Are you a young hairdresser who one day dreams of being a salon owner? If you answer yes to this question, then this podcast has your name on it. Our conversation today is with 24 year old salon owner and educator Luke Hawkins and he's giving us an insight into what life looks like as a young salon owner. For many hairdressers being a salon owner can be their ultimate career goal. But is it all that it's cracked up to …
KP: POP is an exciting new collection by James Earnshaw in collaboration with the Wella Education team, that celebrates COLOUR! Today we are privileged to get the story and journey to this exciting colour mixtures all created using the ICONIC Koleston Perfect, and then captured in a photo collection. Recorded live in the Wella Studio Manchester UK, this collaborative podcast with Wella Professionals UKI, I get to sit down for a conversation with Wella UK Top Artists and Ambassador James Earnshaw and …
Happy Christmas Holidays, Howtocutters! I couldn't think of a better way to enjoy this festive holiday season than listening in to a How To Cut It Classic Rerun podcast . And for this Classic Rerun I've selected one of the worlds most respected hair artists, Gianni Scumaci. Titled the 'Hidden Intelligence of Hairdresser', you are about to hear that episode I had with Gianni Scumaci that was first recorded and published back in February 2019. It was a huge hit! No …
How do you succeed at becoming the very best hair professional you can possibly be? The best starting point is to make sure you are continually growing and developing in all areas of the industry. For sure! Thats what the most successful people in the hair industry do. I should know! I've had the pleasure to interview many of them, and I get to learn theres a common thread that runs through each of them. They never stop learning. So if 2023 is …
It might surprise you that a 17 year old hairdresser was the winner of Quif Centre Stage 2022. Yes at just 17 years of age Vinny-Lee Brennan entered and won the innagural Quif Centre Stage 2022. Quif Centre Stage is a brand new hair industry competition open to all levels of hair professionals and has been created to find the next Generation of Hair Colour Stage Artists. The competitions live finals were held back in September at the Alan Howard HQ …
The Christmas party season is now upon us. So this is that perfect time to fill up any of those remaining column gaps with some express colour service menus. But how can you do this? Step up todays guest; Wella Professionals UK & Ireland Colour Craft Expert and the newly crowned London Hairdresser of the Year 2022, Jordanna Cobella. I've invited the brilliant Jordanna back onto the show to share with us some of her top tips when it comes to boosting …
What does life look like for todays salon owners that are leading an employed team? This is what I want to find out from todays guest, Colin McAndrew. As the Managing Director of Medusa, Colin is responsible for the fastest growing salon group in Scotland. Six salons and a 4,000 sq ft academy, the brand has continued to strengthen over recent years as Colin’s plans have come to fruition. All this sounds great! Right? It's fair to say that Colin McAndrew is …
Always going beyond Great Lengths. These words communicate Great Lengths commitment to work constantly to improving the environmental and social impact, while maintaining the care and dedication invested in the research of high-quality products for their customers. In the second of our collaborative podcast series with Great Lengths UKI, I'm so excited to learn why and how Great Lengths have become the first company in the extension industry worldwide to achieve a B Corp certification (more to come on this), by having …
Meet Emma Fowler: An award-winning colourist who over the last 2 years has gone from a relatively unknown to becoming one of the UK's top independent colour educators. All achieved whilst raising two young children! So how has she done it? Emma has grown a loyal and committed community of hairdressers who are looking to gain confidence in the new era of modern colouring techniques like Balayage. Her story to becoming such a highly regarded educator is inspiring. We'll hear all …
In todays show we’ll be talking about something there’s no great controversy about - screening for allergy. It’s not controversial as we all need to do it, and the good businesses do. It’s also not controversial to say it’s one of the least popular parts of a salon’s operation. It’s not controversial either to say not enough people understand the issue well enough to make informed choices. So I've invited two amazing guest onto the show to talk about it. This is …