Balayage and Highlights
Best Dimensional Color in Kansas City!
Signature balayage and highlights are what we are known for! Dimensional color and lived in hair are on trend.
Foiling or freehand Balayage hair painting are blonde services we have experience with.
Natural “lived in hair” is a guest favorite for low maintenance, whether we paint or use foil, both are highlight techniques we use to to lighten or blonde up your hair for custom color.
Lived In Hair Color
Contrast and depth create a rich look. Brightness or lighter hair is contrast. Depth is the natural deeper tones that add dimension. Every color situation is unique, so it is common to use multiple techniques for visual movement so your hair looks rich and dimensional.
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Lived In Hair Is Back
Specialty color is an artistic skill, but balayage is how fluid custom color is achieved in all colors, even with red hair. Great hair color is about placement and formulation. Highlighting and balayage allows us to build blonde over time or keep blonde natural. Bronde, colormelts and rooted looks are all highlights styles we can do with various techniques.
Lowlights
Color balance is done with dimensional color with lowlights. If you have experienced becoming “too blonde” after getting highlights regularly, or had lowlights that were muddy or blotchy looking, that is from lack of experience on how to use balayage and hair highlights for dimensional hair color. Our color approach is evolved because every color gets the benefit of a custom color plan.
Color Planning
Sometimes our industry places women in color trends that may not be right for them. Often, we see “under colored” hair when colorists are not clear on how to achieve or maintain certain looks. If beautiful custom hair color tailored for you is something you want, invest in a color salon like us!
Dimensional Blonde Highlights
Below shows the process from all over global blonde to dimensional highlighted color using 4 color steps for blended results of natural depth and bright pops of blonde.
Highlight Maintenance
After the ombre trend in 2010, balayage and highlights evolved to “lived in hair” which can be maintained every 12 weeks. Brighter contrast, higher on the head creates dimensional color but need 6-8 week maintenance.
Whether you’re blonde or brunette, salon visits are like the gym. Best results for hair color is done with good salon maintenance!
- Highlights should be maintained every 6-8 weeks.
- Every 3rd Visit should be a full.
- Base color every 4-6 weeks
Highlights for Gray Hair
Most women don’t realize the hair aging process starts in our 20’s but one of our specialties is blending or covering gray while maintaining hair highlights. Traditional gray covering with color on women who have always had highlights, may create uniform color causing them to eventually lose the dimension they’re used to. Over time coloring grays at the roots covers the highlights they had. There’s 2 ways to maintain dimensional color while addressing visible gray.
Gray Blending or Covering.
Gray Blending minimal grays can be done by using fine stitch highlight techniques like microlights or baby lights, which are terms used to describe very thinly stitched highlights. If there is more than 50% gray at the root, you may benefit more with gray coverage gray with a base color and highlight. This is challenging because the previously colored hair will eventually need to lightened.
Highlights are Anti Aging
If you have have gray coverage at the root with highlights that requires darkening and lightening at the same time, strategic color planning is necessary. When your hair starts to gray and you want to keep highlights, look for an experienced color salon like Studio 39 for this type of color work!
Maintaining Highlights
Skin tones change throughout the year so hair should change with it. In winter it’s common to deepen the tone and add low lights. Hair also gets a break from the heavy highlight times of year like spring and summer. But it’s important to stay on schedule because we maintain the blonde as well. If you want to be lighter in spring, which is our busiest time of year, skipping winter appointments only causes more bleach work later which can damage hair. Plus, it’s not cheaper in the long run.
Partial Highlights Or Full
Maintenance services like partials are for those who stay on a regular maintenance schedule. You can’t skip an entire season then schedule a partial and expect good results. Highlighted color doesn’t work that way which is why we emphasize the importance of maintenance. It can take a few visits to get what you want so getting off maintenance means we have to re-do highlights based on what you have, not what you had after the last time you left the salon and most people don’t realize how dark they get in just a few months.
Balayage For Lived in Hair
Studio 39 was one of the first salons in Kansas City’s to perform balayage highlights. We’ve been doing it so long and it’s such a part of our culture, we nicknamed it “baly” in the salon, but the term itself has evolved since we began doing it in 2004. Back then no one knew what it was, but it’s an artistic form of free hand hair painting. Balayage means “to sweep” in French and we still do traditional balayage as well as newer techniques like foilayage.
Colorist lingo has become mainstream because of social media. Balayage is a technique, but also used to describe a hair color look for a natural sun kissed blonde. Traditional or advanced, all of our color work is custom done for your style, but balayage highlights need extra time.
Dimensional Blonde Highlights
Newer techniques like foilayage are good for blonder highlight results. We often use this when lighter looks are needed for color melting and rooted looks. Traditional balayage is where a colorist applies a special type of thicker lightener by a paddle and brush in a sweeping motion directly to the hair without a foil or additional color tool to produce balayage highlights.
It is still just as important that a colorist is correctly trained. Our entire staff has received advanced education on balayage techniques, but traditional balayage highlights became known because of ombre. Ombre then grew to more subtle dimensional color and blonde.
Lived In Hair Trends
These looks have become popular again for lower maintenance. After the shutdown blonder looks came back, and the trend cycle is shifting again. Choose a what you want for your hair, then choose a salon that knows when to use hand painted balayage and highlights with foil.
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