Chaulk Education

06/10/2026

What colour is purple? 💜

Sounds obvious… until you start mixing it yourself.

Change the balance of blue and red and suddenly you don’t have one purple — you have an entire family of violets.

Then change the building blocks.

What happens when we mix cyan + magenta instead?

Brighter? Duller? Warmer? Cooler? Higher chroma? Lower chroma?

THIS is where colour gets interesting. 🌈

Rather than asking, “Which tube makes the purple I want?”…

What if you understood colour well enough to create the purple you want?

This month inside the Chaulk Collective, we’re investigating direct dyes, colour mixing, fading and the science behind what we actually SEE.

🕵️‍♀️ Stop memorising colour. Start investigating it.

Facts, not formulas.

05/10/2026

What if the perfect pink your client wants… doesn’t exist in your brand? 👀🌈

Do you choose the closest tube available?

Or could you actually create it yourself?

This month inside the Chaulk Collective we’re investigating VIVIDS — direct dyes, colour mixing, formulation, fading and what happens when we stop relying on a manufacturer to make every colour for us.

Because once you understand the building blocks of colour, suddenly you have a LOT more choice. 🎨

Want to understand colour rather than just follow a formula?

Come and join us. 🕵️‍♀️🌈
(Link in bio)

Facts, not formulas.

01/10/2026

I’ve done the PT.
I’ve lifted weights.
I’ve done spin.
I’ve cycled 6 miles to work, stood behind the chair all day doing 10 clients, then cycled 6 miles home.

I’ve tried a LOT of ways to keep my body strong.

And the one thing I’ve always come back to?

Yoga.

Because for me, strength isn’t just about how much weight you can lift.

It’s holding your own body weight when every muscle is shaking.
It’s moving while you’re holding it.
It’s strength AND mobility.
Balance AND control.
Breath AND endurance.
And yes… flexibility too.

Try holding a plank for over a minute, then start moving through it and tell me we’re just lying around stretching. 😂

I want a body that’s strong and able to move.

So to anyone who still thinks yoga is just a bit of gentle stretching…

Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough. 😂🧘‍♀️🔥

30/09/2026

We’ve spent a month turning bottles around.

Investigating ingredients

Now watch out for what’s in store for October

we’re going to put COLOUR back in them.
Big love

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29/09/2026

What level of learning are you at? 👀

Are you still at Level 1?

Repeating what you were taught.
Using the formula because someone told you it works.
Following the technique because that’s how you’ve always done it.

There is nothing wrong with starting there.

We all do.

But what happens when you start to question?

Why did that work?
Why didn’t that work?
What’s actually happening inside the hair?
Is this fact — or is it simply something I’ve been taught to believe?

That’s when learning starts to change.

You stop collecting formulas and start connecting the dots.

You analyse.
You question.
You experiment.
You reflect.

And eventually, you’re not looking outside yourself for someone to give you the answer.

You have the understanding to make your own decisions.

For me, that’s what education should do.

Not create hairdressers who need their educator forever.

Create hairdressers who eventually don’t.

Because the greatest thing I can teach you isn’t what to think.

It’s how to think.

So…

What level do you think you’re at?

And maybe the more interesting question:

What would take you to the next one?

Facts not formulas. 🩷
Chaulk Education

28/09/2026

Should AI replace critical thinking? 🤔

Actually…

Should an app, brand, educator, expert — or AI replace your ability to question?

My Yuka investigation has opened up a much bigger conversation than I expected.

When an ingredient is flagged as potentially harmful, it’s very easy to jump from:

⚠️ HAZARD: this ingredient has the potential to cause harm

to:

❌ THIS PRODUCT IS HARMFUL

But those aren’t necessarily the same thing.

Risk needs context.

What is the concentration?
What’s the exposure?
Rinse-off or leave-on?
How often is it used?
What does the evidence actually show?

This is why I don’t want to tell hairdressers what to think.

I want us to become better at HOW we think.

Yuka can be a starting point.
Google can be a starting point.
ChatGPT can be a starting point.
And yes — even an educator can be a starting point.

But keep asking questions.

Don’t believe it.
Don’t disbelieve it.
INVESTIGATE IT. 🔎🧪

Because information without understanding can very quickly become fear.

Facts, not fear.
Facts, not formulas. ❤️

Big love

25/09/2026

Would you stop using your favourite product because an app told you to? 👀🔎

If you haven’t come across Yuka, it’s an app that allows you to scan food and cosmetic products and gives them a score based on their ingredients.

Sounds useful — and it absolutely can be.

But here’s where it gets interesting…

I scanned one of my favourite professional products and Yuka flagged an ingredient that made me question whether I wanted to continue using it.

My immediate thought?

I need to investigate this. 🧪

Is the ingredient actually in my current product?

Why has Yuka flagged it?

What is that ingredient there to DO?

What evidence is the concern based on?

And does potential hazard automatically mean there’s a meaningful risk from the way I’m actually exposed to it?

Because whether the information comes from an app, a brand, social media, an educator — or even me — don’t automatically assume it’s correct.

Question it.

Investigate it.

Look for the evidence.

And then make your own informed decision.

That’s exactly what we do inside the Chaulk Collective.

We don’t tell you what to think.

We investigate so you can understand WHY. 🔎🧪

Facts, not formulas. ❤️

24/09/2026

23/09/2026

What… no more of these events? 👀

Manchester was the last Become a Colour Master in this format — and what a way to finish. ❤️

Since coming out of lockdown, I’ve taken BACM around the country, hiring beautiful spaces, packing up the experiments and hoping the dates I choose work for enough people.

I always thought the events would simply get bigger.

Instead, I’ve learned that the way I deliver them needs to change.

Manchester was small — and it was BRILLIANT. It became almost bespoke education. Questions, experiments, conversations, dancing 😂 and the space to really understand the WHY behind colour.

So is BACM gone?

Not necessarily.

But I won’t be continually putting dates in the diary and hoping people can make them.

If you’d genuinely like to attend a future BACM, DM or email me and join the interest list. If enough of you want one, we’ll make it happen. Maybe 2027. Maybe not. Let’s see. 🔎

In the meantime, Chaulk isn’t disappearing.

You can learn with me through Chaulk Science, Chaulk Mentor, my online education and the Chaulk Collective — all without waiting for me to hire another enormous room. 😂

Sometimes education evolves too.

And this feels like the right evolution. ❤️

Facts, not formulas.

Online education → link in bio
BACM interest → DM/email me