Balayage is the star of Jack Howard's hair collection for Paul Edmonds. The beauty of balayage is that it combines the natural flow of the hair with equally natural nuances. The goal is to avoid stark contrasts resulting in a fresh, modern and personalized hairlook.

Californian balayage is combined with soft shapes to create a 'wild but styled' finish. The effect is accentuated by a specturm of blonde shades, but also with touches of gray and pink. The result? Fresh and contemporary hairstyling synonymous with the west coast American Dream.

Candy Shaw, Intercoiffure America/Canada’s 2017 ‘Educator of the Year’ and the founder of Sunlights Balayage —the maker and purveyor of the world’s leading balayage products and education— will be headlining Australia’s Hair Expo 2018, the largest hair show in the Southern Hemisphere, in Melbourne, June 9-11.

It’s called Palm Painting, a new coloring technique that gives hair golden highlights and lightens subtly. Hair is shinier with delicate shades and highlights with a nuance of a lighter tone compared to its natural base, for a “sun-kissed effect”.

Those who doubted the longevitiy of balayage are in for a surprise: the hair trend for autumn/winter 2018 with the colors of falling leaves is aptly dubbed Fallayage.

Celebrity hairstylist Candy Shaw—recently named North America’s ‘Educator of the Year’ and Sunlights Balayage—the maker and purveyor of the world’s leading balayage products and education, have launched THE BALAY BOX 2.0, ushering in ‘The Next Generation of Balayage Education!’™

Celebrity hair stylist Candy Shaw, CEO and founder of Sunlights Balayage and the stylist credited with starting today’s Balayage Revolution, has been named both ‘Female Entrepreneur of the Year’ and ‘Woman of the Year’ – in the ‘Women Helping Women’ category by the 2017 ‘Women in Business & The Professions World Awards’

For a bold, sensual and fascinating style, the Raphaël Perrier woman embodies elegant beauty – alluring waves with classic cutting lines, enhanced by different haircoloring techniques, from the most natural to the most daring.

Candy Shaw, also known as ‘The Balay Lama’, has been teaching balayage since long before balayage was cool. Shaw founded her French Cutting & Balayage Highlighting Academy in the U.S. more than 20 years ago.

Matrix Celebrity Stylist George Papanikolas gives Ireland Baldwin sun kissed strands and Destry Spielberg lightened locks with his signature balayage hand painting technique. George also protects their locks with Bond Ultim8. See both of the transformations below and learn how to achieve it!