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THE NEWS AND KNOW-HOW FROM YOUR INDUSTRY<br />
SAM MCKNIGHT<br />
TO <strong>HEAD</strong>LINE<br />
HE’S AN IMAGE-MAKER, a trendsetter and<br />
<strong>Creative</strong> <strong>HEAD</strong>’s Most Wanted Hair Icon of<br />
<strong>2017</strong> – and you have the chance to hear from<br />
the man himself at Salon Smart.<br />
Sam has spent more than four decades<br />
styling the hair of some of the most wellknown<br />
people on the planet, he’s the first<br />
hairdresser to exhibit at Somerset House and<br />
he’s launched a product range, Hair by Sam<br />
McKnight. Find out what gems of advice he’ll<br />
offer next March when the world’s busiest<br />
session stylist takes to the Salon Smart<br />
stage. Joanna Hansford, Larry King, Sally<br />
Montague, Brooks & Brooks, Simon Webster<br />
Hair, Linton & Mac and Ruffians are just some<br />
of the other red-hot names also announced in<br />
the line-up. Salon Smart is <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>HEAD</strong>’s<br />
annual business networking<br />
SALON SMART<br />
SPEAKER LARRY KING<br />
– SOUTH KENSINGTON<br />
SALON OWNER AND STYLIST<br />
TO CELEBRITIES INCLUDING<br />
DAVID GANDY – IS THE NEW<br />
AMBASSADOR FOR THE<br />
DYSON SUPERSONIC<br />
HAIRDRYER<br />
event and takes place<br />
at the Park Plaza<br />
Riverbank hotel in<br />
London on 25 and<br />
26 March. For a full<br />
list of speakers and<br />
to buy tickets, visit<br />
creativeheadmag.com/<br />
salonsmart<br />
A get-together<br />
like no other<br />
CREATIVE <strong>HEAD</strong> UNITED its Class of <strong>2017</strong> at the fabulous annual<br />
Most Wanted and The It List awards winners’ dinner. London’s Balthazar<br />
restaurant was the setting for a sparkling evening of conversation, discussion<br />
and celebration, peppered with plenty of reminiscing about September’s<br />
awesome Grand Final. When dinner was finished, <strong>Creative</strong> <strong>HEAD</strong> editor,<br />
Amanda Nottage, grabbed the opportunity to probe our winners on key<br />
industry issues. The liveliest debate centred around the topic of hairdressing<br />
and social media (much to the frustration of It Guy Ky Wilson – “I want<br />
us to talk more about doing hair!”), but it was tales of lessons learned in<br />
training from The It List Rising Star Darcie Harvey, and comments from<br />
quadruple award-winner Sophia Hilton on her campaign to balance both<br />
staff expectations and those of Not Another Salon’s millennial clientele, that<br />
sparked a spontaneous round of applause from everyone around the table.<br />
Every so often a tool comes along that promises to<br />
revolutionise how you and your clients style hair – the<br />
BaByliss Perfect Curl did it a few years ago and the<br />
MKII promises to do it again. The new and improved<br />
Perfect Curl MKII still features auto curl technology,<br />
but now has three settings for<br />
corkscrews, ringlets or loose<br />
waves, ensuring the ultimate<br />
curl at the touch of a button. You<br />
can also select the temperature to minimise<br />
heat damage and choose the curl direction. RRP £160<br />
22<br />
CREATIVE <strong>HEAD</strong>
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