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Post COVID Hair Loss

Post COVID Hair Loss

February 12, 2022

COVID has jet-hosed collateral damage into every aspect of human life, but there’s still a lot we don’t know about its long-term effects.

A further added stress is the hair thinning suffered by an estimated 30% of COVID patients. This condition, known as telogen effluvium, is a type of hair loss often caused by severe illness (such as COVID-19), stress or...

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Gaby's Bakery - Kladdkaka - Swedish Chocolate Cake

Gaby's Bakery - Kladdkaka - Swedish Chocolate Cake

January 18, 2022

In Swedish, Kladdig means sticky or messy, and Kladdkaka takes its name from this. Crisp on the outside, gooey in the centre, this gluten-free version of the traditional Swedish favourite is where brownie meets molten chocolate cake.

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Is History Repeating Itself?

Is History Repeating Itself?

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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Gaby's Bakery - Raw Chocolate

Gaby's Bakery - Raw Chocolate

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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Is Your Hair Clean?

Is Your Hair Clean?

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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Gili Lankanfushi - Travel Blog 2

Gili Lankanfushi - Travel Blog 2

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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Been Anywhere Nice on Holiday?

Been Anywhere Nice on Holiday?

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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In the Chair - Real People Real Hair - Revisited

In the Chair - Real People Real Hair - Revisited

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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Haircare Dirty Secrets #5 - Masks Unmasked

Haircare Dirty Secrets #5 - Masks Unmasked

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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Gaby's Bakery - Halloween Biscuits

Gaby's Bakery - Halloween Biscuits

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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Love is Blind - or at least a bit blinkered

Love is Blind - or at least a bit blinkered

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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In the Chair - Real People Real Hair - Coral

In the Chair - Real People Real Hair - Coral

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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