Famous Magazine and Stevie
Stevie was asked by famous magazine to answer readers questions related to hair and fashion on their twitter page. Here is the full transcript There was a few more questions on 
Famous Magazine facebook page that i needed to answer. so here goes.
Livi Jones Could you please ask what are the best tips fro growing hair and also which heat protectant products I should use for daily straightening? :)
I think the best way to grow your hair is to be healthy. Take hair and nail supplements, drink loads of water. We use original and Mineral products O&M, all there products have heat protectors in Atonic is one of my favorites.
Rubina Anver hi i would like to know what type of short hair suits a round chubby face please. thanks
Nothing that hits the widest part of the face. We recommend if your hair is short is to try a-symmetrical.
Maria Harris Hey, i was just wanting to ask, as i want to get my hair straightened, what is the difference between brazilian keratin straightening and a guava keratin straightening, and which one last longest. Also is a permanent hair straightening choice a good idea, or can it cause an effect to the scalp. any help is appreciated.. Thanks
We dont use either products. We use Bio-ionic kera-straight its a keratin product. You need to be sure that the product that you use does not contain formaldehyde as this damages health. Most products are safe as long as your going to a professional! Do your home work.
Mirika Tokhman What's the best treatment to get for long dark hair & should I use different types, or just stick to one ?!
It depends what kind of issue you are treating and what kind of hair you have. We use a selection of treatments. We love O&M. But we use protein treatments for damaged highly coloured hair. We use moisture treatments for curly, dry hair. Again go see your hairdresser and see hwat they would recommend, otherwise email me with a pic.
Claire McAuliffe Alrighty... What are some good products to use on naturally curly hair that leaves your hair feeling nice and soft (enhancing curls) and not sticky, hard lke its full of product. Thankyou!!
Im sorry to keep going on about O&M but i love Seven day Miracle! it will leave your hair feeling great and you can use frizzy logic after which has organic argon oil, and helps makes hair soft and frizz free.
Michelle Taylor What is the best thing to do to keep oily hair from getting too greasy without washing it every day :)
You can use dry shampoos which are great, talcum powder is a great trick. There are shampoos that help with oily hair too.
Bec Nolte-Fletcher Stripping black from hair?! Have bleached & am now a deep red - wanting to go to light brown. Where to go from here? Bleach again & then light brown over the top or dark brown & then a lightener over the top. Need to get rid of the red! Thanks.
Im afraid yes you have to use powder lightener/bleach again, a colour will not lift through a colour. You will have to neutralise the undercoats too. So if you have red your colourist will use green to flatten out , if your undercoat gets to a scary orange we then use blue. Colourists use the old fashioned colour star. Go to your hairdresser, i would recommend, colour correction is not for home. :)
Thanks famous weekly for having me.
Pink Hair in Glebe makes it "Tickeled Pink with Fashion"
We love Stevie's face in the picture above, Rachael looks beautiful as always . :) #TeamEnglish
Greener pasture's
Stevie English Hair is not usually in the Bad News Business, but every now and then, something happens. Unfortunately, this particular 'something' happens to be the departure of our brilliant, talented Creative Director, Verity Griffiths. Verity has been an integral part of our team for over three years, and is moving on to greener pastures in her home country of New Zealand. It goes without saying that we will miss her terribly, but we respect and support Verity in anything she does. She has given everyone here so much, and will continue her fantastic work across the ocean. Verity's last day in the salon will be Saturday September 17, so anyone needing that final touch of the magician's wand should hustle themselves an appointment before then.
We will have Pop up weeks when Verity will come back for the odd stint, but with Verity's schedule with films will be unusual so we will not know when till quite close to the time. Make sure you LIKE Stevie English Hair facebook page as that's where we will put the announcements.
We wish Verity all the love and luck. #TeamEnglishForever
GHD supports Breast Cancer as does Stevie English Hair
Last week we were lucky enough to be asked by GHD to work on a TVC featuring women who have survived breast cancer. This advert will run on SBS for the whole year! In years gone GHD have produced pink irons for breast cancer - a client the other day told me they were her fave. GHD have a long history of supporting this worthy cause, and we were very pleased to be asked.
Jade Cohen ,Elly Hanson and Leah Rowley were all on hand at Sun Studio's to help create some great looks on these amazing women.
We are stoked that we are involved with a company who genuinely supports important causes, and that we could actively help out with this commercial. Well done #TeamEnglish and GHD.
