MAY HIGHLIGHTS
To start the month off we had a creative day with Adam Bryant and Sharon Peak from Ethos Hairdressing. This session was actually in Manchester so no travelling to London AND it was sunny! Adam and Sharon gave us an insight into their different hairdressing backgrounds, careers, salon life and how they keep their working partnership strong. The day was all about creative colouring techniques - something they are both very passionate about. One of my favourite techniques that they showed us was braiding the hair and blending the colour over and around the braid to create a beautiful root glow.
Our next F.A.M.E. Team day was with Adam Reed, owner of Percy and Reed. I found him incredibly inspiring and he talked to us about every single aspect of hairdressing he does from TV work, to catwalk shows, editorial hair and owning his own salons. Adam showed us the fundamentals of prepping hair and classic 'old school' hairdressing techniques such as a chignon. He even let us go through his endless kit bag and experiment with all of his equipment. We've gone away with some classic techniques to practice and a huge shopping list of kit!
Something that I am very proud of this month is I have graduated from my Wella Master Colour Programme. This is something totally separate from the F.A.M.E. Team but has been a massive achievement for me. I studied for a year taking up all of my spare time (and money) learning everything from colour foundations, product knowledge, science of how we see colour and extreme colour correction. I went from being bottom of the class to gaining 96% (the best marks)! Even though I'm a Creative Stylist at Sassoon I wanted to learn how to colour for my own knowledge and interest.
Thank you for taking the time to read my journey - Look out for next month's update.
