The Journal
Hair tips, salon stories and Wanaka life — straight from the team.
Somewhere in your 40s or 50s your hair can quietly become a different animal — thinner on top, drier, more wiry, slower to grow, harder to style. It's not you doing something wrong. It's hormones, ...
If you're a few months postpartum and your hair is coming out in handfuls in the shower — take a breath. This is one of the most normal things that happens to a new mum's body, and it passes. We se...
Booking colour is confusing when the menu reads like another language. Here's the plain-English glossary — what each technique looks like, how often you'll be back, and who it actually suits — so y...
If you spend twenty minutes fighting frizz every morning, a salon smoothing treatment can genuinely change your life — but the names are a minefield, and some of what's out there isn't great for yo...
"Colour correction" is the most misunderstood — and most nerve-wracking — thing on a salon menu. If you've searched it after a box dye or a colour that went wrong, here's exactly what it is and why...
"Gloss", "glaze" and "toner" get used as if they're the same thing. They're not — and knowing the difference is the fastest way to keep your colour looking salon-fresh for weeks longer. These three...
There are two hard ways to deal with grey: keep covering it every four weeks forever, or stop cold and live with a stripe for a year. Grey blending is the third way — and it's the best thing to hap...
Heatless curls are the best thing that's happened to hair in years — zero damage, and you wake up done. But if yours fall out by lunchtime or come out frizzy, the problem isn't the method. It's the...
Ball season in Central Otago comes around fast — and the difference between hair that photographs beautifully at 7pm and hair that's still holding at midnight is preparation, not luck. Every winter...