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Shafia Cassiem Haffejee is a stylist at the Veaudry Icon Salon at the Veaudry Global head office in Johannesburg. She is an award-winning hairstylist, having done incredibly well in her career, and loves working on photo shoots and videos with Veaudry Global and sponsorships. Being originally from Cape Town you see so much creativity from everything around you. From the people you meet, to the places you visit and being part of a very creative family really helped me develop my creative talents. As much as I’m a socialite, I have a tendency to get shy and when I meet people, I look for qualities in people that inspire me and make me want to share my experiences. At the start of my working life, I had the opportunity to start in the hair industry and after thinking about where I wanted to be and my passions, I realized this was my career opportunity. In pursuit of my passion, I soon saw myself serve 3 years of studies at the College of Cape Town and then relocating to JHB to complete my final years of studying which opened the door for me to be officially on the floor in 2008. My studies didn’t stop there and being so motivated, I completed the SA trade test! I went further and acquired my international degree in hair dressing, this allowed me to become internationally recognised with this amazing industry and allowed me to explore many opportunities. I recently have found and developed a new and exciting flair for artistic hair styling and have already plunged into creative style training. Amongst those opportunities was my first hair competition and I was thrilled to be placed in the top 10. This really motivated me to pursue my passion and turn it into a career. I have had been blessed with success, achieving twelve National Awards with E.O.H.C.B which included categories in Avant Garde, Ladies Colour Cut & Style, Gent’s Colour Cut & Style. I’ve been so excited to achieve an International semi-finalist placing with L’Oréal in the Colour Cut & Style category, and one International semi-finalist with Alternative Hair Show in the Avant Garde and Colour Cut & Style categories. I’m currently working at Veaudry Icon Salon as @shafiahaffejee_hairstylist, working with the most amazing leaders in our industry and with top of the range hair colour, hair equipment and hair retail. I have worked with companies like Woolworths and Mac on their launch of their campaigns which saw my work exhibited through their billboards. I have worked on SA Fashion Week and saw myself alongside several national celebrity designers such as Gavin Rajah and David Tlale. Some of my ongoing work is with Miss South Africa and with music event like South African Idols, TV Series Wedding Bashers, along with Summit events for Indian delegates and South African PSL, to name a few I also had the privilege of working on the event that included former president Obama and singer Beyoncé! In 2019 the Hair and Cosmetology elected me a judge for the South African National Hair competition, and later also for Hairnews SA for the categories Colour Cut & Style and Up Styles. My motto is: knowledge is power, and I believe ongoing, continuous training is vital in the industry to ensure my clients always have the best of my creativity. I was trained by the best National and International hair stylist, and Internationally I have done colour education by Matthew Collins (LA), colour and cutting training with Guylain Martel (Canada), cutting with Nino Bartley (code 17 Shanghai), and cutting and colouring with Mathieu Jacob (France). My Inspiration! I do hair because it makes me happy to show someone what they can look like and small changes that make memorable life changing events. I am a colour artist! I enjoy the creativity side but most of all my clients are the biggest inspiration for me to be best version of myself. They believe in me and encourage me to follow my passion and I’ve had many highlights in life, but my everyday clients are my most valuable highlights. Everything I do is for my clients and thankfully I’ve always been rewarded with being included in my clients’ life events and many have become close friends. To end off, I thank God Almighty for blessing me abundantly and allowing me to be the best version of myself and to encouraging me to continue my creativity: to always walk in my path of passion. And to my family, thank you for always being my rock. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100013232958858 Instagram: @shafiahaffejee_hairstylist # SHAFIAHAIRCOLOUR

What a result! An incredible before and after done by Lorraine Roseler at Splush Douglasdale. One happy client and one stunning, shiny head of hair! The power of Olaplex ensured this condition. This was posted on Splush Douglasdale’s Instagram with the following comment: @lorraineroseler perfects this platinum card with the help of @olaplex stand alone treatment The shine in @mamatobenji hair after two platinum card applications is incredible! Just love the end results in indoor and natural lighting. Love this work? Follow Splush Douglasdale on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/splushdouglasdale/

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This collection is inspired by female empowerment because we are all empowered women. The images were taken in Morocco and Mexico, and each shows a unique and distinct beauty, regardless of the imposed standards, hence the use of haircuts and textures that break the mold. Juliette’s vision of beauty is unique and she stands for natural beauty and that everyone has his own beauty. Juliette Den Ouden and her team started a project “the work of contrast" to show this authenticity. They opened also a foundation that raises funds for people with albinism in Tanzania because they are not save by witchcraft. In fact, the model with hyperpigmentation on her face participated in "The Work of Contrast" project. Hair: Juliette den Ouden @juliettedenouden @jdo_salon @jdo_management Photography: Michelle van Dijk @michellevdijk Retouche: Zilla van den Born @work.byzilla MUA: Juliette den Ouden @juliettedenouden Styling: Fayola wekker @fayolawekker Models: @thebabybabushka @newiconny @iamgeorgette @newiconmodels @808tilly @annievanrickley @newiconny Products: Authentic beauty concept @authenticbeautyconcept

