Shoutout to the stylist who showed me what a real balayage looks like

I used to think balayage was just throwing some lightener on the ends and calling it a day. But then I went to a workshop last month at SalonCentric in Dallas and saw this master stylist do a before and after on a client with dark brown hair. She spent almost 2 hours just on the placement, painting tiny sections instead of chunking them. The smooth grow out was crazy different from what I was doing. I realized I was just skipping the technique and relying on bad habits from beauty school. Now I'm going back to the basics with my brush strokes and I've already seen way better results on my clients. Any other stylists here change up their balayage method recently?

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robin7776d ago

...and I had literally the exact same wake up call a few months ago! I thought I was doing balayage right but then I watched a senior stylist at my salon do a demo and I felt like I was in beauty school again. She was so patient with the placement, like actually feathering the color instead of just painting thick stripes. The grow out is honestly night and day when you take that extra time. I've been rethinking my whole approach and my clients are finally getting that lived in look instead of harsh lines.

eric_wright776d ago

Yo straight up I never even thought about how much the feathering technique affects grow out vs just the initial look! Everyone talks about how balayage blends but nobody mentions that the way you apply it literally dictates how dirty your roots look in 4-6 weeks. Thick stripes basically guarantee a harsh line no matter how good your formula is cause the color deposit is too dense in one spot. I bet a lot of stylists skip the feathering step cause it takes forever but its literally the difference between a client coming back happy vs coming back mad at week 3. The senior stylist probably learned that from doing it wrong a bunch of times too.