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Hairdresser reveals why you should NEVER pluck your grey hairs

A world-renowned hairdresser has cautioned people against plucking out their grey hairs, claiming it does a lot more harm than good. Grey hairs are caused by the follicle failing to produce melanin, and therefore lose their colour: a process that is most often caused by the natural ageing process and sometimes stress. Trey Gillen, hairstylist and creative director of education at Sachajuan told Yahoo that trying to pull out grey hairs is cause for more damage. He said, “Plucking can traumatise the hair follicle, and you can damage it to the point where it will no longer grow any hair.” “If you're a serial plucker, repeated 'plucking trauma' can even cause infection, scar formation, and bald patches.” In recent years, scientists have finally proved what conventional wisdom has been telling us for decades - that being stressed causes hair to go grey prematurely. However, in a stunning revelation, researchers from Columbia University also found the process can be reversed in hairs that have only recently turned grey. Scientists say that reducing stress could stave off grey hair, and it is hoped drugs could be developed to further prevent the unwanted process. Image credits: Getty Images

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Hairdresser has her fringe chewed off by her guinea pig

After a tipsy night out, hairdresser Gara Sullivan decided to lay down and have a cuddle with her guinea pig named Dixie. After falling asleep with the small critter, the 29-year-old from Kentucky woke up and made a horrifying discovery when she looked in the mirror. Dixie, the three-year-old pet, had nibbled off a chunk of her fringe! Initially, Gara was concerned about the wellbeing of her cheeky pet, wondering if Dixie would become sick after swallowing clumps of hair. Luckily, she then found her detached hairs sitting next to a very guilty looking guinea pig, realising she had chewed them off and just left them. Gara shared the hilarious situation with her social media followers, with many joking that Dixie was merely planning to make her own “guinea-wig”. Other commenters, including Gara, agreed that the naked guinea pig was simply jealous of Gara’s long locks. Gara said, 'She doesn't have any hair - it's like she's jealous of mine. She has a little hair on her nose but that's it, other than that she's completely naked.” “She'd had quite the meal, it was crazy. I take naps with her all the time but if I'm drunk, my boyfriend will create a little bed on the floor for me because he knows I like to snuggle with her.” “I fell asleep and when I woke up in the morning, I went to the bathroom, looked at myself in the mirror and my bangs were gone.” Gara has had to rearrange her hair to make the tuft of hair not show, as she worries the hair will take at least six months to grow back. For now, the hairdresser has vowed to end her little sleepovers with Dixie, unless she has a few too many drinks and feels like a cuddle. Image credits: TikTok / Instagram @garasullivan

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Joh Bailey opens up on working with Princess Di: “Very laid back”

