Haircare Dirty Secrets #4 – The Truth about Toners

Haircare Dirty Secrets #4 – The Truth about Toners

May 08, 2025

Does your colour change or fade too quickly? Does your comb snag on dry coarse ends? You may be getting the wrong toner. When things aren’t going right in life, it may be a small problem or...

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Size Isn't Everything

Size Isn't Everything

March 28, 2025

How can I get more volume in my hair?” is a question so often asked and I’d like to clarify an important distinction between size and body.

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The ‘Drug Pushers’ of Haircare – Creating a cycle of need and addiction

The ‘Drug Pushers’ of Haircare – Creating a cycle of need and addiction

March 06, 2025

“What’s he going to tell us now?” I hear you say. “Taliban warlords make shampoo in their poppy fields! Colombian cartels launch new crack-cocaine conditioner!”

Not quite, but...

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How to Handle Curly Hair

How to Handle Curly Hair

February 14, 2025

Wavy and curly hair can be the most enchantingly gorgeous, but for some people it can be a beast to manage. Here we go through the whys and the wherefores.

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Hair Loss - Semantics and Misunderstandings

Hair Loss - Semantics and Misunderstandings

October 16, 2024

1. Miss X sees 'hair loss' as a whole hair having fallen out and gone.

2. Mrs Y interprets 'hair loss' as the hair still being there, but each hair half as thick, maybe split and broken too.

Both are right. But most people fear No.1 whilst suffering the most loss of volume from No.2.

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Top Ten Anti Ageing Tips for Younger Hair

Top Ten Anti Ageing Tips for Younger Hair

October 04, 2024

Healthier hair is often a lifestyle choice. If you are fit, a non smoker, have a good diet, etc. you are not going to get better hair than that coming out of your scalp. 

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Frizz Free Hair

Frizz Free Hair

September 12, 2024

It’s been a long time since the first Brazilian Blowdry products were being used. The few people that supplied these unbranded products here in the late 1990s worked in the shadows like drug dealers distributing hooch from the cottage industry of stills in the jungle and favelas.

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Would You Botox Your Hair?

Would You Botox Your Hair?

September 12, 2024

We all want great looking healthy hair and marketeers love an angle. One you may have seen recently is hair Botox - jumping on the bandwagon of this popular nerve-blocking treatment.

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Beat the Heat with Braids

Beat the Heat with Braids

August 23, 2024

Beat the Summer heat with these fun up-dos. You can try out our YouTube tutorials or easier still, come into the salon to enjoy a new look.

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Do You Believe These Hair Myths?

Do You Believe These Hair Myths?

August 16, 2024

Where do myths come from? They’ve been around since before people could write as a way of explaining natural phenomena, or cultural issues. Many of the myths around hair come from...

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Festival Hair

Festival Hair

June 27, 2024

Her jaw dropped and the lip quivered. I’d only suggested to my daughter that we thought we’d come to Wilderness, one of the many festivals on her summer calendar.

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You Can Burn Your Bra - but here's an easier way to feel liberated

You Can Burn Your Bra - but here's an easier way to feel liberated

March 28, 2024

You can burn your bra. But here's an easier way to feel liberated. In the 1960s women were also freed from their weekly roller-sets under a hood dryer, by Sassoon’s short flat bobs. Those short bobs have now become long bobs and the hood dryer exchanged for...

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