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🍂 PEELS SEASON 🍂

It’s the Season for Skin Renewal: Why Autumn Is the Perfect Time for Chemical Peels

As the weather cools and summer fades, our skin often shows the signs of months spent in the sun — dehydration, pigmentation, rough texture and a general lack of glow. Autumn and winter are the ideal seasons to treat your skin to a chemical peel. With less UV exposure and cooler temperatures, your skin can safely repair, renew and rejuvenate.

Why Have a Chemical Peel?

A chemical peel works by gently exfoliating the skin’s outermost layers using acids such as AHAs (alpha hydroxy acids) and BHAs (beta hydroxy acids). These ingredients dissolve the bonds between dull, dead skin cells, encouraging them to shed and reveal a fresher, smoother surface beneath. Peels stimulate cell renewal, boost collagen production, and help improve the absorption of your skincare products — giving you clearer, brighter, and more even-toned skin.

The Dermalogica Pro Power Peel Range ✨

Dermalogica’s professional peel system is one of the most advanced and customisable on the market. It offers three targeted formulas, which can be used alone, layered, or blended together for a completely tailored approach. This flexibility allows your skin therapist to design a peel experience suited to your specific needs and goals.

1. Advanced Renewal Peel 🌸

Ideal for mature or prematurely ageing skin, this peel uses glycolic acid to accelerate cell turnover and minimise the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. It helps smooth skin texture, even tone, and restore that healthy, luminous glow that often fades with age. Think of it as a fresh start for tired, sluggish skin.

2. Ultra Bright Peel

If your main concern is dullness, uneven tone, or hyperpigmentation, the UltraBright Peel delivers radiance in spades. Powered by lactic acid and phytic acid, it helps fade dark spots and discolouration while gently smoothing the skin’s surface. Perfect for anyone wanting that bright, glass-skin effect.

3. Power Clear Peel

Designed for breakout-prone or congested skin, this powerhouse treatment combines salicylic acid and mandelic acid to target excess oil, blackheads, and blemishes. It deeply cleanses pores, refines surface texture, and reduces post-blemish marks, leaving your skin feeling clear and calm

Customisation: The Beauty of Layering and Mixing

One of the most exciting features of the Dermalogica peel system is its flexibility. Peels can be used individually for focused results or layered and mixed for more advanced treatments. For example, a therapist might combine UltraBright with Power Clear to address both pigmentation and congestion, or layer Advanced Renewal for an age-fighting boost with added radiance. This customisation ensures your treatment evolves with your skin’s needs — whether you’re addressing sun damage, dullness, or texture.

Aftercare and Results ✨

Post-peel, it’s essential to nurture your skin. Hydration, barrier repair, and SPF protection are key to maintaining results and preventing sensitivity. Expect your skin to look brighter, smoother, and more even after just one treatment, with results compounding over a course of sessions.

In Summary

Autumn is the perfect time to invest in your skin and restore its natural vitality after summer. With Dermalogica’s Pro Power Peel range, your treatment is as unique as your skin — expertly blended to deliver visible, long-lasting results.

If you’re ready to reveal your healthiest, glowiest skin yet, now’s the perfect moment to book your peel.


K18 Biometric Hair science

Welcome to a world of limitless possibilities, where the journey is as exhilarating as the destination, and where every moment is an opportunity to make your mark.

K18 is a hair treatment that uses a patented peptide to repair damaged hair from the inside out: 

Hair self care with K18

K18 professional treatment offers a wide range of benefits for the hair. It is designed to repair and restore damaged hair, providing strength, softness, and improved overall health. The treatment works by reconnecting the disulfide bonds in the hair, which are essential for its structure and strength. This results in reduced breakage, improved elasticity, and enhanced manageability. K18 professional treatment also helps to protect the hair from future damage caused by heat styling, chemical treatments, and environmental stressors. Additionally, it can contribute to increased shine and smoothness, leaving the hair looking and feeling healthier.

  • How it works. K18’s K18Peptide™ penetrates the hair’s inner layers to reconnect broken keratin chains.This process is designed to reverse damage from bleach, colour, chemical services, and heat

Only £25 as an add on to any hair service

Pin Perfection…..

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The summer IS around the corner, despite all the rain … so now is the time to start that regular wax routine

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Whether you are wanting to dip your toe into the pool of hair free legs and go for pin perfection with a full or half leg wax…or are wanting to try the ever popular Hollywood / Brazilian intimate wax…we have a full menu to cater to all needs.

I offer a discrete and professional service, catering to both male and female clientele. Intimate waxing, body waxing and facial waxing using a combination of strip and peelable wax (sometimes referred to as hot and warm wax or strip and non strip wax)

OLAPLEX

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So i’m really loving the restorative power of the Olaplex…and believe me i’m cynical where hair products are concerned. I’ve been through a spell over overly bleaching my hair..and I’ve caused a lot of damage…breakage, excessive dryness and a lot of blown out cuticles…

yes yes, as a hair professional i do to my own hair what i would NEVER do with a client! So I’ve been using Olaplex on my own hair and I’ve been super impressed. Now don’t get me wrong, with the amount of damage I’ve done, it hasn’t restored it in one go, but after a few treatments the condition has visibly improved (and the internal integrity too) …and it looks much much healthier!

So i’m readying up a menu of services to hopefully suit all my clients and potential newbie clients too.

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The No. 1 treatment is the most intense and is always performed first, followed by the No. 2 treatment. However, for maintenance, the No. 2 treatment can also be used on its own. In fact, it’s said that Kim Kardashian goes to sleep with her No. 2 treatment on!