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu, philosopher, 6th century BCE A step in the right direction doesn’t have to be a big or a difficult one. Even a small, simple step can lead your business to increased and sustainable growth. Let’s look at the basin, one of the most profitable areas in your salon. Did you know that one of the easiest areas to change in your business to give you sustainable growth is with the introduction of a treatment menu? As a hair professional, you are no doubt aware that clients are always looking for services and treatments that offer superior hair results and prolonged protection. The thing is, clients are not always aware of the treatments you have to offer. A professionally designed menu listing a hand-picked selection of in-salon treatments can lead to a significant impact in growth on your turnover, retail sales and most importantly, client satisfaction. That’s what we all want, right? Here is where treatments benefit your business Increased tangible results after a service: Finishing every service with a treatment specifically designed for your client’s needs makes a big difference to your results, whether its locking in colour vibrancy, repairing, restoring and strengthening sensitised hair or nourishing, softening and glossing the hair to give manageability, shine and luminosity. We want our finished result to look incredible and this is the best way to do so. Client frequency and loyalty: Your skillful and knowledgeable recommendations mean that your clients will receive treatments perfectly suited to their needs. This will likely encourage them to repeat the treatment at their next and subsequent services. In some instances, clients may increase the frequency of their services to experience that perfect-hair-feeling again and again. Remember, the more satisfying services your client uses at your salon, the less likely they are to try somewhere new! Growth in individual dockets and salon turnover: Whether you are an individual stylist or a salon owner, treatments are profitable add-ons to your service offerings. Consistently offer add-ons that cater for all needs and budgets to build sustainable growth. Everyone benefits: your client, your salon and you. Increased client satisfaction: Clients want choice and value. As a stylist you have their captive attention and can help them make the right decision. Clients who invest in regular treatments will see and feel the difference. In turn, and with your guidance, this leads to the purchase of take-home care and maintenance products. Ultimately, we want every client to look and feel like a superstar when they leave the salon and salon treatments are a perfect (and profitable) way to ensure this. Let MHB help you take the first step Modern Hair and Beauty (MHB), distributors of Wella Professionals, Kadus Professsional, Nioxin, and other famous hair brands, offers high-performance care ranges across all of its salon brands. Our business consultants and educators will assist you to build a treatment menu that caters specifically to your salon. MHB will work with you to uncover a deeper understanding of your market and your clients’ personalities and will assist you in making the best product choices for all types of budgets and personal needs. Above all, MHB will help you create the best experience for each of your clients. What are you waiting for? Let us help you take the first step towards sustainable business growth. To schedule a meeting, email Jane Alves, MHB Retail Business Consultant Jane.A@modernhairbeauty.com Follow Instagram Facebook www.modernhairbeauty.com

