Balayage: Best Balayage in Chicago

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Balayage: Best Balayage in Chicago 
 

Balayage: (BAH-LEE-YAGE) A French word that means 'to sweep' or 'to paint. A natural, beautifully natural way of highlighting hair that is lower maintence. The regrowth is a gradual subtle root compared to the out-dated way of highlighting or weaving hair with foils that leaves a sharp line of hair re-growth.

Balayage gives the hair a multi-dimensional, sun-kissed type of highlight that resembles how natural hair gets lightened by the sun.

Balayage verse tradional highlighting:

Best Balayage Chicago

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Balayage is currently the most desired look and our talented stylists have the skills and experience you're looking for!

What is balayage?
(ba-lay-age)
Balayage is a great alternative to highlights. With this technique, you're able to have natural looking hair with low maintainence up-keep. Instead of placing foils used in traditional highlights throughout the hair, balayage is the technique of freehand painting the dye on the hair in such a way that creates a gradual, natural looking effect. 

 Balayage and cut by Bebe at Salon Envy Chicago
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Natural Balayage and cut by Stella at Salon Envy Chicago
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Balayage and cut by Zackery at Salon Envy Chicago
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Balayage and cut by Rachel at Salon Envy Chicago
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Balayage and cut by Christine at Salon Envy Chicago
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Balayage and cut by Susan at Salon Envy Chicago 
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Bright balayage and cut by Lori at Salon Envy Chicago
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Where can you get the best balayage in Chicago? At Salon Envy!

What makes us different from other salons?
Our experienced hairstylists have had extensive training and practice perfecting the art of hairpainting and balayage.

Lived-In Color & Style at Salon Envy

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Lived-In Color & Style at Salon Envy


a.k.a. The after-math of ombre. Created by Ramirez and his entire team in Beverly Hills, California that specialize in "lived-in color" - a subtle, enturing way of highlighting your hair that he insists is neither balayage nor ombre. "Lived-in Color" is also known as the 6 month color.

Its about as low maintenance as you can get with hair color, but as cutting edge as hair color can be.. We love this technique and are thrilled about the new opportunity to go to Beverly Hills and take classes from Ramirez-Tran Salon hopefully in the next year.

In the mean time, follow Ramirez on instagram and continue to gawk at his work. We specialize in balayage in at Salon Envy and LOVE to incorporate some of his color techinques into our salon.





Photo: Johnny Ramirez





Photo: Johnny Ramirez





Photo: Johnny Ramirez

Top Salons in Chicago for Balayage. Chicago Balayage Salons

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Top Salons in Chicago for Balayage.
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What is Balayage Hair Color?


Balayge is ultra-customized, minimal maintence, soft hair color that creates dimension and a sun-kissed look... Balayage is by far the most requested in salon hair color service we offer here at Salon Envy.

Salon Envy Chicago is known as "Top Salons in Chicago". With cutting edge techniques such as "lived-in hair color", "balayage", "hair painting", "American Tailoring", "foilyage", "Sombre", "ombre", precision hair cutting and much more.

If you have been thinking of trying some balayage hair color and are ready to UPDATE your hair color,  here is a good read to understand balayage before your service..

Balayage is a coloring technique used to create sun-kissed, natural-looking highlights. Used as an alternative to foil highlighting, hair color or lightener is swept or painted onto the individual hair strand to create depth, lightness and dimension.  The method originated in France in the 1970s. The word “Balayage” actually comes from the French word “to sweep.”

Balayage hair painting is less expensive to maintain than traditional highlights. Many can go 3-4 months between appointments since your natural hair color will blend in with the natural-looking, painted highlights as it grows.

Balayage hair painting isn’t just for blondes or one type of haircut. It is also perfect for brunettes and redheads that want a subtle, sun-kissed look. Balayage can enhance almost any haircut, length or texture. You can customize your cut by adding dimension with Balayage to show off the shape.

Balayage is the in-salon color service choice among celebrities, models and fashionistas – those that demand hair color to be designed exclusively for them. Balayage allows your colorist to utilize their creativity and artistic talent to personalize the placement of each highlight for a customized result.
 

The LOB "CREATED"

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Since our "LOB" a.k.a. Long Bob Haircut blog was posted recently, we figured we would show how we can CREATE one!

If your sides are short/damaged/too thin and your'e unhappy with your hair all together: Consider adding extensions to the sides & cutting some length and damage off the back. Here on our client Anna, Rachel added Great Lengths USA Cold Fusion hair extensions to her sides while giving her the LOB haircut! The sides of Annas hair were not long enough to have the look, so we decided to CREATE it!

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