Maintaining long hair starts with the consultation

In the salon, we look not only at the desired length, but also at how the hair has grown over the past months: where it's thinning out, where the highlights are growing to, and how much can realistically be trimmed without drastically shortening the length. Hair grows about a centimetre a month on average. Having one to two centimetres trimmed every two to three months keeps the ends healthy without the length noticeably changing; wait a year and you usually have to cut off far more to get a sealed end again. Colour plays a part too: coloured or bleached lengths are more brittle and split sooner, so we look at those extra critically. A little bit regularly, rather than a lot every once in a while — that's the difference between long hair that looks well cared for and long hair that just looks long.