How to make a balayage at home for yourself

Balayazh 🔥 is not at all so difficult to perform the technique of 🌈 dyeing hair, 👩🏻 as it seemed at first glance. 👀 The main thing is strict adherence to all instructions 📋 and recommendations of specialists.

Features of coloring balayazh at home

Translated from French, the term "balayazh" has several meanings - "revenge", "smear", "sweep away". Indeed, the movements of the master's brush resemble light strokes that allow the dye to be randomly distributed through the hair.

The effect is natural, the strands look as if they were slightly faded in the sun, the transitions are soft and smooth.

The peculiarity of the technique is that the paint is applied not from the roots, but from the ends. The root part is processed last, after which it is carried out with a special brush along the strand, creating a smooth color transition.

The key to coloring at home is choosing the right shade.

The palette doesn't have to be natural; you can experiment with bold colors. But with one condition - they must belong to the same spectrum, be related to each other.

What it is?

Balayazh painting - is it like and what kind of technique is it? Balayazh is a special dyeing technique in which the master lightens individual strands to create a bright color contrast on the hair. Balayazh differs from the shatush technique in that it can cover a large "area" for clarification.

For example, in the shatush technique, no more than half the length is taken; with balayage, the clarification begins much higher.

Also, do not confuse balayage with the equally popular ombre. When performing ombre, the border of the color transition from dark to light is more pronounced, that is, the transition point remains even. Also, color coloring is more applicable to ombre, for example, pink or purple ends for blondes, and so on.

Advantages and disadvantages

Each hair coloring technique has its pros and cons, and balayage is no exception. Let's consider the main advantages and disadvantages of such staining.

First, about the pros. The balayazh technique has plenty of them, and therefore the popularity of this staining method will never disappear.

1. Balayage goes well with hair of any length. The same applies to the texture of the hair - if some dyeing techniques prefer only straight or only curly hair, then balayage is successfully performed on each of the types.
2. This type of dyeing technique looks stylish, youthful, but also solid at the same time, therefore it can be successfully combined with any type of clothing and accessories.
3. Balayage gives hair a natural volume and shine. This is the most suitable option for girls with thin and thin hair.
4. In combination with long and medium hair, the balayage effect does not disappear so quickly, regular adjustments or tints of curls are not required. For short hair, it is recommended to visit a makeup artist at least once a month for color correction.
5. Any successful hairstyle manipulation will surely transform your image beyond recognition.Balayazh is exactly the painting technique that can completely change the bow of any girl.
6. No age restrictions. Curls colored in this way look equally attractive on both young ladies and respectable elderly ladies.

There are not so many disadvantages, but they are still there.

1. Only the most patient women of fashion can make a high-quality balayage on their own. The procedure will require a lot of restraint and patience from the girls.
2. Even in the skilled hands of a master, such painting can take several hours, not to mention painting on its own without anyone's help.

Preparation for staining

Balayazh (hair dyeing) at home is a laborious process, therefore stylists recommend contacting professional masters.

The specialist will accurately select the appropriate shades and sequence for their combination, select the appropriate technique for the procedure and control the process in accordance with technology standards and the individual characteristics of the client.

The cost of such services is quite high, so many resort to using the balayage technique at home. When choosing self-painting, the first execution may not bring the desired result, but adherence to the painting technology will allow you to achieve an acceptable effect.

Before the procedure, damaged hair is restored and saturated with moisture. It is a well-known fact that dry strands absorb paint better, but the color lays down unevenly, and the shade fades. The split ends are cut off.

It is not necessary to carry out lightening on freshly washed hair, this will increase the harm of the procedure.

Balayage Technique Tools

Before making a balayage at home, you should carefully consider the tones of paints that will be combined with the natural hair color and face type.

In order to make the balayage technique at home, you need to prepare the following tools:

1. protective gloves;
2. hairpins (clips);
3. crest;
4. loofah;
5. brush;
6. coloring compositions;
7. foil;
8. rubber bands;
9. containers for mixing dyes;
10. clarifier;
11. shampoo;
12. balm;
13. towel.

In order to dilute the coloring composition, you should prepare a small container made of plastic or glass. Do not use metal utensils, as this material can oxidize.

How to choose the right color?

Having decided to dye your hair using the balayage technique, select the desired color. To do this, you need to take into account belonging to the color type.

