Melting, Smudging, Smelting, Root tapping #OhMy. They are all similar color techniques combined with foiling or balayage, or ombre techniques. Understand the color trends and learn what they are and if you should try them.
All of these techniques are ones that your Refined Beauty Color Expert can add to enhance your blonding results. This type of application helps blend your natural color to the newly highlighted hair in a camouflaged manner without hard lines of demarcation between your natural color and the highlighted color, resulting in a much longer time between salon visits because it grows out naturally. One-color “melts” into the other.
Root smudge is a technique that blurs the line of demarcation. Usually, your color expert will mix a formula similar to your natural color and applied to the root when the hair is damp at the shampoo bowl after your highlights have been rinsed.
Root “tapping” is when a small amount of your natural color is applied just on a small amount of hair at the root, specifically in your part line. In the same manner that a root smudge is done, but less. Root smudge is generally done farther down on the hair strands, creating more depth.
Root smudging and root tapping result in your natural color “melting” into your highlighted hair and helps your service to last a long time without returning to the salon as frequently.