Voting makes us happy
We have been finalists in the City of Sydney Business Awards for the last 3 years, winning it the last two times. It was a huge honour, and it comes to that time again when we need our supporters (friends and family) to vote. you can do it by SMS "Stevie" 0447447070 or vote using your email address) here the city of sydney business awards #tip Glebe postcode is 2037
We are nominated for The City Sydney Business Awards 2011
The Sydney Business awards are upon us again, and like ever year our competition is tough to beat.
You can vote for us online here.
Or you can sms "Stevie" to 0447 447 070
You can win $1500 just for voting, so please do!
Red Hair is A Big Hit in Glebe
We have been talking trends recently at Stevie English Hair. And Red is the hot colour of the season 
. We had a lovely piece in Mx paper yesterday With some of the girls in the salon who are right on trend with RED hair.
Ssssh Its a secret.
Over the last few years I have been asked many times what it is we do to build our profile, why are we getting so popular? I honestly don't do anything except use Social media. I have never paid for advertising and have not had PR until very recently . I use Twitter a lot and have two accounts @englishhair (which is just hair related stuff from the salon) and @stevieEnglish (mad ramblings of yours truly).I have asked all staff to have a Twitter account. I use Facebook to communicate with clients and friends about interesting salon news. That's the secret. Please don't tell anyone.
European car manufacturer #Skoda, in their wisdom, gave me a car for the month of June, our Hair Expo month. After December, it's the busiest month of the year. The reason for this was because I tweet and use facebook, and I suited the target demographic for the new Skoda Octavia. I'm not a car expert, but I did not want to give the car up at the end of the month. It's a diesel, Bloody lovely, loads of extras that was fun to drive and really economical. There were no strings attached to the loan, but I loved that car so much I can't help talking about it! Clever #Skoda marketing team. I want to drive that car forever. And I'm trying to get my lovely clever wife to let me buy one.
Still think Social Media is a fad?
Stoli Vodka contacted us about doing a video blog about our Original idea in the salon, as a part of the Stoli Originals online campaign. here they are on facebook. Stoli is the Original Vodka, and we follow an original philosophy here in the salon. I'm really happy to talk about an Original brand like Stoli, not only because they gave us vodka, but because we love the idea of promoting originality in any form. But why did they choose us, because they knew we like Stoli vodka? It was because of our online presence, because we have a pretty cool brand, and we are visible due to our use of social media.
And more...
I was given a whole collection of the coolest colourful watches from Plstc. Again, why? Because I love watches, yes! And these watches are well cool, I handed most out to the guys at work but kept my fave two colours. Again this was because we use social media. I'm not an "expert" expert. I'm social. I enjoy engaging with people. And that's the key for me: it's talking, it's not broadcasting. It's getting involved with what's going on, and making contact with people and brands who are interesting and engaging too.
I would like to thank #skoda, #stoli #plstic for choosing us and for the other brands that have given us drinks, plays,tickets to the footy and dinners. We are a social bunch here ate Stevie English Hair, and we love the Social Media!
Hair Expo 2011 Generation Next.
Hair Expo is the largest hairdressing conference in the southern hemisphere. It attracts some of the biggest names in the hairdressing industry, with over 200 exhibitors, 2000 models, hair stylists chopping, colouring and creating amazing styles to enthrall local talent and makeup artists helping. It's a big three days. 
This year, Stevie English Hair was asked to do a show at the prestigious Sunday night Generation Next night. It's a bit of an honor to be asked, but the invitation comes with a lot of pressure.
We decided an English theme was the way to start (obviously) our assault on the Hair Expo stage. We shot a collection with Nicole McCluskey in March and we had the awesome CNCphotography do are moving image for the collection, and we used these images as the start of prepping for the show. It took 4 story boards, and many hours of talks and meetings just to come up with the ideas . Stevie English Hair creative director Verity Griffths worked tirelessly on this show, it would be impossible to calculate the amount of time and energy she spent on every aspect . Now we have a top team with ideas and help, but nothing quite prepared me for the amount of work, time and effort that goes in to a 5 minute show. This is a summary of what went on:
* 8 models
*2 extras ( punks)
* 1 kid
* 12 separate looks
* 16 wigs and hairpices
* 10 fantastic vintage costumes, sourced from Grandma takes trip by our amazing stylists Kelly Hume and Mattie Cronan.
*1 handmade Vivienne Westwood-style skirt, made from Union Jack flags and Stevie English Punk Regal print fabric.