Accelerate Your Career and Your Future with Onboard Spa Training: Interview with Chanel Phillips, Educator for London Wellness Academy We interviewed Chanel Marie Phillips of the London Wellness Academy Training Team, Cape Town Campus, to get the inside story on the real benefits of jumpstarting your career future with onboard spa training and cruise ship contracts. Chanel joined The Onboard Spa training team in 2018 after spending a decade in the beauty industry. Chanel began her career in an onboard position as a beauty therapist, eventually growing into a management position where she had much success. For the last four years you would have found Chanel running her own spa business, her best practices all learned from the time at sea! Chanel brings energy and a wealth of knowledge to each of her classes, ensuring each lesson is a step closer for all of you in your success onboard. Q: What are the biggest benefits of doing a cruise ship contract? It’s the most rewarding way by traveling the world and earning money, with a huge amount of self-discipline and entrepreneurial skills developed whilst enjoying an incredible lifestyle. All this while gaining experience working on international waters with a diverse clientele, working with a multiple of nationalities that takes you out of your comfort zone and teaches you people skills that you will just not experience in a spa on land at home. Your spa team and the cruise crew quickly become your family away from home, with a wonderful sense of teamwork and co-workmanship developing, and friendships for life made. Q: What does the London Wellness Academy training programme include? All therapists are already fully qualified, so they already have a knowledge of the fundamentals. At the academy they are trained in the tailor-made treatments, products and procedures used in the spas onboard that set us apart. An important factor in the quality we train for is striving to provide guests with the same quality treatments in any of our spas on any of our cruise ships. There are programmes from anything from head to toe, covering health and wellbeing. Just a few examples include: hair stylist, nail technician, massage therapist, beauty therapist, detox specialist, Medi spa doctor, acupuncturist, fitness trainer, and so many more! Q: What qualifications do you need to apply? The primary requirement is that your qualification, whether in the fields of hair, nails, beauty, etc, needs to be internationally recognised. This should be either with an international registered qualification or a level that can be compared to international standards depending on the profession. Our recruiters are very familiar with all South African qualification levels, and they will be able to advise applicants if a qualification is acceptable or not. Q: What are the most important personal skills you look for in a candidate, that a cruise ship stylist or beautician will most need? Having self-confidence is beneficial, as public speaking is a vast part of the job role onboard. Willingness to learn, follow instructions, abide by rules and regulations are essential, as well as a positive attitude, friendly open demeanour, pleasant manners, and an excellent knowledge of the profession. Being confident and comfortable with achieving targets plus having the ability to be adaptive in all scenarios is fundamental in team building and in your own success in the business! Q: How does it differ from a land-based salon or spa experience? In an onboard experience, you work in a 5-star spa, needing to deliver 5-star quality every day, with a far more intensive, inspiring atmosphere. On land, you can set your own pace, but onboard it’s a fast-paced, challenging work environment with the excitement of waking up in a different port most days! With the added bonus of a short commute of a maximum of 10-15 minutes, enjoying the fresh sea air! It is longer hours of work, often with different hours on some days which will all depend on what part of the world you are cruising. You need to be flexible, energetic, and positive. You have an incredible opportunity gaining life skills and increasing your knowledge and experience in your profession, working with and on so many different nationalities from so many parts of the world! Your business experience receives a broad range of training not only in running a business with specific column management, but you get to perform an array of many different services. In a land-based, fixed location spa or salon, treatments can be more repetitive, with less of a range in different services. Q: What is the value of the experience you gain and how does it help future career options? You gain so much experience and become goal-driven and expectations become higher, encouraging you to always strive for more. When employers see on your CV that you have worked onboard, they know that you are used to working under pressure of time and quality of services, that your personal skills and etiquette in dealing with guests is of the highest calibre. What sets our staff aside is a sense of providing the best quality at all times. You are so used to providing fantastic 5-star customer service along with 5-star treatments that it becomes second nature to you. Chanel’s Personal Thoughts I would not exchange my time onboard for anything. The professional and personal experience is invaluable and difficult to describe if you haven’t experienced it yourself. I think that most who have worked onboard would agree with me wholeheartedly! CHANEL MARIE PHILLIPS Educator, Cape Town Campus Are you keen for the adventure of a lifetime, while earning an excellent income and working in the career you love? Get in touch for your confidential interview by signing up on www.londonwellnessacademy.com

Are you an experienced, qualified hair stylist looking for a challenge for your talent in a stunning, extremely well positioned, busy salon? Leave the rat race behind. Relocate and thrive in scenic George at the centre of the Garden Route. A great lifestyle, a great clientele, a fantastic area! Exceptional high traffic location in the picturesque city of George for the right team member hoping to build their clientbase in a very well-known, well-established salon. Position is available now. No client base needed. Just set up and let your creativity flow! HAIR LEGENDS is situated in the picturesque small city of George on the Garden Route in the Western Cape. We’re a well-established unisex hair salon since 1994, superbly located in the main Pick & Pay Centre on the Knysna Road, just 2 km from the Garden Route Mall. It’s an excellent high traffic location for the right person to build their clientbase, surrounded by a family-owned restaurant and bakery, optometrist, gift shop, jeweller, Postal Service, laundry, Print & Signage, Leatherworks, with the anchor Pick & Pay as well as a Clicks and Pep Home shop. The sky is limit for your entrepreneurship dreams! All with ample open parking, with good security and peace of mind. Hair Legends is committed to using the best products on the market for your clients, dedicated to preserving nothing but the healthiest hair throughout services for the richest, most luxuriant results. Your clients will love you! We are looking for just the right team member - a Qualified Stylist with at least 3 years’ experience. Healthy competitive salary & commission structure offered. Remuneration depends on experience, client base welcome but not essential. Position available now-don’t miss this fabulous opportunity! Send your CV before 18 April 2022 Email: hairlegends@telkomsa.net Website: https://hairlegends.co.za/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HairLegendsCAW/

