Are you going to balayage hair for the first time and don't know anything about this technique? Or do you already have it and want to try the new type? We've collected everything you need to know about balayage, check!
101: Learning the basics of balayage | Kenra color
First things first. Balayage was invented in the 1970s. The word itself comes from the French word 'balayer', which means 'to sweep'. By the way, this technique has only one name: BALAYAGE. All other terms – baylage, bayalage, biolage, etc. – are just spelling mistakes. The correct pronunciation of balayage is /ˈbalɪjɑːʒ/.
So the balayage is a hair dye technique in which a lightener or a color is “swept” by hand through small triangular sections of the hair, traditionally using a brush and a paddle board. This results in cute, natural-looking highlights, lighter at the ends and softer at the top. Women often describe them as “sun-drenched” and “beachy”, they are so soft.
The technique first appeared in Paris and was called “Balayage à Coton” because colorists used (and some still use) cotton stripes to isolate colored strands from the untouched strands.
