Highlights Vs Balayage
The biggest question a lot of people ask the salon is what lightening service is going to be best for my hair? Since there are so many to choose from, it’s understandable how confusing it can be. The below information breaks the services down to help you choose which one would be best for you, based on your desired ending outcome.
Traditional Highlights
Traditional highlights utilize a foiling method in which strands of hair are lightened from root to end in a specific segmenting pattern leaving some of your natural hair in between the foils.
Balayage
Balayage is a lightening method involving free-hand painting and a lot of the time, devoid of foils. It produces a multi-tone and multi-dimension appearance. This is attained since lighter pieces are blended throughout beginning very fine throughout the base of your hair and then progressively getting thicker near the end.
Lowlights
Lowlights use a likewise method like highlights but with a more dark color weaved through selected wisps to bring dimension back into your hair. Lowlights are usually used when a client has been getting highlights after a while and is missing the depth, they once had to their hair color. Lowlights are never generated with a lightening or lifting process.
Baby lights
Baby lights are basically “mini-highlights”. They are weaved extremely thin and smaller gaps are left among foils to produce a more natural blend with your base color. They do not necessarily produce dramatic dimension but more of a subtle sun-kissed look.
Ombre
Ombre is the changing of color from your natural and/or color treated hair to a lighter color towards the ends, carried out by using a backcombing method.
Difference between highlights/balayage?
The variation between highlights and balayage is that highlights usually always use foil where balayage is more of a observable hand-painted method. Balayage is always going to give a more indistinct outcome than conventional highlights.
Partial highlight vs Full highlight?
Partial is only half of the head being highlighted (usually around the face for a bright type impact) while a full-on highlight includes highlighting each section of your hair.
What is a shadow root?
A shadow root is a color that is typically a shade lighter than your natural hair color, blending where your highlights convene with your natural hair enabling for a softer grow-out.
What is a toner?
A toner is a color utilized to enhance or neutralize warmer tones that appear within the hair. This is primarily used following highlighting hair, a toner is NOT going to make your hair lighter.
Which is best for my desired outcome?
When you are looking for miniscule highlights for breaking up your hair, balayage is where it’s at. It is going to create a more blended outcome, but deep natural hair colors are often going to produce red undertones. Foil highlights can take out the red and orange areas much more productively than balayage is going to and your stylist is going to have more control over the tone of your hair with regard to foiled highlights.
Is one method going to cause more damage than the other?
Even though they each can damage your hair, balayage is more damaging since you are required to use an increased developer and layer the lightener more with the purpose of achieving the desired outcome.
Maintenance for each one?
Conventional highlights need to be brought up around every six to eight weeks as the growth can be really noticeable, balayage is different on a case by case basis but around three to six months is pretty normal. Having said that, it is recommended going to salon at a minimum of every eight weeks to get a toner as brassy tones are going to start to peak through.
In Conclusion
Now that you know the ins and outs of of the main types of highlights, and you can make an informed decision. Be sure you have a consultation with your stylist, because they are going to be able to inform you which types of highlights is going to be best for you and your hair type.
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Amparano, H. (2021, May 24). The great debate: Traditional highlights vs Balayage? The Colour Bar by Lorena. Retrieved June 6, 2022, from https://www.thecolourbar.me/2019/08/08/highlightsvsbalayage/
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