3x best colourist in Australia
AHIA WRAP UP
AHIA 2022! What a wonderful end to competition season in Australia. With 3 wins from the StevieEnglish team the night couldn’t have gone better.
The photoshoots took place two months ago and for Ella this was her first collection. The collection titled “PUBLIC” won her Australian Apprentice of the year! Not an easy competition, with thousands of applicants entering from all over the nation, the apprentice category is the biggest category and the most difficult to win. Not for Ella. The first winner of the night, she walked up to receive her award and it was if she belonged there. With her blue dress perfectly matching her blue award, Ella’s win was a win for the whole of the Stevie English Salon and we are immeasurably proud to nurture such a creative talent.
Georgie, our barber extraordinaire, finalised for the Barber of the year with her collection “Candy”. Inspired by the 70’s glam rock phase this collection is a manifestation of gender fluidity in the past and present. Up against the best of the best in the barbering space we are so proud to have a finalist in our Stevie English Family. Congratulations Georgie!
With the first win under our belt, the festivities continued. Dinner and drinks with intermittent fashion shows built up the anticipation for the next categories, colour expert of the year and best collaboration of the year. Stevie’s collection “No Vacancy” inspired by the neon lights of Tokyo won him the 2022 Colour Expert of the Year. Now, Stevie holds the title of not just, colour expert of Glebe, nor Colour expert of Sydney but the 2022 Australian Colour Expert of the Year. His third time winning this title.
The next category was the second for the “No Vacancy” collection, Best collab of the Year. With Stevie as the colour genius and his friend and colleague Bernie on the hair cuts, this collection won its second title, Best collaboration of the Year 2022. The collection also won the Victorian hairdresser of the year giving Stevie and Bernie a full 3 for 3 victory.
The 2022 Australian Hair Industry Awards ceremony will go down as one of the best in Stevie English history. A night full of joyful tears, well deserved wins and many, many hugs, the Stevie English team is so proud of our two winners and together we are feeling inspired and confident for the rest of this year and our clients beautiful heads of hair.
CONGRATULATIONS GEORGIE, ELLA AND STEVIE!
