Matching extensions to balayage hair

[KateKitti]

Hello!

I hope you don't mind me asking this question. I am not a professional, this is for my own hair. I just wanted to get an understanding of the process so I can reassure myself it will work.
The attached picture is the look I am aiming for, my hair is currently a light blonde and I am having the darker colour balayaged through.
In this picture the extensions were a mix of 2 different colours to achieve the look. Because I primarily wear my hair straight (Though sometimes wavey if time allows) during the week I just want to make sure that it would look natural.
I will be doing the same, having the colour put through my own hair and then having two different extension colours matched to the hair.
I was mainly curious as to how the extensionist will match the colours. I read somewhere that they would need to put a row or two of just blonde underneath, then a mix, then a row of mainly the brown at the top. Is this correct?

 

[Extension Seeker Ltd]

Hi Katie. I am a qualified Hair extensionist and supplier, this is what I recommend you do. you need to ask your extensionist to buy pure uncolored unprocessed hair in its natural color, then have the hair applied, this can then be colored after fitting in the colors you want, balayage hair is a french Technic and the colors are applied by hand to give you big chunks of various color, pre packed hair wont absorb the color so it has to be completed natural...hope this helps

 

[cassies97]

Well... You have 3 options:

1. You can, as the previous poster has said, have virgin hair fitted, and then balayaged whist its in your head, however this is only suitable for a weft system or you'll end up with stripes. Balayage is by no means chunks of various colour, it is a very soft and blended result.

2. Depending on how solid the balayage is towards the ends, you may be able to just match the ends with one solid shade, or mixed shades.

3. You could get a solid colour to match your ends and get your hairdresser to balayage lowlight them.

 

[cassies97]

or you could get the beauty works gold balayage weft!

 

[Extension Seeker Ltd]

and this will give you some ideas too https://www.google.co.uk/#q=chunky+balayage+extensions ..good luck

 

[holliekwx]

i'd usually use extensions that are mixed shades rather than just block colours, helps to blend! with all my balayage ones i just match it to the ends, and use a few darker ones so that you have the root colour blended through x