Iconic Sydney hairdresser Joh Bailey has opened up about working with Princess Diana, admitting he believed the offer to work with her was nothing short of a “prank”. In 1995, Joh Bailey received the offer of a lifetime from Buckingham Palace to work with the Princess of Wales during her visit to Australia in 1996. The Australian man prepared the royal’s hair while she was in Sydney in 1996, for her daytime and evening engagements. Bailey told him that the palace informed him of “one stipulation.” “If it got out beforehand then I wouldn't be able to do it, so I wasn't allowed to tell anyone,” he said. "She was the most famous woman in the world and the most glamorous. "And I'm a real royalist, so it was like all my dreams coming true at once. My favourite person on the planet. "It would be akin to doing Meghan Markle, I suppose, today… that level of fame. Everybody loved Diana." Diana came to Sydney in November 1996 to open the new Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, just a few months after her divorce from Prince Charles had been finalised. Bailey revealed he’d had a “protocol meeting” with Diana's lady-in-waiting, saying he was to address the royal firstly as "Diana, Princess of Wales" then later as "Princess", "the Princess" or "Ma'am". "[They said] 'Her name is Diana, Princess of Wales, don't ever call her Princess Diana or Lady Diana, that's not her name',” he said. "I thought, 'Oh my God, the pressure is on, what if I say Lady Di'? "As it turns out, had I done it she would not have cared less." While he was told the initial introduction would be "quite formal”, the experience was anything but the moment he entered the Presidential Suite at the Ritz-Carlton in Double Bay (now the InterContinental). "I'd been told all this stuff would happen,” he said. “There’d be this formal meeting and it never happened, which rattled me even further and I thought, 'Do I just say hello?’ "Then I said to her, 'I'm Joh Bailey and I think I know who you are' and she sort of laughed and I did this awkward, wobbly half-bow-half curtsy, the most ridiculous thing, and she laughed and said 'Get up, stop that'. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842171/diana.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/0117bd370e374d1e81239b54e349787a" /> "And from then on, she was the nicest, most natural person that I had ever met – beautiful." What surprised Bailey most was the freedom he had while working with Princess Diana, even being told by the royal: "You just do whatever you like". "I wasn't expecting that at all," he said. While many would provide "look books and story boards, 'this is the outfit, this is the jewellery', that sort of thing, but there was none of that". "She was actually very laid-back. There was no airs and graces with her, there was no royalty, it was like meeting a nice girl from down the street." Bailey explained the royal was unbelievably laidback, and even surprised him with her casual demeanour. "While I was blow-drying her hair at the dining room table, she put her foot up and painted her toenails herself," he says. "She just got out a bottle of nail polish and painted her toenails at the table, it was so cool." Diana would later step out onto the Sydney street’s in a one-shoulder blue satin Versace gown, her aquamarine cocktail ring and statement pearl necklace and diamond earrings. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842168/diana-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/91858054ead34160945ab70bac222c8a" /> The ring is now worn by the Duchess of Sussex while the Duchess of Cambridge has the other extravagant jewels in her possession. Bailey admitted he felt "unbelievably pressured" to get everything perfect for the night. "That was the one when all eyes were going to be on her." He says his royal client never complained however, and kept her cool demeanour. "She was always happy with it, with her hair, she never said 'let's change this' or 'do that' or anything. She just sat there and had it done and said 'thank you'." Bailey said the press were relentless, and every waking hour would be spent chasing after the royal. He said it was like being "in lockdown… just from the press". "They were all in trees and on top of buildings, the hotel had crowds in front of it wanting to get a glimpse of her coming in or out," he said. "She was on the fifth floor, and if you looked outside her window all you could see were cameras with those great big long lenses, literally in trees on the top of people's apartment buildings, hanging out of windows. Hundreds of them. I've never seen anything like it. "The curtains were drawn the whole time she was there. It was quite sad, I suppose." <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842170/diana-3.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/b9f3fa92591148358d42a7cb87d9766d" /> During Di’s visit to Sydney, the princess attended several events at St Vincent's Hospital, the Sacred Heart Hospice, the Convention Centre and The Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute. Bailey said he believes that despite the endless love and adoration that the royal "felt lonely". "A couple of times, say I went [to the hotel in the morning] and the car wasn't picking her up until midday, she would say, 'Can you just hang out for a little while, I am a bit lonely, or bored, and just have a chat?'." Bailey said it was "just her and I in the room". "One day she said, 'Do you want a cup of tea?' and she got up, found the teabag and put the kettle on, jiggled the thing herself and handed it to me, she was very normal." He revealed that Diana spoke openly “about everything, really". "Her children, she spoke about them a lot, she spoke about the Queen, about the divorce, she spoke about everything that was happening at the time, very nonchalant, not guarded, she just talked." The Princess of Wales mentioned her eldest, William, and even told Bailey that she missed them, in a motherly way. Bailey was one of many who fell under Diana's spell and remembers clearly her "natural beauty". "Her skin was absolutely beautiful, she was tall, elegant, broad-shouldered. She had the most beautiful fingernails and teeth and eyes I have ever seen – everything bright, shiny, immaculate." He admitted he even kept a memento from their time together – a lock of Diana's hair. "The front fringe of her hair was a bit long and I said, 'I'm just going to take this off' and then collected it – it's in a little sealed plastic bag in a safe." He described her hair as "very thick and very heavy hair, beautiful". "She had highlights and a perm, believe it or not. [It was a] very '90s thing to do, or '80s even, to perm it then blow it straight so it would give it that extra body." Bailey revealed he was even lucky enough to be asked by Diana if they would like a photo together, a generous offer he couldn’t refuse. "I was a bit scared to ask but she [offered]. And then she said to me, I don't know whether she meant it or not, 'If you're ever in London, look me up at Kensington Palace and maybe come over and have a cup of tea'." Sadly, Bailey never had the opportunity to take the royal up on that offer, as she tragically died in a car crash nine months later. The Australian hairdresser has gone on to do the hair of Sarah, the Duchess of York, and Zara Tindall. He said the experience with Diana “was exhilarating, the whole thing. “Definitely the highlight of my career." Images: Getty

