Colorizing hair with Color Balance Layer VS. Paintbrush?

I'm following a tutorial and want to change the color of someone's hair, so I make a color balance adjustment layer, change the color, press option delete, and then paint over the hair with white to make this color come back. How is this all different from just getting the paint brush tool on a new layer and painting over the hair? Isn't the end result the same and a bit easier?
Thanks.

Both methods work
The masked method may take longer, but get you better results, because you can stack various color corrections as in the screenshot below. You can also do more like turn a brunette into a blond with the mask method. With the paintbrush I would not attempt such a correction.
If you have a low budget job with 100s of images, you may just want to use the paintbrush set to a color mode.

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