February 20, 2022
Life is short. We all get just 24 hours a day. Killing two birds with one stone (a small flock even) gives us more bang for our buck. So what if you could style...
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February 18, 2022
Professionally, I wouldn't touch 99% of the hairbrushes for sale on the market. I don't know what goes on inside big companies. One might make plastic household items like bowls and bins, and maybe someone thinks, “Hey, let's make a mould for a hairbrush...
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December 31, 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 sugar and gelatine.
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December 22, 2021
The truth is, I spend an almost absurd amount of time testing hair products. When people tell me excitedly about a new product they’ve seen or read about they expect me to go “Wow!” or “Ooh and aah!”
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December 22, 2021
Let’s cut to the chase. Instant gratification. It’s one of the most striking evolutions in the human condition of the last 30 years.
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December 21, 2021
In the olden days, sugar water was a simple and popular fixative used to thicken or hold hair in place. I was given an assignment as a junior in the 1970s to set some complicated wig chignons for a show and to use sugar water.
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December 20, 2021
Mousse...maligned and misunderstood. We blame its upbringing. Right officer. What’s the charge sheet? Aiding and abetting the styling of mullets. Conspiring with
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December 14, 2021
I won’t lie. It may take you 30 seconds while you get the hang of it. And I know you’re busy. If you can’t give it the time then please don’t buy it.
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December 14, 2021
It’s at high-pressure events that our salon professional products really come into their own. Take the humble Holding Spray in our 3’’’More Inches range. “Tut tut. A hairspray’s a hairspray”, you may say.
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December 14, 2021
When I started hairdressing in the 1970s the average person washed their hair once a week. Shampoos were sold in three types - for dry, normal or oily hair.
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December 14, 2021
It seemed like a passing fad when lumbersexuals spoofed ZZ Top in hipster high streets. But ‘peak beard’ never arrived. They just became shorter, groomed, and more normalised through society. Now more than 50% of men wear some level of facial hair.
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December 14, 2021
I love trees. Drop me in a jungle or forest and I immediately feel at one, I don’t need drugs – this is like a trip for me. My library has a whole shelf of beautiful books about trees and one day I plan to travel around the world visiting some of the
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