Bounce away the blues and swap your straight look for this seasons hot to trot mane, sported by celebs such as Cheryl Cole. Mid-length or long, and inspired from past era’s , bodacious babes are prepared, primed and finished to perfection, injected  with some 3d colour and revelation of the ‘Bbabe’ is born.

A curvy, sexy head turning mane, layered with colour, how can you resist? don’t worry if your hair is always big with a frizz, or flat as a pancake, follow my step by step guide to ‘Bbabe’ land

Va va voom mane starts with the right tools, T3 tourmaline evolution hair dryer is lightweight and drying time is reduced due to clever technology which dries the hair from the inside out, so with moisture still in place  next on your B list is the brush, and yes it does make a difference! Our Regincos anti static, ionic, ceramic ’saviour of the smooth and soft’ is a must have brush.

Fail to prepare – you know the rest – preparation starts with cleansing and moisturising your hair.

A curvy, sexy head turning mane, layered with colour, how can you resist?

For medium to thick hair start with redken all soft, or catwalk oatmeal and honey shampoo, damp hair and squeeze out excess moisture, dry hands and place a small ammount of product  into palm, rub hands together to activate nutrients and distribute evenly through hair, emulsify and leave for 30secs to benefit fully from conditioning  properties.Rinse and repeat if necessary,squeeze out excess water.

Next comes your moisture, butter treat from Redken,or heavenly hydrating from catwalk,applied to towel dried hair starting at the ends then finishing at root area. leave for five minutes then rinse for 2-3 minutes.

If additional moisture is needed spritz with kms moisture repair leave-in treatment for time released hydration. For finer hair cleanse with bedhead superstar shampoo or kms add volume shampoo, moisturise with s factor papaya leave-in treatment or redken bodyfull conditioner.

Primed! Not yet, for silk like finish apply a small amount of  kms silk sheen shaping creme to damp hair, follow with a spritz of  bedheads uptight  for lightweight movement. For finer hair prime with redken plump, then pad out the root volume with kms texture blast.

Time to dry: turn head upside down(maximum volume) blast until almost dry. Don’t panic at this point, section top, front and sides and secure with clip, part back into two sections top and bottom  roll brush in bottom section heat barrel for 5 secs and cool with brush still in hair for 2-3 secs, release and repeat the procedure on rest of back sections.

Drop down side sections, following the same procedure, then roll back top section for added va voom and finally, lift front section forward then part to your preferance for a sexy sweep.

Lock and  protect with some bedhead masterpiece and kms anti-humity seal.

For the ‘Bbabe’ face prepare with Iprime, radiate with dermalogica sheer tint moisturiser, Ismoulder and Iflutter your peepers, Iblossom the cheeks then prepare to pout with some Ic.

Party on ‘Bbabe’, hangover hair can be cured with a quick refresh from bedhead afterparty.

Karenx

Visit the salon section of our site for more information on 3D colour and girlznight salons.

“We want everyone who walks through our door to feel that they have received the best possible service and advice from experienced professionals, and to leave our salon not only looking, but feeling fantastic.”

girlznight is more than just a hair salon, although cutting edge designs and the latest looks remain top of the agenda.

Creative Director Karen McDougall, 42, explains the concept behind girlznight: –

“We want to restore faith in the salon industry, by bringing back the key values of client care and professionalism, which we feel have slipped over the years. Every aspect of our service is aimed at protecting the well being of our clients and ensuring they have an enjoyable, stress free visit to the salon and leave with the wow factor every time.”

Key to girlznight’s service is a preplanned 3D colour plan, which is based on a ten minute, personal consultation prior to appointment.

“Our consultation service takes the element of chance out of a visit to the salon. Every aspect of a client’s appointment is pre-planned, from the design and style, to the colour itself.”

“The consultation involves a series of questions relating to style and colour choices, a skin test for allergies and the taking of several strands of hair as test samples. Between the consultation and appointment colour is applied to the strands, allowing the client to see the results prior to final commitment.”

This may sound simple enough, but Karen explains that salons which do not offer a skin test are not only putting their client’s health at risk, but could be taking the law into their own hands.

“3D colour mimics the hairs natural colours. This technique ensures that your colour remains natural and, most importantly to us at girlznight, in optimum condition.”

“Legally, all salons are required to skin test for allergies at least 48 hours prior to using colour on the scalp. Sadly the majority are ignoring this requirement and risking the well being of their clients.”

With their 3D colour service, girlznight are also aiming to drag colour techniques into the 21st Century and dedicated appointments ensure that, despite the increased level of service, clients are actually likely to spend less time in the salon.

“3D colour mimics the hairs natural colours. This technique ensures that your colour remains natural and, most importantly to us at girlznight, in optimum condition.”

“We have moved away from the dated T-bar, half head and full head methods that have been used for over twenty years and often utilise between 5 and 9 colours in the hair. Our gloss varnish shades allow us to create multi-dimensional blondes, brunettes, and redheads, delivering a more natural look and lower maintenance, even in blondes.”

“In today’s busy world we know how valuable a client’s time is and an important part of our service is our dedicated appointment system, which ensures that each stylist will only attend to one client at a time. Together with the pre-planning, this ensures that the maximum appointment time for a 3D colour transformation is 2 hours.”

Time has arrived!

Take a good look, now i mean a really honest look at you in the morning, during the day, and finally at  the end of the day. do you truly believe that you still continue to radiate in the blonde colour of your hair? A number of factors must be considered when analysis of your blonde is under way,

Is your hair still in good condition?

Do your eyes still sparkle?

Is your skin still glowing?

Can you see a variation of different tones in your hair?

Are you looking at a dull,brassy tired blonde?

