In completely non-surprising news, a Moneysaver HQ investigation has found that hair maintenance for women typically costs between $160-$250 every 6-8 weeks, compared to the average outlay of…
Category: Colouring + Wellbeing
Can Phthalates Cause Harm?
Many of us are actively trying to avoid exposure to unnecessary chemicals. Some chemicals are established allergens which can trigger unpleasant allergic reactions from either single use or…
Ask our Colourists!
Expertise, included! We don’t just bring you better hair colour with healthier ingredients, we include personalised expert colourist advice too. Colour selection and home colouring are just so…
How Hair Porosity Affects Hair Colour
Most non-colourists have never heard of porosity before when dealing with hair. It is always good to learn something new, so we’re letting you know a bit more…
Damaged Hair + Colouring
Straightening and drying and lightening and colouring and balayaging and straightening and heat styling and…. Friends, it’s a lot. Honestly, from glancing at hair (in a non-creepy way)…
Is your colour safe to use during pregnancy or when breast-feeding?
That’s exactly the kind of question a great mum or mum-to-be would ask, so well done for being fabulous at the mothering gig already! Firstly, congratulations on your…
Hair Colour Allergies – PPD Reactions
When someone has an allergy to hair dye, they are most likely allergic to one of the chemicals in the dye rather than the entire product. The most…
Travelling and Colouring
Travelling around the world is all well and good if you have super low maintenance hair or you colour just for kicks every 2-3 months. Pack sensibly, learn…
Salon colour which is completely free from animal products!
Not only is our entire colour range cruelty free, we are also very proud to report that it is also free from any ingredients which are derived from…
We Care About More Than Hair
We Care About More Than Hair Yes, we do! We also care about the environment and, you know, our children’s future on this planet. We try to tread…
10 Tips to Keep Your Red Hair Vibrant
Red, copper, strawberry, oh my! Shades of red can be deep and rich, or they can go soft and understated—but they all seem to come out quickly in…
10 Pro Tips For Your Best Blonde Hair Colour
We know that blondes love their hair. We also know that blonde is the highest maintenance colour around. We’ve put together our top ten tips to keep your…
How to Colour Hair Which Already Has Colour In It
If you’re currently home colouring, or thinking about it, chances are you have coloured your hair before. Colouring hair which has been coloured previously adds a few more…
Top 10 Tips To Keep Your Brunette Colour Rich and Fresh
Brunette colours are popular, beautiful, versatile and easy to live with and love. While they are easier to maintain than red or blonde colours, every brunette can benefit…
6 Ways to Get the Most out of Your Hair Colour Plan
Wait, on a Colour Plan you can fine-tune your custom colour, control your delivery schedule, and you kick this off with reuseable salon accessories to deck out my home…
Let’s talk about hair colour, time and money
Let’s take a look in the mirror and a moment to think about what we spend, in terms of time and money on our hair colour. Aussies are…
The Definitive Hair Colouring Dictionary
Did you know that increasing your vocabulary can increase your IQ? We’re going to raise your colourist IQ through the roof by getting you across the colouring lingo.…
Cruelty Free Colour – Our Colour is Free From Animal Testing
We love great hair, and making womens’ lives easier. We are also quite keen on making animals lives easier. The Shade is opposed to animal testing and we…
How to stop colouring and start embracing the greys
Are you sick of the grey hair battle and thinking about going grey? If Sarah Harris, deputy editor of British Vogue can do it, while shaping beauty and…
Anatomy of Great Colour
We don’t just want gorgeous, multi-dimensional great colour, we want our colour to promote hair health. A pretty colour with over-processed and tired looking hair isn’t going to…