diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 54fcdefa352f5ea5e00a1fde425a01c3ed368d65..e6c9d3934ceb3703dfc188eef03216bedba00d40 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,16 +2,14 @@ This document contains the ``fslpy`` release history in reverse chronological
 order.
 
 
-2.4.0 (Wednesday July 24th 2019)
---------------------------------
+2.5.0 (Under development)
+-------------------------
 
 
 Added
 ^^^^^
 
 
-* New :mod:`.image.roi` module, for exracting an ROI of an image, or expanding
-  its field-of-view.
 * New :meth:`.Image.getAffine` method, for retrieving an affine between any of
   the voxel, FSL, or world coordinate systems.
 * New :mod:`fsl.transforms` package, which contains classes and functions for
@@ -30,8 +28,8 @@ Changed
 ^^^^^^^
 
 
-* The :mod:`.resample_image` script has been updated to support resampling of
-  images with more than 3 dimensions.
+* The :mod:`.vest.looksLikeVestLutFile` function has been made slightly more
+  lenient.
 * `h5py <https://www.h5py.org/>`_ has been added to the ``fslpy`` dependencies.
 
 
@@ -39,11 +37,31 @@ Deprecated
 ^^^^^^^^^^
 
 
-* The :mod:`fsl.utils.transform` module has been deprecated its functions can
+* The :mod:`fsl.utils.transform` module has been deprecated; its functions can
   now be found in the :mod:`fsl.transforms.affine` and
   :mod:`fsl.transform.flirt` modules.
 
 
+2.4.0 (Wednesday July 24th 2019)
+--------------------------------
+
+
+Added
+^^^^^
+
+
+* New :mod:`.image.roi` module, for extracting an ROI of an image, or expanding
+  its field-of-view.
+
+
+Changed
+^^^^^^^
+
+
+* The :mod:`.resample_image` script has been updated to support resampling of
+  images with more than 3 dimensions.
+
+
 2.3.1 (Friday July 5th 2019)
 ----------------------------
 
diff --git a/fsl/data/vest.py b/fsl/data/vest.py
index 2c60568801c9dc7ff36fedb614da56f6ab8f7fec..b0b33c73fa41ab045c849d079f52d73d40baccf6 100644
--- a/fsl/data/vest.py
+++ b/fsl/data/vest.py
@@ -22,7 +22,16 @@ def looksLikeVestLutFile(path):
     ``False`` otherwise.
     """
     with open(path, 'rt') as f:
-        return f.readline().strip() == '%!VEST-LUT'
+
+        lines = []
+        for i in range(10):
+            line = f.readline()
+            if line is None: break
+            else:            lines.append(line.strip())
+
+    validHeaders = ('%!VEST-LUT', '%BeginInstance', '%%BeginInstance')
+
+    return len(lines) > 0 and lines[0] in validHeaders
 
 
 def loadVestLutFile(path, normalise=True):
diff --git a/tests/test_vest.py b/tests/test_vest.py
index df74b5b8cf656f3a630d7cd29c2da988ab2b5321..407c502ef633880cfb072581be1a2a47e7a97581 100644
--- a/tests/test_vest.py
+++ b/tests/test_vest.py
@@ -111,11 +111,37 @@ testfile4Colours = np.array([
 
 testfile5 = """Obviously not a VEST file"""
 
+testfile6 = """%BeginInstance
+/SavedInstanceClassName /ClassLUT
+/PseudoColourmap [
+<-color{0.0,1.0,5.0}->
+<-color{1.0,2.0,4.0}->
+<-color{2.0,3.0,3.0}->
+]
+>>
+%%EndInstance
+%%EOF
+"""
+
+testfile7 = """%%BeginInstance
+/SavedInstanceClassName /ClassLUT
+/PseudoColourmap [
+<-color{0.0,1.0,5.0}->
+<-color{1.0,2.0,4.0}->
+<-color{2.0,3.0,3.0}->
+]
+>>
+%%EndInstance
+%%EOF
+"""
+
 
 def _createFiles(testdir):
 
-    names = ['testfile1', 'testfile2', 'testfile3', 'testfile4', 'testfile5']
-    texts = [ testfile1,   testfile2,   testfile3,   testfile4,   testfile5]
+    names = ['testfile1', 'testfile2', 'testfile3', 'testfile4', 'testfile5',
+             'testfile6', 'testfile7']
+    texts = [ testfile1,   testfile2,   testfile3,   testfile4,   testfile5,
+              testfile6,   testfile7]
 
     for name, text in zip(names, texts):
         filename = op.join(testdir, '{}.txt'.format(name))
@@ -137,6 +163,8 @@ def test_looksLikeVestLutFile():
         assert     vest.looksLikeVestLutFile(op.join(testdir, 'testfile3.txt'))
         assert     vest.looksLikeVestLutFile(op.join(testdir, 'testfile4.txt'))
         assert not vest.looksLikeVestLutFile(op.join(testdir, 'testfile5.txt'))
+        assert     vest.looksLikeVestLutFile(op.join(testdir, 'testfile6.txt'))
+        assert     vest.looksLikeVestLutFile(op.join(testdir, 'testfile7.txt'))
 
     finally:
         shutil.rmtree(testdir)