Hot take: I think the whole 'less is more' trend in color is going too far

I was at a salon workshop in Portland last Tuesday and the instructor was pushing this idea that we should barely lift the cuticle, just a tiny hint of dimension. She showed us a client who paid $350 for a color that looked basically like her natural hair with a few weak highlights. I get that we all went through that over-bleached phase 3 years ago, but now I feel like we swung too hard the other way. I had a client last month who came in crying because the last stylist barely changed her base and she felt like she wasted her money. She wanted a noticeable balayage, not a whisper of one. I think there is a middle ground between frying hair and making it look like you did nothing. Has anyone else had clients push back on this subtle color trend?

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abby_martin289d ago

My client straight up cried too when the "subtle" highlights faded completely after two washes.

eric_price9d ago

Boy howdy, that's rough. It seems like a lot of products these days promise the world but just can't back it up. I've noticed this pattern everywhere, not just with hair color. People are just so used to getting burned by things that don't work that they've stopped trusting what they read on the label. It's a real shame we've come to expect that most things won't live up to the hype.