Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Highlight with foils VS Balayage

Highlighting often serves to give a summery or edgy appearance to hair, depending on the style used. Chunky highlights (wide, obvious bands of color) is often considered a very edgy choice, while natural, subtle highlights make the wearer appear as if she has been on the beach for too long.
















Highlights typically use bleaching ingredients to achieve a lightening effect, sometimes also mixed with color so the effect isn't quite so harsh. With chunkier highlights, whole sections of hair are bleached together. "Full foil" highlights go throughout the entire head of hair for a very natural effect, with a stylist hand-selecting the strands of hair to be highlighted for even texture and appearance. The technique usually used is slicing technique.






Highlights can offer an update to your whole appearance. They tend to make the rest of the face brighter and it is a very youthful, summery, fun look. It's also a subtle change if you don't want to drastically alter your hair.

















There are many technique of highlighting two of them is using foils.


Foils


































Many problem caused by hair highlighting from damage of the hair caused by chemical to the unwanted result highlight (its more like stripe on the head)



















Balayage

Balayage is advance technique of highlighting. You can called it "Hair Hand Painting". The stylist take a strand and then apply the cream here and there. They just know where to put the cream. The result, amazing its more natural then basic hair highlight.









Balayage is evolution in haircolor. From the French word balayage, meaning "to sweep", the technique involves hand painting of the hair with color or lightener to produce an greatest individual result.

















The differences between foils is, with foils the result could be like "stripe", but with balayage technique the result is bold and dramatic. Its more natural...

















Now, time to choose which one is gonna look good on you!!

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