The weird and wonderful sights of salon

If you've never been along to Salon International I don't think you can appreciate the sheer scale, passion and creativity of the event. And if yesterday gave me a taster, today is totally wild! The Hair Show is heaving and there are live shows on every stage you walk past. Just to give you a feel these are some of the weird and wonderful sights I've witnessed so far - I'll let you decide whether they fall into the weird or wonderful category!

1. The British Hairdressing Awards finalists photos - breathtakingly beautiful
2. A model wandering in a Union Jack puff ball dress - the girl looks pretty cool, but I still say that Geri Halliwell has a lot to answer for
3. The creation of magazine covers on the HJ stand - from the initial hair styling through the photography and airbrushing stages and onto the front cover: a real eye opener
4. A model dressed in a wedding dress having her long hair pinned up and hidden so that it looked like a short hair cut (I think you had to see it to believe it!) by Patrick Cameron on the Babyliss Pro stage
5. Too-beautiful-for-their-own-good 'Are You Gorgeous?' models wandering around with the paparazzi photographer taking snaps for the new HJi Image is Everything logo
6. My favourite sight by a country-mile so far on the KOS Pro stand - a barber removing the model's ear and cheek hairs by dabbing it with a lit stick - yes, you read that right! For the record, the finished result was pretty impressive.

That's all for now, I'll let you know about anything else that catches my eye as the weekend continues...