Advanced Creative Hair Professionals are highly skilled and experienced individuals who deliver hair fashion forward trends, which are innovative styles inspired by current images and their own creativity, individual flair, imagination and interpretation. They provide a quality service, whilst working to the highest standards and continuously developing their personal and professional skills.
The Knowledge Skills and behaviours covered in this Advanced Standard are:
• demonstrates professionalism and effective and safe methods of working
• researches fashion forward trends, using the results to create, plan and promote a collection of hairstyle looks that reflects their own individuality
• analyses the factors that influence the design and creation of a collection of hairstyle looks, including the target audience
• uses and adapt a range of sectioning and cutting guidelines, creative and precision techniques and technical skills to create and enhance the collection of hairstyle looks
• formulates imaginative creative advanced colour conversion services to change the depth and tone of the hair
• uses a range of creative finishing and dressing techniques, advanced creative colouring techniques to enhance the collection of hairstyle looks
• presents, showcases and promotes their skills though their collection of hairstyle looks via a variety of media types and platforms
• provides a smoothing strengthening service to clients
• evaluates the results of the service to improve further practice