I could sum up my recent trip to New York Fashion Week in four words. Jet-lag, blizzards, bobby pins and OriginalMineral. It’s a crazy dream for any hairdresser to do the “dos” for 10 days of fashion shows, and an amazing achievement for two guys from Sydney and a Aussie grown hair care brand. We rocked it! I’m [...]

I don’t want to be an antagonist… BUT I’m a proud member of the Australian Hairdressing Council (AHC), as a member we have a Facebook page for not only members but for people who might join. It’s a forum a safe place for hairdressing salon owners to speak or talk through problems. A recent thread posted by Craig regarding [...]

So Pinterest – for those of you that don’t know about pinterest its a social media website that allows you to store your favourite pictures, you can pin pics from most websites onto your boards, so wether you are doing your shop up, mood boards for hairexpo or even decorating your house .   So [...]

In response to Anthony Wynne-Hoelscher’s letter to all AHC members and to our industry on the whole… I think journalism quite often does not help anything or anybody (as he sits here typing a response). I think the key thing is not to jump up and be reactive, which I struggle with as I’m a [...]

Why Are we struggling to get good staff?   When i speak to my friends in the industry, one of the most common threads of conversation is staff.  It’s hard to get good staff, or the only good staff are generally home grown in our salons. I have recently put ads in for assistants (i [...]

One of the things I’m passionate about, apart from creating great hair, is doing it in an environmentally friendly way. Let’s face it, hairdressing businesses are generally not that ‘eco’ friendly. We use lots of electricity in our salons for lighting, blow-drying, curling, straightening, and we use loads of water washing towels and washing our [...]

 I own two hair salons- Stevie English Hair in Glebe, and a brand new salon in Bondi Junction. At the moment we charge for a ladies’ cut and blowdry with a director : $120 and for men $80. Why is it so common in our industry to give men a discount when the service is [...]

This is a short story on Creative Collaboration. And in it I hope to share a valuable lesson that we’ve learnt recently. Last year, the Stevie English Hair team were invited to put on a live performance for the launch of Culture Magazine’s new online venture: Culture Hub. Culture brought us in to help launch Culture Hub- [...]

Forum is the brain child of Linda Woodhead of Mocha publishings, Linda is a lover of the hairdressing industry, has many hats in the forms of being on the board for the ever growing and influential AHC as well as editing many mags such as the popular #Hairbiz #BeautyBiz and #Image to name a few. [...]

What does  a salon mean to you? A friend recently asked me what does the salon mean to me. My first thoughts were: it’s where I’m creative, it’s where I live out my passion and my love of hair. It got me thinking though….what what does the salon really mean to me, and more importantly [...]