Babylights or balayage: which is best for my hair?

Babylights and balayage are two of the most trending techniques which we often hear a lot of guests ask about when coming into The Chapel. Whilst both techniques have their place in hair coloring and styling, we take a more bespoke approach, combining techniques to give you the exact results you're looking for to make you feel like your most beautiful self. Everyone deserves to be treated to the highest standard - including their colour which should be tailored exactly to you.

Balayage, meaning to sweep in French, is where your stylist will use a freehand technique to create bespoke placement of color to the hair. Looking at the direction hair falls, the stylist will use a variety of different tools to add soft, feathered color blending into a brighter finish on the ends of hair.

Here, however, we’ll give you an insight from our stylists on these two specific techniques which are in their artistic toolbox. With a better understanding of these techniques, you can understand the journey that our outstanding creatives will guide you through.

• Getting to the bottom of balayage
• What about babylights?
• How do you want your color to make you feel.

Your initial conversation with your stylist will allow them to fully uncover how you want to feel and the desired result you’re looking to achieve. They will then design a unique way of coloring your hair to ensure that you are not left with just a technique but something which makes you feel special and that completely matches your wants and needs.

Why stop at experimenting with one technique, when you can blend the benefits of multiple? Many factors will affect which type of technique your expert stylist might choose to enlist: from the placement and density of color to the thickness, length, and texture of your hair.Coloring, and especially lightening, takes time and careful work from one of our expert stylists. This journey may take one appointment or several to fully achieve your desired finish but these two techniques are just some that our stylists might use to achieve your results and ensure you feel gorgeous during the transition.It goes without saying that such techniques are best left in the hands of our trained colorists - all of which have a fantastic creative eye and listen to how you truly want to feel after leaving the salon. Tempted to take the plunge with a new bespoke color? Get in touch and one of our guest relations team will be at your service.