I got my hair done blonde balayage-style @ mi the salon
Oh ya by the way, this ain’t a sponsored post. I wish it was because it was so expensive I get full body shudders. *shudders* So hit me up if you wanna #spon me and do my hair for free! lel…
Before the review, some background info:
I’ve dyed my hair a total of maybe… 5 times since 2012. My first was a safe brown, cause I was a friggin’ coward. Then about a year later I decided “eff dis”, and bleached my whole head and did grey. That was maybe in 2014? Then on to a purplish violet colour, cause my grey hair was already looking violet-y at the end of it’s life so I thought I might as well do it on purpose. So violet it was. Then came a blue in 2015 that eventually lightened to ice blue tips many moons later. That was pretty. Then because my bleached hair had by then almost completely grown out, I re-bleached my hair in 2017 for a rose gold that lightened to a pastelly pink.
As I’m typing this, I’ve just now realised how lucky I am that my hair colours all faded into legitimate looks. I’m grateful, cause my wallet definitely can’t handle more trips to the salon. 🙌
Anyway, May 2018 came and brought with it a feeling like I wanted to kinda go blonde (but not that blonde cause you know your sis be a brown girl and that shit doesn’t always go well for people who aren’t Queen Bey).
I usually got to 99 Percent Hair Studio in Bedok but my friend and I were gonna be in town that day so we just decided to try out a place near us. So I did a cheeky google and saw that Salon Vim had a new-ish sister salon called ‘mi the salon‘ at ION Orchard. I thought it was just a fancy/weird spelling of “me”… But nope! There’s actually a Chinese reason for the name, but I won’t get into that. I’m brown, you see. *nods sagely* You can read about it on their website here if you’re interested.
Because I’m a n00b who has never done a salon review before, I didn’t even think about taking legit “before” pics. Don’t worry, the next time I do my hair, I’ll remember! Hopefully.
But here’s one of my hair after the wash, if it helps:
You may be able to see that the ends of my hair are very yellow and pretty fried. Also, remember I have a brown girl’s hair so the frizz is made that much more obvious. Genetic lottery amirite?
The salon was doing some Instagram promotion thing at the time so it was a packaged thing that I did. I forget… what exactly it was called. I’M SORRY. But just know it was STILL HELLA EXPENSIVE.
What I got done (I think):
- Bleach (Probably once or twice? Maybe thrice?)
- An ash blonde colour (Probably?)
- Treatment… (I dunno which one?)
And yes, as I write this I realise how completely useless that information is because I CAN’T REMEMBER ANYTHING. UGH. 🙄
I promise I’ll do better next time?
I got assigned to Senior Stylist Karl Ko, and lemme say, he did a great job with my crispy fried hair. He’s a cool dude, and he’s got the skills to prove it. He made my hair glorious! You can find him on Instagram here.
While my hair didn’t feel a lot less fried (maybe a little?), it definitely looked less fried. And that’s all that matters! I doubt my hair can be saved~so that’s all I can wish for~!
Also I loved the colour! I couldn’t go as blonde as I wanted to go ’cause he suggested not murdering my hair, so we didn’t bleach it a lot. But I think this blonde looks way better against my brown skin. I also said I wanted it in the “balayage” style (I was pronouncing it “BAYalage” when I first walked in…), which he pulled off exactly as I imagined. You can’t really see it in the picture, but he dyed the areas above the blonde a brown, cause I wanted to make the transition just unffffFFFF 👌👌👌.
Thanks Karl!
BUT!
BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUT BUTT!
The whole thing cost a total of… S$800+.
I KNOW!!!! IT’S SO EXPENSIVE!!!! MY PAPA HAD TO #SPON ME, THANKS PAPA.
I don’t think I’ll be going back there any time soon, but if you got the money for it, you can be almost 100% sure you’ll be happy with the hair you leave with. My cheap-butt cringes just thinking about it, but I guess that’s the kind of price you gotta pay for quality pampering. 🤷🏽♀️
This is the finished look:
BONUS CONTENT!!! Check out this cool video Karl took:
lol I had to shake my head so fast to get it to move in slo-mo.
It’s cool.
Do you have your go-to salon that does your hair real good? Maybe you have suggestions for a place I should try next? The cheaper the better. Let me know in the comments! If you wanna #spon me also can. 😬
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