Hair, Beauty & Fashion News

 
Award winning group hob salons has teamed up with renowned hairdresser and educator Debbie Dixon to embark on their new era of education. With a fantastic background and invaluable experience, Debbie is the ideal person to take on the role of Principal and Manager at the company’s new training academy and salon due to open at London’s Camden Lock next month.
 
Beginning her hairdressing career in Leeds in the late 1970’s, her entrance test for Vidal Sassoon was taken by none other than Tim Hartley. Once qualified, Debbie worked in Manchester and London, whilst accompanying Vidal personally throughout the 1980’s to promote his products in Europe.
 
Her organizational strengths and team building abilities were rewarded with her first management position within the Sassoon group in Toronto, Canada where she successfully introduced education. On her return to the U.K. she took on the position of Senior Principal at the Vidal Sassoon Schools and Academies. Her career took on momentum as she opened their most successful new salon launch in the UK to date, in Cardiff.
 
The next 3 years saw Debbie manage Sassoon’s flagship South Molton Street salon, before taking on the enormous challenge of re-energizing Sassoon’s Chicago salon in North America. It was there she met her husband, following him to Los Angeles were she was promoted to Assistant General Manager of Education for Vidal Sasoon in North America.
 
Debbie now lives in Brixton South London with her husband Gary. Now taking a new direction she is excited and energized to be part of the hob salons’ team in launching their new venture. The high-tech facilities will combine both a salon and a full-time teaching academy, comprising 2 floors and 53 styling stations, welcoming students on a national and international level.
 
With the addition of Debbie, the hob team is fully equipped for the opening of hob salons & education in Camden. Speaking of this great acquisition, hob’s International Creative Director, Akin Konizi expressed, ‘we are thrilled and fortunate to get Debbie on board. She would be an asset to any company, and we are really looking forward to working with her on this fantastic and exciting new project.’
 

 
The 6th edition of the Hair Brasil - International Beauty, Hair and Esthetics Fair held from April 13th to 16th in the city of São Paulo, reached all expectations in number of visits and contacts.
 
During the four days of the event, the fair received 61 thousand professional visits, corresponding to a 9% increase over the 2006 edition. Hairdressers, makeup professionals, manicurists, estheticians, entrepreneurs and other professionals of the beauty care area flocked in from Brazil and also from abroad.
 
From Brazil, the fair received visitors from all the states, especially from São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Bahia.
 
Hair Brasil also hosted international visitors from countries namely: Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, Paraguay, among others, thus confirming its status of event of reference for Latin America.
 
Visitors were able to appreciate novelties brought by the 530 exhibiting brands as well as participating in the 62 simultaneous events, like the Megashow and the Hair Brasil Workshops, Seminars by Sebrae (Brazilian Support Service for Small Business), Esthetics and Manicurist Congresses, as well as the Hair Brasil Championship.
 
5.100 professionals from the most diverse areas of the beauty care participated in the events promoted by Hair Brasil 2007, that brought in qualified information on trends, techniques and fashion: a unique opportunity for professional recycling and enhancement.
 
Jeferson Santos, general director of Hair Brasil, said that exhibitors were satisfied with the fair, that offered good business volume as well as qualified networking. “Once again, Hair Brasil reached the sector’s expectations and reinforced its image as the most important showcase of Latin America for the beauty care market. The fair is an essential tool towards the development of business and networking, thus allowing safer investments of the industry and of the salons”, said Santos.
 

 
Almost 40,000 visitors came for the first Hair & Beauty to be organised by Messe Frankfurt from 12 to 14 May 2007. They included more than 30,000 hairdressers and other trade visitors, as well as around 10,000 trendsetters and leading personalities from the sector, not to mention competition participants, artists and models. During the two days of the fair, over 350 international exhibitors and brands presented the latest trends and highlights, breathtaking shows and top stars of the hair-fashion scene to the national and international hairdressing trade.
The Saturday evening revolved around the grand Gala Evening, which ensured a glamorous start to the fair with a host of stars and celebrities from the beauty sector. More ...