Short Hair Balayage

Hello and welcome i'm chris, and this is the hair tutorial channel and on this week's video i'm going to be doing a short head balayage now i think people forget that balayage is a very versatile technique that can be used on both long and short hair. So today i'm going to be doing it on a graduated bob i'll, be showing you a quick and simple way of doing it, as well as if you're interested. There is a free guide that goes along with this down in the description below that will tell you all. You need to know about different types of balayage, whether it's on short, hair or long hair, so simply head to the description and follow the link, and please remember this channel is not sponsored. It relies on your support so like subscribe and hit the notification buttons for weekly videos on everything hairdressing. Let'S get to it. Okay, so we've started by taking out our top section, so i've taken out a horseshoe section from the temple round to the back and it does go into a slight point at the back now. Obviously, the complication with short hair is that we don't want to end up with striping in the back. So this is why we've taken this section in this particular way, so this section isn't going to be colored. This section on the crown will overlay. It will give definition and the balayage effect so we'll start on our side. So our first section is going to be a steep back diagonal section just to behind the ear hold your section about medium elevation and tight and over direct it back decide on how high you want the lightener to be and start about two inches below. That point. Lay your brush flat so that this avoids you getting any strong lines and then gradually work your liner up to the point you want it to be. Remember at this point, we're not over saturating the hair work, your way down towards the ends, applying more colour and more saturation, so for our second section once again we're taking a back diagonal about half an inch above our previous one and again in a long back. Diagonal pattern once again elevate your section and lightly lay the liner on with a higher focus around the front of the face. Again, you could always put some baby lights around the face if you wanted to to add a more softened effect. Okay, so for our third section, we're not going to go steep on our third section, we're going to come a little bit more horizontal, still diagonal, but not as steep, and this is going to start to fill in this central piece. We'Ll still keep high towards the front hairline so that it gives a natural sun-kissed look and the hair is coming back and again to a medium elevation, starting about two inches below where you want your highest point and layer. Your way up now, as i said, this is not the only way there are lots of ways to do balayage and also, depending on the picture. Your client shows you their hair type, the color they use. Everything else will depend on the type of balayage that you do and you may combine two or three techniques together, which is why the booklet down below in the description is going to be really handy, to help you and again notice how the saturation towards the front Face is of heavier saturation to the rest and it comes back into a half v again forming more dimension and face framing softer and more sunkissed towards the back. So for our fourth and final section. Obviously, you can see that we've come horizontal and once again, slight elevation holding the section tight start a couple of inches below where you want to heavier at the front and down into a lighter, less saturated towards the back. To give you more of a natural sunkissed. Look layering up the product as you need it and now simply repeat the process on the opposite side. You can leave this or you can cover it with wrap to keep some of the heating. Remember again, putting this in foil or covering it with wrap, will help with the levels of lift that you achieve, leaving it open to the air means you won't get as much heat and you won't achieve as much lift in most circumstances. Okay, so now we've completed both sides. I'Ve come back to a center party and we're going to take a steep diagonal back section at the front about half an inch away from the hairline once again, we're going to elevate our section, but this time a little higher than we have on previous occasions and Again, go in about two inches below where we actually want and start to build up and again, focusing on the main liner towards the front of the face on the top sections elevate them a tiny bit higher than you did on the underneath sides, but again concentrate The focus of your color or saturation towards the front of the hair, getting less towards the back of the section to give a more sun-kissed natural effect to the balayage. So now, once again come back to your central parting and again we're going to take from the central part in a slight back diagonal, your section over directing back towards the ear again, the focus is on the front around the face: building the lightener up with soft Strokes in that slanted v to give you the sunkissed natural, look now repeat this process. On the other side, once you've completed both sides, you'll now have a triangular section, left you're going to take this section and hold it to a low elevation and paint in a very low light v. This is going to help the back blend into the front, but still give it that sunkissed natural look. So obviously, now we've just got to let it process and then tone it and show you the finished result. So if you want to see that head over to my instagram page monty121 and the results will be there for you to check out and leave any comments either in the box below or over on instagram, but don't forget to like subscribe and hit the notification button For more videos, you