Balayage Vs Babylights

We all want the low maintenance that a balayage brings BUT we want the brightness that babylights bring.

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Balayage (in Becca terms) is hand painted lightness that creates brightness and a soft seamless blend that is ideal for low maintenance clients or clients who love the lived in look. Balayage (when using foils) can only give you UP TO 6 levels of lift. So if you're starting with dark hair, you cannot balayage your hair one time and be blonde, that is just not what balayage does. In most scenarios, balayage creates kind of a melted effect so the hair goes from dark to medium to light. The medium level is NEEDED in order for it to blend seamlessly. BUT with most people I see, the ends are light due to their previous balayage and we are simply bringing up the balayage. Areas that are lighter to begin with will be able to get lighter and brighter just because they have been previously lightened before. New areas of regrowth that have not been previously lightened will not be able to get as light just because they were not lighter to begin with. New areas of regrowth will always pull warmer than the ends. This is why I call it the transition area because it allows the hair to get a seamless blend because it is not as bright as the ends.

Babylights (in Becca terms) are thin, fine sections (essentially thinner versions of highlights) that are used to create lots of brightness with a soft grow out. Babylights go almost all the way up to the root. They can't touch the roots because then they will cause bleed marks with are patches of light where you don’t want it or hot roots which will burn your scalp and make the hair super warm. So that is why babylights or highlights don't go all the way to the roots. BUT I have a lot of clients who want the low maintenance that a balayage brings but they want to be as bright and light as babylights would provide SO we babylight and then do a root melt to give them the illusion that they have a true balayage that blends out seamlessly but they retain a lot more brightness. This technique is used with dark hair is trying to go more than 6 levels lighter or if the hair struggles to lighten and gets stuck in the warm phase.