What Does That Mean?

When clients comes in for specific color or style some of the terms stylist use become a foreign language to clients. In this post, I wanted to give you an outline on specific words and terms so when you get in the chair so, you know exactly what you're asking your stylist to do.

1. Balayage

this technique can be used to lighten or darken the hair but the term means to paint the hair in such a way to create a natural-looking effect. Balayage is definitely more of a technique than a specific look. This is for sure the technique I use the most but I do mix it up and create different forms of balayage.

2. Ombre

This style of color can be used in many different ways but it all reality it is just having tones of color that shade into each other, graduating from light to dark. You can also have it fade it both directions... fading from dark to light is an ombre but fading from light to dark is called a reverse ombre.

* Balayage Ombre is creating an ombre that looks as natural as can be without using foils. When you use foils to achieve this look is can be called a Foilage which is achieving a balayage look with isolated foils to either help give maximum lift or to protect the hair from other colors being used on the hair. 

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3. Highlights

There are many types of highlights and many techniques to achieve them but the basic concept of highlighting is creating dimension through adding lighter tones into the hair. 

4. Lowlights

There are many types of lowlights but when it comes down to it you're just adding dimension into the hair with darker tones. I like to use this technique to help blend a dark root color into a lighter mid-shaft to end color. It gives a seamless grow out.

5. All Over Color

Adding an all over color in the hair isn't as simple as slapping one tube of color all over and then the hair magically becomes a solid color from roots to ends. It is much more than that but, an all over color is described as a hair color that is the same color throughout entire head of hair. Most of time, you aren't going to just do an all over color because that does lack dimension, so adding multiple colors to achieve a look that looks cohesive and balanced is the best in my opinion.

6. Baby lights

In some cases it almost looks like an all over color that is perfectly blended from roots to ends and in other cases it can add slight dimension to dark hair to give it some movement, but it is described as very fine and small weaved highlights to achieve lightness. 

7. Hair melt

Also known as a sombre, where like an ombre having tones of color that shade into each other but with this technique you have no lines what so ever and it gives a low maintenance grow-out. 

I hope you found my outline on specific hair trends, helpful and informative. If you have any questions, comments or just want to show some love, please don't hesitate! I would LOVE to hear from you. 

Thanks again for checking out my post and until next time, have a great day! 

Caramel Balayage Breakdown

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS A STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL TO BE PERFORMED BY LICENSED PROFESSIONALS ONLY. I AM NOT PROMOTING NON-LICENSED PROFESSIONALS TO DO THIS AT HOME OR IN A SALON.




Hey Everyone! Today I wanted to give you a 3 step guide to go from a "Summer Balayage Ombre" to a "Fall Foilage" look. If you're interested in my technique for this look & my personal formulas used then, please keep reading!


Hair History:
Let's get started... First let me give you a little hair history on my beautiful client Meghan. We have been doing a "summer balayage ombre" on her and she had let it grow out from May until the end of September. When she came in for her fall hair appointment she had voiced how she wanted to go a little darker but not too far from her natural color (6-7 level naturally) and she wanted to still have a little lightness and dimension to her hair. Meghan's hair had lightened even more during the summer from natural lift of the sun, so I was able to achieve this look without any lightener & with my conditioning foilage technique.



Step-by-Step Tutorial:

Step 1:

 With Isolated foils, weave a combination of baby lights and basic weave patterns and coat the hair with a conditioning treatment from mid-shaft to the ends of the hair. You want to make sure to leave the root area with room to place the base color.

Step 2: 

Use Formula 1 to coat the hair left out of foils from roots to ends. Make sure to use a comb to pull the formula from roots to end to make sure each hair is coated. 

Step 3: 

When processing time is completed, rinse the hair with cool water and towel dry the hair. Then you will apply formula 3 to the rest of the hair at the shampoo bowl to gloss over the hair. Once you see the desired color on the previously lightened hair you will rinse, shampoo and condition the hair. 

Formulas:

Conditioning Treatment: Olaplex No. 2

Formula 1: Redken Shades Eq Gloss 5NW 

Formula 2: Redken Shades Eq Gloss equal parts 7NB & 7GB

Thank you for stopping by and checking out my "3 Step Tutorial" on how to achieve a Fall Foilage. If you have any questions, comments or just want to send some love please don't hesitate to reach out. If you have any ideas or thoughts on what you want me to write about next just let me know. I would love to hear your suggestions!