Add Olaplex to any existing service

Olaplex No.1 and No.2, wash and condition with Olaplex No.4 and No. 5 and a blowdry £45

Nails….

A well manicured nail can make all the difference to the overal look of a women.

She can be groomed head to toe, be wearing the nicest Jimmy choo’s, the freshest balyaged hair, but if her nails are chewed and worst yet still, grubby…it’s an instant ‘yuk’ factor.

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I’m not sure this is ALWAYS true, but it always makes me smile when i read it..!

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes that grungy half chipped nail varnish has a certain urban appeal…..lazy summer nights at home, curled up around the fire with a blanket..but it soon gets old and you are biting at the bit and itching to book that appointment to get a pro manicure put in its place!

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Nothing puts a smile on my face and allows me to be all ‘handsy’ like a fresh gel poish manicure! You know what i mean by handsy right….’oh let me pay’….as I hands over the notes with pretty nails, framing my face with my new manicure, or drumming them on the work top as the light reflects from the sheen…yes..’handsy’…i may have made it up but i’m sticking with it..!

Hair Insurance

 

say what…?

That’s right..there is now this little…and i mean little bottle of wonder called OLAPLEX.
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So you want the WHAT… HOW…. WHEN… WHERE…?

What..?

OLAPLEX helps repair the damage caused by PAST chemical services (colour, lightening/bleach/perming/straightening)
OLAPLEX helps repair the PAST damage caused by every day living…brushing, tonging, straightening, sun, wind, rain and chlorine.
OLAPLEX helps prevents FUTURE damage from chemical services and everyday living
 

How…?

I wont get too technical, but i do have the science if anyone is interested.
Lets just say OLAPLEX works inside the hair shaft on the bonds rather than the outer layer like conditioners do.
It doesn’t wash out. The new bonds are as permanent as the ones nature provides.
 

When…?

You can have a stand alone OLAPLEX treatment, or OLAPLEX added to an existing chemical service.
 

Stand Alone OLAPLEX Treatment £45.00

 
Including Olaplex treatment No. 1, No.2, Shampoo and Condition No. 5, No.6 and finally No.8 Bonding Oil to finish with a blowdry
 

ADD-ON OLAPLEX £25.00

If you are having a wash and blow dry,  a colour or a bleaching service, we can add this treatment in

Where..?

I work as a freelance Hairstylist.
Visit me in my private home salon, enjoy refreshments and have an indulgent treatment.

Party Season Hair

So you’re out late, up early,no time to look after your hair…  

Sound familiar…?

Well help is at hand…whether your hair is dry and tangled….or limp and oily…we can help you with 4 go to products in your Essential Kit: Dry Shampoo, Back Brush, Clip, Hair Oil

Dry Shampoo

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these little miracles in a bottle will instantly dry out any oily tresses, add a refreshing fragrance to your bonce, and give added oomph into lang limp locks.

Back Comb Brushbrush

Some things are worth a splurge, others are not…well, that’s my opinion anyway.

This is a simple backcomb brush, 95p from Wilkinsons, used to add volume. Its more gentle than a comb and gives a more even result.

Hair Oil

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My go to is Kadus Velvet Oil,
its a professional product,
so only available through salons (myself).

However there are many hair oils available on the market, look for Macademia oil and Argan oil.

Less is more and focus on the tips/ends (STAY AWAY FROM THE ROOTS)

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So when You wake up and you are faced with a birds nest…dry ends and tangled tresses  in the morning…what to do

Messy up do or a smooth back and twist up?
The trickiest bit…tip head upside-down…it may be screaming and thumping at this point if messybunphotos-2You’ve enjoyed the festive drinks a little too much !  But we wont be long so grin andbear it for a little nit!

Brush over the surface lightly..for stuborn knots make sure you start at the ends and ease up to the roots.

Gather the hair into a pony tail all around, and glide the brush down the back, sides and front, wrap a hair elastic around it several times and pull through in a messy up do or twist and clip.  Then add a little oil to the ends to refine  and add a luxurious fragrance to your hair.

 

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However, if Your faced with a lank oily mess….You need the Dry shampoo

Upside down…spray liberally to the roots..then massage in
This helps to work it into the oily roots.  Section by section back brush through the roots with the backcomb brush,and then smooth over the surface with a few stroke and simply leave, braid…or clip it up and away.

 

 

Post Summer Hair Care

So the summer holidays are over with, the memories are fading, but we are still left with dehydrated and sun damaged hair.

Fear not, there are a wealth of treatments available from either your Hair Salon,store beauty supplier/supermarket and even in your kitchen cupboard.

I’m a hair professional, i’m always going to advocate a professional salon treatment, because i see the benefits first hand. Your stylist will be able to tailor make the right treatment for you, and you get to relax and enjoy that wonderful head massage that accompanies a deluxe conditioning treatment.

BUT…we can’t all make the time, and don’t all have the money.oil
My next ‘go-to’ would all be the at home natural products.
Coconut oil is a really amazing natural hair conditioner. It’s solid at room temperature…or at least it will be now the summers over, so simply scoop some out and apply generously to the mid lengths and ends…

TIP..avoid your scalp and roots unless you want to have that oil slick feel.Simply wash out with a product cleansing shampoo and conditioner…voila.

However, if baths and scooping out oils aren’t your thing…then head over to any supermarket or chemist and you will see a plethora of goodies. Anything is better than nothing when it comes to conditioning hair….so get going girls and give your tresses a treat!

Curl-Up & Dye have stand alone Conditioning treatments which include an in-salon mask, ends balm a blow dry and a cuppa from&7.50 –  £20.