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My Pick – Green

I will always remember being told when I lived in Hong Kong that wearing/having green in or on your hair means that you are a ‘lady of the night’ (their words not mine) Since then I’ve always been conscious not to have green in my hair, whether it was extensions (which I had then) or even flowers while living in Asia.

But, fast forward 20years and with all these gorgeous green hair pictures floating around, how can we even resist! Maybe we should just be ‘ladies of the night’ even if for a short stint..could be quite interesting!

Picture from MyHairdressers.com

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Hooker & Young

Gorgeous image by Hooker & Young, award winning salon from my part of the country, the North East of England. Owned by Gary Hooker and Michael Young.This company has numerous awards, too many to mention but it  includes:

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Awards

British Hairdresser of the Year
(Nominee)

British Colour Technician
of the Year (Winner)

North Eastern Hairdresser
of the Year (Winner x 11)

Avant Garde Hairdresser
of the Year (Finalist)

Artistic Team of the Year
(Finalist x 3)

With this lovely color and style we can see why they’ve managed to nab so many prestigious awards.

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Dekko’s Daily Grind ~ Kerina

Our favorite model/client Kerina comes in and changes her hair quite often, this is one of the reasons I wanted Kerina to be the face of Juju Chan’s first product Texture Powder Styler.

This picture shows the first step to her next change ~ going blonde and going back to her fringey look.

I (as usual) forgot to take the ‘before’ picture until after we shampooed, hence the wet hair, but anyway you can still get the idea. We cut the hair a little shorter this time, but went for a full on rounded fringe. Jill (Dekko’s co- owner and colorist) used L’Oreal to start the first stages of going lighter. Hair was styled with Oribe products.

I will keep you posted with each step of the way to show you the finished result…

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Found our new I.T. guy..

You may have noticed lately that my blog has been down.. Thanks to some infected bug/malware I thought I’d lost all my 4years of hard work. I really did think I was going to have to start from scratch.

Anyway Thanks to our new superhero IT man Paul Routledge.. All is ok in our world again!

Not only did he put it all back together again, but he did it with such speed and professionalism, we were so so grateful!

So if any of you have any IT website problems, I would not hesitate to contact Paul to sort your techie stuff out, its so important to have someone reliable and solid.  He specializes in PHP MySQL JavaScript, Ajax, Json, CSS3, HTML5 Jquery, Jquerymobile C++ et al

Anyway, here’s Paul’s info for you.

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And by the way – Paul’s a genius veteran Hair guy too, so if you happen to be in the Taiwan area, go get a haircut too : )

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Prediciting the future of color ~

Excerpt taken from Layeredonline.com  ~

‘Straighteners to dye for – we find out what science has in store for our hair

Word in the science lab is that we may soon be waving goodbye to messy DIY dye jobs in favour of a much cleaner way to colour our hair – simply with the swipe of a straightener. Scientists at the University of Mexico and Los Alamos National Labs are developing a state-of-the-art technique using ion beam straighteners – hot irons that can permanently switch the colour of your hair. How does it work? They’ve developed irons that can etch gratings onto individual hairs, creating different patterns so each follicle refracts light differently – by scanning the colour directly onto the hair fibres. Only issue is that it’s permanent. However, the scientists also aim to develop a conditioner that can mimic this effect, which can then be washed out. But before you rush out to buy, research is still in its early stages, and it won’t be making it into our salons any time soon. But good to know it’s not just our phones getting smarter.’

To read original article  layeredonline.com

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Hair Twister

Walked into H&M the other day and came across this contraption for the hair. We’ve all seen and played with the round donut types but this one is a simple long sponge twister, perfect for anyone who wants a bun at the nape of the neck.

Maybe you’ve all seen and played with this one too, I think its just me who’s abit out of touch with what’s selling out there nowadays but here it is for anyone interested..

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Full simple instructions as to how to use it, Viola! Cheap and Cheerful too!

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My Pick ~ Simplicity

I love this simple sophisticated look. Sometimes after seeing so many crazy ‘out there’ hairstyles, its good to get back to the basics, both in color and haircut and styling.

This one is by Ari Koponen and Cecilia Nygren from the Scandi Collection:

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