Learned & Still Learning
Here we are at the latter half of January with the promise of spring just around the corner. There’s something so comforting about the clean slate that January and a new calendar offers. It’s a chance to begin again, to put aside whatever disappointments we’ve had lately and work toward a bright and shiny new […]
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In my previous blog I shared some lifestyle tips supported with expert’s links on managing our own mental health. In this blog I continue the theme of mental health taking a different perspective in how to help others. When I started working in the salon as an apprentice, I was a little chatterbox and loved […]
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Here we are 2021 and feeling a little Déjà vu as we enter yet another lockdown. There is some hope on the horizon with the roll out of COVID-19 vaccines all over the world and we will adapt to living with this virus. As a ‘non-essential’ business the hair & beauty industry has been hit […]
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After the year that was 2020, who can say what 2021 has in store for us? And although we faced may changes there is something nice about things that stay the same and this is true for the team at the Pantone institute as they last week announced not one but two colours of the […]
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Hairdressing has been the one constant in my life, I remember smells from sitting on the salon floor chewing hairpins as my Mum worked on elaborate creations, telling a little white lie about my age to my aunt to get a Saturday job in her salons when I was only 12 and that sickly nervous […]
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It has been wonderful watching the different Hair Professionals all over the world getting back to work, doing what we love to do, HAIR. In this blog getting back to hair I wanted to continue on my earlier themes of beauty industry changes, little did I know I’d be adding to it so soon. These […]
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You’ve done it, you’ve helped someone or you yourself have grown out your artificial hair colour and now you want to make sure your natural grey/white hair looks great. In this blog I look at the changes in grey/white hair and share ideas on how to maintain and keep grey/white hair looking great and healthy. […]
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Making a decision to grow out your hair colour to your natural grey/white hair is big one. For some that process is more gradual taking several years which can include an emotional adjustment to the new brighter look. For others it is a dramatic transformation that takes place in the hands of a Professional colourist. […]
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My years working in research taught me more than just what was happening in the beauty industry, it often demonstrated my limited awareness of things. Over the 16 years in R&D that awareness grew and expanded as I learned to open up and assimilate new truths as they appeared. In this blog, my third instalment […]
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While working in research a large part of my job was to assess how the beauty industry was changing, the insights generated helped to inform my actions and recommendations. I am sharing with you in this blog my second installment of what I have witnessed in Retail/Box colour and like in my previous Professional colourist […]
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