“I want to democratise hair colour,” says Josh Wood, hair colourist to the stars, who just raised a $6.5m series-A round to take his direct-to-consumer home hair colouring kit business into the big time. He wants to give women a taste of a personalised salon colouring experience online at a supermarket price tag.
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