Going Grey – Should or Shouldn’t?

I found my first grey hair at age 15 – easy to spot because my hair was so dark. I’m now around 80% grey and dye the roots every 3 weeks. I don’t feel ready to be grey, I feel it’s ageing on me and doesn’t feel like ‘me’ at all. I’ve done a dodgy [...]

What Colour Shoes to Choose?

Have you ever heard of the term Visual Grouping (we group like with like to make it easier for our brains to work through all the millions of bits of data it has to contend with second by second)? This principle can help you when deciding on a shoe colour to wear with your skirts [...]

How to Disguise Grey Roots

What on earth is that picture? It’s the top of my head – and more importantly – my grey roots. I didn’t use a flash when taking the picture so that’s not some glossy, flashy rebounding light, it is my hair 3 weeks after I last dyed it – alas my ‘light black’ (as my [...]

Do You Wash Your Hair Everyday?

I used to wash my hair everyday – but the constant blowdrying and my greying hair (yes it’s pretty grey underneath that brown dye) was drying out my hair. My hairdresser (Mick from Biba, Doncaster) suggested I try a dry shampoo to use every second day. I was pretty sceptical as I’d tried one some [...]

How to Disguise a Bad Hair Day with Style

Today I wasn’t seeing clients, so I decided not to wash my hair, I also decided to give it a rest from hot styling tools which I have to use to tame it every day, but I still have to do the school and kindy drop offs and pick ups so need to keep it [...]

How to Blow Dry a Bob in 3 Minutes

.. I decided to find a new hairdresser late last year, after not having a hairdresser who I was really happy with for the past few years,  and have been trying different stylists at local hair salons for around 4 years since I moved house to a new area of Melbourne.   Anyway, to cut [...]