Hair Care

Leading London salon Karine Jackson Hair & Beauty is celebrating reaching the finals in two prestigious awards. Karine herself is a national finalist at the GHD Awards, while protégé Simon Hall has qualified for the London Regional Finals of the L’Oreal Colour Trophy with the gorgeous bobbed image above.

Superdrug has announced that sales of home perming kits are up 50 per cent on the same period in 2007 - and that over the last week alone they sold more than they did in all of February 2006.

Two thirds of British women (73 per cent) admit that their hair affects their confidence according to a national poll by new hair loss supplement, Viviscal, with styles forced upon them as children leaving a lasting impression.

Carolyn Newman Colour Director for Charles Worthington gives her top trends, must have products and tricks of the trade for this season. Here’s how to turn heads this spring . . .

Sick of the annual celebration of smug coupledom in February? Then say no to Valentine’s Day and pamper yourself instead! Gorgeous London salon, Eleven at 11 Blenheim Street, is offering a respite from the excess of hearts and flowers this Valentine’s Day.

Errol Douglas will attend a ceremony at Buckingham Palace on February 13 to receive an MBE for services to hairdressing. The top stylist, whose Knightsbridge salon celebrates its 10th birthday this year, is among the cream of the hairdressing industry, and at just 43 years old has already won or been nominated for several of the world’s most coveted hairdressing awards.

One in five men in the UK are more frightened of going bald than losing their health, turning senile, losing their sexual virility, or gaining wrinkles, a new survey has revealed.

Leading UK salon owner Rae Palmer, one of the UK’s leading colourists and an ambassador for product company Schwarzkopf, is currently training at the prestigious Institute of Trichologists so that she can offer dedicated trichology services at her luxury South Coast salon.

As celebs like David Beckham, Madonna and Posh Spice know all too well, regular reinvention is essential to if you want to stay ahead of the game. That’s why hair care innovators Kadus (part of Procter & Gamble) have given their celebrated Slalom styling range a hot new makeover to make it easier for you to spruce up your style.

Errol Douglas starts 2008 with the exciting news that he is to receive an MBE for services to hairdressing.