Column 8

Hard on the heels of the new usage of deranged as a verb (Column 8, yesterday) comes this marvellous piece of ghastliness from the world of so-called reality TV. Still smarting over the notorious "turkey slap" incident on Big Brother in 2006, a new code of practice has been circulating among those who produce such rubbish, so as to avoid further unpleasantness. It seems that what actors can get away with on screen cannot be permitted by "real" participants. The thinking goes that when a member of the great unwashed does something obscene on TV, it is more "impactful", than when an actor is getting paid to do the same thing.

Must Have Healthy Hair

Sun, sea and summer can leave colour-treated or lightened blonde hair looking and feeling like straw.

Must Have Beautiful Hair

Be glamorous this year with hair that sparkles and shimmers with natural beauty.

Shampoo Without A Shower

Washing your hair without water sounds fantastic and now it can be done with Batiste dry shampoo.

Must Have Shampoo

SILKY smooth and sweet-smelling hair is just a bottle away.

Free Shampoo For You

Whatever your hair type, Schwarzkopf bc bonacure and Silhouette ranges have the perfect mix of shampoo, conditioners and styling treatments to keep it looking its best.

Makers Urged To Give More Body To Shampoo Claims

GLAMOROUS shampoo advertisements promising to make hair 10 times stronger will be investigated by the Office of Fair Trading, which wants the manufacturers to prove their claim.

Teacher Blinds Her Students

A PERUVIAN school teacher blinded four of her pupils and left 20 suffering from severe eye irritation after she used a traditional hair shampoo to wash away hair lice.

Michelle's Hair Raising Euro Lustre

SARAH O'Hare sang in the shower to sell Decore shampoo and Rachel Hunter asked people restoring their split ends with Pantene to be patient.

Bad Hair Day For Spies

The American company Procter & Gamble has admitted it waged an espionage war to get shampoo secrets from its principal rival, the Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever.

Anyone Can Have Long Hair

The next time you see a woman with long, shiny, swinging hair, don't be fooled - it could be that she has had hair extensions.

Hair Despair - A Political Ponytail

Natasha Stott Despoja has had a few bad hair days recently. That's not a criticism, just an observation. Not since Boris's pal on Rocky and Bullwinkle have I cared so profoundly for a Natasha. I'm a fan. I love clarity of vision combined with sickening youth. You don't find that in many girls, blond

We're Gonna Wash That Bug Right Outta Our Hair

FIONA Hunter runs Glintz, a hair salon in Lane Cove, with a three-PC network working behind the scenes to help the business stay ahead. Millennium bug? Here? Sure. The possibility of her system falling over in 2000 saw Hunter call in a consultant. "I had read about it in the papers," sh

Poor Excuses

Australians spent $820,000 on hair shampoo and conditioner yesterday - the same day that about 35,000 children in the Third World died of hunger and diseases of poverty. Yesterday was also the UN International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. PAMELA BONE reports. THE universal symbol of the T