What are you after?

Highlights/balayage at home: DIY or salon?

Lightening chosen sections of hair with foils or hand-painting, usually with bleach. This free check asks 6 questions and gives one honest verdict. The verdict comes from written rules, never from AI, and product picks never change it.

What it asks about

• What are you after?
• What's your natural colour at the roots?
• What's on your hair now?
• How is your hair's condition?
• Have you lightened your own hair at home before?
• Has any of these ever happened to you?

The four possible verdicts

• DIY safe
• DIY risky
• Salon
• See a doctor