balayage
nounEtymology Borrowed from French balayage.
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Cosmetics, Lifestyle A hair colouring technique in which colour is applied by hand.
- Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2026:
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Mathematics, Sciences A method for reconstructing a harmonic function.
- Derived terms
- balayaged