What are 3 techniques used on balayage?

As with any skill, perfecting your balayage process all comes down to practicing and experimenting with different techniques. Below, we outline three really important balayage application techniques that can help you step up your hair painting game: The C-Motion™, The Glide & Slide™, and The Backflip™.
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What technique is used for balayage?

Babylights Balayage

This technique is usually achieved using lots and lots of hair foils, and usually involves lightening the hair only a shade or two lighter than the base. By taking tiny pieces of hair, with very little separation between, these highlights will blend into the natural colour seamlessly.
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What is Foilayage technique?

Similar to balayage, foilayage is a technique where the color is hand-painted onto individual sections of the hair. But unlike balayage, this coloring service takes this basic highlighting method a step further by wrapping each hand-painted section in foil to significantly enhance the beautiful, sun-kissed technique.
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What is caramel balayage?

Caramel balayage is a gorgeous hair coloring technique that delicately sweeps in light and natural brunette colors, usually into a darker base, to achieve an effortless sun-kissed look.
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What is balayage ombre?

Ombré is when a stylist uses the balayage technique to create a color contrast that begins darkest at the roots, blends into a rich medium shade towards the middle, and finishes with the lightest parts at the ends of the hair.
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Highlights, Balayage, Ombre or Sombre - Which is right for you?



What is modern balayage?

Balayage is a French word meaning 'to sweep' or 'to paint', it is a skilled, free-hand painting technique that is highly customisable to create different effects. Under the umbrella of "Balayage" technique includes other popular highlighting terms such as Ombre, Sombre, Color Blocking, Babylights and many more.
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Are there different types of balayage?

More Types of Balayage to Check Out:

Caramel balayage perfect for those with a brunette base colour. Blonde balayage that will always be on trend. Brown balayage from ash brown to rich, chocolate shades. Head-turning red balayage ideas.
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What is Flamboyage hair technique?

Flamboyage is a new hot trend and a low maintenance hair color technique. It is a combination of oombre and balayage, where transparent adhesive strip is used to color the hair or there is also different technique to achieve soft peek-a-boo highlights.
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What is Crown balayage?

Balayage by Kathy Gilbert. “Largely, balayage creates a stronger blonde tip with a soft sweep toward the root. American style balayage tends to go from root to tip, so a full bleach, with a soft root, and everything in between,” says Kathy. “It's become something now that has been multi- interpreted.
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What are Babylights vs balayage?

"Babylights and balayage are both highlights," explains Ess. "They're just two different techniques of highlighting. Babylights use foils, whereas balayage is painted on and processed in open air or under plastic."
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What is partial balayage?

What is a Partial Balayage. Similar to Balayage, a partial Balayage is a freehand hair coloring process where highlights are added onto one area of your mane rather than throughout your hair. Normally, it's placed around the face or on the upper layer of your hair with a focus on the ends.
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What's the difference between balayage and Foilyage?

This all comes down to differences in the technique. Balayage involves sweeping lightener down the mid-lengths and ends of the hair to create that beautifully blended look we all know and love. Foilyage involves the same sweeping method, however, sections of hair are wrapped in foil instead of being left to air dry.
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What is a 3/4 balayage?

A 3/4 covers just that 3/4 of the head, everything is included with the exception of the bottom 3-4' of the head. A full head highlight is sections from front to very back of the head getting that brightest blonde possible.
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Is balayage done with foils?

The stylist doesn't use foils for the balayage coloring process. Balayage sometimes begins close to the root, and other times stylists start the painting technique midway down. It all depends on your preference! Usually, the color is processed as the stylist continues to color the rest of the hair.
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Can you do balayage lowlights?

Balayage can be done on any base color because the effect is so natural, and lowlights can be balayaged, too! If you're highlighting and lowlighting the hair, apply the balayage highlights first and then place the lowlights in-between the lightened sections.
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What is the technique for Babylights?

How are Babylights Done? Your stylist takes baby-fine sections of hair (usually with lots and lots of foils) and highlights them one or two shades lighter than your base. With small amounts of hair in each foil, and little separation between, the highlights blend seamlessly for an overall brighter look.
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What is half head balayage?

Traditionally, a full balayage involves applying highlights all over the hair. But a partial or half head balayage only covers the top layer of hair and not its entirety.
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What is root smudge?

A root smudge is a technique used specifically to blur lines of demarcation. It involves applying a color formula close to the client's roots, and then “smudging” it into the shaft of the hair. This creates a softer transition between the root and the lightened hair.
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What is subtle balayage?

You may want to give subtle balayage a chance. This style of highlighting applies color to only certain parts of the hair, specifically places where light catches or where color would fade out naturally.
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What is a color melt?

Finally, color melting is when a stylist uses three or more colors and overlaps them in a way to create a seamless blending of shades that looks like it could've naturally occurred, even if the colors used to achieve the effect aren't natural hair colors.
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