Ash brown balayage on dark hair is a gorgeous look that works exceptionally well on women with warm skin tones. Regular touch-ups should keep its color looking its best!
Using the balayage coloring technique, which involves hand-painting hair to achieve a sun-kissed effect, the balayage technique produces natural-looking highlights with less “fluffiness.” Compared to traditional highlights, it looks less “frilled-up.”
Lightening hair may take several sessions of bleaching and toning to achieve. Cool-toned balayage
If you need more time to go blonde, balayage on dark hair can provide an elegant alternative. This highlighting technique blends darker root hues with lighter midshaft and ends shades for a natural-looking finish, ideal for brunettes with warm skin tones who wish to lighten their locks without going full blonde.
Wavy dark brown balayage adds depth and dimension to any haircut, including long, flowing locks. Use heat protectant and a wide-barreled curling iron to achieve beachy waves that display the brilliant hue in your mane; finish it off with high-hold hairspray explicitly designed for color-treated locks for an added pop.
When blended with caramel highlights, Lily Aldridge demonstrates how beautiful ash brown balayage looks on tumbling curls. Kaia Gerber’s adorable balayage lob or bob will convince anyone skeptical of its appeal! Brunette balayage
If you have dark hair, balayage is an effective way to add highlights without overdoing it. This technique involves painting dye in a sweeping motion to achieve a natural-looking gradient effect – ideal for brunettes looking to add highlights without overdone and women with cool skin tones.
Try ashy brown balayage for an elegant, yet subdued style. This beautiful style features luxurious honey hues throughout each strand to add depth and dimension to brunette locks – especially impressive on long hair! This balayage works exceptionally well on long locks.
Balayage is ideal for brunettes to lighten their color without doing an extensive root touch-up. Additionally, it works well on bob cuts with both straight and wavy locks.
Balayage can also add warm tones like caramel or auburn to any look, for an organic and more natural appearance. Try layering shades from browns to blondes over this look.
Olive-skin balayage
Women who want a natural look but wish to lighten up can opt for golden blonde balayage, featuring silky gold tones illuminating strands for an eternal sun-kissed glow. This hue is gentler than platinum and pairs well with root smudging to blend more seamlessly with natural hair color.
Deep mocha shades look fantastic against olive skin tones and can easily be lightened using balayage techniques by a colorist. Your roots will retain their brown hue while a warm blonde shade is added around your face and at the ends.
Consider a two-tone high-contrast look if you want something bolder than simple balayagek. There are various techniques to do it, but the highlight colors generally tend to be darker than your base shade, creating an eye-catching two-tone effect, emphasizing skin tone,s and making eyes pop! A smokey gray or navy blue balayage works particularly well against dark-brown locks.
Cool-toned ombre
Cool-toned balayage can be the ideal way to revitalize dark hair. Unlike warm blonde shades, which may cause brassiness, ash brown tones blend with your natural hue for a softer effect and require fewer salon visits for touch-ups.
If you have cooler skin tones, ash-brown balayage makes a striking statement with your locks. Go for deeper tones for an eye-catching effect or lighter tones for a subtler effect; more golden hues work exceptionally well when worn alongside rosey and peach hues.
Erika Yasmin Portales of Texas balayage expert Erika Yasmin Portales has made her mark as a master balayage artist by turning clients’ straight and wavy hair into bohemian-inspired ashy manes with her beachy balayage technique. While her beachy approach may create subtle effects, the end result remains eye-catching – thanks to its combination of cool-toned blonde with an ash brown base creating its signature style, complete with its signature seamless blend completed by its effortless texture, wavy texture
