December 30, 2021
I recently had a new client proudly tell me how she was taking care of her hair with a brand of vitamin gummies. I asked which brand and proceeded to Google the ingredients. She was more shocked than I was to find the main ingredients were sugars.
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December 23, 2021
These raw chocolate hearts use powder from the Peruvian lucuma fruit as an alternative sweetener, to soften the naturally bitter taste of the raw cacao.
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December 11, 2021
This isn’t a foray into your personal hygiene 🙈. Just some insight into the term ‘CLEAN’ which you may have come across in beauty, as brands move away from harmful ingredients. Sticking to healthy ingredients is important with ‘rinse off’ ingredients and even more so with ‘left on’ products.
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November 27, 2021
The Maldives is the perfect respite from Metropolitan life, and Gili goes further to create a dreamy eco-luxury wilderness. Easier to get to than Soneva Fushi, the original ‘Robinson Crusoe’ resort, Gili is...
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November 12, 2021
I know it’s our industry cliché. But it’s not the only thing we talk about in the salon. Hairdressers acquire quite a range of knowledge through their clients. Even the late George Burns quipped, “all the people that know how to run the country are...
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October 30, 2021
Losing half your hair can be devastating. Even when you start with a glorious mane like Ashley has. I first cut Ashley’s hair five months after her pregnancy. There had been a lot of post-pregnancy hair loss and we shaped the hair to improve this but kept it long. Fast-forward another two months and further hair loss called for a more drastic change in length.
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October 30, 2021
Okay, I’m know I may upset a few people, but here goes.
Masks. It always puzzled me how this marketing wheeze caught on. I guess on the back of a successful word for facial treatments. An area where the word mask transfers easily. We are now hearing ‘hair Botox’ would you believe. The term ‘hair mask’ started a few
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October 26, 2021
A spookilicious treat for you today. Halloween shortbread biscuits. Halloween, Hallowe'en, or All Hallow's Eve has its origins in different pagan and Christian traditions in the British Isles. The ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, had people lighting bonfires and wearing costumes to ward off ghosts.
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October 07, 2021
We go back a long way. A career-life journey together through thick and thin. The frustrating development stages in labs and offices from Mayfair to Manhattan, and...
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August 15, 2021
Coral went from salon to salon, but never got the look she wanted. She was inspired by Princess Diana’s shorter layered haircut from Mario Testino’s 1997 shoot for Vanity Fair. It was the first time Diana had fully handed herself over to an editorial team of...
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July 30, 2021
I know what I like, but when it comes to creating a great fragrance we need a nose, or nez as the French would say. These artistic composers have such a fine sense of smell, the best only work a few hours a day and...
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July 24, 2021
I have 43 years of practice in my craft. An American PR once said to me, “just say 25 years, more than that and you’ll sound over the hill.” Experienced is good it seems, ‘passed it’ not so attractive. I want to look my best, but without
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