Have you heard of a silent appointment??? Do you dread the thought of making small talk with your hairdresser? Only to resort to the weather, Rona or the Kardashians? Or bury your head in a magazine and just hope that no eye contact is made? Enter - the Silent Appointment….. In this day and age, you can have lots of sensory experiences that equate to anxiety or a feeling of overwhelm. The Silent Appointment can help with that. It usually starts with a text message prior - “Hi Megan, I’m just not feeling very talky today. Is it ok if I have a silent appointment today?” This is followed by a m ..read more

Today I am talking about transitioning - not in the he/she sense - not that there is anything wrong with that - and while I am here let me say EVERYONE should be seen and heard and interacted with love and kindness ALWAYS..... Anyway, I digress.  Transitioning from coloured hair to........grey! This has been a hot topic in the salon in the last 6 months with several long term clients expressing the desire to embrace their natural grey and ditch the high maintenance color.  As you all know, I am a big advocate for low maintenance hair, so this topic intrigued me.   I only have a ..read more

One of my beautiful client's has created a business that I feel compelled to share.   Maternal Cove is the brain child by Lauren Warren, a local mum and long time client/friend of mine.   She is a doula. The reason I felt that I simply had to write about this, was that I was scrolling through insta and found a picture of 3 of my brides in the one pic and all 3 of them were pregnant.   So often, this is the next step for many of my brides.  In the same time frame, I saw another one of my beautiful brides who had just had a preemie baby - she was originally from London and d ..read more

So to say Michelle from Skin Nerd has changed my life, might seem ridiculous.....over the top..... the list goes on!  If you are one of those genetically blessed people who have perfect skin and do nothing to it - I am undeniably envious.  My sister falls in that category - she used to laugh at me as I had every cream, potion and serum under the sun and still struggled to get that instagram worthy skin - yet she rolled out of bed with panda eyes and her skin still looked perfect.  Bel could be quoted as saying "yesterday's mascara is tomorrow's eyeliner!!!"  Oh my goodness ..read more

Botox is an interesting subject..... Some people want to shout from the rooftops how amazing it is and love the benefits - others refuse to acknowledge they have had it at all (and pretend it's all down to great skin care and brilliant genes) and others think the idea of a needle in their face is purely terrifying!!  ​ I am totally the first option!!! ​   The reason being is that I work in an industry that relies on "looking good" as a means of advertising.   I also have never had a bad experience (thank goodness!!) but a lot of that I put down to finding a wo ..read more

​Well 2020, you started off with a bang! I spent some time in early January contemplating my space and trying to decide how 2020 was going to play out for me.  I am super lucky in that I have a job that lends itself really well to "working from home" (now those famous words) and creating an awesome work/life balance.  I came home with the theory that 2020 = 20/20 vision.  Taking a step back to really understand life and get my head screwed on securely is I could enter the next phase of my life (I turn 40 in feb 2021) 20 kg lighter and with an abundance of energy, understanding ..read more

Thanks for stopping by to read my first (and maybe my last) blog post!!! I don't know if I am a person who has anything terribly useful to say - or if you're just killing time between MAFS ad breaks - but feel free to take any pearls of wisdom that may come your way.   Presumably you are either getting married, going to a function, been appointed bridesmaid or an over-zealous guest - then this is for you! Hopefully I will be able to help and guide, recommend and have a little laugh along the way!!   Tomorrow is my birthday and I will be 39 - so I am literally hanging onto my 30's w ..read more