Hair & Make up

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!
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.
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Tried & Tested: Matthew Clulee hair salon, Oxford

Given the amount I have my hair bouffed and coiffed, it’s bizarre that I’ve tried out so few hairdressers in central Oxford, so it’s been with much pleasure and curiosity that my latest hair review is Matthew Clulee, who actually has two salons, a New York loft-style one in Ship Street, the other across the […]
Snip snip: Muddy tries Abstract Hairdressing (Beaconsfield)

The one thing that’s a dead cert when I go the hairdresser’s is that I’ll need a dye job. My hair is now Fifty Shades of Grey, a hue alluring only to the over eighties, and so a salon’s colour credentials are right at the top of my checklist. Abstract Hairdressing in Beaconsfield boasts three […]