Most people blame their hair when it breaks. But the brush is almost always the real problem. Here is what most brushes get wrong and what a good detangling brush should actually do.

Marta Davies, professional colourist and founder of Hair By Marta, explains why a professional detangling brush for colour treated hair and hair extensions became the first product in the Hair By Marta line.

Find out how to choose the right detangling brush for hair extensions, colour treated hair and hair prone to breakage, from professional colourist Marta Davies at Hair By Marta.

I said no. That is not something I do lightly. A client came to me wanting to go lighter, and I had to sit her down and tell her that putting any more bleach on her hair was not something I was willing to do. Not because I could not, but because doing so would have caused serious and potentially irreversible damage. Here is what had happened before she walked through my door. Three Bleaches, Back to Back, With No Strand Test The work had been done at home by a trainee stylist

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Your roots are an inch deep, and you don't hate them anymore. That is the thing nobody warned you about. You started getting highlights in your late twenties because that was what everyone did. You sat under foils every twelve weeks, asking for the same finish you'd had for years. It was easier than explaining what you actually wanted. Now, you're scrolling Instagram, and every other woman's hair looks softer, more lived-in, more like it grew that way. Meanwhile, yours looks

You found three of them this morning and now you can't stop looking. One at the temple, two near the parting, glinting back at you under the bathroom light. You're 42, maybe 45, and you've spent twenty years not really thinking about your hair colour beyond whether it looks nice. Now suddenly you're standing in front of the mirror with a decision to make. Do you reach for the box dye, book in for a tint, or do you do the thing that secretly terrifies you and let them come thr

You keep tying it up because you can't look at it. The balayage you saved for, the highlights you waited months to book, the colour that was supposed to make you feel like yourself again, and now you avoid mirrors. The bands. The brass. The patches where the lightener clearly stopped working halfway through. You've read every Reddit thread, watched every TikTok, and now you're sat here wondering if it can even be fixed or whether you just have to grow it out and live with it

Most women going grey are being sold the wrong service, and nobody in the industry is telling them. I am Marta Davies. I run Hair By Marta in Market Drayton, and a large part of my week is spent fixing grey blending that has gone wrong somewhere else. Banding, brassiness, harsh regrowth lines, hair that has been stretched too thin by aggressive lightening. The same problems, over and over, in women who were told this would be the easy way out of root colour. I wrote this beca