Montreal Hair Salon Balayage
Balayage creates an easy and beautiful sun-kissed look. While traditional highlights need to be touched up every six to eight weeks, balayage fades gradually over time.
No matter if you want natural or dramatic highlights of blonde, balayage is an effective technique to achieve either look. Learn more about it and where you can find Montreal hair salon balayage experts.
What is Balayage?
Balayage highlights are a freehand technique in which your colorist paints in lightener with their hand to achieve natural-looking fading styles that blend better than traditional foil highlights. Our stylists can tailor placement, color and gradation of balayage according to your desired look and your own hair’s natural fading process.
Balayage offers two advantages over traditional foil highlights: it looks more natural and grows out with less obvious regrowth lines – both savings that you’ll reap from not needing to touch up roots as often.
Balayage can create stunning looks in multiple hues – blonde shades such as butter, ash or honey are common examples – but also beautiful red, brown and bronde variations too! This raven-black lob-length raven-black gets an extra dose of warmth thanks to caramel and honey balayage applied along its face-framing sections, seamlessly blended into its ends.
Balayage Highlights
Balayage is an artful method that enables stylists to use artistic freedom to add highlights that suit your face shape, haircut and lifestyle. The result is an effortlessly natural, sun-kissed look that blends in more seamlessly than foils or other coloring techniques.
Low maintenance highlights can also benefit your hair growth as your locks will regrow with less aggressive lines than with foil highlights. Touch-up appointments will still need to be scheduled regularly but will likely occur less often.
Balayage can be applied to all hair colors, but is particularly well suited for blonde and brunette tones. By mixing warm tones with lighter blonde hues, classic beach-kissed effects can be created, while darker mahogany or auburn hues provide deeper sunkissed effects.
Balayage Lowlights
Contrasting with traditional foil-based highlights, balayage allows colorists to paint darker stripes into the lower portion of your hair for an added dimensionality. It is an ideal technique for those who have been lightening their locks for too long and desire a different style that restores some dimension back into their locks.
Balayage highlights provide more subtle regrowth lines and less damage than traditional foil highlights, so we advise coming in every six to eight weeks for touch ups, which will help counteract brassy tones that may appear as your roots grow out.
Babylights are an effortless and less intense form of balayage that creates a sun-kissed effect, adding layers of subtle hues for added dimension in your locks. However, unlike full balayage techniques they do not achieve the same dramatic results.
Balayage Full Head
Full balayage is an effective solution for clients seeking an all-over lightened hair look. Although more time-consuming than other coloring techniques, full balayage gives natural-looking highlights.
Your stylist will paint sun-kissed highlights and lowlights onto your strands with paint, creating natural-looking highlights and lowlights without obvious regrowth lines or stark contrast. This technique creates more natural-looking highlights than ombre or traditional highlights techniques, providing less contrast for more natural-looking results.
Balayage requires more upkeep than traditional hair color, yet lasts much longer, making it a good option for busy women. For optimal results, use only products without sulfates that are color safe; coming back every 6-8 weeks to touch up will prevent brassy tones and keep your look current.
Balayage Touch Ups
Balayage hair coloring techniques have become one of the top trends in recent years, thanks to their effortless hue and natural, sun-kissed look – which have seen celebrities like Cara Delevingne, Chrissy Teigen and Rihanna embrace this technique.
Balayage highlights are far softer than their foil counterparts and don’t leave harsh lines of regrowth behind – meaning longer between touch ups. You can add baby lights or move some roots higher to give a different feel and refresh the look without disrupting its stunning balayage effect.
Maintaining your balayage requires ongoing care, so invest in some color-treated products that will protect against damage while prolonging its beauty. Our Davines line is ideal as it contains no harmful toxins and is eco-friendly.
