How To Cut It in the Hairdressing Industry

A podcast episode sponsored by Denman Professional Having company CEO's on the How To Cut It podcast are important! Hearing the human side of a company and what they stand for, allows us to connect with them on a much deeper level. People like to engage with other people, not companies! In our new collaborative podcast series for 2023 with Denman Professional, I'm sitting down for a conversation w...

Are you someone that follows that feeling you get in your gut when you instinctively know that something you are doing is right or wrong? If so then you are not alone! For todays guest Danielle Garner working with intuition is imparative to her success. It's this intuition that sees her lead with an open heart. A genuine rising star in the hair industry, Danielle's approach to hairdressing has cau...

Are you a young hairdresser who one day dreams of being a salon owner? If you answer yes to this question, then this podcast has your name on it. Our conversation today is with 24 year old salon owner and educator Luke Hawkins and he's giving us an insight into what life looks like as a young salon owner. For many hairdressers being a salon owner can be their ultimate career goal. But is it all th...

KP: POP is an exciting new collection by James Earnshaw in collaboration with the Wella Education team, that celebrates COLOUR! Today we are privileged to get the story and journey to this exciting colour mixtures all created using the ICONIC Koleston Perfect, and then captured in a photo collection. Recorded live in the Wella Studio Manchester UK, this collaborative podcast with Wella Professiona...

Happy Christmas Holidays, Howtocutters! I couldn't think of a better way to enjoy this festive holiday season than listening in to a How To Cut It Classic Rerun podcast . And for this Classic Rerun I've selected one of the worlds most respected hair artists, Gianni Scumaci. Titled the 'Hidden Intelligence of Hairdresser', you are about to hear that episode I had with Gianni Scumaci that was first...

How do you succeed at becoming the very best hair professional you can possibly be? The best starting point is to make sure you are continually growing and developing in all areas of the industry. For sure! Thats what the most successful people in the hair industry do. I should know! I've had the pleasure to interview many of them, and I get to learn theres a common thread that runs through each o...

It might surprise you that a 17 year old hairdresser was the winner of Quif Centre Stage 2022. Yes at just  17 years of age Vinny-Lee Brennan entered and won the innagural Quif Centre Stage 2022. Quif Centre Stage is a brand new hair industry competition open to all levels of hair professionals and has been created to find the next Generation of Hair Colour Stage Artists. The competitions live fin...

The Christmas party season is now upon us. So this is that perfect time to fill up any of those remaining column gaps with some express colour service menus. But how can you do this? Step up todays guest; Wella Professionals UK & Ireland Colour Craft Expert and the newly crowned London Hairdresser of the Year 2022, Jordanna Cobella. I've invited the brilliant Jordanna back onto the show to share w...

What does life look like for todays salon owners that are leading an employed team? This is what I want to find out from todays guest, Colin McAndrew. As the Managing Director of Medusa, Colin is responsible for the fastest growing salon group in Scotland. Six salons and a 4,000 sq ft academy, the brand has continued to strengthen over recent years as Colin’s plans have come to fruition. All this...

Always going beyond Great Lengths. These words communicate Great Lengths commitment to work constantly to improving the environmental and social impact, while maintaining the care and dedication invested in the research of high-quality products for their customers. In the second of our collaborative podcast series with Great Lengths UKI, I'm so excited to learn why and how Great Lengths have becom...

Meet Emma Fowler: An award-winning colourist who over the last 2 years has gone from a relatively unknown to becoming one of the UK's top independent colour educators. All achieved whilst raising two young children! So how has she done it? Emma has grown a loyal and committed community of hairdressers who are looking to gain confidence in the new era of modern colouring techniques like Balayage. H...

In todays show we’ll be talking about something there’s no great controversy about - screening for allergy. It’s not controversial as we all need to do it, and the good businesses do. It’s also not controversial to say it’s one of the least popular parts of a salon’s operation. It’s not controversial either to say not enough people understand the issue well enough to make informed choices. So I've...

