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    Advise for a Body Perm/Root Perm

    clynol do a perm gel in a tube, if you can get your hands on bendy plastic rollers or setting rollers you can do a root perm where there is no curl but plenty of lift, just use a tint brush and paint the gel onto the roots as you wind the rollers. The best way is to do a brick wind so there...
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    can u use different brand colour & developer?

    hi I always use warehouses own peroxide with what ever make of colour i'm using cos it's cheaper than buying brand developer, so yes you can use whatever developer with whatever brands. i've never had any probs ! also i mix different brands of colour together and that's always ok too, but never...
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    Paint Box-Pink dye

    you need to have pre bleached hair for it to be the right colour and it means to shampoo it straight away you'll find that the water carries on running pink for ages so if you're not doing it pink all over and you've got light hair it may leak into the other colour. If you've got dark and light...
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    help from all mobile and freelance hairdressers!!!!

    Hi bab, I used to be a mobile about ten years ago, you need insurance which isn't really that expensive ( or it wasn't 10 yrs ago lol ), which involves liabillity insurance, covers you for anything going wrong with clients hair skin etc... you need to ask the insurance about clients homes maybe...
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    Top Secret Shin Diggin investment

    does all this fun and education involve us hair geeks too ?:confused:
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    juniors ARGHHH

    juniors do, do your head in. this new generation of youngsters is amazing I really can't believe the way they are. It's as if they walk around in a day dream they can't understand simple instructions like please could you make a cup of tea, and they bring out the client a riffy old mug that is...
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    bleach that comes in a paint tin ?

    it's called Ligh(10) and it's an Italian brand and it is absolutley fabulous!! Yesterday I did back to back slices with the blue peroxide and the orange peroxide - georgeous (soz spellin is bad) I googled it and came up with a foreign site and evenually found some english and got the suppliers...
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    bleach that comes in a paint tin ?

    Hi all, I've been to the warehouse and just got some really good deals on stuff and took all the new stock straight bck to the salon and put it away, anyway I'm sitting here thinking and I'm dead excited because I got this white bleach that came in a silver paint tin and the peroxide came in...
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    Bright colours in the hair yes or no ?

    it was sort of a light creamy blonde on top and softer pastel rainbow colours around the edges and it was sort of cut in a soft zig zag layers around the edges too sounds lovely, I'm too punky for pretty hair - shame:cry: ooo, love to see it
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    Bright colours in the hair yes or no ?

    At the moment I.ve got a really funky purple fading into white blonde through the front of my hair and a block of purple at the back, the rest of my hair is a number 2. over the last 22 years doing hairdressing I've always had crazy colour in my hair, from little bits to the whole lot, I...
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    So how do you get on with your in laws then??

    My mom-in -law is a clone of Hyacynth Bucket !!! for about the first 15 years of knowing her, she was very embarassing, she'd screach at you over a crowded room and make you call everybody by their full names, she could never call me Debbie it would have to be Deborah, but now she has mellowed...
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    What's it like to live in the UK?

    I feel really guilty now for posting the post I did earlier, so I just thought I'd put this in and we could all sing along ! (I know it's about England so I do apologise to any one who's Scottish, Welsh or Irish but hey! I'm proud to be English x) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon...
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    Are you honest with your kid's about your past

    My son is 15 and we have brought him up in a very open and honest way. Both my hubby and myself tell him stories of what we used to get up to at his age and I like to think that he may learn from what we did wrong ??? He's a good lad, so far he's not given us any trouble, he's doing well at...
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    How have you got where you are today?

    Hiya, I always wanted my own salon from the moment I started college. When I was a young and very naive 22 I opened my own salon in a terrible spot, I didn't do any market research, all I had was some money my Aunt had left me in her will and this mad compulsion that I NEEDED my own business to...
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    What's it like to live in the UK?

    I understand about people who honestly cannot work but (as we all know) there are loads af them that can and don't and I know loads of them ! sorry if I offended anyone xx
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    What's it like to live in the UK?

    Over the last twenty years I have seen our country change, I am proud to be English but also embarassed, because of CHAVS, I hate them ! Most of us work really hard and then are taxed to high hell just to give them a living, so they can have a good life of pubbing it, wearing named clothes...
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    How did you meet your prince or princess charming?

    I known my hubby since I was 13, he was one of my brothers mates. I was seeing this other lad when I was 15 and I didn't like him that much so I asked Nick to pretend he'd asked me out so I could get rid of the other lad, and while we were pretending we decided to carry on. We have been...
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    professional tips for hairdressers

    what a good idea Minky ! 1. If you get tint on a clients clothes (or your own) BY ACCIDENT spray loads of hairspray over the stain before it dries in, when the garment is washed it will come out. 2. When you are training someone to cut, use gel in the hair as this helps towards neat sectioning...
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    Dismissing an Employee - trouble ahead

    Hi all girl in question has phoned me and apologised for being such a cow ! she has also got an interview tomorow at another salon and asked me for a reference, I of course have said no because I couldn't lie and say she is a good person and she said she understood !
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