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What Is Balayage?

You know those beautiful women you see on the shore who have perfect shore bods and perfectly sun-kissed hair? That's the look balayage will provide your hair. So, hair lightener/ colour is literally "sailed" or painted onto sections of your hair to give it highlights that are a couple of shades lighter than your natural colour. The hair in the base is left darker to add dimension and movement to your overall appearance. So, balayage attempts to recreate the effect of hair that's been naturally lightened by the sun. Since foils aren't utilized to saturate the colour, the highlights turn out softer and more natural looking. And as your hair grows out it merely adds to the attractiveness of this balayage.

What Is Ombre?

OK, if you don't have lived under a stone, there is not any way that you could have escaped the flood of ombre hair onto your Instagram/Facebook/Tumblr page. It is one trend that seemed to come in like a tsunami online. The term 'ombre' essentially means 'shadow' in French. Making sense cause the impact it creates is dark. Ombre hair basically has your dark roots in the very top that slowly transition entirely to a lighter shade towards the ends. So it is possible to see two different colours at the roots and in the ends. Even though a conventional ombre includes dark brown blossoms that fade to some blonde shade, you might also do it by colouring your origins in a dark colour of practically any colour and fade it into a lighter tone at the ends.

Balayage Vs Ombre

Well, now we understand exactly what balayage and ombre precisely are. However, I bet that there are still some of your out there thinking, "I do not get it! They both look precisely the same to me" What is the distinction between balayage and ombre? 

So balayage involves colour being painted using your hair in stripes to give it a sunkissed look. In ombre, all the hair at the base is bleached (if you're a brunette) and coloured into a lighter colour than your own roots. While there's a clear fade line between the two shades in ombre, there's absolutely no such thing in balayage. The highlights blend seamlessly into your natural hair colour. Last, because your hair at the base is left dark in most places, there's more motion and dimension within a balayage look. In ombre, the darker colour at the roots only and completely transitions into a lighter shade towards the ends.

Flamboyage - I wonder how these hair colour companies produce such intriguing names for hair colouring methods. Flamboyage is a hair colouring technique that was developed by Davines, a hair tech firm. The significant difference between balayage and flamboyage lies in the methods they use. Balayage entails hand painting the colour onto your hair and absolutely no use of transparency to saturate the highlights. Flamboyage, on the other hand, uses translucent adhesive strips to create working on the individual segments of hair simpler and to soak the colour. While balayage provides you with a sunkissed look, flamboyage lightens and enriches your natural hair colour, giving it a nearly reflective effect.

Sombre - is nothing but, you guessed it, subtle ombre. Sombre, exactly like ombre, additionally entails dark roots disappearing into a lighter colour towards the ends of your hair. But, there's only a slight gap between the two. Sombre basically starts a bit higher up on your hair than ombre. And, as opposed to the stark fade line which you see between the two colours in ombre, there is a more subtle transition between the two in sombre. The lighter colour at the endings in sombre is also not as many shades lighter than the dark one in the top, as in an ombre. Therefore, it works best for blondes, while ombre is best suited for brunettes. Overall, it is just a milder and subtler version of popular ombre.