A real trend, balayage offers more subtlety and naturalness to your hair unlike its counterparts, highlights. So if you are tempted to bring a little light to your hair without distorting your hair, it is on balayage that you should set your sights. But as there are so many highlights such as “melted caramel” but also “reverse balayage”, it sometimes becomes difficult to know which one will best match our hair color and type. However, one of them seems to slowly but surely make its way into the heart of our hair change enthusiasts. The honey sweep, with its “return from vacation” effect will not fail to melt the “it-girls” once again when the sunny days arrive.
Sun effect: what is honey balayage?
“Honey balayage is a lightening of certain strands at the mid-lengths and ends“, we can read on the official website from the hair salon Dessange. Bright and natural, it allows “to offer warm tones or a more golden effect depending on the base color of your hair“.
“There are different shades of honey balayage to choose from depending on its base color. For example, it is the shade of acacia honey that will most sublimate the blonde hair while brunettes will ideally turn to a mountain honey shade“, continues the specialized site. Also, if you have rather dull hair, then this will be your “partner in crime”, to give you a boost of shine!
Light brown, blonde and brunette: what patina for a honey balayage?
The patina becomes essential when you decide to create color, highlights or highlights. The one that lies between coloring and nourishing care allows you to correct certain imperfections while “bringing out the honey highlights of the hair” underlines the site of Dessange. However, the choice of your patina is important. Indeed, depending on your natural color, the patina may differ. If you have dark or brown hair then you need “be sure to choose a patina with blue/green pigments in order to obtain a satisfactory result“. For people with blonde hair, opt for a blonde patina to neutralize any orange highlights.
Brown, blonde, brown hair…: caramel or honey balayage?
Both known as blonde balayage, the latter “allows you to bring a little light to your hair”.
When honey balayage is ideal for enhancing brown hair or dark blonde hair in a natural way, “golden highlights will blend perfectly with the hair without too marked contrast“. The caramel balayage, for its part, “is aimed at darker hair in which a honey balayage would not be seen“. The highlights of the caramel balayage make “gain hair in relief and volume“. Even if in hairdressing there are a thousand and one instructions that must be religiously followed, honey balayage is somewhat of an exception to the rule. Good news, the latter can “adapt to all hair types and skin tones“.
How to maintain honey balayage?
Whatever you do to your hair: coloring, bleaching, highlights or balayage, your hair fiber is damaged. On the other hand, there are good actions and products to adopt on a daily basis to keep your hair healthy and preserve your balayage as much as possible.
The first step is to “set up a hair product routine consisting of treatments for colored/highlighted hair“Besides this, it is advisable to carry out treatments regularly, i.e. every week, for sensitized hair such as nourishing and repairing masks. It is not impossible for honey balayage to turn yellow, hence the interest.”to use yellowing treatments once a week” to avoid being confronted with this type of situation. To preserve the beauty of your hair, “try to space out the brushings and, when the day comes, use a heat-protective treatment.”precise Dessange. Besides, this advice applies to both colored and natural hair, because too much heat kills your hair.
But in general terms, honey balayage ages quite well. In addition, knowing that highlights are only lightened from mid-length, “roots remain intact“, protecting you from the root effect linked to regrowth. There will therefore be no need to go to the hairdresser every week!
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Source : Everything you need to know about honey sweeping / Dessange