All things blonde revealed on Run le Hair Show, the first international hair series by pros, for pros and all hair lovers. The original & innovative talk show that is shaking the industry met its public: it became a real digital event on Youtube, for over 20 million people. The 4th episode will be revealed on April 4th, and will focus on one of the most discussed hair themes: blonde! Paris, France - With this digital initiative, L’Oréal Professionnel, the professional beauty market historical leader who invented the first harmless hair dye more than 110 years ago, reinvented the way to connect with pros & hair lovers. Run le Hair Show is part a talk show, part a web series, and it is a unique experience in the industry. Indeed, it aims to celebrate the role and cultural impact of hair pros across the globe and it informs pros and consumers on trends and hair innovations. Run le Hair Show spotlights hot topics from all over the globe, and gathers international talents, that contribute to the impact of this galvanizing series. It reunites and energizes the global hair community with inspiring content. This approach is very modern: it is readily available on YouTube and WeChat, and the fun & educational tone of voice speaks directly to the hair obsessed. Click here to watch Episode 4th Released from April 4th, 2022 at 5pm CET The trio of hosts “Best Hair Friends Forever” featured from episode 1 lead the show together. They introduce entertaining topics: trends, pro tips, commentary, interviews, lab visits, masterclasses and professional testimonies. Hair artist Charlie Le Mindu, who bleached half of his look (hair and moustache) for the occasion, American color specialist Min Kim, French fashion journalist Peggy Frey. They have invited for this “let’s talk about blonde!” episode experts on the question. Scientists from L’Oréal laboratories, as well as two hair experts to decode this major hair trend: Harriet Stokes and Pierre Carli. Harriet is a London based blond color expert, already renowned at only 26 years old, and she is a former winner of the legendary competition, the Style & Colour Trophy. Pierre is a Parisian colorist, specialized in French balayage who offers a very digital experience to his clients; they can book through Instagram and pay online. French influencer Noholita, who has 1 million Instagram followers, visits his salon and makes an appearance in the Pro secrets segment that he shot with the Run Le Hair Show teams. Together, they deep dive into the main blonde techniques, with innovations such as Blond Studio 9 Bonder Inside allowing the transformation of highest levels of lift meeting high protection. In “la Revue”, 9 stylists from different countries explore color looks with highlights, root shadows and bleach with Platinium blond. Find the 4 segments of Run le Hair Show in Episode 4. Three other Run le Hair Show episodes will follow before the end of the year, centered around trendy themes that will both inspire & give audiences the Pro understanding they need to “Run le Hair Show”. Regular community callouts to be featured on the show will be relayed via social media. Hair pros and hair lovers are encouraged to subscribe and join L’Oréal Professionnel online as each episode goes live. Click here now to subscribe to L’Oréal Professionnel Paris’ YouTube channel for all RUN LE HAIR SHOW alerts. Contact: Taryn Bloem Email: tarryn.bloem@loreal.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/taryn_bloem_pro/ Instagram: @LOREALPRO Youtube: # LOREALPRO Follow us all year long on WWW.LOREALPROFESSIONNEL.COM

Wow! This was one incredible colour, created by Bernadine Malan in Edenvale, Jhb, with Goldwell Elumen. Also, one ecstatic client. What a brilliant pic! Not only did the client share this far and wide, but Bernadine used this showstopper on her Instagram, with the comment: That glow can only be a @goldwellsouthafrica Elumen kind of Glow. WhatsApp me on 0827426085 or Dm me to find out how Elumen can add a glow to your next colour. Fabulous marketing and fabulous creativity! Love this work? Follow Bernadine on the links below. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bernihairbee/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bernibeemalan

KEVIN.MURPHY will be hosting an INSPIRE.ME event on the 22nd May 2022 at Inimitable Wedding Venue in Muldersdrift, Johannesburg. The event will be presented by a well-known profound International Guest Artist namely Juha-Matti Manninen. A passionate, driven, and unique individual, Juha-Matti is a Style.Master based in Europe. On the day Juha-Matti will be sharing his knowledge and know-how on all things KEVIN.MURPHY as well as presenting creative looks on stage so join us for an afternoon filled with education, inspiration and all things KEVIN.MURPHY. Date: 22nd May 2022 Early Bird Price: R790 Time: 15:30 – 18:00 Venue: Inimitable Wedding Venue, 21 Riverside Rd, Zwartkops, Muldersdrift, 1739 Welcome Drinks and Canapes will be served. Each guest will receive a gift bag to take home. To RSVP Andrew Young – andrew@twincare.co.za – 071 480 5151 Kiara De Lange – kiara@twincare.co.za - 060 526 6336

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Blondie-The Blonde Specialist hair salon in Gardens, Cape Town, has one workstation available as a rent-a-chair setup. Excellent location with good traffic, with client parking close at hand. Our setup allows you to run your own business without the hassle of running an entire salon - you just get to focus on what you love! Enjoy spending less time working, with far less admin and stress. Ideal candidates for this workstation: A stylist who is working in the town area and looking to be their own boss and move away from the commission-based earnings with a client base that will follow them. This would make financial sense should your turnover be R25 000 and more. Existing Salon Owner – Someone who is looking to close their salon and transition to a more lucrative and admin-light working environment. Ideally from the same area of town to retain their client base. or someone who is ambitious and would like to move from a commission setup to where they get to keep more of their turnover and work as their own boss. Please contact Gabby for further information! Email: gabby@theblondespecialist.com Tel: 083 603 2336