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Hairdresser who charged $2,500 cops backlash: “outrageous”

A hairdresser in the US has sparked a major debate after she shared some of her work transformations that she’s completed to the social media app TikTok. While her work is nothing short of spectacular, observers couldn’t help but call out Jasmine Policarpo, who posts to the TikTok account @byprado_, for the amount she charges customers. Jasmine was forced to defend herself when followers began asking why she charged her client $2,500 after she transformed her from a soft, mousy brown to a silver-blonde. The caption of Jasmine's clip revealed the salon charged $199 an hour ($135USD) for their services. <img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842035/hairdresser-tiktok.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/851dced54dda4eab9a2a3b45e641f284" /> Images: @byprado_ The customer racked up a total of 13 hours, leading to a $2480 ($1800USD) beauty bill. Jasmine said in a voiceover: "I did not think my last post was going to make so many people mad with how much I charge. But I think this one is going to make you madder." The video went on to amass a flurry of comments and has been viewed 1.3 million times. "It does not take 13 hours to do hair, what a rip off," one person wrote. "Could easily be done in 5-7 hours," another added. "Insane and not necessary," a third reaction said. However, not everyone was against the hairdresser, with many people commending the TikToker for building a loyal customer base. "Honestly to the people complaining about the price, just find someone else?" read one comment. "Everyone chooses to spend their money differently. My clients choose to spend it on their hair," Jasmine said in another clip. "And they leave happy so I don't know why so many people are mad."

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What I learned as a hairdresser in a war zone

I don’t think my life is much different from anyone else’s, except that I decided to be a hairdresser in a war zone. When I first arrived in Kabul, I felt like I had been transported to biblical times – only most of the people had guns and I only had my scissors. It wasn't until I spent time in Afghanistan that I learned how powerful my trade of hairdressing was. The minute I pulled out my scissors and cape, I felt like the most popular kid in class – everyone wanted a haircut or colour. People like to think that because women are covered, they are plain – no makeup and hair undone. Let me tell you – that is the opposite of the truth. I have always gone that extra mile with my own hair and makeup, but these women made me look like a Plain Jane. One lady told me how she drove 12 hours over the Khyber Pass to Pakistan – dodging the Taliban the entire way – just to get foils and a good haircut. The Taliban had forced the salons to close and a few had gone underground. I was stunned at the risk these women took just so they could have their hair done for a wedding party – a custom that had always been a strong part of the culture but was now against the law. It was when I walked into that first salon that I knew there was no turning back. I was going to do something for my sister hairdressers. I realised that hairdressing was a fantastic portable skill, one that was perfect for Afghanistan, and one that could give women choices and a way to feed their family. This was a skill that could be done in or out of the home, and it would be a sanctuary for women only. No man could control – or even step foot into – the salon. It would be such an empowering place for the women to be free. Opening the Kabul Beauty School was one of the most rewarding but difficult things I have done in my life. In the beginning, when I was working with so many young Afghan women at the school, I felt so overwhelmed by the traumas that each of these girls had endured for so many years. But on the other hand, I saw the strength and power that each of these young women seemed to have been born with. I was horrified when I heard about arranged marriages at the age of twelve, how so many had to flee their homes for years due to the Taliban, and about those who had to stop going to school in fourth grade because of war. I was amazed at the core strength of these women. I never had the intention of being a writer, but I always wrote. I kept daily notes and journals so that my head could purge some of the information it was gathering each day. Often, I felt that I was on overload, I was out of my comfort zone, I was out of my element, and each day, I was listening to a new and difficult story that one of the girls needed to share. The more I wrote, the more I began to understand that these women didn't need my pity, that we really are all the same. Like them, I am a woman, I am a mother, and I am a daughter. When I realised that, it all came together and the fun began. When I stopped looking at them as poor, tragic Afghan women, and instead as women who had gone through lots of stuff and who now wanted to move forward – just like most of us – everything changed. I decided I wanted the world to see these beautiful women as I did. I wanted them to be more than a news clip or a sound bite. I wanted the world to see them through my eyes. Afghanistan is a complicated place, and so when I left, I felt shattered. I had really thought that I would spend the rest of my life in Kabul; I never saw myself moving back to the United States. I missed the girls and my old life so badly, and spent the next few years grieving the loss of my Afghan family. Because I didn't want to let go of Afghanistan, the only way I could keep it close was to keep writing about it. I told my agent that I really wanted to write another book, but this time I wanted to write fiction. I wanted to write happy endings. I figured if you put it in writing, just maybe it will happen in real life. Also, I had to prove to my kids that I wasn't a one-hit wonder. I have learned so much about myself while writing my five books. I’ve learned that I am a storyteller first and a writer second. I love the process of developing a book. I love how the characters come alive and become your best friends, and how some turn into people you never want to see again. Writing is my best therapy, it is my best friend, it is a true companion. Deborah Rodriguez’s new book, The Zanzibar Wife is available now (Penguin Random House, RRP $32.99). Written by Deborah Rodriguez. Republished with permission of <a href="https://www.wyza.com.au/articles/lifestyle/wyza-life/what-i-learned-as-a-hairdresser-in-a-war-zone.aspx">Wyza.com.au.</a>