1. Spring - light brown or blue-green eyes, light skin with a blush, light hair. Owners of this appearance are advised to take a closer look at amber, wheat, honey, beige, caramel and ash shades;
2. Summer - gray eyes with green, brown or blue splashes, ashy or light brown hair and olive skin. Summer girls face most of the cold tones, shaded at the ends with pearls or ash;
3. Winter - gray or blue eyes, pale skin, black or dark brown hair. For representatives of the winter color type, coffee, chocolate, walnut, bright chestnut, eggplant, red, burgundy, espresso are ideal;
4. Autumn - green, gray-blue or golden-brown eyes, dark golden skin and red hair. Bright autumn girls should better take a closer look at chestnut, chocolate, bronze, caramel, nut and copper shades.

Advice! Copper shades fit perfectly on light brown hair, while unexpected colors look unusually beautiful on dark hair - blue, yellow or lilac.

Balayage for short hair

Toning balayage for short hair does not require any special skills. We are confident that with this detailed instruction, you can easily cope with this simple task.

You will need:

1. Comb with frequent teeth;
2. Clarifier;
3. Varnish;
4. Dye;
5. Capacity for mixing formulations;
6. Towel;
7. Shampoo;
8. Foil;
9. Brush;
10. Balm.

How to do it correctly:

1. Comb the strands vigorously so that the ends stick out upward.
2. For greater reliability, fix the finished structure with a strong varnish.
3. Prepare a clarifier.
4. Lubricate the pieces of foil with it and attach it to the combed ends. In this case, you need to ensure that the coloring composition does not fall on the roots of the strands.
5. Wait for the right time - 10-15 minutes (the exact terms are indicated on the packaging for a particular product).
6. Remove the foil from your hair and rinse thoroughly.
7. Now prepare your paint.
8. Lubricate the light areas with tinting compound.
9. Wait for the right time - up to 20 minutes.
10. Wash your hair with shampoo.
11. Use a balm.

On a note! This painting option looks just fine even on the shortest haircuts - on a square, a pixie and a bob.

Balayage for medium length hair

Coloring balayage at home for medium-length strands is even easier than the previous option.

You will need:

1. Comb with rare teeth;
2. Clarifier;
3. Rubber bands;
4. Dye;
5. Capacity for mixing formulations;
6. Towel;
7. Shampoo;
8. Brush;
9. Sponge;
10. Balm.

How to do it correctly:

1. Comb well.
2. Divide the hair into separate segments. Tie each in a ponytail with a silicone rubber band.
3. Prepare a clarifier.
4. Using a kitchen sponge, you need to smear the tails, moving down from the rubber bands.
5. To make the border soft, add a couple of strokes over the level of the rubber bands. This should be done with a brush, holding its tip perpendicular to the hair.
6. Wait for the right time - 10-15 minutes (the exact terms are indicated on the packaging for a particular product).
7. Rinse the tailings with water.
8. Now prepare your paint.
9. Lubricate the light areas with tinting compound.
10. Wait for the right time - up to 20 minutes.
11. Now cut off all the rubber bands.
12. Wash your hair with shampoo.
13. Use a balm.

Important! Remember, balayage coloring should not be done more than 4 times a year!

Balayage for long hair

How to perform balayage at home if your hair is very long? In this case, you need to take a completely different path.

You will need:

1. Brush;
2. Comb with a long thin tip;
3. Clarifier;
4. Dye;
5. Foil;
6. Capacity for mixing formulations;
7. Towel;
8. Shampoo;
9. Brush;
10. Clamps;
11. Balm.

How to do it correctly:

1. Comb thoroughly.

2. Use the thin tip of a comb to separate part of the hair.

3. Pin up the rest with crabs or a clip.

4. In the separated part, you need to select several strands. Their width can be very different, but not thicker than 2 cm.The curls near the face should be even less - 0.5-1 cm.

5. Prepare a clarifier and smear them thoroughly, stepping back from the root zone 3-4 cm.

6. Massage the colored hair with your hands a little so that the composition is better absorbed.

7. Wrap the strands with foil.

8. Separate the new piece of hair and repeat the process.

9. Perform the procedure on the remaining segment.

10. Wait 15 minutes.

11. Remove foil from hair and rinse with water.

12. In the exact same order, tint areas of the lightened hair. Apply paint starting at the ends and working upward gradually. Touch the hair lightly, as if stretching the color. Remember, the more casual and casual your movements are, the more beautiful the effect will be.

13. Wait 20 minutes.

14. Wash your hair with shampoo.

15. Use a balm.

Advice! For those who are going to dye the strands on their own, we want to give one piece of advice. If your hair is thick, use a sponge to dye it. It is more convenient to work with a brush on thin and thin strands.

Various execution techniques

For 40 years of its existence, balayazh has managed to undergo many changes. First of all, this concerns the techniques of performance - each master wanted to add something of his own to this type of highlighting. Fashion itself changed, style changed. We have successfully reached our time several balayage techniques.

