Cheap Hairdressers!!

Misticles

Any one know any good cheap hairdressers? cant afford near 100 for highlights. :eek:

Stench Blossoms

Student Hairsdressers would be your best bet but you could come out with something awful

dundalk cailin

or maybe local one? do u know anyone trainin to be a hairdresser or is one? my friend does my hair for a fraction of the price

dundalk cailin

and its just as good a result

soph

hi, i find peter marks is the cheapest in my town... it still quiet expensive though. your best bet is to listen out for a hairdresser that works from home, they are usualy sooo cheap!

Scarinae

Do not go to a student hairdresser for highlights! It could work out really well but when they did mine it was a disaster. The student highlighting my hair started to panic (never a good sign) and she had to get her supervisor to try fix my hair. It was way, WAY too bright when it was finished and so I had atrocious roots from the start, also she wrecked the condition of my hair and it was a big tangly mess every time I washed my hair, it would take me about 20 minutes just to brush my hair after a shower and it hurt like hell. Go to student hairdressers for cheap haircuts because there isn't much they could do wrong, but I wouldn't recommend hair colouring because the risk of them ruining your hair is greater. The House of Colour do really good highlights by the way, I don't know how much it costs though because my parents paid for me the last few times

Love

Why not do your own? They have kits for it in loads of chemists and supermarkets - really cheap and it looks just as good.

Nala

Love wrote:

Why not do your own? They have kits for it in loads of chemists and supermarkets - really cheap and it looks just as good.

No it bloody doesn't! You can always tell the difference. The home kit ones just look like stripes, they're awful. Salon highlights are much nicer.
Plus, home kits ruin your hair. Salon dyes are much kinder to your hair.

*Oul_Doll_Cork*

Yea.... They look awful when done with a home kit!!

To be honest Nala....You get what you pay for!... You would be better off saving for a few weeks and getting them done in a good proper salon!... You get what you pay for at the end of the day!!!!

Souperfreak

Home kits are great if you have someone do it for you and it is the first time you have done it then depending on the person that did it, it can look perfect. But have been highlighting my hair for the last 3 years and if someone does it from home now it looks bad.

I am also currently in this predicament. I need my roots done and it is FAR to expensive. Any knows any good decent priced hair dresser in Clondalkin, Blanch or Finglas area let me know.

Nala

I need my roots done too... Could go back to the same place I got it done last time but they don't listen to me.

I said to the manager: "I'd like highlights because I'd like the overall effect to be lighter".

She replied, "So do you want me to dye the rest dark brown?".

xzanti

Where are you located??

Misty's in Terenure are quite reasonable and they do a really good job with styling.. I dont dye my hair so I dont know about hightlights..

Enii

Two cheap(ish) hairdressers near Blanchardstown are the ones in Mountview and Huntstown. Bouth do highlights for under 70 euro i think.

Scarinae

Home dye kits are usually a bad idea. Fair enough if you've someone who's used them before and is good at it to do it for you, but do not try permanent dye yourself! Maybe try it with a temporary dye first if you really want but remember not to get it on your scalp because many hair dyes are carcinogenic

Love

Nala wrote:

No it bloody doesn't! You can always tell the difference. The home kit ones just look like stripes, they're awful. Salon highlights are much nicer.

Well salon ones are more noticeable. When I dyed my hair blonde I wanted to make it appear lighter in parts and darker in others but I didn't want the highlights to stand out too much so it worked well for me. It certainly didn't look like stripes!

Nala wrote:

Plus, home kits ruin your hair. Salon dyes are much kinder to your hair.

Since I started dyeing my own hair over 3 or 4 years ago I've never had any problems, my hair is not "ruined"!!

Then again, I'm completely paranoid and I don't really trust hairdressers - I've seen them do too much damage to other people's hair... bad haircuts and accidentally dyeing my friend's hair cranberry come to mind... (she wanted it light brown!):D

Fishie wrote:

Home dye kits are usually a bad idea. Fair enough if you've someone who's used them before and is good at it to do it for you, but do not try permanent dye yourself! Maybe try it with a temporary dye first if you really want but remember not to get it on your scalp because many hair dyes are carcinogenic

I always dye my own hair and it works out well! It's not difficult! (*Most* of them were temporary dyes though as I like to change a lot)

Nala

Love wrote:

(*Most* of them were temporary dyes though as I like to change a lot)

I was talking about permanent dyes.

