Top 5 Styling products you need for the festive season:

The festive season of parties and celebrations has fast approached us, and we know it can be hectic – both for you, and your hair! In today’s blog post, we’ll be sharing with you five of our most-loved styling products which will carry your hair through the festive season with great ease.

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Protect your tresses with our luxurious Kengo Feather – a lightweight cream which can be used on dry hair, and blow-dried into damp hair. Your hair will be protected from heat and humidity, as well as maintaining a strong lasting hold, with the ultimate softness and shine – perfect for the party season!

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With big and bouncy hair remaining a strong trend throughout the year, we had to include our wonderful Volume Maker! For lightweight volume and lift to the hair, simply add a few clicks of this invisible powder to the roots of your hair – you won’t regret it!

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Next up, if you’re looking to add texture and shape to your hair, you cannot be without Shape Paste – our sculpting putty. Perfect for shorter styles, this hero product will leave your hair textured and fabulous, all evening.

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No hair-do is complete without a finishing spray – and our Sheer Lacquer Spray will provide a buildable hold for any hair style. Whether you’re simply smoothing away loose strands, or sporting an up-do, a few sprays of this product will finish your style perfectly.

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Finally, the fifth product we’re including is Texture Wave – the ultimate product for creating a tousled and textured look to the hair. This product is perfect for adding a more relaxed look to an up-do, or for adding texture to curls and waves.

Which Shu Uemura Art of Hair product can you not be without? Let us know in the comments!

 

 

We’ve got something for you…

Have you finished your Christmas shopping yet?  Neither have we but we’re here to help!

We’d like to share with you our beautiful seasonal gift: a luxurious Kabuki make-up brush.

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It is crafted from super-soft fine nylon bristle and is bound together in a sleek, aluminium handle.

The perfect clutch bag companion for your bronzer this party season!

To get your hands on this beautiful gift, purchase any two Shu Uemura Art of Hair products and it’s yours! This offer is exclusively in-salon so be speedy as stocks are limited.

We recommend that it is used with finishing powder, bronzer or highlighting powder to illuminate your skin tone. A great powder to try is the Shu Uemura Shupette Pampearl-Me Face Powder.  It’s a very finely milled face powder with just a hint of sheen giving a healthy-looking glow to the skin.

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Let us know how you use yours in the comments!

Shu Uemura Art of Beauty: one year anniversary event!

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We were delighted to be a part of the wonderful one year anniversary celebration of the Shu Uemura Art of Beauty Boutique. Based on Monmouth Street in Central London, the anniversary celebration boasted of an evening filled with music, makeovers, cocktails, and two styling stations with top stylists from Paul Edmonds.

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VIP guests were treated to the full works at the event, with hair styling provided, along with make-up services, chocolate, and of course, cocktails! Here’s make-up artist Mei, creating the signature Shu Uemura Art of Beauty  look for one of the evening’s VIP guests.

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The two hair-styling stations were filled with Shu Uemura Art of Hair Styling products – perfect for the on trend hair looks created for the guests of the evening!7

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The event was live-tweeted on our Twitter and Instagram profiles, and was a huge success!

We’d like to thank everyone who was involved in the event, and particularly Paul Edmonds Hair. You can find more on the Knightsbridge based salon on their website, www.pauledmonds.com.

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Here’s to many more years of providing wonderful hair and beauty!

TOP 5 FALL HAIR TRENDS: Get the look

In today’s blog post, we’ll be showing some of our favourite Fall 2014 hair trends. From loose, textured waves, to sleek centre partings, we’ve rounded up our top 5 trends that can be easily translatable to every-day wear!

Look 1: Ballerina Bun:

The looks featured effortlessly undone buns with soft, tousled edges to soften the look.  Prada, as pictured on the far right, showcased a more “performance-ready” take on the classic ballerina bun with a slicked silhouette in their runway show.

GET THE LOOK:

Use our Sheer Lacquer Hair Spray to create a smooth and sleek bun.

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Look 2: Braids and Twists

Braids and Twists are a strong trend for Fall 2014, with designers such as Etro opting for delicate fish-tail braids to bring a creative edge to their shows! Pair a fishtail braid with a tousled finish, and you’ll be sporting the trend of the season.

Emilio Pucci took this look one step further, by adding a more textured and tousled appearance with a loose braid at the nape of the neck. (below)

GET THE LOOK:

Create textured and tousled hair with our Texture Wave and Volume Maker products:

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Look 3:  Mod squad

Major volume paired with sleek and straight ends is another strong trend for the season, as demonstrated at the Nina Ricci (left) and Versace Show (right).

 GET THE LOOK:  Use our Ample Angora mousse to add volume at the roots.

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Look 4: Ponytails

Undoubtedly one of the biggest trends of the season – ponytails are a huge hit! From full and textured ponytails, adorned with fabric, as shown above by Chanel, to sleek and polished ponytails, as shown below by Ralph Lauren, this trend was everywhere.

.Fendi took the trend one step further with delicate weaving and sectioning.  (below)

GET THE LOOK:

Achieve a sleek and shiny pony tail with our luxurious melt-in wax, Touch of Gloss.

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Look 5:  New waves

The former tousled and beachy-wave look has been replaced with the New Wave – a bohemian style wave, with a more polished finish! Burberry Prorsum (left) and Chloé opted for this look in their shows.

GET THE LOOK:

Use our luxurious Essence Absolute Oil when blow drying to add shine and smoothness to the hair.

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