We wash it, condition it, mousse, wax and style it – so it’s safe to say we get pretty attached to our hair

It’s no surprise, then, that clogging your shower’s plughole in the morning can be more than just an inconvenience – it’s also pretty worrying to see yourself shedding your luscious locks.

With a new year – and a new decade – on the horizon, you might be thinking it’s time to shake things up, and what better way than with hot new hair colour?

If you’re looking for hair-spiration, we’ve got the inside scoop from a top colourist on the trends that are on the rise.

“2020 is going to be all about subtle but statement-making colour that doesn’t mess around,” says Katie Hale, head of colour at Charles Worthington Salons.

It’s easy to get bored with your hairstyle – after all, most of us have had it the same way for years.

Luckily, there are plenty of ways to switch up your look without doing anything extreme. High fashion has wised up to the infinite possibilities that come with hair accessories, giving retro bows and clips a 2019 update.

We take a look at what people Google and obsess over each year...

And when it comes to beauty, what we’ve all been Googling provides a remarkable insight.

Google Trends has compiled the top beauty queries from the past year and a half were concerned with our hair.

It turns out we’re not particularly original, because we’re all asking the same things. To spare us from another year of madly Googling everything to do with our hair, stylists have given their professional answers to our most-asked questions…

We already know Rihanna is a beauty icon: after all, her make-up line Fenty Beauty successfully disrupted the entire industry.

But while we pore over her make-up looks, we shouldn’t forget what a hair icon she is. The 31-year-old has been in the spotlight since she was a teenager, and she’s switched up her hairstyle seemingly a million times over – suiting every new do like the true chameleon she is.

Here are some of Rihanna’s most memorable looks…

What would we do without Google?

From sourcing recipes and restaurants to settling arguments about what year a song came out, and satisfying that most irritating of feelings when you can’t identify where you’ve seen a certain actor before, the search engine has been helping us out with life’s questions, big and small, for 21 years now.

When it comes to beauty queries we’re hair-obsessed, it seems.

Every blonde knows, that of all the hair disasters likely to strike between salon appointments, developing unwanted brassy locks might just be the worst.

Even if you shell out a small fortune getting the perfect creamy colour at the hairdressers, just a few short weeks later, your hair can often turn an undesired shade as your icy tone fades fast.

Fortunately, there are several things you can do to both prevent and fix an attack of the brassy blondes. Here’s what the experts have to say…

When it comes to hair, every season has its challenges. In summer, you’re dealing with the sun and sea or swimming pool water, in winter it’s freezing temperatures and dry air that you have to contend with.

Autumn, being so changeable, is particularly tricky, because you’ve some got humidity and frequent downpours, but also drier, colder days, which can leave our strands, well, stranded.

So what can done to counteract the autumn onslaught? We asked hair experts and here’s what they had to say…

Kim Kardashian West has had a seasonal hair switch-up, with her new hue being unveiled by celebrity hair stylist Chris Appleton on Instagram.

The A-list hair guru captioned the photo of his famous client: “Autumn hair colour Cool Chocolate brown” – adding an emoji of autumn leaves for good measure.

Judging by Instagram, it would seem like we’re basically living in the Nineties – but with the addition of social media. Everyone wears dungarees, bum bags and spaghetti straps, and now it looks like hairstyles are next to get the Nighties treatment.

Scrunchies have been back in business for a while now, and slowly but surely other retro hairstyles are infiltrating our feeds. This isn’t just the odd barrette but also major ways to style, colour or cut your hair.