What’s the difference between regular foil highlights and balayage highlights?
Today’s hairstyles often include highlights or lowlights of some kind. Depending on the look you want, and the amount of maintenance you prefer, your stylist can highlight your hair using Balayage or traditional Foil Highlights, and sometimes may use a combination of both.
Balayage Highlights
Balayage is much less structured than foiling and gives an effortless, blended result. Using a brush, your stylist will place lightener on selected strands, allowing the sections to air dry. Plastic may be placed in between layers of hair to prevent the lightener from touching other strands. The balayage method allows for more exact placement of the highlights, which can be applied with a three dimensional approach. Balayage can be used to create chunkier highlights too, like the bold face framing highlights known as color blocking.
Foil Highlights
If you are going for a more structured look, or prefer that your highlights span from root to tip then your stylist may recommend foils. Wrapping the highlighted strands in foil focuses the placement of the color, and the longer dry time allows the color to develop and lighten more. Whether you want blond highlights or a mix of highlights and lowlights, the effect will be more precise and defined.
Balayage and Foils each offer a slightly different outcome, but they are both fabulous. When it comes to choosing between balayage or foils, it’s important to consult a professional. Balayage and foiling techniques will each give different results for depending on your natural hair color.
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