Trouble With Silver Balayage? These 4 Tips Will Help!
4 Tips To Help You Master Silver Balayage
Perfecting gray and silver balayage is a challenge—these tones require a light, ashy end result, and balayage is a technique that inherently produces warm tones. Starting with a dark base or attempting to achieve the look in one process both add to the challenge. Thankfully, Matrix artist Constance Robbins (@constancerobbins) spilled four tips for mastering metallic balayage to help her followers understand the tricks for getting it right. Check ‘em out!
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Use A Foilayage Technique
- A silver end result requires prelightened hair to be the same shade as the inside of a banana peel.
- Achieving that prelightened level on darker bases means plastic, meche or open-air balayage won’t work—these techniques are appropriate for lighter clients, but will not provide enough lifting power on dark hair.
- Instead, use a foilayage technique to ensure strong head conduction and to lift the hair quickly.
Bump Up The Developer
- “Don’t be afraid to go high with your volume,” says Constance.
- In the photo above, she uses 40-volume on the new growth and 20-volume on the client’s previously-lightened ends.
- Don’t forget to use a bonder to help protect the hair—Constance prefers to use Matrix Bond Ultim8.
Pre-Tone The Hair
- Pre-toning the hair offers more control when finalizing the color.
- Constance uses the Matrix Brass Off Mask to pre-tone when creating a silver balayage because it’s stronger than a purple shampoo.
Use More Than One Toning Formula
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If prelightened hair isn’t one solid canvas, then use more than one toning formula to address different sections. Using just one formula could create a brassy new growth and overly-tone the ends.
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For this look, Constance toned with three formulas:
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Formula A (base): 4A + 10-volume developer
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Formula B (mids): 6A + 8P + Blue Concentrate + 10-volume developer
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Formula C (ends): Mixed Metals Gray + 10P + 10-volume developer
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Want more tips like this? Check out Constance’s secrets for mastering ashy blondes!
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