Category: hair

• December 14, 2014

  What colour will that box dye REALLY go on your hair?

  Box dyes aren’t always very accurate, are they? Sometimes, you can buy a hair dye and it says it’s black but it turns your hair green. What? How did that happen? Let me introduce you to my Doctrine of Colours:  How to work out what colours will come out like when you add them to…
• December 6, 2014

  Caring for long hair

  Caring for long hair: The best advice I have ever been given about caring for long hair is this: “Treat your hair like your grandmother’s best antique lace.” Obviously we don’t want to put it in a drawer and dry it flat, or only use it at Christmas, but there is a lot of wisdom…
• December 3, 2014

  Hair Dye 101: Bleaching your hair to white or silver blonde

  

  How to get silver blonde, white blonde, platinum blonde and silver hair. “It started as a sudden fancy…” Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment I believe that we are inspired to take our hair to its blonding limits. It sometimes feels like a labour of love – certainly, the frustrations and disappointments that can be felt if…