Wella Generation Now

Wella never!!

Sorry, but it's good to get the bad joke out of the way first. Well this looks like it's going to be a very exciting year ahead for me as I have been chosen to be one of six people that make up the Wella Generation Now team for the next year. I'm so ecstatic about this great opportunity and can't believe I made it through the audition process.

My audition was held at the Wella London Studio in front of a panel of judges which included one of the industry greats Desmond Murray. It was a really enjoyable process and the three judges were so nice. I was asked to present a look on a model which I had created myself and also talk about what I felt I would bring to the team. The look I created was called Vintique and was inspired by vintage fashion and the Art Deco period. I had a feeling it had gone well, especially because I just wanted it so bad. So it was a welcome relief when a week later I received a phone call inviting me to become a part of the team.

So over the next year I am going to be representing Wella and my team at Francesco Group Tamworth up and down the country, working with some hairdressing icons and a great young team of which I am very lucky to have been made a part of.

We will be having our induction week at the end of August, so I will be sure to post how that goes, and I will also try to post some photos from my audition. Watch this space!!

Alternative Hair Show Visionary Awards 2008

Hello and welcome to my first post on blogspot! I've been wanting to start a blog to represent the industry I work in and love so much for some time now. I'm gonna be posting my experiences, bad sense of humour and any knowledge I may possess. Hopefully you'll find this blog at least slightly interesting whether you are a hairdresser or not.

So what better way to start off than by sharing pictures from my experience at the Royal Albert Hall last year when I was priviledged enough to be chosen as a finalist for the 2009 Visionary Award. Although I was not the overall winner (1st place went deservedly so to Ken Picton), the experience itself was prize enough. Being able to walk out onstage at one of Britain's most beautiful concert halls infront of 5000 people with your own work is an amazing feeling and one that I will never forget. However the highlight for me was meeting the legend that is Vidal Sassoon (I will talk more about Vidal in future blogs). The competition was held at the charity event known as The Alternative Hair Show which is a true spectacle that anyone who cares about hair should attend at least once in their lifetime, not least because of the wonderful work it does for charity.

So here come the piccies...

This was the image that got me to the final. It was based on Vidal's bold profile photographs from the 1960's.

Preparation begins

My make-up artist Lucy

An intimidating view.

My model Omie making me proud

She strutted her stuff well

I take to the stage with Omie

And finally the man himself, Vidal Sassoon.

And that's all for now. Thanks for looking and please keep checking back for plenty, plenty more in the future!!