The NEUTRAL PALETTE

THE NEUTRAL PALETTE©

Not every transformation needs to shout. This collection sits at the quieter end of colour — woodland tones and bark, caramels, chocolates, vanillas, through to icy blondes and platinum. No vivids here, but neutral doesn't mean flat. There's still warmth, still dimension, still a story running through every piece.

Clare and Jodi both wear platinum crops here — clean, cool or warmer and confident, proof that "neutral" can still make a serious statement when the cut and the tone work together.

Wendy's piece is where the real dimension lives. Regrowth was worked in a base 7, then highlights woven through by hand in a classical French balayage method using lightener, intermixed with a deeper base 6-7 blend. The result is a genuinely dimensional blonde — not one flat shade, but warmth and depth moving through it.

Carrie's caramel comes from the mini makeover — sun-kissed, lighter framing at the front, caught even warmer than usual in the sunset light it was photographed in, but essentially a soft caramel base with a lifted, brightened front section.

Ryan wears two looks shot at different times- asymmetric new romantics meets Andy Wahol dark underneath with warm blonde on the top section and then the bowl shape with texture again darker underneath with warm caramel over the top. The texture allows for versatility and options when styling.

Across all of it — bark, caramel, chocolate, vanilla, ice, platinum — the through-line is dimension over drama. Sometimes restraint is its own kind of statement.