Is Balayage Out? Here’s What Everyone’s Asking for Instead

That’s why it’s interesting that so many celebrities, who are obviously individuals with limitless time and access to beauty resources, seem to be moving away from balayage look too. “Everyone wants to be the healthier natural versions of themselves,” celebrity hair extentionist Priscilla Valles says. “Lots of my current clients that want this, since we all know how bad bleach is for your hair, and when you embrace the natural tones, your hair comes in healthier.”

In fact, Valles is seeing a lot less dimension on A-listers’ overall, including clients like Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, and Chrissy Teigen. “There’s less highlights, lowlights, and heavy balayage, and people are going towards more of the natural look,” she says. “If we are seeing highlights, it’s more of the baby-baby-fine ones, since everyone is going towards the warmer darker tones.”

Valles has noticed this shift in hair extension color requests as well. “Clients are ordering less icy and ashy platinum and more warm shades, like honey blonde,” she says. 

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But if fewer beauty buffs are opting for balayage, what are they doing to lighten their hair? “My clients are still getting highlights, but they’re all tone-on-tone,” Mena explains. “So it’s not a dramatic or drastic contrast; it’s only two shades lighter just to give your hair a little dimension, or to stay away from that mousy look." 

Valles says the same: “I would recommend more of a baby-fine, face-framing highlights with honey blondes opposed to platinum blonde,” she says. “It’s so much healthier for your hair to not bleach it at such a high level.”

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