Notes On Beauty & Craft
Expert guidance from our stylists, colourists and estheticians — the same advice we give in the chair.
The Ultimate Bridal Beauty Timeline: 6 Months Out
From the first trial to your wedding-morning touch-up — here's exactly when to book every treatment for skin and hair that photograph beautifully.
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Balayage vs. Highlights: Which Is Right For You?
Two of our most-requested colour techniques, decoded — the real differences in process, maintenance, and the finished look each one gives you.
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Inside Our Signature Facial: What Really Happens
A step-by-step look at the 75-minute ritual our estheticians perform on almost every first-time visitor — and why the order of steps matters.
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Nail Trends We're Loving This Season
From glazed almond tips to micro French detailing — the looks our nail artists are being asked for most, and how to make them last.
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5 Signs You Need a Hair Health Reset
Breakage, dullness, and a scalp that never quite feels balanced — here's how to tell when it's time to pause styling and focus on repair.
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How Often Should You Really Get a Haircut?
The honest answer isn't "every six weeks" for everyone. It depends on your length, your goals, and how your hair actually grows.
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Written By The People In The Chair
The Journal exists because the same questions come up week after week, and a two-minute answer between appointments never quite does them justice.
Technique, Explained Plainly
What separates balayage from foils, why lightening has a limit, how long a keratin result really lasts and what shortens it. Written by the colourists who do the work, so the detail is the same detail you would get in consultation rather than a simplified version of it.
What Actually Changes Skin
Which treatments build results over a course and which are one-off, how often a facial is genuinely useful, and how to prepare so an appointment is not wasted. Our skin specialist writes these, including the parts that argue against booking something you do not need.
Timelines That Hold Up
When to book a trial, when to stop trying new things, and how to sequence colour, skin and nails across the months before a wedding. Mostly written as calendars, because that is the form the question always takes.
Why It Is Not A Blog
We publish roughly monthly and only when there is something worth saying. There is no content schedule to fill, no keyword list, and nothing written by anyone who has not stood behind the chair doing the thing they are describing. Every entry carries the name and role of whoever wrote it, so you can see whether a piece about colour was written by a colourist or a copywriter.
If a piece here saves you a wasted appointment, or convinces you that the service you were about to book is not the one you need, it has done its job. Several of these articles started as a question a client asked in the chair, which we then realised we were answering almost weekly.
Journal Questions
Who writes the Journal?
The artists themselves — our colourists, therapists and skin specialists write about their own disciplines rather than a marketing team writing around them. Each entry carries the name and role of whoever wrote it.
The aim is that an article says the same thing your artist would say in the chair, at the same level of detail.
How often do you publish?
Roughly monthly. We would rather publish one properly considered guide than fill a schedule with thin posts, so the pace follows what is actually worth writing about.
Can I ask for a particular topic?
Yes — mention it at your next appointment or send it to the studio email. A good proportion of what appears here started as a question someone asked in the chair and we realised we were answering weekly.