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A new study commissioned by Kerastase has found that woman’s hair looks at its best when they are 29 years old.

It seems that by that age woman have stopped experimenting with their hair and have the disposable income to spend on it helping the tail end of their twenties be the optimum age for woman’s hair excellence. Celebrities currently at that magic age include Cheryl Cole, Alexa Chung, Mila Kunis, Nicky (sister of Paris) Hilton and Olivia Wilde. So there might be something in it after all.

Wella’s TrendVision Award is one close to McIntyres’ heart with our own Sammy winning the Gold Award For Colour in 2011. Today sees Kay McIntyre step up to judge the Scottish regional heat at Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange.

The regional heats continue in Manchester, Nottingham and London over the next few weeks before the UK Final at Camden’s Roundhouse in October then the World Finals in Frankfurt in October where Kay has been asked to attend.

The theme for this year’s TrendVision Award is ‘The Sound Of Colour’ with entrants asked to offer their interpretation of that concept.

A busy day lies ahead for McIntyres’ Union Street salon as a team from P&G visit to shoot a ‘Global Success Video’ and talk to Kay about her role as UK Nioxin Ambassador.

For those uninitiated into its benefits, Nioxin is professional hair care brand specializing in hair thinning for men and woman with Kay appointed its UK Education Ambassador in December last year as well as taking up a role heading up a new nationwide cutting and styling course.

Beyonce has topped a new poll as the person most woman aim to emulate as they head out for a night on the town.

The 31 year old superstar, who gave birth to daughter Blue Ivy Carter by husband Jay-Z last year, topped the survey of half a million woman by website fashionfuse.com with Rihanna, Cheryl Cole and Kim Kardashian also heavy featured as inspirational style icons.

shu uemura have announced two new products, Clay Definer pomade and Touch Of Gloss melt in wax. Buy both now from Mcintyres online shop.

Clay Definer is a rough moulding pomade for a strong yet mouldable hold and a touchable shine-free finish which uses soft Kaolin powder, known by artists for centuries as the softest and most malleable clay, to define hair and add texture, for a strong yet workable hold, it spreads easily and gives a silky matte finish.

Supermodel Kate Moss has posed naked for a new photoshoot as the face (and body) of the self-tan giants St Tropez.

‘Les Miserables’ star Anne Hathaway debuted her new blonde look at New York’s Punk themed Met Ball.

The ‘PUNK: Chaos To Couture’ themed event was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and saw figures like Miley Cyrus, Ashley Olsen, Nicki Minaj, Kim Kardashian, Madonna, ‘Twilight’ film star Kristen Stewart and more adopt Punk stylings for the annual bash.

Hathaway was the most talked about star with her bold new look that’s sure to prompt a wave of copycat makeovers.

A remedy for grey hair could be on the way following news that scientists have created a drug which returns the natural pigment to affected hair.

Discovered during tests to help patients suffering from vitiligo, a condition which sees sufferers develop pigment-less patches on their skin and hair (and which Michael Jackson suffered from fact fans), the researchers’ therapy strips away the naturally occurring build up of bleaching hydrogen peroxide allowing the natural colour to return.

Wella Luxe Oil Light keratin Protection Spray has just arrived at McIntyres salons. It’s a brand new addition to the already successful Wella Luxe Oil launched earlier in the year.

The new Luxe Oil Light spray is the essential addition to your handbag ladies, where you have the perfect product to freshen up your hair and give protection from the elements whilst working at preventing damage.

Nioxin have launched their eagerly anticipated new intensive treatment product called Diaboost, which promises to increase hair strand thickness for fuller looking hair.

Nioxin Intensive Treatment Diaboost with HTX, to give it its full title, is a cosmetic Thickening Xtrafusion Treatment, which has been scientifically designed and tested to increase the thickness of each of your existing hair strands with the end result of giving you fuller looking hair.