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Well once agin its time to make those New Year resolutions that last a week at most before its a distant memory!

But this year why not make a resolution that is so much easier not to break?

How about making your New Year resolution all about your hair? Wether its to book a 6 weekly trim or a 6 weekly treatment or maybe you stretch your color out a little longer than you should?

Well dig out that diary, smartphone, iphone or tablet and book yourself in and once you have had it done then rebook for your next few, no more forgetting or waiting until someone notices what a mess your hair is its already booked and Just imagine how proud you would be come 31st December 2014 when not only have you not broken your New Year Resolution but you also have FANTASTIC hair!!!

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving in The United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many Commonwealth Nations.  Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the day after off, followed by a weekend, thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005,  although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.

More recently Black Friday has been exported to the UK by major online retailers like Apple and Amazon and hence other retailers too.

Our Black Friday offer is £20 off of any GHD iron or GHD hairdrier (Excluding the Xmas box) but this will take the hairdrier and mark 4 irons down from £99 to just £79.

And on top of this we also have the NEW GHD Eclipse  in Black or White with £50 off taking them down from £195 to only £145

The perfect Christmas gift! come and take advantage of this Fantastic offer, while stocks last.

Well like it or not Christmas is on the horizion and this year we have some great offers for you all!

Starting with a great gift packed Redken box consisting of a shampoo and conditioner and a free mini hairspray at a discounted price.

We also have some great Redken sleep in rollers, wake up with beautiful hair on Christmas day and everyday! Free when you buy just two Redken styling products.

One for the men or that man in your life is the Mens nail grooming kit, what man doesnt want nice hands!! free again with only two mens products.

And finally one for all the family is the Pureology Aromatherapy Lavender candle, it infuses the air with calming lavender scents to create a soothing atmosphere, one for Boxing day  think!

All available while stocks last.

Well September was quite a month! we had the refit of the reception area making it much more ‘user friendly’ so glad everyone has been so enthusaistic about it!

We have tied in several influences from our favourite parts of the world, India and Thailand and the influence of the tranquility of these places shines through.

After the reception area came the basin area, this ment closure for two days as there were the two backwash areas to completely strip out and refit, as is usual for these type of things ‘murphys law’ of what can go wrong will go wrong came into play!

The night before the work was to start the basins had not arrived, 6pm a lorry pulled up and the driver informed us that he had a bad back and that unless we had some muscle here they couldnt be unloaded, I ask you, muscle in a hairdressers?!!! Pllleeeeaaaseee!

After a lot of arguing the basins got dumped outside the salon, with a lot of help we got them unpacked and off the pallets and inside for the night, this was when we found that the basins themselves were black rather than white and the company were closed until Monday.

Ok nothing else can go wrong can it? yes it can! The floor on the original side was completely rotten from many years of dripping water under the basins, a whole section had to be cut out, but luckily the joists were dry as a bone!so it was only the top layer that needed the replacing.

By Monday morning things were coming together, or so we thought, this was when we had a call to tell us that they had run out of the tiles for behind the basins!

Quick drive up to the tile place only to find they didnt have any and delivery wasnt until Friday! phoning round all the tile places and eventually found a place in Poole that had some, so we were able to get that finished, how a builder can get the measurements out by 20 square feet I dont know!

We opened on the Wednesday with only one basin working and a garden full of rubbish, by the evening we had all six basins working but still a garden full of rubbish!!! apparently not in the quote!  and even that ended up 20% more than the original quote! but they done a good job, still a bit of finishing here and there but we are all really enjoying the new salon, next week the white basins arrive, so upside down again, but hopefully only for a day!

Come in and have a look, we love it and we are sure you will too.

Pastel colours once again seem to be having a surge in popularity and are fast becoming a very popular service, from an all over (as shown in the picture, where we went from a very pale baby blue through to a deeper blue through the ends) or just a flash of colour within your normal colour.

Or we even have the option of  temporary flashes of colour in very vivid colours or the more subtle pastel colours using Flip In Hair extensions.

These ingenious wefts of hair are on a very fine wire and can be placed in the hair in seconds and removed in seconds, ideal if its a weekend look and you need something a bit more conservative for work or school.

Give us a call today or pop in and see us to discuss your options.

Well yet another styling product, but after a week of using this is no way just another styling product, this is something else!!!

If you have highlighted hair you NEED this on your shelf!

The first one is the Bodifying luminator, this is a texurizing shine foam, it pumps out like a mousse it is really lightweight and adds body and multi-dimensional shine, it has a fortified shape memory to enhance volume and body or in plain English! it gives your hair loads of body and shine and keeps the shape, really love this one.

The next one is the Gold Definer, this is a shine gel and is gold-mica infused, it controls frizz and illuminates highlights and is great to use before a blow dry and equally good after, use a small quantity and work well into the palms and then through the hair, the gold gives that extra sparkle on the hair.

