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Looking good

Model looks

TOP TIP You don’t have to be a size
eight to be a model. Training academies
need men and women of all ages as
guinea pigs for students to practise
on – and, reassuringly, treatments are
supervised by experienced professionals.
O Aspiring hairdressers always need to
hone their cutting, blowdrying and
colouring skills. At TONI & GUY
ACADEMIES (toniandguy.com) a cut costs
£5 and highlights £25. Local salons will
often also need models for their juniors.
O It can pay to find a LOCAL PRIVATE
ACADEMY OR COLLEGE that trains
beauty therapists. These may offer
cut-price treatments at in-house salons
experienced therapists. They offer a full Help for hair
where trainees are supervised by
range of facials, manicures, pedicures
and body treatments, including relaxing TOP TIP For many of us, hair cutting and colouring is the biggest drain on our beauty
massages. Search online for ‘beauty budget. If you have your hair coloured professionally, just squeezing in another week
college salon’ or the treatment you’d between appointments can mean one less salon visit a year.
like, adding the words ‘free’ or ‘cheap’
or ‘school’, plus your location, to find HAIR AT HOME ASK THE PROFESSIONALS
one near you. O L’Oréal Magic A few simple changes will mean you can
O THE LONDON COLLEGE OF BEAUTY Retouch, £8.99, go for longer between appointments
THERAPY (lcbt.co.uk) offers bikini waxes boots.com, is a before your roots need treating.
by (supervised!) students for £6.50, and spray that will O CHANGE THE WAY you wear your
aromatherapy massage for £35. cover large areas hair. ‘Avoid a middle parting, as this
O CHAMPNEYS SPA has a training of regrowth fast. makes any regrowth obvious,’ advises
college where you can have a manicure Good for dry hair. Richard Ward, the man who looks after
for £10 and a 75-minute Deluxe Facial the Duchess of Cambridge’s locks. ‘Try a
for £25, followed by lunch at the spa side parting or a messy zig-zag parting,
itself for a further £21. Book online at O With two shades which will make roots less visible.’ Many
champneyscollege.com/college-salon/ in one palette, John salons offer T-section highlights that run
salon-treatments. Frieda Root Blur, through the parting and across the
O BODY-CONSCIOUS MEN are £14.99, feelunique. front, which will help disguise your roots
increasingly opting to wax their back com, can create a without breaking the bank.
and torso. This can be expensive in realistic, highlighted O USE A PROTECTIVE SPRAY before
a salon, so a training college offers a look. The angled styling, as heated styling tools (curling
great way to cut the cost. Search online precision brush irons, straighteners etc) can fade colour.
for a local college or school. gets the powder Try GHD Heat Protect Spray, £12.95,
right to the roots. ghdhair.com, or Living Proof Restore
DOUBLE TREAT Perfecting Spray, £13, cultbeauty.co.uk.
O CELEBRITY COLOURIST Josh Wood
If you love beauty OColor Wow Root advises using a mask designed for
treatments, why not Cover Up powder, coloured hair the night before your
£28.50, spacenk.com, appointment. He recommends Redken
ask for one for your brushes on and Heat Cure, £16.75, lookfantastic.com. He
has a light shimmer also suggests talking to your colourist
birthday? Almost all to stop roots looking about maintenance. ‘New techniques
spas and salons offer flat and fake. It and approaches mean that colours
covers every scrap today have a much longer life span than
gift vouchers. of grey, too. the regular six to eight weeks,’ he says.

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