What is Balayage?

Balayage is a French word meaning "to sweep" or "to paint". This technique of painting lightener onto the hair emulates a natural sun kissed affect. Sun light only penetrates our hair cuticle, the outer most layer of the hair shaft which has 3 layers in total (the other two being the medulla- the inner layer and the cortex- the middle layer).

3D Balayage - What is it ?

This hair painting technique is an affect that gives the hair more added dimension by mode of lowlights, midlights and hilights. Our immediate thought is- isn’t hair already 3 dimensional, but more often then not our hair color can look very flat, mousy and drab in most cases if not enhanced in some form. 3D color gives the hair this exact multi-dimensional and even in some cases multi-tonal shine and depth. 

Balayage Vs Hilights

People ask all the time what the difference is between these two services. To put it simply Balayage is a hilighting technique that can either be hand painted or put in a foil. Think of your standard foil work as Kelly Clarkson circa 2000 versus hand painting being more Jennifer Anniston-esque. To get those beautiful natural Californian hilights, hair painting would be more of the route one should go depending on how dark their natural hair color is. This is something every incoming client should discuss with a hair professional firstly, because darker haired clients will need a service such as babylights or foilayage to achieve a very light end goal.