Inspiration

My inspiration

Kirk — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:37:24 GMT

my inspiration comes from every where, and anything, but at the moment it is lady gaga she is so different at what she does and what she wears, i hope to be just as creative as she is

London Hairdressing Blog

pont — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:19:35 GMT

New London hairdressing blog, updated regularly!

Inspiration

wheels — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:26:22 GMT

Even as a little girl I knew I would be a hairdresser and eventually a salon owner. And being a determined person I actually met those goals. My current job is a Cosmetology Instructor at a local community college. The person who actually inspired me for this role was my cosmetology teacher that I had as a junior in high school. Currently my inspiration comes from the joy of watching the students come alive as soon as they learn and master a technical skill they have struggled with. I cannot imagine any other position of work where I could have so much fun and enjoyment every day.

Inspirational Game for hairdressers with clients who are grumpy

HAIRDAYHAIR — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:37:38 GMT

MAYBE THIS WILL INSPIRE A STYLE>>> http://www.addictinggames.com/hairdresserhorror.html

Have fun!!!!

Working with electrical tools

Romark — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:07:03 GMT

Check out www.babylisspro.co.uk for inspiration on using electrical tools. There is also a great competition to upload your work and win products and a chance to appear on stage at Salon International.

The London Hair Academy

Hair Academy — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:28:23 GMT

Are you inspired by the hair in fashion magazines and the catwalk shows of London, Paris and Milan? Come and learn from the very people who work backstage at these shows and for these magazines producing these hair looks. We offer intense fashion led courses in hair styling, and portfolio building all taught by industry professionals at competitive prices.

Whether you’re a complete beginner enthusiastic to learn, or experienced and wanting to strengthen and polish your skills, our intense one week course covers core techniques of hair styling teaching you how to create fashion, catwalk, celebrity and bridal hair looks. We cover the classic core skills of hair up for French pleat, Beehive, Rolls, Buns, The fashion pony tail, Plaits, Twists, Bows and Finger waves, tonging, setting and much more

There is also an Avant Garde & Couture day of free expression, a day of extreme creativity and imagination. Students will you hair pieces and ornamentation combining all they have learnt during the course and inventing their own creation. On the final day students will work on there own photo shoot within a professional team of photographer, agency models, and makeup artist where they create there own hair looks and leave with professional images to start their hair portfolios showing their skills and talent.

Develop and improve your hair styling and hair up skills in this fun and creative course. Whether you want a career as a session stylist (working on photo shoots and catwalk shows doing hair) or for increased freelance and salon opportunities this is where your career starts!

Visit our web site at: http://www.thehairandmakeupacademy.com

Or feel free to view our online gallery and contact me course director natashamygdal@aol.com 078 2727 4088

www.tkhair.com, London session school....

tomo.k — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:11:15 GMT

www.tkhair.com Is London's only exclusive session styling traing school for hairdressers who are wanting to get/ learn more about styling hair on professionsal photoshoots, catwalk shows and advertising. Each day at the academy consists of morning session thoery and block work, then afternoon sessions consist off a photoshoot with profession models, make up artist and stylist etc..... Students leave the school with databases for magazies contacts, goody bag off products and of course a book full off images to start their session life...... For more information please visit- www.tkhair.com

Michael Barnes is My Hero

Ariel77 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:44:20 GMT

I just want to say that I think Michael Barnes is the sweetest and most talented stylist out there! He deserves an award for mentoring other stylists! Check out his "how to" video on you tube for avant garde hairstyling. Just type in "Michael Barnes hair" and you should be able to find it. God bless Michael Barnes!

general chat

lukas — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:37:33 GMT

i dnt know many people but please add me and we can talk about hairdressing all day lol

Habia on Blue Peter

ktWoods — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:51:40 GMT

Habia skills team member MK has made an appearance on Blue Peter about cutting patterns in hair. You can see it on the BBC's i-player

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/search/?q=Blue%20Peter

UK SKILLS

balding1 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:26:53 GMT

Just a note to all those entering UK SKILLS heats over the next two weeks.

The best of luck and seek inspiration in what you aspire to be.

P.S. will HJ be doing an write up on trainees aspiring to represent the UK in hairdressing?

Inspiratin

Santilli — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:24:40 GMT

I don’t get inspiration from actors or actresses as by the time they have a style its already been seen and accepted by the public. They seem to copy the masses and then the masses copy them. It's like a dog that’s biting its tail. We just go round in circles. When models and actors take a "New” style it suits them better as it’s their prerogative. We hairdressers should be ahead of actors. They should get inspiration from us hairdressers about their hair, not the other way around. I think I get inspiration from Contemporary art galleries, as there we see what the modern artist is up to. Our job is part of modern art. Try doing a style that is from another era and see what happens. I remember when the Mullet was the best thing since sliced bread and the soulder pads to go with the haircut.

