So, this is the Tangle Teezer of Dragons Den TV fame… If I hadn’t spent all my money on Marc Jacobs and holidays, I wish I had invested in this little wonder!
The Tangle Teezer has become an essential part of my kit as I tend to shampoo and pop a treatment on models and celebs before I start working, and this slips through all the tangles and really spreads the conditioner through. Then, after applying mousse or thickener, it distributes the product evenly.

On my own hair, which is fine and super-tangly, the Tangle Teezer has made such a difference to the condition. Even when I’m in a rush it really pushes product into the sad ends!
I have also given them to friends with young daughters to stop piercing screams at bathtime.

Okay, so lets get to the obvious bit – it’s neon pink. Adore!! (Mind you, I also have it in purple…) It is my desert island product, along with a vat of hair treatment.
We got them into Hari’s and they sold out in a day, so I took one to Mexico and had my own little still-life shoot with it!

Hair can fry in the sun. As a blonde (tint-assisted), my hair goes a tacky yellow after a few days, so I end up looking more Blackpool Hen Night than the Harpers Bazaar Travel Section blonde I desire to be.

I take four or five holiday hair products with me and always recommend my clients do too. I even sacrificed precious shoe space in my rucksack for these!
Wella SP Shampoo for Sun is my shampoo of choice. If clients take their normal shampoo away with them, it won’t take out the chlorine or the sea salt, which personally I find more dangerous.

I also took the SP Aftersun treatment and a light Aftersun cream that I used on my skin and left in the ends of my hair. There’s also a product that you add to your normal conditioner to give it a sun protection factor, which I am loving!
It was all very good, and I also sat in the sun with treatments on, trying to work that gelled-back look!

So! After a busy year, I’ve been on a five-week break. (This part whispered guiltily… )Yes, I missed the snow!

Off I went to Mexico, with a rucksack. Such a traveller! I flew from town to city to beach and enjoyed five long weeks of colour saturation and texture overload… It was heaven.

I also had a real hair re-think – as you do when you’ve read all your magazines and finished your seventh novel and start wondering what happened to this particular character, only to realise they belonged to the book before last!

Anyhow, I have become inspired by a movie that I saw on the flight out: Julie and Julia. If you haven’t seen the movie, the character chooses to learn a recipe a day, cook it and write a blog all about it. This led me on my holiday to think about my own career and decide that this will be my Julie and Julia year! Armed with an ever-ready client – a doll’s head on a stand in my lounge (boyfriend not too happy as it doesn’t sit well next to his Eames chairs!) – I intend this year to learn a new hairstyle every week.

This is more tricky than it seems, as my schedule is completely nuts. But to assist me I have purchased a pile of hair books and  I am going back to hair school, in the form of a theatre hair course, and to Central Saint Martins College of Art to study Trend…
Gosh, I feel liberated just writing it! Just like the movie!

So I shall keep a diary of all I learn and I will photos of my work (as long as you promise not to leave rude comments!)…
What do you think?

This is a product that I mentioned last year in my summer kit bag  – but it now seems to be in my winter hair kit bag too!  It’s designed to be a sun protection spray but it is so great as a shine spray that I use it constantly. I use it in hair and then rake through a wide-tooth comb or just use my fingers, and the oil has a wonderful shine that shoots really well. I always put a towel underneath where I am working to avoid the model slipping on the floor!  

When removing from the hair, apply the shampoo first before water or use a shampoo designed for hair wax removal, like Black & White Shampoo.

It is designed for putting heat onto hair while developing hair treatments and drying curly hair (I think), but I just love it in a “I have two in case one blows up” kinda way.
It is the best for ruffled, beachy waves that you twiddle around your fingers while the soft waft of heat dries them, but it is also amazing to help process colour when there’s no Climazone handy… And for hair that you’ve sculpted into gelled Marcel waves… Also, it has a ring that lights up and dries without blasting at all…
I’m such a fan and have given several to curly-haired clients and friends who struggle in the winter months to get a good au naturel look

She Does Hair. I love this. It has so many how-to-do styles, and although it has been done for young girls’ school and church hair (well, it taught me a twist or two!), when I spoke to my assistant she rated it too. Stick with it and trust me. Put those twists on a hot girl about ten years older and they work! Really!!