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INTRODUCTION:

Ombre, Balayage and Hair Colour Blending Techniques.

These techniques are the first move to more creative hair colouring.
Technicians are expanding their skills from just root applications,

whole head colours and highlights to very skilled placement of hair
bleach and hair colour.

Achieveing the above techniques relies totally on the technician’s
vision as to where colour placement is required. Technicians must
asses where to place hair bleach, or hair colour to achieve lights
and shimmers throughout the hair.

How has this come about? It began with Ombre or more
precisely people’s fascination with blonde hair and dark roots.
Technicians began to create colours with dark roots and called

them Ombre.

Having had success with Ombre, technicians switched their
focus to another much loved colour that happened naturally after a
two-week holiday in the sun. Six months after the holiday the
client now had dark roots and middle lengths with blonde ends that
were lightened by the sun. Technicians started to reproduce this
look by bleaching the ends and calling it a dip dye. Technicians
wanted to keep the dip dye effect without the harsh lines.

Evolution predicted change towards creating a blend from one
colour to another. This was so successful that they started to create
the colour on virgin heads and called it Balayage. Balayage has
evolved at such a rate it is no longer just about blending blonde
ends into dark roots. It is about blending all aspects of hair colour.