For information on perfect blondes  contact Karen at girlznight salon.

Girlznight’s very own Cy interviews celebrity stylist Gok Wan at the Spectacle Wearer of the Year awards.

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The Spectacle Wearer of The Year awards is an annual event which celebrates the sassiest spectacle wearers from the UK and Europe and crowns one lucky winner the ‘Spectacle Wearer of the year’.

The recent grand final was hosted in London by fashion guru Gok Wan and was attended by a host of celebs, many of whom sported their own gorgeous glasses. Winning the title of Spectacle Wearer of the year was Sofia Jama, a stunning 26 year old from Denmark, with the prize for celebrity spectacle wearer going to former All Saints singer, Melanie Blatt.

The evening also included a celebrity auction for SWOTY charity Kidscape, led by Gok Wan, which raised an incredible £28,200. Kidscape is the first charity in the UK established specifically to prevent bullying and child sexual abuse, and to provide effective anti-bullying training.

Girlznight were there on the night and our very own Cy caught up with Gok Wan before the event for an exclusive interview. Enjoy!

For more information on The Spectacle Wearer of The Year awards visit http://www.swoty.com/

Cy: Hi Gok, how are you. I’m Cyrus from the excellent City of Glasgow.

Gok: Can I just give you my favourite Glaswegian term… “Gonna’ geez a swatch of yer boaby”. Are you impressed!

I am!

We’re going to start with Gok, think fast. Glasses or contacts?

Glasses

Vidal Sassoon or Sam Cooke?

Vidal Sassoon

Blonde bombshell, or rombustuous redhead?

Redhead… hehe… I’m flirting with you, can you tell!

The general concensus at girlznight is you look white hot in your white glasses. Do you have a favourite pair?

I do and they broke on Saturday. I was drunk. I was *really* drunk and I went to go and speak to a friend of mine and I’d had one too many Stella Tops and I headbutted the wall while I was trying to talk to her… and they broke! So I need to get a new pair that I love.

Do you honestly believe glasses are sexy?

I honestly do think glasses are sexy. When I was younger I used to fancy guys with glasses. It was a really big thing of mine, I love the geek chic. I have to say, if I go into a club, or into a room, there are certain things that I pick out first. Number 1 is they have to be snappy dressers with lots of originality and number 2 I look for glasses, I genuinely do I think glasses are really hot. I think they are absolutely gorgeous because I love the idea of someone being confident and I think it takes often someone very, very confident to be able to justify why they wear glasses because of the stigma attached to it, so it kind of comes hand in hand.

How do you from an artistic perspective, sift through the rubble and find the gem jobs to choose? Is there are process you go through?

Do you know what, I have to believe in what I’m doing. When the guys at Channel 4 first asked me to present How To Look Good Naked I was very unsure whether I wanted to do it. I mean I come from a styling background, I come from the fashion industry and in some ways I was kind of sticking my fingers up to fashion and saying this has got to change. I did genuinely believe in what we were talking about and what we were discussing. I get offered a million different TV shows, millions of different concepts and treatments to read, but I wouldn’t ever do anything unless I was politically in tune with it.

What was it like meeting Sarah Jessica Parker at the Sex And The City Premiere?

It was amazing, it was amazing! Sarah who is this woman, this icon who had invented the TV show that changed my life was then saying that she knew who I was and then from there I knew Kim Cattral already and all the other girls and then Patricia Fields comes up and she says the same thing ‘Oh, you are my British equivalent’ and I just then die! I mean that night I was just basically masturbating the whole night! I mean that’s what it was like on the red carpet, it was that kind of energy. Sorry, I don’t think I can say that can I… on girlznight (ed – you just did Gok!). But that’s what it was like, it was amazing, like the biggest orgasm for like 4 hours… it was phenomonal!

You were quoted on the Friday night project, divulging that your New Year’s resolution was to find a husband. I was just wondering… how you are getting on with that task… and can I buy you a drink later!?

You are filth! And the answer is… yes to both! I’m still auditioning, which has been fun, and mine will be a Stella top!

Thanks Gok.

I’ve just given my biggest flirt interview I think I’ve ever done… even more than Allan Carr… I mean amazing!

Hi everyone,

Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year and that 2009 is treating you well! It’s been a busy start to the year here at girlznight, and below is an quick update on some of our current promotions, as well as details of an exclusive Girlz Night we are running in conjunction with the November Cafe.

Salon Web Site

We’ve just relaunched the salon section of our web site. Check out the gallery section to view some of our 3D colour transformations and keep an eye out for some exclusive new videos over the next few weeks, including Cy’s interview with fashion guru Gok Wan!

Girlz Night @ November Cafe

Fancy a girlz night out? We’ve teamed up with our friends at November Cafe, Princes Square for a fab evening of fine food, cocktails and pampering on Wednesday the 4th of February.

November Cafe will be running a special Girlz Night menu with 2 courses and a Cosmopolitan cocktail, or glass of fizz for just £9.99. There will also be loads of great promotions on cocktails, girly classics on the juke box to get your toes a tapping and our team will be on hand to offer hair and beauty tips, express makeovers and free samples.

Take a look at the flyer below for more information on the Girlz Night and for details of an exclusive prize draw, or visit http://www.socialanimal.co.uk/GlasgowCityCentre/November/. We hope to see you there!

January/February Promotions

This January and February we are offering a free Express Make Up application with all 3D colour appointments.

For some winter pampering, you can also take advantage of a free mini manicure with all Dermalogica facials. We’ve expanded our range of beauty treatments this year, so take a look online for an up to date list of what’s available.

That’s it for this update, but be sure to check online for all the latest news, videos and promotions and we hope to see you again soon!
 

All the best,
Karen x