Learned & Still Learning
When we returned to Ireland, we moved in with my parents until we got a place of our own. It was a lovely time spending so much time with them and I took the opportunity to clear out a few cupboards (or presses as we call them in Ireland). What I found was amazing, there […]
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Recently I was contacted by a pal who is currently working on an Education Program for Hairdressers in his part of the world. We had an interesting conversation and a bit of a debate about the importance of the different bonds in the hair. It’s a subject that has resurfaced in the last decade along […]
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You see it called out on hair products, written in articles, discussed among friends or even experienced it yourself when a Professional as in my case looks at your hair a tells you with pity you have fine hair or if lucky something else. Yes, hair comes in a variety of different sizes as well […]
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I am back designing education this time for the Moroccanoil brand and revisited the subject of the hair’s layers. It is one of the first hair theories we learn as a Professional, but its only through experience that we realise its importance as it helps to explain why things happen. Even recently during a coaching […]
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Henna has had a recent resurgence in the use of hair colouring and I was also pleased to read it is being looked at more closely in textile dying as it is a less-toxic approach to filling our lives with colourful cloth and yarn. Although a natural dye it does have its challenges for both […]
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As a child I was fascinated by how different everyone looked and I was particularly interesting in one of my Hockey team mates who had heterochromia iridum; heter (different) chromia (colour) iridum (iris), yes two different eye colours, I thought she was the most exotic person in my world. Later I learned that all of […]
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Hair! Our bodies are covered in it, we spend a lot of time, money and effort on it and it can communicate volumes about us to others. In this blog I look more closely at the hair fibre what it is made of and share some interesting facts about hair, OK I think they are […]
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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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