1. Option where only the tips are painted. Ideal for girls who are not ready for drastic changes in their image.
2. The version of light balayage makes hair more voluminous, refreshes the image of a fashionista, gives clarity to facial features, makes them stand out against the background of the face.

1. Asymmetric balayage gives the hairstyle even more volume, but is suitable only for medium to long hair. For high-quality asymmetry in a short haircut, you will have to resort to using oblique or asymmetrical bangs.
2. A clear border in the balayazh drawing. Well-defined curls are chosen by girls with insufficiently bright facial features or inconspicuous makeup.
3. Balayazh curls with face framing. Another technique for highlighting your winning traits. With a lush hairstyle and long hair, this variety can visually reduce the face and its rough features in the form of a large chin or a wide forehead.

Fashion trends

One of the most popular trends in the fashion world is balayage with dyeing the ends of dark curls in bright and rich neon colors. It is with dark hair that this dyeing option looks best. If we talk about light brown, red and other light colors, then you shouldn't be upset either.

Let's consider the options for dyeing in more detail, taking into account the selection of shades for each hair color.

1. Brown hair. For the same effect, softer wheat shades are suitable for you: light copper, golden, honey and caramel shades. A bold option would be to use vibrant crimson and reds.
2. Girls with golden or red hair should understand that lightening using the balayage technique will visually bring much less effect. In this case, it is best to select darker shades (platinum, summer chestnut).
3. Dark and black curls look great with bright light shades. These are all sorts of shades of gold, honey and caramel colors.

Sometimes women of fashion resort to a completely extraordinary color. A striking example of this is bright purple, light green and red colors. With such experiments, you should be extremely careful and be sure to consult with a professional makeup artist before painting.

How to properly wash off paint?

It is also a rather important point that most of the fashionistas neglect, which can lead to the loss of the shade and pattern on the curls. The process of washing off the paint begins at the very ends of the hair, then gradually moving up to the back of the head. Already in the occipital and parietal zone, you should carefully follow the removal of the entire coloring composition.

This is especially true for dark tones, which, if removed slowly, can stain unwanted curls.

To wash off paint, it is most effective to use conditioners or special gentle shampoos. Drying with a hair dryer is undesirable, but a weak flow of warm (but not scalding) air will not harm your hair in any way. In other cases, it is advisable to wait until natural drying.

Two or more shades

Young and accustomed to experiments, women of fashion often resort to using several colors in the balayage technique. The difficulty lies in the selection of suitable shades and the duration of such a procedure. Moreover, this option looks good only with long and elongated hair.

1. As with dyeing long hair, the curls are combed and divided into several separate sections. The number of strands depends on the effect you want to achieve.
2. Choose the desired length on the hair for the first hair tone, separate it from the remaining hair with rubber bands or clips, so that you know what length to focus on at the time of dyeing with a different shade.
3. Then a layer of paint of the lightest or darkest color is applied to the hair with a brush for the subsequent gradation of shades. Hair in this position is kept for half an hour and washed off.
4. After washing and drying, remove the clamps and raise them a little higher - to the desired length of the next hair tone. It is advisable to pre-divide the strands into 2-3 parts. However, do not try to follow any clearly defined border when separating shades.Hair is dyed in the same way and kept for 30 minutes.
5. We do the same manipulations after removing the paint and drying with the last part of the hair. Try to leave some free space under the hair roots. The paint is carefully shaded and lasts the same half hour.

How to tint?

If, after lightening, an unpleasant yellow tint remains on the hair, then getting rid of it at home is quite simple. There are a lot of yellowness neutralizers, such as tint shampoos, special balms, etc. Sometimes manufacturers put them in boxes for clarifiers.

There is also a budget way to tone bleached hair at home. For this we need:

1. Balsam "Tonic" purple hue.
2. Hair balm.

It is necessary to dilute the "tonic" and your usual balm in proportions 1: 1 and leave on the hair for 3-5 minutes. At the end of the time, rinse hair thoroughly.

Approach responsibly the choice of "Tonics": the balm should be exactly purple! All shades of cold blond initially have this shade. In order not to be mistaken, it is easier to ask the seller to open a bottle of tonic in front of you. If it is lilac or deep purple, this is what we need. Do not confuse with blue! Otherwise, you will get "green" hair. To be on the safe side, it is best to try the toner on a separate strand, as this will help you regulate the length of time the balm lasts and the intensity of the color.

How to make a color in one tone yourself?

It also happens that modern and fashionable coloring gets boring over time. Do not despair and take up scissors to cut off the bored lightened ends - they can be easily painted over at home.

