As a co-founder for HAIRraising, I was invited to visit the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital this week with London Hairdresser of the Year, Darren Bain. We were both shown around the hospital by the lovely Lesley and Laura from...
Posted: 27 Feb 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
With the music and film awards season in full swing, I was requested by Pixie Lott to style her hair for The Brits last week where she was nominated for three awards. Pixie's flight from LA landed in London much later...
Posted: 26 Feb 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
I attended a lovely even to launch the HAIRraising campaign to the consumer press this week. It was held at Quaglinos restaurant in St James's. London and hosted by Hello magazine. I bumped into a lot of industry friends and...
Posted: 21 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
I am now officially a member of the Hairdressing Council. I'm really enjoying working as the Council's ambassador and hope that I have created awareness of state registration amongst younger hairdressers and people in the industry who are more current....
Well, my salon is finally open! After what feels like several decades of blood, sweat and, yes, I am not afraid to admit it, tears, it's up and running. People have been really positive, which has been great....
Posted: 15 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
I have been in Somerset all week setting up my new salon, and shouting at my builders. They forgot it was Valentine's Day so no-one worked on Saturday or Sunday; as a result we are two days behind schedule, so we've...
Posted: 22 Feb 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
We have seen a plethora of pregnancies being announced at HJ/HJi and the race to be first hotted up on Saturday when our Project Manager, Clare Jeffery and Online Producer, Alex Herrera's partner both went into labour. Clare was first to...
I was genuinely delighted today when I visited a salon and they had a HAIRraising collecting tin and explanatory leaflet on the reception desk. To see the effort that John Frieda and his team has put into making this initiative happen...
When I started this blog the idea was to point you to all the great content about hairdressing and the industry on HJi and around the web - and so far, I feel like I've let you down! BUT... I...
Posted: 11 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
There are lots of great things that can be said about the hairdressing industry and there are lots of very talented people, both from a creative and a business point of view. However, like any industry, there are also a...
Posted: 01 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
With summer virtually upon us - and updo's one of the key looks for the season - the dishevelled do ruled the red carpet at last night's Laurence Olivier Awards. Softly swept back to the nape, actresses Keira Knightley,...
Posted: 22 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
I judged the L'Oreal Professionnel Colour Trophy Young Colourist Award last week and there was one main influence in hundreds of the entries: Florence Welch. The flamouyant singer from Florence and the Machine inspired a whole host of hairdressers to...
Posted: 20 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
I'm a big fan of U.S TV series Supernatural, but had never really stopped to consider either of the male stars as hair style icons. If you felt like me, this video may just change your mind...or not. ...
Posted: 12 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
When I took off for Portugal to attend the Rand Rocket conference, I wasn't on the look out for great men's hair looks, but I found one....
I'm always interested to see who goes to which party after the ceremony and last night was no exception. Over at Elton's party, Kelly Osbourne looked radiant with her granny-chic lilac rinse styled in an old-fashioned Hollywood wave. Victoria Beckham tackled...
Posted: 08 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
You have to check out some of the looks that Lady Gaga is rocking for her appearance on Jonathan Ross this Friday. From insane ice maiden to electro telephone girl, she's pulled out all the stops for British TV and...
Posted: 04 Mar 2010 | FULL ARTICLE
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