A day at TiGi

After 5 hours of head nudging, mild colour burns and intoxication due to inhaling too much hair spray, I am finally free to show off my new cut and let out some of the hair and beauty gossip I overheard (as a hair model for TiGi you hear a lot while your hair suffers hardship for - free - beauty).

A lot of people go for a haircut when the colder months start. It is probably the shorter days and the chill that make us crave that little extra confidence.

Also, hair is the tip of your style-iceberg: it is the only paranetre that stands out from under a huge warm but often boring, winter coat.

Like shoes, hair creates style

Hair is all about personality this season. Nick Irwin, TiGi's European creative director was saying that many clients ask for a lot of warm shades at the moment.

The reason for this come from the catwalks: multicoloured eye make-up has been taking centre stage lately, but it's harder to pull off a cyan blue mask on an every day basis (unless your life revolves around rave club nights...), so hair is the easy option.

There is also the return of the classic cut with a quirky edge: a lot of new trend revolve around structural, almost sculpted designs. Vidal Sassoon invented the sharp cut in the late 1950s/early 1960s, and like everything in fashion, it is coming back.

With haircuts, outdated is irrelevant.

I went for a short cut with an 80s vibe and dark warm colours - there is no denying that red is on top of the game at the moment. Three of the models asked for some shade of fire in their hair today.

The conclusion of my day: an excruciatingly long wait - the good thing is that I had time to read Vogue from cover to cover - a quirky look and free hair smoothing products.

What has a girl got to complain about!