For this we need:

1. Several packs of paint of the desired shade.
2. Painting supplies.
3. Patience.

It is best to take a dye with a low ammonia content so as not to harm your hair.

Lightening hair is the removal of color pigment from it. This means that if we removed it and want to repaint, then it is necessary to "hammer" this pigment into the hair again. Therefore, you will have to repeat the staining procedure after about once a week. On average, 3-4 stains are enough for the pigment to adhere well to the hair.

Technique for performing and applying paint step by step (for the first staining):

1. We begin to apply the coloring composition to the tips, gradually rising up to the roots. After we have applied the paint to the bleached areas of the hair, soak for 10 minutes and gently comb the hair.
2. Next, tint the roots to even out the color. Soak for 30-40 minutes and wash off with warm water.
3. After the procedure, it is recommended to apply a balm for colored and damaged hair.
4. For subsequent staining: we repeat all the same, but do not touch the roots. The duration of the action of the coloring pigment is 20-30 minutes.

Contraindications

IMPORTANT: If your hair has undergone frequent lightening and dyeing, as well as dull, looks lifeless and splits, then it would be better to refuse dyeing at home.

There is always a great risk of harming your hair, and if it is already damaged, then I have every chance to simply remain in your hands after lightening. In such cases, it is still better to trust the professionals who will select a more gentle way of staining for you, as well as give a lot of advice on care.

Hair care after the procedure

Balayazh (dyeing) hair at home, if the technique and safety measures are not followed, it can harm the hair.

To eliminate the consequences, as well as prevent loss of color or tarnishing of curls, it is worth doing a number of care recommendations:

1. Damaged hair must be regularly restored using care products in the form of masks, balms, conditioners, oils and serums, which contain collagen, proteins, silicone.
2. If necessary, and after a medical consultation, it is worth taking a course of vitamins.
3. It is worth giving preference to the line of products for washing and hair care from the lines for colored or blond hair. They contain additional nutrients and substances that eliminate yellowness. With yellowness, tinting agents of a purple or silver hue will help to effectively cope.

It is worth abandoning the heat treatment of the strands with a hairdryer, ironing, swipes. If it is impossible to avoid heat exposure, a thermal protective spray is first applied to the curls. The hairdryer should be switched to cold mode.

Hair dyeing using the balayage technique at home gives individuality and modernity to the image, which greatly decorates the girl. The peculiarities of the technique allow you to always look beautiful without the need for frequent visits to the stylist and hairdresser.

What if the result is not what you wanted?

When dyeing at home, the color may turn out not at all what you expected. How to fix a bad balayage?

1. If the lightening is darker than planned, then you can apply the coloring composition again, but for 5-10 minutes.
2. If you wanted a darker color, you will have to tint. Take paint of the desired shade and let it sit for 5-10 minutes.
3. Hair turned yellow - remove yellowness with a purple tint balm as described above.
4. Hair turned green - the "green" from the hair is neutralized by red pigment. Take a copper-colored dye composition and hold for about 10 minutes.

Professional recommendations

1. Balayazh in light colors will look most successful on slightly curly hair or curls. In this case, the shine and natural play are not lost in straight lines.
2. Since balayazh is a type of highlighting, the hair after such a procedure experiences quite a lot of stress and can begin to fall out. Do not forget to strengthen your hair with masks, make vitamin baths and use only high-quality and natural conditioners.
3. Balayazh is not a dyeing technique that requires hot processing and wrapping. Combining temperature with this method will only ruin your hair.
4. Paint, masks for restoration, shampoos - everything, if possible, is bought from one manufacturer and one line, so that there are no conflicts between the chemical composition of the products. Do a small test at home beforehand for an allergic reaction to a particular paint / air conditioner.
5. During the dyeing procedure, hands come into contact with a chemically active substance, therefore professionals strongly recommend the use of special gloves for dyeing.
6. It is better to choose the color, and especially the combined shades with an experienced master, depending on the texture of your hair, the color of your skin and eyes. Also, do not forget that the best color for the base of the balayage is natural.
7. Fast and easy painting is not about balayage technique. Despite all the advice on how to make a beautiful and high-quality balayage for yourself, it will still be useful to get a couple of extra hands to help. This will greatly simplify the process.
8. Do not let the paint dry, only fresh, freshly diluted paint is suitable for balayage.

Conclusion

Balayazh is not at all so difficult to perform hair dyeing technique, as it seemed at first glance. The main thing is strict adherence to all instructions and recommendations of specialists. But if you still doubt your own abilities, then it is better to postpone home staining and trust the professionals. Beauty requires sacrifice and, you must agree, it is better to pay for a quality work than spoil your precious hair.