A whole palette of shades combined with cuts that have been executed with painstaking skill and  precision combine to create and amazingly multidimensional and audacious result.

This awe-inspiring collection created around the concept of fluidity of water won the Haircutting Award at the 2020 Global Image Awards – and not only this, as Chris Baran also won the coveted Leo Passage Gold Trophy –in honour of the late Pivot Point founder – given to the competitor with the highest cumulative scores.

The ritual of sitting next to a client and carrying out an face-to-face consultation is not an activity which lends itself very well to current salon health and safety protocols, DIrector at HOB Salons, Clive Collins, gives his advice on honing your skills in the art of the online consultation:

As salons across the country prepare to come out of lockdown and start to navigate the new normal, we spoke to a series of Fellowship for British Hairdressing figures to find out what they’re most looking forward to about getting back to business.

Back to basics. Back to beauty as a counterpoint, a strong statement for our new era. Klaus Peter Ochs' new collection NEXT century – Fashion of the future makes a creative promise to our future selves, celebrating a successful 100-year history.

Steven Smart’s latest collection is an out-of-this-world mix of shimmering colour, mesmerising detail and fluid shape that will leave you starry eyed.

Times moves: sometimes slowly, sometimes sideways, sometimes with unbearable celerity. But its constant is always motion.

Curl expert, Ouidad, is releasing a range of new styling products, designed to revive and enhance the natural texture of curly hair.

With many salons have now joyfully reopened up and down the country, F&M Hairdressing in Barrhead are continuing to keep up the spirit of lockdown by supporting their local community.

John Paul Mitchell Systems' charming and talented Noogie Thai has taken home an Emmy  at the 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Hairstyling.