This year we had our very first family holiday! This was both of the kids first time to go away on holidays. It was very special to us, especially as Finley turned one while we were there. And we had time to really reflect on the last 12 months of our lives and how far …
Your Hair & Heat Damage
So, heat is one of the essential styling tools most of us use for styling our hair every day. Curling, straightening, drying!! We often don’t realise the damage we are causing to our hair! It is almost impossible to avoid using heat for styling but trying to keep it to a minimal can help. Is …
Always Learning
Today, I attended the Alfaparf Academy in dublin to do the seamless colour course, which focused on balayage and blending techniques. While we do a lot of this work in Hemera, I believe you should never stop learning and try out new techniques and listen to other people’s opinions and advice. In the hairdressing industry …
Blonde Ambition
These pictures show how I lifted one of my client’s hair to an ash blonde! As you can see she was already blonde but there was a lot of natural colour there and it was quite brassy! For this makeover, I used a freehand balayage technique and cling film from Framar (which I’m obsessed with) …
…Tell the world I’m coming home …
I didn’t get as many blog posts up about prematurity as I would have liked this month, but what better way to end this month, prematurity awareness month than with our little man coming home! Finley is now home a week and a half! We went down to visit him on the Sunday and his …
NICU – The Start of the journey
Finley was 530 grams when he was born! He was rushed straight to the neo natal intensive care unit where they assessed everything they would have to do for him to keep him alive. Some of those first weeks blur together for me and some of it I don’t think I even remember, I was …
Finley
At 24 weeks pregnant I was admitted to hospital after receiving steroid injections to bring on my baby’s lungs, we were told we were in a very grave situation and that my baby might not make it but we had to give him all the help we could! The following day I said to Joe …
Hemera Dreads
Hi Everyone, I’m just going to do a little blog post regarding my salon Hemera. It is a Hair & Makeup Salon but we also make our own synthetic dreads that can be clipped in to your hair! We custom make the dreads to suit each client, regarding the colour, length and accessories. They can …
Running a business and raising babies.
Hi guys, Before I get into this post let me give you a little bit of background info. I am 25 years old, I’ve been self employed since I was 21(doing freelance work), at 24 I opened my own salon. I have a nearly 9 month old baby (Evvie) and am half way into my …