Hello sunshine! The summer of balayage hair colour love
Seemingly from nowhere, the balayage trend burst into beauty consciousness, and with good reason too. The word balayage is derived from the French word for sweep and refers to the colouring technique rather than the colour itself. Applied freehand, the result is a dimensional, natural looking sun-kissed effect around the face and the hair tips. Because balayage exploits your base tones, it blends with the natural roots to create a softer grow out – a highly visual impact yet gloriously low maintenance, what’s not to love?
The benefits of balayage
This multi-tonal colouring technique gives the ultimate sun kissed hair transformation to compliment your natural colouring whether you are straight-haired, curly, blonde, brunette or redhead, but it has other advantages too:
· Looks more natural than other highlighting techniques
· Low maintenance
· Superior colour control – it doesn’t ‘bleed’ into other sections
· Causes less damage to your hair than other lightening methods
Why choose our city hair salon for balayage?
Even if you’ve previously visited Friends + Co hairdressers Christchurch city salon, our colourist spends time to understand your hair and lifestyle – how often you heat style it, where you prefer to part it, what steps you will take to maintain the balayage colour, how often you will realistically return for a touch up, and whether you need a haircut pre-balayage. This attention to detail is what makes us the best hairdressers in Christchurch.
How to prepare for your balayage
1. A few days prior to your balayage hair appointment use a nourishing hair treatment
Any colouring process has the potential to dry your hair, particularly if you are going significantly lighter. A nourishing hair treatment restores hair moisture and helps to prepare it ahead of the balayage.
2. Come to the city hair salon with clean hair
The temptation is to style your hair before you come to the salon, especially as Friends + Co is in central Christchurch; however, the build-up of product or an excess of natural hair oil can impact the lifting process.
3. Bring pictures of your hair goals
Our team of balayage Christchurch creatives love nothing more than seeing images of your hair inspiration and goals. There are so many hair techniques and colour options that have different meanings to colourists, that verbal descriptions can get lost in translation. Photos make it easier for us to understand exactly what you want.
4. Come to Friends + Co in your go-to hair style
Combining creative experience, vision, and skills, our balayage Colourist hand paints colour onto your hair to achieve the best balayage results for your everyday. How you wear your hair influences where the Colourist places the highlights. So, if you normally have curly hair, keep those curls so we can expertly use the balayage technique to enhance your curl pattern.
Whether you are seeking warm tones of rich caramel and honey, craving the cooling tones of silver hues through raven-black hair, or silky neutral coppers, balayage is a subtle but dramatic hair colour solution. Contact Friends + Co to transform your hair colour. Late night appointments are available Tuesdays and Thursdays, and yes, we are Christchurch hairdressers with Afterpay.
