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Hair and beauty
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The Popham treatment
Oxford hairdresser David Popham worked with Vidal Sassoon in Sixties London - so he has five decades of cutting experience. Yeah, I think I'll let him loose on my hair!
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The new Popham salon reviewed
Another Popham salon has popped up in central Oxford. Kerry Potter is seriously impressed as they fulfil her blonde ambitions.
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Breezy does it
The trend for blow-dry bars in London has reached Bourne End in a light, bright, welcoming studio.
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I’ve been ombréd!
Holy craparoo, I've turned blonde! Read on for more pics and to see how Tom Bishop Hair in Beaconsfield rock-chicked me.
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Tried and tested: Popham salon, Oxford
Can’t say I’ve ever done a hair review – until this one – where I had my hair cut at one salon and then legged it up to a second salon for my colour but you’ll find out why I did it in a bit. But let me introduce the salons, those of Popham Hairdressing, […]
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Hairbox – she’ll do your up-do!
Gawd bless the brilliant Hairbox, the tiny hair salon that’s, er, literally a boxroom on Marlow High Street, and happens to be home to the supercool, talented Carol Baxter. Size is important in Hairbox (isn’t it everywhere?), where Carol gives clients the one-to-one private VIP treatment, washing the hair, bringing coffee, proferring small Tiffany jewellery […]
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New year, new you, new barnet!
From time to time I have fantasies of cutting my hair short and edgy and cool and dying it blonde but I know I’ll just end up looking that bloke from Erasure. So I stick to what know – dark hair, and a lengthy bob that’s long enough to look feminine but not so straggly […]
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Cool little beauty room in Jericho, Oxford
Karolina Lipinska, beauty therapist and owner The Beauty Studio, is clearly a woman doing something very right. Her therapy space is behind an anonymous door, next to a chemist and entirely hidden to the world in Jericho (just around the corner from St Giles in central Oxford)… … yet a steady stream of clients […]
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Muddy tries Sculpsure, non-invasive fat-blasting. Yes, I’m serious.
Through this door (or if we’re being truthful, around the corner where it’s less obvious) is the S-Thetics clinic in Beaconsfield, winner just three days ago of Best New Practice South England and Wales at the #myfacemybody awards at the Park Lane Hilton. Those who read Muddy regularly know that I have an uncomfortable relationship […]
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A fantastic colour job at Gatsby & Miller, Amersham
It’s been a while since the Muddy barnet was tamed, and who better to Scissorhand it into shape than Gatsby & Miller, winners of the Muddy Award for Best Salon earlier this year? This Amersham-based salon has been around since 2011 but it’s clearly hit its stride over the last year – hot on the […]