Jean-Paul Rosette Hairstylist

Since 1994 Jean-Paul Rosette has worked in salons and as a freelance hairstylist in London, New York and Sydney. Within that time he has worked on fashion spreads catwalk shows and numerous magazine editorials such as Vanity Fair, Elle, Vogue, Dazed & Confused and ad magazines. And groomed the locks of celebrities such as Naomi Campbell, Charlize Theron, Jessica Biel, Ivana Trump, Martha Stewart and Owen Wilson to name a few.

He currently writes monthly columns about hair and hair preparations for Matrix Magazine titled “Behind The Chair”, cosmetiholic.com. He also contributes here at Style Street as well as his own blog titled Heads Will Roll. You’ll find him at Worksense Haircutters doing his thing.

Style Street: So why blog?

Jean-Paul Rosette: My friends are black collar workers, so when I asked them what they were working on, they would show me their CD, building, short film etc, and I felt like I didn’t really have anything physical to show besides the photo shoot or magazine spread, so the blog is my way of addressing that. Perhaps it’s my reflection on the semi-permanent nature of hairdressing. And a way of sketching out ideas and my thoughts about current trends and the industry.

SS: How long have you been writing?

JPR: I started writing about 10 years ago, back then The Age newspaper would ring up and ask about fashion/hair forecasts and the like, then I got a piece in Harper bazaar and I thought I should put these little doodles somewhere anywhere. A friend of mine (Lauren Zoric- music journalist) said that I should start a blog. It just started to snow-ball from there.

SS: You like working overseas?

JPR: Absolutely, but the idea of dropping everything and starting again was terrifying as a hairdresser, especially dropping all those clients I’d worked hard to get. However, I’d recommend it to everybody, drop what you’re doing and start again. It’s very liberating, creatively speaking, and I believe it’s a great motivator in terms of understanding how to build your client base. I leant a lot, I learnt to stand on my own two feet.

SS: What advice would you give young hairdressers?

JPR: Mmm… Explore all avenues about hairdressing. Wig making, barbering and how to make your own products.

SS: Favorite tools?

JPR:
Mason Pearson brush, www.masonpearson.com/
Bumble & Bumble classic spray, www.bumbleandbumble.com/
Needle and thread.

SS: What are you working on at the moment?

JPR: Interviewing Katie Underwood, long time friend and client about her hair and our relationship.

SS: Future plans.
JPR: Putting together a little book of Polaroids. I’ve taken thousands of these things over the years. I like the format. It’s imperfect, instant and disposable all at the same time.

Links, and further reading
Heads Will Roll http://whathappensinthechairstaysinthechair.blogspot.com/
http://www.cosmetiholic.com/

Worksense Haircutters
St.Kilda 95340366
Melbourne 96700496
Contact Jean-Paul
jprosette@ozonline.com.au
http://twitter.com/jeanpaulrosette

RED HOT LOCKS ALL YEAR ROUND

Revlon Professional Media Release

Maintain fiery tresses between salon visits and protect them from the affects of fading with Revlon Professional’s Nutri Colour Crème.

It’s a known fact that red shades fade quicker than any other hair colour but don’t despair, red heads can now rest assured their colour will hold strong with Revlon Professional Nutri Colour Crème. The formula, containing AHA fruit acids and PH 4.5 balance, prevents red tones from turning yellow and brassy whilst remaining fresh, soft and full of shine.

Whether you are inspired by Isla Fischer’s dazzling red hair or have Lily Cole’s natural copper tone, Nutri Colour Crème has a shade to help enhance your red beauty.

The Nutri Colour Crème red colour palette consists of six tones including:

• 400 Tangerine
• 500 Purple red
• 556 Mahogany
• 600 Fire Red
• 734 Copper Gold
• 740 Intense Copper

Keeping red locks radiant couldn’t be easier, explains Ozdare Academy National Education Manager Kirsten Reynolds, “Red hair is high maintenance but can be kept looking bright and rich with the regular use of Nutri Colour Crème which is ammonia and peroxide free.

“The inclusion of ionic pigment concentrate means there is an immediate bond between the pigment and the coloured hair fibre which helps achieve an even all over colour.”

To achieve instant hair colour and nourishment simply wash and towel dry hair, use a few pumps of product (six pumps for short hair, nine for mid length and 12 for long hair) and spread evenly throughout. Leave the colour treatment in for three minutes and rinse.

Reynolds also recommends complementing Nutri Colour Crème with a homecare maintenance program that includes a shampoo and conditioner specifically designed for colour protection.

For red hot locks all year round, look no further than Nutri Colour Crème available from leading salons nationwide:

• 250ml Colour Ball (pump) RRP $42.95
• 24ml Mono Dose RRP $9.95

For stockist enquiries please call 1800 104 204.

Hairdressing Apprentice Required

Posted 8 Feb

Salon Name	Mishka Hairdressing
Email	mj.mishka@optusnet.com.au
Position	Apprentice
Location	Ascot Vale
Job Requirements	First or second year needed for very busy salon …..Must be well spoken and keen to learn…..
Hours per week	38

Opening Your Own Salon

Last year Mario Doria the Director of Maestro Hair Salons shared his thoughts with Style Street on opening a new salon. He had recently stumbled upon Style Street and has the following to say.

This site has some really cool stuff. Some of the articles are really good, and some are I think misleading.
For example Opening a salon for $5000, has disaster written all over it.
It’s a saturated market and only the strong thrive the rest close down.

Before opening a salon, there should be a reason of why it’s going to work, other than you being the best hairstylist in the world. Unfortunately that’s not enough to succeed in the business world.
If these articles are for helping and guiding young hairdressers about to embark on as business venture, they should include,

• Preperation, surveying the area,
• population, average income, average age group in suburb, and see if this fits the kind of salon your dreaming of opening.
• Checking out existing salons, to see if there is a place for you to create something new and fresh.
• Marketing/ advertising plan
• Salon look and feel, the kind of space you wish to create.
• Banking, Accounting, and legal Issues
• Suppliers
• Branding, Image.

If these things along with many others are not addressed in the preperation stage, you will be one of the 75% of salons that fail and eventually go broke.

What our industry doeasn’t need is more salons going broke and bastardizing it along the way, with $5 haircuts and $25 colors in $5000 salons.

We can control our industries future and build it to how it once was many moons ago. Hairdressers were one of the most highly respected trades, and were viewed as artists.
We need to get back to that place where we charge what we are worth per hour like all the other trades. And to do that we need beautiful places to work from that inspire clients and give them an experience worth paying for and returning back again and again.
Opening a $5000 salon I don’t think so. Let’s fill our young stylists minds with sound advice they can use and not false hopes that will see them as the 30th salon in a suburb doing one client a day because of a special they saw on the window.

We have a serious problem in Australia with too many bad hairdressers, in bad salons doing bad work under priced. Which means they can’t employ quality stylists and pay them what their worth, and so they pay the minimum and get the stylists that are at the bottom end who don’t care about their ability or our industry.
As Doctor Phill says “We can’t change what we don’t acknowledge”

I would love to see a governing body for our industry that could have a set standard before one could be issued with a licence to open a salon.

Other countries have stylists earning double what our stylists are earning. We need to address these issues and have new salons that open become a part of our solution not the problem. $5000 salons I don’t think so.

Manager required for new Perth Salon

Posted: 1 Feb 2010

Salon Name	not avaialbe yet
Email	whwp@dodo.com.au
Position	Manager
Location	Perth, midland
Job Requirements	Principal/senior hairdresser. Must have experience. good training skills an advantage.
Hours per week	full time
Qualifications	Other