Here's something for you: Work with another brand that aligns to your business, profile and core values. But why does this matter? What does it mean? Put simply, having a strong loyal relationship with a brand will help your business and profile grow through support, education and aligned core values. So what examples do we have of a business and a profile successfully aligning with a brand? Thats...

Do you embrace working with textured & curly hair? For the third of our collaborative podcast series with MATRIX UKI, we are getting a masterclass on why we need to embrace working with textured & curly hair. We're talking everything from texture equality right through to the different types of curls and how to recognise them. Theres so much to take from this episode! Giving us this masterclass to...

The best way to keep growing as a hair professional is never stop evolving and learning. But if you're not then theres a good chance you're getting stayed and bored! Right? So how can we keep ourselves evolving, learning and growing? In the second of our podcast collaboration series with MATRIX, I'm incredibly excited to have Matrix and Biolage ambassador Desmond Murray on the show. Multi-award wi...

Today we launch the first of a brand new four part podcast series brought to you by leading professional haircare and hair colour brand, MATRIX. In this collaborative series we are inviting on to the show some of their ambassadors to share their industry expertise, knowledge and experiences to help you evolve your hairdressing careers. To Kick-off the series I've the pleasure to once again be chat...

Statistics show that 42.9% of women are colouring their hair vs 52% in March 2018. And did you know that one of the main reasons why people stop colouring their hair is that they want a more natural appearance and feel that colouring involves too much maintenance. But Fear not, where there is a threat to our colour business comes new opportunities. This episode in collaboration with Wella Professi...

Little Princess Trust is a charity that provides free natural hair wigs to children and young people, up to 24 years old, who have lost their own hair through cancer treatment or other conditions. In the first of our collaborative podcast series with Great Lengths UK, we're going to be learning about the incredible work that the Little Princess Trust is doing. Plus we get to hear how they have a p...

I love getting behind the ideas, planning and inspirations to a collection shoot. Thats why I'm excited to be bringing back on to the podcast British Hairdresser of the Year 2019 & 2022, Robert Eaton to share all of this and more. Today Robert is going to take us behind the latest Wella Professionals 'Signature Naturals' Collection Shoot. He'll be revealing why this is a collection of colours that...

Heffy Wheeler is a prime example of todays digital hair generation who has literally built their success on social media. But behind all this success lies a story much deeper to the person than just the content posts and videos we all adore seeing. With just £30 in her pocket and Instagram and Facebook pages, Heffy Wheeler utilised her social media to grow HX Hair business into a multi-award winni...

Recession proof your salon business. Its the hottest industry topic right now! So ask yourself this: How is your salon business going to survive the economic global recession? To help with all of this is todays guest, Richard McCabe the Lifestyle Salon Coach. For the very survival of your salon business, this is a podcast that needs to be heard. For many of us it's a scary time! Inflation on the r...

Welcome to a How To Cut It ‘Classic Rerun’ with Niall Colgan. Delving deep into our extensive podcast libraries, our Classic Rerun's bring you some of our most popular episodes since we launched back in 2017. Originally published in September 2019, this episode with Niall is our second highest download of all time. And for good reason! Niall's story he shared then was what I described as a 'podcas...

Denman Stage Star 2021 winner James Forte has had a career changing year. In this final episode of our current podcast series in Collaboration with Denman Professional, we are to talk to James on his experiences of entering Denman Stage Star and everything it has brought hime since winning. It's a conversation for all young hair professionals who are wanting to understand the excitement and impact...

Let me tell you this: It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. There will be times when you feel like you're on top of the world. Then life stops you right in your tracks! It throws you a big punch that knocks you sideways, and possibly out! You've hit rock bottom! This is exactly what today's guest Marcus King experienced, and all within a two year period of the recent...

To be a successful hair professional, it's important that you have skill sets that sits across all hair types. Including textured hair. Unfortunately for many of us, when its comes to understanding both the technique and science of textured hair, theres still much needed room for improvement. But fear not! We're about to start changing that for you today. In this episode I'm joined by the hairdres...