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prettygoodwordbalayage (bah-ley-AHZH) - n., for coloring hair in which dye is painted on using long strokes to lighten or highlight it in a natural-looking way.
Often with a brush, but there's other techniques. It was developed in France in the 1970s -- and so no surprise we got the word from French: literally, sweeping, from balayer, to sweep from Old French balaier, from balei/baleis a broom/brush, alteration of Late Latin ballāre, to dance. (Confession: I hadn't known this word till it popped up in a word of the day list.)
---L.
Often with a brush, but there's other techniques. It was developed in France in the 1970s -- and so no surprise we got the word from French: literally, sweeping, from balayer, to sweep from Old French balaier, from balei/baleis a broom/brush, alteration of Late Latin ballāre, to dance. (Confession: I hadn't known this word till it popped up in a word of the day list.)
---L.
