As we get ready to move into spring, most of our customers have a desire to refresh and rejuvenate the color of their hair to give them a simpler, shiny look. While the conventional method to get these results was to obtain foil highlights, a new common method known as Balayage provides a natural-looking solution to get that elegant looking, fresh off the beach look. If you want to lighten up your look for the season, highlighted are something’s you should have in mind before your next trip to Bella Rinova.
What is Balayage?
Balayage is the term utilized for the strategy hair colorists use to free hand “paint” a featuring arrangement onto the hair, making a soft and natural gradation of lightness towards the end of the hair strands. The outcome is a characteristic, sun-kissed look that will have people thinking you’ve just spent seven days on a tropical seashore absorbing the sun. Pronounced BAH-LEE-AHGE, Balayage is a French word meaning “sweep,” and the treatment takes its name from the elegant gesture of sweeping color onto the hair. Balayage is remarkable on account of the strategy in which color is applied to the hair. With Balayage, not all the closures will be affected and the change between dark and light will be much longer and more natural looking.
How is Balayage different from other highlighting methods?
Because Balayage is a free-hand method. It enables the colorist to create a soft and natural gradation of lightness along the hair strand—typically leaving the natural or darker color nearer to the root and lighter colors towards the closures. Most often Balayage is centered on the mid-shafts and ends of hair.
What to expect from a Balayage treatment?
Balayage is also a very low-maintenance because the color is deliberately placed away from the root – so the more your hair grows, the more deliberate the treatment will show up, without a regrowth line that will expect you to make frequent visits to your hair salon to upkeep the appearance of traditional highlights.
Ready to get started?
If you’re looking for a natural-looking, fresh update to your hair this winter, visit Bella Rinova in Houston, TX and speak with a stylist to create the perfect Balayage treatment. Bella Rinova is the go-to color place for clients who want to stay up to date with their hair color and consult with professionals in the industry. To get started, come along with inspiration photos so that your colorist knows exactly what you want. When your colorist sees and hears what you want out of your Balayage highlights, they’ll be able to create a custom look that is not only customized to you, but will have all your friends wondering which tropical beach you just came back from! Call one of our locations today and let one of our experts get started on your Balayage custom highlights.
