Balayage, is the traditional french term meaning, “the sweeping motion.” Today, haircolor exeperts combine the traditional form of hand-painting balayage with foiling techniques to meet the expectations that are trending today. San Francisco blonding experts use multiple techniques and color formulas, customized to your hair texture and density, while keeping in mind your hair integrity.

Traditional Hand-Painted Balayage is a technique where lightener is painted onto a section and left out in open-air or covered with cellophane (seran wrap) resulting in a gradually lighten effect. Typically this method results in a warm result, depending on the hair texture, lightening strength or processing timing.

Foiliage is a balayage method when stylist use a back-combing technique to remove hair density and lighten the section in a foil. This method will lighten hair to the brightest blonde.