The Journal
Hair tips, salon stories and Wanaka life — straight from the team.
Most men are using a 2-in-1 from the supermarket and wondering why their hair won't sit. Salon-grade men's products are a small upgrade that makes a daily difference. You don't need a ten-step rout...
Fine, flat hair doesn't need more product — it needs the right product at the roots, applied to damp hair before you dry it. Mousse is still the best tool for the job. A good volumising mousse coat...
That effortless, lived-in texture — beachy waves, gritty root lift, piece-y separation — almost never happens on clean, soft hair. It's built with the right texture spray. Texturisers add grip and ...
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...