Scarinae

I was talking about permanent dyes too - I assumed that's what the OP sai when she mentioned highlights, which is why I suggested trying a temporary colour first to see if she was able to do it properly

Font22

dont go to a cheap hairdresser! such a bad idea, take it from someone who knows.....i still find it difficult to talk about it

vibrant

I normally wouldn't consider "cheap" and "good" to be used in a sentence when describing a hairdresser; they're usually one or the other.

Why don't you try a highlight kits... if you're very unsure just try lightening a small section of hair at the back, where it wouldn't be as noticeable. If you like what you see, put a few more in. I did some home highlighting a couple of years ago, I used a little highlight kit I got in Boots for about 5 euro. I felt it was a bit too bright, so I put a Nice & Easy in over it, and it was beautiful... got a lot of compliments on it!

lifesgood

hey im looking for cheap highlights too im a fella nd dont have a clue where too go i done blonde highlights with a home kit b4 but it comes out like cheese lol can anyone tell me wer you can get it done for under 40?

anona

I have been going to the same hairdresser to dye my hair for two years now, and my hair is now so frizzy that I can't get a comb through it. She doesn't overdye it and you can see the stripes where she seems to be using alternate shades each time I visit, about every two months. So the chemicals she has been using must be so strong that one application on a stripe of hair has ruined the condition.

Before that I had been doing my own hair dying, quite badly as I can't see what I am doing properly, and with a lot of covering of already dyed areas, yet I have never had this problem with frizzyness so bad I can't comb my hair after de snagging it five minutes ago.

I have been paying a lot of money, and tipping well, and she is a qualified hairdresser.

idunnoutellme

Naturelle is a budget hairsalon in town. I go there all the time and get a great service. Cheap and good can go together, you just have to know the right places

coco85

My neighbour who is a qualified hairdresser but decided to quit work to look after her son does my hair..

Got full head of highlights, wash,cut and blowdry for fifty euro this week...

I'm sure if you ask around there is someone in your area who does the same thing from home..

i've lived in three diff towns and always managed to find someone working from home to do my hair at a fraction of the price!

FabulousGirl

Misticles wrote: »

Any one know any good cheap hairdressers? cant afford near 100 for highlights. :eek:

Toni & Guy have a student class a couple of times a week. It's downstairs in their Claredon St salon (off Grafton St.) The downside is it does take quite a bit longer as the students are nearly afraid to do anything to your hair in case it's wrong. On the plus side, constant monitoring from teacher means it'll be okay and anyway they will fix anything you're not happy with.
It's a while since I had highlights done there (about 2 years) but it cost €50 to have my whole head done.
I'm sure Peter Mark etc have similar offers.

baglady

well for anyone in galway, the CHC college of hairdressing connaught is really good. As a student i dont have a ton of money to be blowing on my hair but i have never been dissatisfied with what they do. ive gotten highlights done and they do a consultation with the person in charge first do you know its gonna look ok, and it gets checked the whole way through by the supervisors aswell. they do good cuts aswell and are training to become proper hairdressers so they have to do a good job or they would fail! and they do ghd curls and everything. its far cheaper than anywhere else and I always leave with gorgeous hair!!

insert-gear

idunnoutellme wrote: »

Naturelle is a budget hairsalon in town. I go there all the time and get a great service. Cheap and good can go together, you just have to know the right places

That looks really reasonable but they have no phonenumber!

XxlauraxX

insert-gear wrote: »

That looks really reasonable but they have no phonenumber!

They do , just scroll down to the bottom of the page and it say Contact Us and has their details

Laura

kizzyr

anona wrote: »

I have been going to the same hairdresser to dye my hair for two years now, and my hair is now so frizzy that I can't get a comb through it. She doesn't overdye it and you can see the stripes where she seems to be using alternate shades each time I visit, about every two months. So the chemicals she has been using must be so strong that one application on a stripe of hair has ruined the condition.

Before that I had been doing my own hair dying, quite badly as I can't see what I am doing properly, and with a lot of covering of already dyed areas, yet I have never had this problem with frizzyness so bad I can't comb my hair after de snagging it five minutes ago.

I have been paying a lot of money, and tipping well, and she is a qualified hairdresser.

Why on earth do you tip her when the condition of your hair has deteriorated so much? Clearly she doesn't deserve it.

fonpokno

This thread was started in 2005 and then revived in 2007 and 2008 and now again in 2009.


Perhaps we should let it die?

zoology lady

that one looks good value, have many ppl tried it ?