New Year, New You!

What a year 2015 has been for The Egg. The team is stronger than ever and the only way is up! We have been showcasing some jaw-dropping makeovers, Great Lengths transformations enough to make even Rapunzel herself jealous, edgy collections to inspire and best of all our very own Callum Standen-May did the team proud by taking home the award for Eastern Hairdresser of the Year!

We’d like to help you with your “New Year, New Me” quest by introducing the upcoming trends for Spring/Summer 2016. Starting off with the ladies, make your entrance into the new year a smooth one by sleeking back and straightening out those locks! Or if you’re feeling a little risqué then say goodbye to a few more inches and embrace the bold moves of a bob, or push it even further and opt for a face-framing pixie crop.

Whether you’re still striving for that Elsa-esque Frozen blonde, or you have a taste for caramel tones or perhaps you’re feeling the pull of the Dark Side, you can trust our skilled technicians to help you find the perfect colour choice. 

We offer free colour consultations in salon, so if you’re looking for a change but are feeling unsure then book an appointment with one of our technicians and they will sit down with you and discuss your options. As stated previously in one of our blogs, consultation is key when it comes to finding the perfect colour and we assess all aspects from your skin tone to your lifestyle to find that perfect colour for you.

For the guys this year, it looks as though the battle of the beards is almost coming to a halt. However, those rugged displays of manhood are merely being tamed into a more sophisticated stubble. Even so, we are seeing a rise in the more relaxed approach to the gentleman in 2016. More and more men are embracing their curls and opting for a more natural cut. There are several ways to work your wave into your lifestyle and here at The Egg we are still loving the tightly tapered cuts and don’t forget, your hair looks sexy pushed back! 

To book an appointment with our stylists and technicians, call one of our salons on

01603 761176 for our Lower Goat Lane salon

or

01603 616396 for our Magdalen Street salon.

Don't forget to check our out Instagram @theeggsalons for more inspiration.

Don't chase the sun.

The sun is setting earlier now, and you can't get those natural holiday highlight by hanging out at the beach anymore.. But don't let that stop you! This week in Salon we've seen a lot of sunlit highlights and natural lightening techniques shine through as a big request. 

Katie (left) Had her hair done with Chloe today and wanted sunlit highlights with a contrast darker tone. Using a free-hand Balayage technique Chloe lifted and contrasted multiple tones to give Katie the definition she wanted with a beautiful organic palette. 

Also Beth (right) was in the salon last week with technician Naomi to get her root stretch brought higher. We all know that a bit of root definition is hot right now and lifting a your grown out blonde a few inches higher is great way to maintain your style. Both colours worked with natural tones of cools, brunettes and golds to give a more kissed finish.

Natural highlights don't need to come from a holiday and you can definitely fake it with a great technician at hand. To book in with Chloe or Naomi give our Lowergoat Lane salon a call on 01603 761176. 

Clean and Creamy!

Sometimes your hair just needs to get to a point where it's perfectly creamy and almost edible. 

When vicky came into the salon her colour was lovely but it was time for a bit of a refresh! Working with a root stretch technique Paul Standen-May kept definition where it was needed and Balyaged Vicky's mid-lengths and ends to clean up her previous blonde. This is great way to achieve lightness but also balance when lightening hair.  Using Wella Professional colour with a natural warmth as a palette he created a beautiful dirty creamy blonde which is definitely exposing itself as a new trend for A/W 15!

(Paul is working in Barcelona this week but he's back in the salon next week so to book a consultation call our Lowergoat Lane salon on 01603 761176) 

We don't only dress beautiful hair for women, we also do it for men too! What better way to display this would be doing a barbering show? Recently The Egg Directors travelled all the way from Norwich to Newport for The Barber Connect event where they taught on stage!

Barber Connect is an exhibition which connects Uk barbers in a real life platform to share knowledge, skill and raise the standard of mens hair. The venue is filled with seminars,  demonstrations, workshops and stalls for all your barbering needs.

Creative Director Callum Standen & Senior Director Mark Blunsten attended this years event to present some vintage & modern styles to the masses and they loved it. Mark worked on creating a more traditional and classic style creating a 50's look which included perfecting fading, disconnection & blending.

Callum worked on a much more modern level with his model and showed some techniques he has acquired from recent catwalk shows. He taught the observing crowds how to cut and style creatively and how to work more visually to tailor the cut to the bespoke client. After the show, the boys did a question and answers session for followers and watchers of the demo and then set off to check out others work.

Barber Connect is a growing platform for male hairdressing and The Egg directors loved attending the event and loved working alongside others on the Mens Hair Federation stage and we can't wait for future events so keep and eye out for us!

The Egg Team
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So to start of this blog we must catch you up on a few things we've been doing in salon! The year is 2014 and it's been an extremely exciting year for everyone involved with The Egg. We have accomplished so much in such a short amount of time and are continuing to grow bigger and bigger.

To get you up to date of where we currently are we will introduce you to Creative Director of the Salon - Callum Standen (pictured above).  He is one of the Founders of The Egg and works creatively releasing seasonal collections for the salon..

 Our launch Collection 'The Asylum' which was in association with The Fellowship of British hairdressing. Pictured above it was a shock value collection we conjured up under Callums wing to capture the attention of our audiences and to display good hair at the same time. 

The Collection was based on Pre-Nineteen Hundreds mental asylums and the disturbia caused to the patients & visiters. Inspired by the abandoned asylums that are still erected today, we looked at 'Beauty in Decay' which incorporated strong outlines with texture inside . Other inspirations which lead the collection to a much more modern level were movies such as 'Girl Interrupted' where Angelina Jolie plays a character named 'Lisa Rowe' who according to Wikipedia is 'A diagnosed sociopath who easily manipulates the woman around her'.  Working with Choreographer Steven Knights we aimed to inprison that with the models on stage.

Using a mixture of 'Tigi Hard Head' hair spray and 'Sassoon shine spray' the team created beautiful movement in hair that was teamed with very strong look using Illamasqua Skin Base Foundation in White & big dark swollen lips created with Illamasqua Lipstick in Kontrol the collection was complete.

 Music featured on the stage of Professional Hair Live in Manchester was Crookers - That Laughing Track to grab the attention of passerby and the audience at The Fellowship Newcomers show in January & Professional Hair Pro Live in March and their is where the collection was born! This S/S 14 collection wanted to show a dark and periodic collection incorporating white alternative fashion which we found refreshing from floral and we hope you enjoyed it if you haven't seen it before..

So there is a little peek into what we were doing earlier on in the year and our first blog post for you to read, We have many exciting events coming up in the near future and we can't wait for you to read about it. Don't forget to Subscribe VIA email on our side box to keep up to date with us. 

The Egg Team

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