugget]

Cheap, fast, quality You can only pick two. For a color correction, $100 an hour is cheap. I know stylists in my small city that charge $300 base price and charge all the bowls of color al a carte. This is standard, but, you have options. If this isn’t your price range, there are always buggy friendly chain salons and beauty schools Hair color services are a luxury service. It’s not like an oil change where is necessary.

[u/indentityillusion]

I wanted to go from platinum blonde to purple in my area and was quoted the same price. I know I need my hair filled before hand. But yeah lol

[u/Internal_Oven_6532]

Sounds about right considering all the work necessary to get it to what she's wanting. The hours of work and bowls of products that have to be used is going to be alot.

[u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

Sorry I should say that I don’t quite understand the need for the full bleached out and color correction to go darker?

[u/romancereaper → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

Color correction is to even out the color. Bleach is as needed. The main thing is usually they're not done at the same time due to chemical reactions.

[u/Flimsy-Potential-822 → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

I’m a hair stylist and to be honest, I don’t think there is any reason to bleach everything. I wouldn’t bleach anything if it wasn’t necessary. What she wants as the darker color looks close to her natural. I would’ve just suggested the color blocking for the platinum pieces and tone the rest to her natural color. But that’s just me I don’t complicate things.

[u/januaryemberr → u/NearbyJuggernaut1361]

If it was me, I'd go in and just have the money pieces done. Then I'd dye the rest at home. I'm betting it would end up a nice shadow root based off the starting color.

[u/sourhoestarter]

get a second opinion