Maybe a trip to Berlin to see the Bauhaus Museum as the styles of today have come from this direction even if that’s really a thing of the 1930s. A trip to Paris and a seat at a coffee shop for the day watching people go by. Earler this month I went to the Chicago and got inspiration from going to the museums and art galleries. Inspiration is for the sole not the eyes.

Haidressers without limits

wip — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:18:53 GMT

Haidressers without limits

In addition to attending regular workshops or courses, WIP-Hairport goes one step further. Hairdressers at WIP-Hairport have the chance to swap with a hairdesser from another european country for one month. Another culture, different costumes, trends, friends, … how challenging could that be? The aim is to learn different techniques and demands and return with new ideas as a way to encourage creativity. Our customers will benefit the most from this swap, of course, because they will have another professional haidresser available at WIP-Hairport, someone with the newest trends from another country.
Silvia already had this experience. She has swapped with Liane who works at Fortschnitt in Vienna, Austria. Right now we are looking for other Salons who want to do that as well...

check out our websites:

http://hairport.wordpress.com/category/hairdressers-without-limits/

http://www.hairport.pt

Fashion Week

HJi — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:51:32 GMT

It's that time of the year when the fashion capitals of the world embrace the trends that we'll all be adopting next season.

We loved it! And we made sure we stayed up to date with the hairdressing teams who were working behind the scenes at London Fashion Week. But what did your clients think of the whole thing?

[Please visit the site to access the poll]

Inspiration

MickSay — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:38:40 GMT

Where do you get inspiration from?

Hopefully from salon management!

Great leaders are inspirational people, this does not happen by accident it has to be worked at. You can learn how here

I was recently inspired by a salon owner named Mr Alan Rimmer from a Small Salon Group in Merseyside, not a hairdresser by trade he manages his team with genuine respect and integrity and he really cares, (and I mean really cares) as a consiquence of his brilliant management skills his team respect him totally.

You see management is easy to get wrong. Manage with a heavy hand and you will lose your best stylists, manage too weakly and you will lose your best clients!

Another Salon owner who never seases to inspire me is Nicola Hollick of Chestnuts in Essex, watch this video of the Chestnuts salon Saturday Girl and see why.

When a great stylist leaves the salon, they have not resigned from the salon, "they have resigned from their manager"

Good Salon Managers are not born good they really care about people and they really care about growing the salon business for the benefit of the salon owners and of all the staff.

So where do you get your inspiration from, and if the answer is a creative person - then you need also to pick an inspirational business leader, because you may be the best hairdresser in the world, or your salon team may be the best there is - but without a well defined strategy for driving clients to the salon all of that talent goes to waist.

If you want to learn how to become a trusted, respected and inspirational Salon Manager please contact Mick Say from here.

Cheers

Bad month for hair

Adz — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:47:03 GMT

Don't know about you guys but i just hate this time of year!

Now the clocks have gone back it so dark so early and no matter what lights or how many day light bulbs you use you can't beat real day light for cutting and colouring. Colours just don't look right after 4Pm these days and don't even get me started on the weather. Styling hair on wet, windy days is just so annoying when the minute the client leaves the salon you know that your work of art has been ruined! For a profectionist like me its very annoying.

Roll on the spring! With spring light shades of brightness and tones combined with sexy summer cuts?

The My HJi Best Tressed List

ktWoods — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:30:45 GMT

Tatler have named their best dressed list for the year. Topped by Agyness Deyn and Kate Moss, the only surprise was that a politician's wife made the top 10!

It got me thinking, if the same list was compiled with the best hair who would make the cut - and how many of the same names would appear?

At the end of the year when we asked some top stylist who their icons of the year were here's what they had to say:

http://www.hji.co.uk/blogs/main/2007/12/celerbrity-hair-style-icons-of.html

Now I thought it would be a bit of fun - well just a smidgen of fun - for us to compile the My HJi best tressed list. Once we've got a few nominees I thought we'd have a vote on it to crown the winner.

So throw your names into the melting pot...

Breaking news....Posh has gone short

ktWoods — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:07:36 GMT

Oh my God, I was sent an email this morning to say that Victoria Beckhamn has had her hair cut short. And we all nkow that where Victoria goes the world follows.

What does everyone think? Personally, it kind of reminds me of Rizzo from Grease, but please feel free to correct me.

Kate

Style: subjective or objective?

ktWoods — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:01:16 GMT

...I'm aware I might be revisiting an old conversation here, but I am currently working on the HJi hair-o-meter - if you haven't seen it, it's something we do looking at the celebs who have great hair and, um, not so great hair every couple of weeks. I'll add the latest link when it's ready, but here's the last one to give you an idea - http://www.hji.co.uk/blogs/main/2008/08/celebrity-hairometer-carla-top.html

Each week, someone puts it together and sends it over to me and each week I look at at least two of the entries and think I would have put it in the opposite category... It got me thinking is what's hot subjective? I'm sure no stylist ever lets their celebrity clients leave the salon with a shocker and equally I'm sure no celebrity every steps out on a red carpet thinking I look really bad so where does that breakdown in perception happen?

