Balayage
A hand-painted lightening method, from French for 'sweeping', giving soft, sun-kissed colour.
Balayage is a colouring method in which lightener is painted onto the surface of the hair by hand, without foils, in sweeping strokes that are heavier towards the ends. The word is French for sweeping, and the method developed in Paris salons in the 1970s. Because the colour is placed freehand and starts softly below the root, it grows out gradually. Ombré, by contrast, is a clear move from dark roots to light ends.