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Step 15. After the appropriate development time and the amount of lift required has been

achieved remove all the Colorage Meches, shampoo and blow dry to display the perfect
Balayage as is the case with

Please seeFig 18 opposite.

Fig 17 is a perfect example of how Balayage has evolved from the initial hard line an inch away
from the scalp that was OMBRE. Then that hard line moved down the hair to the ends and
became known as Dip Dye. As OMBRE evolved with a third colour to break up the hard line

and become more of a blend. So to has Balayage evolved migrating further and further away
from the ends up the hair towards the scalp. Balayage is no longer about long hair as a natural
colour with bleached ends; it is now all about the blend. It is possible to vary this blend by
taking either thiner or thicker sections to be bleached or by leaving out thinner or thicker
sections of natural hair not to be bleached.

Recap the steps:

Step 1. Shampoo, condition and blow dry the hair.
Step 2. Take a horizontal parting in the nape of the neck.
Step 3. Mix a basic high lift powder bleach with either 6% or 9%
Step 4. A thin half a centimeter deep horizontal section

directly below the horizontal parting in the nape of the neck.
Step 5. Pinch the thin half a centimeter deep horizontal section off the needle of the tail comb
using your thumb and forefinger.
Step 6. Open a Colorage “A” Meche then pull the pinched section of hair through the slot.
Step 7. Slide the Colorage “A” Meche up the hair until it reaches the scalp and fits flush along
the horizontal parting.
Step 8. Now paint the bleach through the slots of the template.
Step 9. Continue painting bleach directly onto the hair past the template to the ends of the hair

Step 10. It is possible to slide a Colorage “B” Meche under the ends of the hair to act as an
Extender Meche.
Step 11. Finish by covering the bleach with two Colorage B Meches.
Step 12. T the next horizontal parting is from the top of the ear to the top of the other ear.
Step 13. Take the next parting 4 centimeters above the ears.
Step 14. Finally select the natural parting and place the Colorage Meches along the parting.
Fig 18. The perfect blend of blonde and dark that is Balayage 2022 and beyond.