Written between appointments
Chair notes
Care that works in this climate, what to do the week before colour, and plain answers to the questions that come up at the basin.
Bringing a photograph
Bring three, not one, and bring one you do not like. Both help more than you would think.
Washing in hard water
Kingston water leaves a film that makes colour look dull within a fortnight. What to do about it without buying anything expensive.
The week before you colour
Do not deep-condition the night before, do come in with day-old hair, and why the patch test is not us being difficult.
Why your curls behave in the salon and not at home
It is almost never the products. It is the water, the towel and the hour you are doing it.
Transitioning: the awkward middle
Two textures on one head for eight to eighteen months. What the first six of them feel like.
Two products that matter, four that do not
What we would buy with fifty dollars and what we would leave on the shelf.