To my regular blog readers, apologies for my absence! In the last few weeks I have been to Canada, Rome, Paris and Brazil – and now I am in Argentina. I am on a music promo and have worked many evenings during my normal blog-writing hour!
The world has been brought to a standstill air-wise by the volcanic ash storm, as we know, and it certainly turned my little hair world upside down a few weeks ago too.
The main act for the SALON SMART weekend was stuck in America: Mr Robert Lobetta – legendary hair man/god/guru.
And so I was asked to step in and do the show – a 90-minute talk followed by a 45-minute hair styling show. Well, for those of you not working in the hair world, this is the equivalent of the audience turning up to see Madonna only to find an X Factor finalist on the stage! I mean this man is a walking, talking genius!
Three days to go and I found myself making apologetic phone calls to the hen party peeps that I was meant to be spending a classy debauched weekend with, and instead sitting for four hours in the Hoxton Hotel (great place to spend four hours, fyi) with the calm, serene Joanna Andersen from Creative HEAD magazine, putting together a presentation on salon business.
In a diva-like moment I insisted on a top-class assistant team, who were to prep the models as I stood in front of the 200-plus crowd. In my many hair years I have learnt one huge fact: you are only ever as good as the team you have around you. And so Skyler, Chris Appleton and Zlata Jasenc were summoned.
For the hair part of the show (it’s amazing how much calmer I felt with a head of hair in front of me!) I took catwalk looks from S/S 10 and A/W 10 and styled them out on stage. They are some of my favourite looks, so in my next post I am going to run through them with a How-To.
The audience was made up of people with great businesses and also hairdressers who have certainly inspired me over the years. I like to think that in my X Factor moment I turned out as a Susan Boyle (albeit dressed in Comme des Garcons!).
Thank you to everyone for being a wonderful audience and for a general lack of cabbage throwing!
