Standing in the hair colour section of the pharmacy can be perplexing. Not only do you have an overwhelming choice of colours and shades you also need to choose between semi-permanent and permanent formulations. So what’s the difference and what are the pros and cons of your choice? Semi-permanent color is composed of smaller molecules [...]

Now that summer is slowly rolling around, I’m contemplating going back to my blonde roots. OK, my roots aren’t exactly blonde, more of that dishwater shade, but nonetheless my currently dark hair colour feels far too wintery for my liking. It’s not uncommon to reach for the highlights at this time of the year to [...]

Baliage is a French hair colouring technique used to create natural, hand-painted highlights. In French, ‘le balayage’ means “strands of colour”. The method is freestyle and can be done in a chunky or subtle way, but the effect is usualy softer since the highlights are more sparse than with a methodical aluminum foil technique. It’s [...]

A new study from Superdrug claims that blonde women are choosing darker hair colours in the face of the recession. The thought is that blondes don’t get taken as seriously in the workplace and, due to fears of redundancy, are choosing a more ‘sensible’ colour. According to the report, around 62% of people think that [...]