What is Balayage Hair Color?

Balayage is a French word that means ‘sweeping’. This method entails free hand painting highlights onto the hair, “sweeping” a softer and natural fading of lightness closer to the ends of the hair. The outcome is the look of afternoons at the beach, or the newer, by chance perfect highlights of children’s hair. This natural looking highlighting method is not only for blondes but can actually be used on every shade of hair for adding soft, sun-kissed characteristics.

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Obviously, there are differences in application preferences: many colorists do not separate the hair, whereas others separate the hair with pieces of cotton, and others like using foil to separate the hair. There are varied application nuances that produce somewhat differing results, but the primary reason balayage has become so favorable is that it enables colorists to hand-select pieces of hair they wish to highlight. Because of the customized, natural-looking positioning, balayage also enables a soft like grow-out.

What Are The Differences Between Highlights And Balayage?

Highlighting is a common term is in reference to hair that is more light than the base color. As some might think, highlights aren’t only for blondes, but is in reference to lightening trusses of any shade of type of hair. Highlights are generally applied using a technique known as “foiling,” where foil sheets are used for separating strands of hair that have been covered with a color or lightener prior to wrapping them in the foil for processing. The foil stops the lightener from getting on the surrounding hair, and traps-in heat, enabling the lightener to lift more productively. Foil highlights are usually placed closer to the scalp, lightening the hair from their roots to their ends for an all-around highlighted appearance.

Balayage is a free-hand method to apply highlights, and normally does not use foil to separate the hair. Balayage produces a soft and natural progression of lightness along the hair strands—typically slightly deep closer to the scalp and lighter more at the ends. Usually, balayage starts away from the roots and is concentrated towards the mid-shafts and ends of the hair.

Ombré, Sombré, Babylights And Balayage

Balayage usually carries the burden of being an overall term. Whereas other types of highlighting may be associated to balayage, not all fit perfectly under this classification.

Ombré and Sombré tell more to the outcome instead of the method. Ombré is a more dramatic, edgier kind of balayage with a more pronounced transition of dark to light, often with a harder line in which the transition begins. Sombré, however, is a softer, sun-kissed transition of dark to light with the ends being only one to two degrees lighter than its base color, and a consistent transition from roots to ends.

Babylights are also a kind of highlight. The outcome is reached by taking significantly small, thin sections of hair for slight, bronzed highlights.

Source:

What is balayage?: Gorgeous highlights for blondes and brunettes. reed.com. (n.d.). Retrieved May 6, 2022, from https://www.madison-reed.com/balayage

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