Whoa, hold on. I gotta disagree with you on this one. Balayage might not be what it was ten years ago, but the whole point of it is the custom, soft look that foils just cant match, especially on longer hair. You mentioned the regrowth lines getting blurrier like that's a bad thing, but for most of my clients, that's the whole dream, they want to stretch out their appointments and still look natural. Sounds like your salon might just be rushing the process or using bad toner, not the technique itself. I pay for the stylist's eye and how they paint it, not just the steps, and that's what gets me the lived in look you're saying is gone.

That bit about the app still showing 2.3 miles after an hour is the scary part, right? Did you check if the app had any kind of update log or trail condition notes before you trusted it, or did you just assume the data was good? I'm curious if you found out later whether that reroute was even in the app's system somewhere, hidden in a menu you had to dig for.