The babylight technique ensures the highlights begin very close to your root area, creating seamless brightness from root to tip.
This low-maintenance approach grows out beautifully, with the fine highlights blending imperceptibly with your natural color for extended time between salon visits.
Style with minimal product to let the natural dimension shine through. The beauty of baby lights comes from their subtle, sophisticated effect.
15: Silver Fox Balayage
Embrace cool sophistication with this silver-focused balayage that incorporates various shades of gray and platinum.
The multidimensional approach creates rich, cool-toned depth with a contemporary edge.
You’ll make a confident statement with this distinctive variation that emphasizes silver tones over traditional platinum.
The dimensional gray creates a modern, fashion-forward effect.
This approach works particularly well if you’re transitioning to natural gray, as it blends your incoming silver with intentionally placed cool-toned highlights.
Ask your colorist for varied silver tones from lightest platinum to deeper charcoal for the most dimensional, expensive-looking result.
Style with movement to showcase how the different silver tones catch the light, creating sophisticated dimension throughout your balayage.
16: Icy Balayage with Lowlights
Create rich dimension with cool-toned lowlights woven throughout your icy balayage.
This technique prevents the color from appearing flat while maintaining an overall cool, bright effect.
You’ll love how this approach adds depth and movement, creating natural-looking dimension that prevents the sometimes-harsh appearance of all-over platinum.
The strategic lowlights add sophistication and expensive-looking contrast while allowing the icy pieces to appear even brighter by comparison.
Ask your colorist for ashy or smoky lowlights rather than warm tones to maintain the cool integrity of your overall look.
Style with loose waves to showcase the dimensional color, allowing the varying tones to create natural movement throughout your hair.
17: Arctic Blonde Balayage
Achieve the coolest possible blonde with this ultra-icy, almost-blue platinum balayage. The distinctive shade creates a striking, editorial look that appears deliberately fashion-forward.
You’ll turn heads with this statement-making approach that pushes icy blonde to its coolest extreme. The almost-blue undertone creates a unique, eye-catching effect.
This technique works beautifully as face-framing pieces or throughout your full balayage, depending on how bold you want your final look to be.
Maintain this distinctive shade with blue-violet toning treatments that enhance the arctic quality between salon visits.
Style with sleek, straight techniques to showcase the icy color in its purest form, or add texture for dimension that highlights the arctic tone as it catches the light.
18: Champagne Icy Balayage
Blend cool platinum with subtle warmth for this sophisticated champagne-inspired balayage.
The multifaceted color creates dimension that appears different in various lighting conditions.
You’ll appreciate this nuanced approach if you want icy blonde with just enough warmth to prevent it from appearing too stark or flat. The champagne influence adds depth and luminosity.
The balanced color works beautifully across skin tones, offering a more wearable interpretation of icy blonde that flatters rather than washes out your complexion.
Ask your colorist for a double process that achieves platinum but maintains the faintest hint of gold—just enough to create that distinctive champagne effect.
Style with voluminous techniques like round-brush blowouts or loose waves to enhance the light-reflecting quality that makes champagne blonde so special.
19: Icy Money Piece with Shadow Root
Create a striking contrast with platinum face-framing pieces and a darker root shadow throughout.
This strategic combination offers the brightening effect of icy blonde where it matters most.
You’ll find this technique particularly flattering as it illuminates your face while maintaining depth through the rest of your hair.
The shadow root creates dimension while making maintenance manageable.
The stark contrast between your icy money piece and deeper roots creates a contemporary edge that appears both natural and deliberately stylish.
This approach works beautifully across all base colors and face shapes, offering a customizable way to incorporate icy blonde with minimal maintenance.
Style by directing your money piece away from your face when blow-drying, showcasing the brightening effect while allowing the shadow root to add dimension throughout.
20: Metallic Icy Balayage
Add a reflective dimension with this high-shine approach to icy blonde.
The metallic finish creates extraordinary light-catching properties that make your balayage appear multidimensional.
You’ll love this contemporary approach that adds modern edge to traditional platinum balayage.
The metallic quality creates movement through reflection rather than just color variation.
The light-reflecting property makes this variation particularly impactful in photographs and varies beautifully as you move from indoor to outdoor lighting.
Ask your colorist about specialized glossing treatments that enhance this metallic quality without affecting your icy tone.
Maintain this reflective finish with weekly gloss treatments or shine-enhancing masks that preserve both the color and mirror-like quality between salon visits.
21: Ash Blonde to Ice Ombré Balayage
Create a striking gradient with this hybrid technique that combines traditional ombré with hand-painted balayage.
The result transitions from ashy roots to icy ends in a seamless blend.
You’ll appreciate how this approach offers the dramatic effect of ombré with the natural-looking application of balayage.
The gradient creates beautiful dimension from roots to ends.
