Bring colour into the home with the Ombré effect

Fans of the late, great but much repeated Sex and the City will remember that amongst Carrie Bradshaw’s experimental hair dos was her attempt at the ombré effect.

Black roots carefully constructed to look like new growth stretched down to her ears and then dripped into blond streakiness at the ends. Sack the stylist, I say.

It was the sort of look that would have our friends nudging us toward the hairdressers were we to skimp on colour treatments, but when paraded as a new look by the goddess of style herself, it made grown-out roots fashionable.