What Are Babylights?

If you have been scrolling through social media lately, you might have noticed that there is a massive amount of bespoke color services now available in the Chicago area with cute names like Teasylights, Foilyage, and Babylights Chicago. There are more and more services each year, there is a difference with all of them, and each service spends a while as being the hottest trend in hair. This article covers Babylights Chicago.

What are Babylights?

Babylights come from a wish to mimic the dimensional hair which is often seen in babies. Babylights are thin highlights which are weaved carefully to create tonal shifts in your base color. At first glance, Babylights may be difficult to see, but these subtle highlights can add a lot of vibrancy and richness.

Babylights vs Highlights

One common factor which is shared with all highlight services is that it’s noticeable when you have them in. With Babylights, it is not always that obvious. The Babylights technique is less about the look of highlights after spending a whole day in the salon, and more about the highlights that you get after spending a week in the sun.

Who should get Babylights?

Babylights work for all hair types and base colors and even with people who have hair extensions in Chicago. They are ideal for people who want a slight chance. The technique also works as a first step in coloring your hair, as the sections are less damaging than if you apply all over color.

Babylights are a great technique that brings up your base color while avoiding the flat appearance which sometimes occurs with all-over color. Babylights are amazing for bumping up your base or matching your hair color with your eyebrows or maybe your skin tone, as Babylights offers versatile placement options with natural blending.

For people who have fine hair, the technique’s dimensions are able to provide an illusion of volume and thickness.

How do you do Babylights?

Your stylist will take baby-fine sections of your hair, and highlights them a couple of shades lighter than your base is. With tiny amounts of hair wrapped in foils, with only a small amount of separation between them, the highlights will blend in seamlessly for a brighter overall look.

Babylights: sections and placement

Baby hair is lighter at the ends and at the crown. The Babylights technique recreates this by creating finer accents at the hairline, while carefully graduating saturated ends. Just as with baby hair, the best Babylights start soft around the scalp, while being lightest at the ends.

Babylights are time-consuming

Babylights take a long time to do, as there is plenty of detail and technical work involved. With your stylist only painting a couple of hair strands at a time and then folding them into foils, you should expect to spend a while in the chair.

Are Babylights for blondes?

While they are usually seen on blondes, Babylights benefit almost anyone. The goal of Babylights is to add depth by feathering in shades that are lighter than your normal base color. Caramel Babylights with a brown base can add warmth, while copper tones with a red base create a burnt auburn look. Both of these add a natural warmth to the tone of your skin.

What is the maintenance for Babylights like?

The right placement of highlights combined with a soft approach on the root means that the grow-out from Babylights is usually minimal. Expect a mid-refresh once every two months, with a more in-depth refresh around every three months.

Should I get Babylights?

With so many different techniques to choose from, it can be difficult to make a decision on what the best highlights are for you. As detailed in this article, Babylights are suitable for everyone. 

However, if you would like more information, then get in touch with a trusted hair service who will be able to talk you through the pros and cons of all the different systems of highlights that you can get.

Maybe you can have a chat about it next time you go in to get your hair extensions Chicago done?

Wrapping up

Babylights are a popular technique as they work great on any type of hair, length, or color, and they can be weaved-in in as subtle of a dynamic look as you want. While the time spent in the chair and the cost is a little higher than other techniques, maintenance for them is minimal.