London Fashion Week: beauty trends

Where there’s fashion, there’s beauty, and with a host of make-up artists and hairdressers creating looks for Autumn/Winter 2013/2014, we give you the latest trends that we love.

 The hair trends

Keep it looking updated by creating a severe side parting as seen at Calvin Klein 

 

 Make hair sleek at the front with a high pony tail, and create loose waved ends to make hair bouncy and current. 

Like it centred or side? Do both for loose waves and for that 70s style wave.

Hair seen at the Victoria Beckham show was kept loose and casual. Follow the trend by gathering hair into a low pony tail and release strands of hair at the front.

The grunge is here to stay. Think tousled, think undone.

 

Beauty

 

Fresh and minimal was seen at both Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren

For more definition yet wanting to keep it minimal, a fine black line was added to the eye lids

  

Over at Donna Karen and Marc Jacobs, make-up was seen to be more dramatic by layering on the black around the eyes. In other words? Smokey is back.

 

Lips were seen to be stained and made up of wine 

Glossy lips are back this pre fall

 

The Balding Handbook: mourning the death of your hair

Drawing on his own hair loss experience, David Frank Stern has used Kübler-Ross’ ‘five stages of grief’ to create The Balding Handbook.

This is a self-help book with a difference, it describes the balding process through Kübler-Ross’ five stages of mourning; Denial & Isolation, Anger & Rage, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance.

Although David is in a better place now, his painful hair loss journey is a familiar one.

Stage One – Denial and Isolation. Within this section, David delicately discusses topics like ‘the bald man’s crack’, AKA baseball caps, yet also tackles harder head-wear like fedoras, sombreros and Indian headdresses. David claims that if you own more than six hats or spend more than five minutes rearranging your hair into any combover-type style, you may be in denial.

Stage Two – Anger & Rage. There’s no doubt that the balding man will often need an outlet for his fury. Stern provides some cathartic exercises to help with this, like defacing your bald ancestors’ graves or ripping the heads off Ken dolls, which surprisingly verge on the comedic side.

Stage Three – Bargaining. By stage three, balding brothers are looking to a higher power, begging god to give them their hair back. In this stage, Stern takes his suffering brothers through the entire sales process.

Stage Four – Depression. By now, you’ve realised that your hair loss is permanent and a feeling of hopelessness overwhelms you. However, Stern lets you know where to turn for words of comfort. He also encourages you to seek recovery by finding other bald brothers.

Stage Five – Acceptance. Your journey ends with a renewed sense of energy and purpose. Stern offers tips on writing obituaries and reinforces the fact that there is power in numbers.

The book is available to buy from www.thebaldinghandbook.com

Blogger’s documentation of her hair loss during chemotherapy makes the prospect of losing hair a much less daunting experience

This week, blogger and Breast Cancer sufferer, Laura Price, documented her hair loss experience during chemotherapy in her latest blog for The Huffington Post. The blog sees Price not only share her hair loss experience with photographic documentation, showing that it is not such a daunting thing to go through as would first seem, but she does so with wit and humour, her light hearted approach showing that hair loss cannot crush the human spirit, and that it is something that should be embraced, not feared.

As well as making light of the sensitive situation, stating ‘you save a fortune on shampoo and conditioner,’ Price gives a real, straight-forward picture of what hair loss meant for her, stating ‘Being bald hasn't exactly been the best thing to ever happen to me, but it certainly is liberating.’ While Price doesn't deny the fact that losing her hair was an unwanted obstacle to battle with, she notes that it should not be seen as a negative thing, but as something wholly liberating, if approached with a bit of humour and imagination.

Her advice on ‘How to lose your hair in 10 easy steps (ideally during chemotherapy)’ gives those going through the same process a guide to taking charge of their hair loss and not letting it beat them, with pieces of advice such as ‘ask a friendly local hairdresser to create a pixie crop,’ ‘Return to local hairdresser for full Sinead shave’ and ‘Don a wig and adopt an alter ego accordingly’ that will help people to overcome the thought of losing their hair.  

Price’s light advice gives those about to embark upon a similar experience, whether through chemotherapy or other means, some light relief, and shows that losing your hair is not as daunting as it would initially seem if you embrace the process and inject a bit of fun and humour. 

HIS Hair Manchester Open Day!

They’ve done Birmingham; They've done London… so it’s time to take on Manchester.

Following the huge success of the Harley Street open day last month, HIS are now taking their services up north, holding another open day, this time at their Manchester clinic.

You’ll have a chance to speak to the experts and see a live demo of award-winning celebrity hairdresser, Daniel Johnson, getting an MHT^® touch-up. Daniel is the man that styles the likes of Wayne Rooney, Mario Banotelli, Joleon Lescott  and Ashley Young, so whether you’re a red or blue man - come and get  first-hand experience of MHT^® and the results it can offer.

You’ll also get an opportunity to meet past clients and go for a free drop-in consultation on the day. It is recommended that you book a consultation time beforehand by emailing info@hishairclinic.com.

One past client that attended the Harley Street open day said “It was a pleasure for me to come up and spend some time with potential HIS clients considering the treatment and to share my own experience.

I know first hand that this is a massive decision to make and this kind of opportunity to meet former clients and to discuss common issues in an open, friendly environment was not available when I was first looking into HIS as a solution for myself.

Although I was only able to stay for a couple of hours, aside from English I met guys from Spain, Sweden and France all searching for a solution.”

The event will take place on Thursday 15^th November 2012 from 12noon to 7pm; there will be refreshments on the day.

RSVP by sending an email with your name and contact number to info@hishairclinic.com to give them an indication for catering and staffing.

For more information on the open day, you can call HIS Hair Clinic on 0845 604 4618.

()HIS Hair Manchester Clinic: 61 Oxford Street, Oxford Place, Manchester, M1 6EQ.