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Hairdresser’s warning over popular hair product sold at Woolworths

A Queensland hairdresser has slammed a major supermarket over its knowledge of the hair products it stocks in store. According to Marie Nieuwoudt, a North Lakes hairdresser, “professional use” products are currently being sold at Woolworths and are putting customers at risk because staff are unable to provide the right advice on how to use them. Ms Nieuwoudt has been a hairdresser for 30 years. “We train for years to have that insight, to know how to use these chemicals,” she said. Ms Nieuwoudt was outraged that professional haircare brand Sol-fine is being sold on supermarket shelves. She was surprised when she stumbled upon the products at the Woolworths North Lakes store last week. <img style="width: 0px; height:0px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7820775/solfine_product.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/3986b9796c2347518d4c870470370709" /> Ms Nieuwoudt claims that there was not one single staff member who could properly instruct her on how to use the product, labelled “professional use only.” Unlike other hair dyes on the market, this one must be carefully mixed according to a specific ratio. Ms Nieuwoudt said that those suffering from conditions such as psoriasis can have an adverse reaction to the ingredients. The product is also available online and from other retailers. The product distributor says that the hair dye should be displayed on a separate stand which provides more information on the hair colour. The box contains a leaflet, instructing consumers on how to use the product, including mixing methods and timing. “My question to Woolworths is, how are you protecting your customers?” Ms Nieuwoudt said. In a statement to <a href="https://au.news.yahoo.com/hairdressers-warning-hair-dye-sold-woolworths-125416068.html">7 News</a>, Woolworths said it treats the concerns and wellbeing of their customers very seriously. According to the supermarket giant, the product complies with all hair dye regulations in Australia. They added that Woolworths North Lakes would be receiving a product display stand shortly.

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Hairdressers can spot skin cancers and save your life

New research has found an unlikely new ally in the fight against cancer – hairdressers. Yep, your humble barber or hair stylist could in fact save your life. A recent study by the Australasian College of Dermatologists has found that hairdressers could be uniquely qualified to spot melanomas on the head, particularly in men with thinning hair. It was discovered that 5 per cent of the 237 patients involved in the study first suspected they had skin cancer after it was pointed out their hairdresser. “In Australia, where we have one of the highest rates of melanoma in the world, it is important that everyone is aware of recognising changes to spots or nodules on their own skin and on others,” said head researcher Professor John Kelly. The Australasian College of Dermatologists hopes these new findings will encourage more hairdressers to bring any skin anomalies to the attention of their client. “Aggressive melanomas can grow quite quickly and therefore, if you see any changes to your scalp that do not resolve after a month, do not put it off, see your doctor immediately,” Kelly added. To prevent skin cancer, particularly on the scalp, it is recommended that all Australians wear hats between 10am and 4pm during summer. How do you stay safe in the sun? Share your tips in the comments below. Related links: <a href="/health/body/2016/04/new-lifestyle-factors-cancer-tool/">New tool tells you if you’re at risk of getting cancer</a> <a href="/health/body/2016/04/new-app-for-skin-cancer/">New app to help fight skin cancer</a> <a href="/health/body/2016/03/how-to-spot-a-melanoma-from-a-mole/">How to spot a melanoma from a mole</a>

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Hairdresser reveals why you should NEVER pluck your grey hairs

Hairdresser has her fringe chewed off by her guinea pig

Joh Bailey opens up on working with Princess Di: “Very laid back”

Hairdresser who charged $2,500 cops backlash: “outrageous”

What I learned as a hairdresser in a war zone

Hairdresser’s warning over popular hair product sold at Woolworths

Hairdressers can spot skin cancers and save your life

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