Nothing brightens a face and transforms a style quite like a beautiful set of highlights. For beauty enthusiasts and salon goers alike, keeping up with the latest trends in hair highlighting is a constant thrill – an art form that can uplift, define, and even completely reinvent your look.

With the myriad of highlighting methods available, you're no longer bound to a single shade or technique. It's time to explore the top trends in highlights that promise a fresh, vibrant, and utterly stunning transformation.

The Art of Balayage: A Detailed Look

At the forefront of popular hair color trends techniques sits balayage, a French word that translates to 'to sweep' or 'to paint'.

This technique creates a sun-kissed, natural look with warm tones by delicately hand-painting highlights across the hair. From a subtle to striking transition starting at the roots, the contrast can be personalized to achieve your desired level of dramatic effect.

The key to a successful balayage lies in the skillful subtle highlights that starts from higher up on the hair, allowing the color to grow out seamlessly.

Why Balayage?

• It's low maintenance. Because the dye is painted on by hand, there's no harsh line as your hair grows out, so you won’t need frequent touch-ups.

• It adds dimension. Balayage creates a multidimensional look that emulates how natural hair color changes in the sun.

• It's versatile. This technique isn't limited to blonde highlights; it can work wonders with brunette hair, cherry cola hair, and even funky color choices.

Foilayage: The Fusion of Foils and Balayage

Foilayage combines the creativity of balayage with the precision of traditional foiling for more of chunky highlights.

This method is particularly appealing for those who have darker brown hair and need lightening treatments.

The hair is sectioned and lightener is applied, then the hair is folded in foils to incubate and enhance the color lift, producing a more pronounced effect.

Advantages of Foilayage

• It lifts color higher and more evenly than traditional balayage, which can be advantageous for darker bases.

• Foilayage is great for those who want a bit more intensity in their highlights while maintaining a natural grow-out.

Suitable for All Hair Types

If you have thicker or coarser hair, short hair or longer hair the use of foils ensures that the lightener stays in place, processing more evenly, which can be a challenge with the freehand approach of traditional balayage techniques.

Babylights: Creating a Subtle, Natural Glow

Babylights are delicate, ultra-fine highlights that imitate the natural hair color of children, providing subtle dimension and softness to the hair. Unlike balayage, Babylights involve closer sections and a gentle application technique for a very natural look.

Hair Color Impact: Babylights work wonders for light-haired individuals, enhancing their natural shade subtly. Blondes can brighten up, while brunettes can enjoy sun-kissed highlights. Achieving Babylights involves meticulous sectioning and coloring, leading to delicate yet beautiful results. Maintenance includes using purple shampoo to keep brassiness at bay.

Money Pieces: Adding Bold Accents to Your Look

Money pieces are larger, contrasting face-framing highlights that have been in the hair trends in the beauty scene for a while. They add a modern, edgy twist to the traditional lightening job. Money pieces can be as subtle a golden tones band around the face or as daring as a platinum shock against dark hair, giving a bold pop of color.

Who is it for?

Money pieces are versatile, suitable for various hair types and colors. Ideal for medium to long hair lengths or curtain bangs and even face framing layers all while providing colorists ample canvas to work on.

Styling to Enhance Money Pieces

Styling with money pieces is all about making them the statement piece. From sleek straight hair to textured curls, styling that brings the front and center will enhance the look and its eye-catching nature.

Color melting: The Seamless Blend of Hues

Color melting is a technique of coloring that blends the highlights with the natural root color, the mid-shaft, and the ends so smoothly that you can't tell where one color starts and another ends. Essentially, colormelting is about the transitions and maintaining a flawless blend from root to tip.

How is it Different?

Unlike traditional highlighting that often involves bold contrasts, colormelting creates a softer, more seamless integration of different shades. Think of it as highlighting with an effortless, atmospheric twist.

Adapting to Different Hair Colors

This technique is incredibly versatile, and it adapts to different hair colors beautifully. From creating a natural vibe on brunettes to adding a glow on blondes, colormelting highlights can be customized for each individual.

Conclusion

If you are ready to make a change and brighten your hair, book an appointment at M Salon with one of our master colorist.

Our team is skilled in the latest trends and techniques to ensure you leave with a look that truly transforms and elevates your style.

At M Salon, we are all about change, understanding that a fresh hair color is more than just an update—it's a reinvention of your style. Our expert team thrives on creativity and is constantly exploring innovative hair color ideas tailored to your unique personality and lifestyle. Whether you're seeking subtle shifts or dramatic transformations, we are committed to crafting a look that not only accentuates your features but also reflects the essence of your individuality.