The Journal
Hair tips, salon stories and Wanaka life — straight from the team.
The right hairspray holds your style without turning your hair into a helmet. The wrong one is why people think they hate hairspray. Hold is a spectrum, and the trick is matching it to what you act...
That glass-like shine you see on freshly blow-dried salon hair isn't only technique — a lot of it is the right oil-based care. Wella Oil Reflections is the range we use for it. Shine is really abou...
Wella Ultimate Repair is the range we hand to clients whose hair has been through it — heavy bleach, years of heat, the lot. Here's the honest verdict after using it on real heads. It's a four-step...
Seeing more hair in the brush is unsettling. Most of the time it's breakage and shedding you can genuinely improve — and we'll be honest about the part you can't. "Thinning" covers two different th...
"Bond building" gets used as a buzzword, so here's the plain version: these products rebuild the internal links inside your hair that bleach, heat and colour break down. Used right, they're the dif...
The fastest way to make your colour look freshly done — without booking in — is a colour-depositing mask. Wella Color Fresh is the one we send clients home with. Colour fades and shifts between app...
If your roots are flat and greasy by the next morning but your ends still feel dry, you don't have "oily hair" — you have an oily scalp and thirsty lengths. They need different treatment. The class...
Dry hair is rarely about not using enough conditioner. It's about how much moisture your hair is losing between washes — and a good shampoo is where you fix that. Central Otago is hard on hair: dry...
If your scalp is flaky, tight or itchy by the second day, the problem is almost never your hair — it's the skin underneath it. Dandruff is one of the most common things clients quietly ask us about...