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Shine Hair & Beauty has all you need for a top to toe makeover, including the perfect hair style, finds Zara Baker

When I first met Jonathan Harries, owner of Shine Hair & Beauty, he said that to find the right cut for his clients, he wanted to know the style you didn’t want: “What look would make you cry?”. It’s an effective approach as we often go to the hairdresser brimming with ideas and armed with magazine pictures (“this length, that fringe, those layers”…) but we can be unsure how the look would work overall.
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Boost your wellbeing ready for the festive party with a healthy and balanced diet, writes Zara Baker

Summer may feel like a distant memory already, with the earlier, darker evenings making us yearn to stay indoors and eat hearty meals. But under the layers of shirts, jumpers and coats, it can be easy to think a few extra pounds will go unnoticed. But come the festive party season we are all want to look our best. It’s creeping up quicker than ever, so now is the time to take stock of your autumn diet and make sure you’re getting all the nutrients you need.
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Zara Baker finds a hub for newly qualified stylists and excellent value for customers at the newly opened Pod in Kemp Town

Pod is the brain child of Jonathan Harries from the North Laine’s Shine salon. Taking a concept similar to Jamie Oliver’s London restaurant, Fifteen, Jonathan has created Pod to offer newly qualified hairdressers the chance to develop their skills.

Pod – Professional Ongoing Development – is a ‘place of development’. Jonathan’s Shine salon in Gloucester Road is an established haven with a loyal clientele and the partnership with a great ethical beauty brand, Aveda. Opening Pod has let Jonathan expand to another part of the city (in a convenient location off St James’s Street). The new salon opens doors to stylists who may otherwise spend a few years ‘climbing the ladder’, working under professional stylists and often just washing hair or offering drinks to clients. By giving the newly qualified stylists their own environment, they can develop and experience every day life as a hairdresser in their own, busy working salon.
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Kirsty Taylor from Uniquely Organic EcoSpa, Hove

New chakra-based treatments
And now for something completely different. We at Uniquely Organic EcoSpa have launched Chakrosanct, a selection of seven special holistic treatments and seven sumptuous certified organic chakra therapy oils, blended to harmonise with the seven chakras (etheric energy centres) of the body.

Intrigued by eastern teaching of there being seven major chakras located on a line from the base of the spine to the top of the head which need to be open and balanced to achieve full consciousness and optimum health, the seed of an idea has been growing inside me.

Could my passion for both organic lifestyle and holistic healing somehow be combined with my growing knowledge of chakras to develop an original treatment system, focused on the opening and balancing of these energy centres?
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