Balyage hair colour technique

[Melissaanddoug]

Hello,
Am wondering if anybody has had happy results with this, I love how natural it looks and am drawn to how much kinder to hair it is than highlights.
Had it done this week but bit of a mess to say least,
Any advice appreciated, I basically now have a colour wash over the whole lot as a remedy

I thought balayage was french for foils?

is this the ombre thing?

Yes it is like ombré and can be done with foils. Basically it is supposed to be colour painted or swept Onto the hair freestyle, not from root, to create a type of "beachy" look
It didn't work. At all.
Would love to have another go though...

I've only done it on short hair but that turned out well. It does look less artificial IMO

I used to have this. They used a comb to comb bleach from pretty much root to tip. It requires a skilled hand, so easy to spanner it and end up with a big gob of pasty bleach in the wrong place that ends up as a big light spot at the root! But done with a skilled hand, it is fantastic.

There's not much more to it than that, unless you are having sort of a half head in which case they used to separate the layers with tissue paper stuff and put the next layer of hair on top.

I dont see how it is kinder to the hair than foils - surely it is what you are applying to the hair that determines the condition of your hair?

But if you found a skilled person who favours this technique it may well be preferable to foils.

Just to clarify, they'd comb bleach from root to tip on very small sections of hair, mainly on the top layer and round the front - almost like a t-section.

I'm a hairdresser and have used this technique a few times, like TattyDevine said it takes a skilled hand, not easy to do on yourself. But no, it's not kinder to your hair at all.

Ok thanks and sorry for delay in reply. Busy weekend! Wouldn't dream of attempting myself, did go to one of apparently "best" salons in Dublin and had their senior colourist apply, however it came out dreadfully thick and stripy, they were good about it though and covered over with a toner, did loose a lot of time however!
My impression of it being kinder was due to heat retained by foils, concede that my hairdressing knowledge is fairly minimal though.
She used foils, which I thought was not the correct technique, so it should have been painted on then?
Sooo am wondering how I go about finding someone practiced to apply it?
Thank you for your replies!

For this technique it should be painted on yes, otherwise it's just normal foils.

This may sound like a silly idea but the best place to go would be a local college IMO, not only will it cost you next to nothing but the students are always supervised and you don't get much better than a lecturer in about your hair :o
Also the college would never let you leave unless you were very happy about your hair.

HTH :)

Thank you , that's a great idea, there are a couple of hairdressing schools I can think of offhand, so will try to organise something. I'm getting the impression that it's not a technique that is very popular?

I've not seen it at all in the UK except to say apparently my sister in law has it. I guess its just so much more random in results than foils, which give a definite result...I can't help thinking the effect of balyage can be achieved by having foils, except slices instead of weavy ones (technical term!!! not!)

Yes that's the impression I got from the hairdresser, that she hadn't been much asked to do it. I suppose it makes sense then that she wouldn't be much practiced at it.
In that case I guess your idea of the colleges makes most sense.
Thank you for the replies!