And when we're compiling these hair-o-meters is there ever a right or wrong? I wonder if there is anyone out there who thinks the classic Audrey Hepburn Breakfast at Tiffany's look is plain and boring.... would love to hear your thoughts.

Innovator or Decorator

Santilli — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:13:56 GMT

As my friend FLINT would say: There are two types of designers INNOVATORS and DECORATORS. I think we live in the decoration time. Its safer. It takes courage to be an innovator. You will not win any prizes at innovation . People start to appreciate what you do when it becomes Decoration. Few understand innovation. When you innovate the other top hairdressers copy you. as they understand what is going on and then it becomes popular and it will be unlikly that you get the credit.

Decoration is doing a "NEW" Bob or graduation or two tone colours or Multy colouring the hair or layering. Innovation is usualy shock. So few appreciates that.

You will know Flint as it was Flint who was working on the book Cutting Hair the Vidal Sassoon Way with Darrell Benson under the watchfull eye of Christopher Brooker. .

Celebrity Hair Icons

HJi — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:20:49 GMT

We've been running a feature in HJ and on HJi where some top hairdressers talk about who their celebrity hair icons are. Errol Douglas has named Audrey Hepburn; Andrew Barton says his is Cate Blanchett and Robert Eaton's hair icon is Blondie.

Have you got one? If so would it be someone from the modern day or someone from yesteryear?

Is black IN or OUT?

Santilli — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 07:10:52 GMT

Is Black IN or OUT?

I had a girl friend in Berlin and we sometimes went to the KC club in that incredible town in those incredible times. David Bowie and Elton John have been seen in that club around that time. One night in 1977, My girlfriend wore everything black. All the cloths were second hand too. It was a fashion before its time. I worked in Japan for a few years after that and black was very much entwined with the Japanese culture, especially black lacquer. Coming back to Europe in 1980 I found that I was very fashionable with my black cloths and pony tail hairstyle. Vidal Sassoon had written a book called Sorry I kept you waiting madam, a few years before and he wanted to bind it in black but was advised that black was not a good idea and would seem like the bible, and maybe no one would want to bye it. It would have a non verbal communication of being “heavy”.

I went to Italy in 1984 and people would stare at me in the street as I was dressed in black. Comments like “you look like a cockroach” would be banded about. A club opened called “Black” and everyone that went wore black to the club. Then Fendi started to use black as their IN colour. That put the seal of approval on the “look”. Suddenly, cloths in black, Hi quality art book’s in black, black furniture, black bathrooms, black tinted hair, black everything and it defined a generation. That was thirty years ago. People still dress in black. After seeing a show with models all aglow in colour we see Giorgio Armani come on the stage IN BLACK. He is not the only one as after every fashion show the stylist comes on to say thank you, and there you see the real people and I might add not the pretty people, but the reality. In 1995 I went to a meeting with some of the top hairdressers in the UK and I wore a green suit but everyone was still in black. I looked like a freak. Or more importantly I seemed to, not belong. Every one of the top hairdressers that came to this meeting. {{It was a charity doo and a cheque was being handed over by Susanna York (who was not in black) for Leukaemia research, had black cloths on.{{ It seemed like a uniform.

Don’t you think that if someone wears black today it is a sign of weakness, a sign that we are not “with it”, a sign of old fashioned. Stuck in the mud! A sign that we are just not getting on with life but have found our place and are happy with it, thank you? A sign that we come from the 80’s? It’s something that’s so comfortable and so safe and so sure. It’s difficult to make a mistake and it’s so easy to match tops and bottoms and shoes. No one could possibly judge us badly!

Then the BLACK iPod comes along and we feel we are tops again.

Paris Hilton goes demure...

Flower — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:53:07 GMT

I came across this post about Paris Hilton this morning...

http://celebsalon.sheknows.com/hairstyles-by-color/blonde-hairstyles/807/paris-hilton-with-blonde-chin-length-bob-hairstyle

Can't decide what I think. The cut is great. Classy and sophisticated, but it's just not her and it's aged her by about 10 years. It got me thinking how much of what cut suits someone is about their physical features and how much is about personality.

As stylists, it's easy for us to get the first bit right; but we've only got limited time to know the second so what are the best ways to get it right?

Brits v American Celebs

Flower — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:00:18 GMT

There's no question that we Brits are the best in the business when it comes to hairdressing, but seeing the Brits and the Oscars in the last week got me thinking about who does red carpet hair the best. What do you think was it the Brits that shone in the hair style stakes or was the red-carpet hair across the pond a cut above?

Top styles...

ktWoods — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 09:25:35 GMT

Throughout the years, there have been so many iconic styles. But I'd be curious to hear which style you would love to have created?