THE IMPORTANCE OF A HAIR CONSULTATION BEFORE A COLOUR SERVICE

Are there any rules about what colour your hair should be? Absolutely not!

We love interjecting your personality into your hair, and if you’re happy, so are we.

Have you had your hair colour done countless times over the years, or is it your first time?

Maybe you want multi-tonal hair colour with shades and tones running through, perhaps you want an all over colour, perhaps you want the latest season and fashion favourites, or you want to go all out and try something different.

Whatever you’d like to achieve, getting to the core of what you want is critical before letting anyone, including yourself, make those changes to your hair. Some things need to be considered first.

What are the real reasons behind a hair consultation?

WHAT IS HYALURONIC ACID?

Oooooo where do we start! We LOVE Hyaluronic Acid!

Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance in skin known for its incredible capacity to attract and hold onto 1000x its weight in water / moisture. It assists in replenishing skin to enhance a healthy, supple look and feel.

It works like a sponge, to help retain the moisture and plump the skin.

As we age our skin loses the ability to retain the water, and the amount of Hyaluronic Acid that our body naturally creates depletes. (Yet another downside to ageing, sorry folks!) Over time, wrinkles and lines will form and our skin will lose it’s ‘bounce’.

It works alongside Vitamin A incredibly well. It attracts and holds onto moisture in the skin cells and gives the skin more of a plumped and smooth appearance! When you’re using products containing Vitamin A alongside Hyaluronic Acid, your skin is set for a breath of fresh air….

SKIN NEEDLING / MICRO NEEDLING AT HOME

Needling the skin is something that is SUPER effective… when it's done in the correct way, with the correct tools, following on with the correct products!

What's the purpose of micro-needling? It's designed to push your active topical skincare deeper into your skin. The needles create tiny little channels where the products saturate to lower layers of the skin, and we always hit home about getting the products to the lowest layers will create more change - FACT.

Environ launched the world's FIRST cosmetic roller and pioneered the concept of Micro-Needling more than 20 years ago.

The truth is, when you move up the scale with your Vitamin A levels, your skin becomes more protected, which is exactly what we want, but it also means we need to do more to get what we want to where it needs it - which is where the needling comes in.

Microneedling / at home skin rollers / Skin Needling all mean the same thing and is something that we highly recommend…

THE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT RETINOL

Retinol is a true buzz word when it comes to skincare, but there's a lot of confusion that surrounds it. Let's dig deep into what it actually is.

Fact - Retinol IS VITAMIN A. Yep. It's the same thing.

Vitamin A comes in many different forms. And Retinol is simply one of them.

The many forms derived from Vitamin A ultimately, all of these forms do the exact same thing. Inside the skin, they change to Retinoic Acid.

All of these forms of Vitamin A transform in the skin to Retinoic Acid at different speeds, and it's this that the skin recognises and thrives from to become healthy and helps to repair skin cells as well as a whole host of benefits- It will strengthen the skin, boost immunity, balance oil production and has HUGE anti-ageing benefits.

It’s the way the skin will cope with them that differentiates between them. Let’s dig deeper…

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