New Video: Beauty School Makes You “Not Just a Hairdresser”

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New Video: Beauty School Makes You “Not Just a Hairdresser”

Published: June 03, 2008
by Rosanne Ullman

In an earlier post I was telling you about how cosmetology career professionals have their own rock stars, the most famous of whom, Vidal Sassoon, not only introduced revolutionary hair cutting methods, but also pioneered the concept of salons branding themselves by opening beauty schools and developing product lines. Now I want to share a youtube video posted by a more recently well-known educator, Vivienne Mackinder. Titled, “I’m Not Just a Hairdresser: Legends,” the 5-minute spot promotes a film of the same name and features Sassoon along with fellow superstars Robert Lobetta and Trevor Sorbie, who all came out of the magical scene of 1960s London.

I hope you watch the video, because it celebrates the power of the hairstylist and shows you what a rewarding profession you’re joining. But I have to say, with full respect for Sassoon’s unrivaled status as the game-changer in this industry, that his story about improving one client’s life strikes me as outdated and chauvinistic. Here’s this little housewife who wanted to please her husband, so Vidal tells her to lose weight before he’ll do her hair? Oh, please. Do that today and you’ll have a lawsuit on your hands for causing emotional distress. And I’m not sure as a jury member I wouldn’t convict.

Still, the video prepares you for real life in a cosmetology career, because today the circumstances may be different but the end result is the same. As a hairdresser, you have the power to truly change people’s lives.