Hair is similar food, similar art, similar going to the theater! An everyday expect of a abrupt becomes a tendency every bit shortly every bit you lot ascribe a French get upwards to it. This is how techniques evolve into trends as well as vice-versa, as well as the development of the novel Ecaille pilus color tendency is a prime number example.
Ecaille’s origins
“The hand-painting of highlights, known every bit Balayage (which translates “to sweep”), was brought to NYC decades agone past times French hairdressers. It was a classic highlighting technique founded inwards Paris inwards which colorists used free-hand, sweeping strokes to apply lightener (without the purpose of cap or foils) to the pilus that would mimic the natural bleaching outcome of Sun exposure,” says Eva Scrivo of Eva Scrivo Salons.
The Balayage technique has since evolved. “Over the years many production companies bring developed specific lighteners to proceed upwards alongside this e'er growing trend, yet learning the scientific discipline as well as technical science of this artistic application is even then the most of import tool for the professional person (the master copy bleach was mixed most every bit thick every bit plaster of paris, no pun intended),” says Scrivo.
Ombre entered the mainstream of pilus color beak years ago. “This was basically grown out balayage highlights – a tendency that became a technique. We started to run into every possible version of this look, much of it alongside a distinctive trouble of demarcation (mostly from foil highlights rather than balayage). It was the wretched girl’s balayage – basically a sign of strained economical times – where i could similar a shot acquire out many months inwards betwixt highlight appointments as well as even then live considered “chic” rather than neglectful of her hair,” says Scrivo.
Ecaille is a the modern ombre. Balayage highlights alongside a warm, golden, caramel tone, as well as a rich base of operations color, Ecaille truly translates to tortoise shell. “But remember, it requires regular upkeep, inwards guild non to expect passe,” says Scrivo.
The style of the moment
“Ecaille is the pilus tendency of the moment,” says Jennifer MacDougall, celebrity stylist, L’Oréal Professionnel Educator as well as StyleSeat Advocate. The mix of lite as well as nighttime tones is rattling versatile as well as tin live altered to adapt diverse peel tones as well as pilus lengths. “Many of the colors used for Ecaille are created using pilus painting, a style of icon highlights past times hand, which is becoming quite popular,” says MacDougall.
Going a piffling wild (but non also much)
Ecaille is a wearable natural dynamic color fashion. “It’s a feeling of color that anyone tin wear, every bit long every bit it stays inside the tones of the person’s natural pilus color,” says Leland Hirsch, adept colorist, co-founder of ARTec Systems, co-founder of Haircolor USA, as well as winner of the Lifestyle Achievement Award at the 2000 North American Hairstyle Awards. With this style, maintenance is depression as well as looks nifty every bit it grows out. “Today, people are looking for drama without looking color ridiculous as well as even then withdraw to move inwards the run place. Hair looks similar it never needs to live done. It’s the “done” pilus color. Ecaille pilus color is the perfect balance,” says Hirsch.
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*IMAGE CREDIT: Marcqui Akins as well as Nicholas Uccan for Eva Scrivo Salons*