And finally the ‘Sea Kissed Texturiser’ this is a salt free tousle mist to give you that beach hair look without the dried out feel.

It is easy to use, just scrunch into the hair for a real textured feel without any weight or stickiness and still puts a lovely shine through the hair.

All available in salon, come and give it a try.

At long last! after getting to try this at the Redken symosium in Las Vegas earlier this year, we have waited anxiously for it to arrive over here and it has!

The range consists of a shampoo and a conditioner an intensive mask and two oils one a heavy oil for thicker hair and the other a lighter oil for finer hair.

The range will give you 2 x more shine on the hair 3 x less hair breakage and will leave your hair 3 x stronger and as if this wasn’t enough it does NOT contain any silicone so no build up on the hair and it even smells amazing.

The oil can be used in several different ways, as an instant detangler, by dropping a few drops into your conditioner and applying through the hair it will instantly detangle the hair.

You can use it before blow drying, work a few drops into the palms of your hands and then work through the mid lengths and ends, the custom blend of oils is actually absorbed into the hair and will give the hir not only shine but strength to, hence the helping to stop breakage.

You can also use it as a finisher, ad a drop into your palms work together and then apply to the hair for a ‘shatterproof shine’

The oils used in Diamond oil are Camelina oil, coriander oil, apricot oil, olive oil, jojoba oil, coconut oil and several other silicone free oils that strengthen the hair from inside out.

The oil is derived from 99% natural oils and is also excellent as a scalp treament, and can be massaged into a dry or sunburnt scalp, it is also excellent on hands and nails as we have found to our benefit!

Available now from David Antony, Southsea, portsmouth

We have had such an immense take up on our new pastel shades!

The colours are stunning ranging from Silver through reds, pinks and blues right on to the greens, they really do look quite stunning in the hair.

We are also able to dilute the shades to make shades such as a pale pink a baby blue or even a mint green, the choice is yours.

With Pastel shades they need to go onto pre-lightened, good condition hair, as with all of these type of shades they are semi permanent and will fade from the hair but they can be reapplied to give you that vibrancy once more.

So if you fancy a little streak of colour, slightly hidden or bold as brass! or a whole head of colour, give us a call, and let us brighten your day!

Coloring gray hair is a real art, too much and it looks fake, too little and it seems like its grey with a hint of something, or too much tone and its more like a blue rinse (popular if you’re younger! but step away from the bottle if you are that certain age!)

Gray hair is often dry, coarse and wirey, these issues need to be combated before any color touches your hair, a moisturising range such as Redken All Soft or Pureology Hydrate are ideal and will also help to maintain that color once its on your hair.

An oil such as Redken Diamond oil or Pureology oil is ideal as a daily moisturiser on the hair, apply a little into your hands first thing in the morning and work through the hair, these oils are notr the oil slicks we use to have available but they are much lighter and easy to use on coarse hair on a daily basis without a build up.

Gray hair is also more vulnerable to the harmful effects of the sun and water, especially chlorinated water or salt water, in both cases rinse the hair immediatly you come out of the water, use cool water as this will help keep the color in the hair.

Try not to wash your hair every day, there are some excellent dry shampoos now, one of the best and easiest to use is the Redken Powder Refresh.

And if spending any time outside, put on some protection from the heat in the way of a sunblock or a hat, you wouldnt sit in the sun with no lotion on your skin and its the same for your hair, with gray hair being particularly vulnerable to the suns rays and after no time you could be walking back into the salon with a head of straw!!

Enjoy the sunshine, sensibly!

Babys seem to be bang on trend at present and so many celebrities seem to be able to pop them out and be back in a size 6 pair of jeans before they leave the hospital! or is it a bit of clever photoshop?!

Here at David Antony we are mum and baby/toddler friendly, we have a team that are mostly mothers, so have that knack to make your child feel comfortable and relaxed having there hair cut (not to mention the large toy box and lollies!)

We also have a relaxation room if mothers would prefer a little privacy to breastfeed or we are totally relaxed if mums want to breastfeed in salon.

We have found many new mums are tempted to have their hair cut short to make life easier, but this isnt always the case, often a longer style is easier to tie up out of the way .

After around about three months after the baby is born or breastfeeding stops, this is when the hair will shed, throughout the pregnancy the hair will grow and not fall so often when it starts falling its a time of worry, but it is a natural process and will normally have settled down within 10 – 12 weeks.

For the mums who dont want to lose that lovely thickness we do Flip in Hair, these are extensions on a very fine wire and can be fitted in literally a  couple of minutes, so no problem for busy mums.

We also do some deep hair treatments for reviving that tired hair or if you really wan to give that hair  a boost you could try the Redken Intra Force range, this range has Zinc PCA Arginine and vitamin E to make your hair thicker and fuller in 30 days or your money back! so well worth a try.

Our team are always happy to talk about what we can offer for your hair, don’t be afraid to ask.