* 2 choreographers
* 3 photographers
* 5 makeup artists
* 1 manicurist
* 16 hairstylists
* 1 live stream blogger and technical manager
* 1 horse
* 1 dog (note: horse and dog did not make it onstage, the old saying about working with animals is true!)
It was the biggest team project we have ever undertaken, and we pulled it off. The show was incredible, everything we wanted it to be, and the realisation of Verity's vision. It's difficult to explain how proud we are of our whole team, and how much we appreciate the work they all put in. Can't wait until we have the video to post, but in the meantime, here are a few images taken backstage and on the night. What fun we had!
A special thanks to the companies who helped us with our show so a O&M , GHD , Prohairstylist and Skoda
Best Hairdressers in Glebe, Best Apprentice in Australia!
Last weekend was Hair Expo, the biggest hairdressing event in the southern hemisphere. The Stevie English Team participated in many elements of the Expo, including the very prestigious Apprentice Competition. This contest is no easy task, the young stylists are up on stage with their model and they are given 45 mins to finish a haircut in front of a packed auditorium. It's hard enough to do a haircut in 45 mins, let alone with the added pressure of being watched by all of your colleagues, peers and friends. To top it off, some of the best hairdressers in Australian scrutinise your worked and pass judgement on it!
This year we had two of our young superstars entering the Apprentice Comp- Joel Phillips and Stephen Grech. Joel was recently awarded Judges Recognition for his incredible photographic collection for Hair Expo, and both he and Stephen are prized salon assets. The fantastic news- Stephen was judged the winner on the day! His award is a credit to all his hard work and natural talent. We are all super proud of both our boys.
Stevie English Hair is proud of our team, we are proud of our culture too. We love hairdressing and we love to share our knowledge. We have a really strong team, who enjoy each others company and who enjoy sharing our talents and skills. We put a lot of emphasis on training. Our assistants are tomorrows superstars, and some of our young guys are really starting to shine. Georgie Won this award 2 years ago, and so for Stephen to win it this year was great and sets the standard for the students coming though are academy . There is a slight bias but the winner was going to be either Stephen or Joel, both haircuts were both technically good. Jade is the head trainer in the salon with Kirsty and Verity helping out to
show slightly different approaches to cutting and Stevie runs all the colour education. 
Here are two shots we took of Stephen's winning haircut back stage prepping for our #GenNext show.
Great colour, (someone has taught him well)and great haircut. Not bad for someone who has only just started the third year of his apprenticeship. We are really proud of Stephen and Joel, not only for winning and getting attention but for trying so damn hard. They have great careers ahead of them and we can't wait to watch.
Can You be Original?
The lovely people from Stoli, came in the other day and asked myself and Mel about our salon and originality. We were only too happy to discuss this with them. They also gave us some vodka. BINGO! The Original Vodka, for the Original Stevie English hair.
Stevie on Sunrise. (It's all about Big Hair!)
The team at Stevie English were asked to do a segment on Sunrise about the upcoming hair trends and what HairExpo is all about. Myself, Kirsty, Jade, Joel and Raquel and our models - Madeline, Madeline (yes 2 madelines) and our Zoe. As most of you would have discovered I'm a colorist and this works well with the talented team at Stevie English - #teamEnglish as we call ourselves - Kirsty and Jade worked their hair skills and Joel and Raquel did their makeup magic. We were up and prepping hair in the Salon at 5am (on a Saturday!) to be at at Sunrise studios at 7am. Myself and the three models were setup and I waxed lyrical about big hair. Phew! it was an awesome experience I was very chuffed to be asked. Thanks sunrise! (check it below)
Our Hair Manifesto or We Believe it takes time to make great style.
We all at Stevie English Hair want to create the most creative, stylish, loved hairstyles we can.
We believe that great hair makes you great.
We spend time on your hair to make you look great.
We cut hair not corners.
We have very high standards for the style we produce.
We believe that to make something great it takes time.
We believe that miracles happen with hair.
We believe everybody has a colour that suits them.
We also believe personality will influence your colour.
We believe in using gentle products for your hair and the environment.
We just love what we do.
Best Hairdressers in Australia? your choice #HairExpo2011
We have been asked to enter a show at Hair Expo in June- The Next Gen Show. It's really prestigious and we are thrilled. Hair Expo is the largest hairdressing convention in the Southern Hemisphere and it can be a tough nut to crack. Any hairdresser in Australia or New Zealand would agree that it's a big deal, and this year we have spent so much of our time getting ready to enter. We spent last Tuesday evening hanging out with hairdressing royalty, waiting for the verdict on who would be finalists in this years' Hair Expo. The whole team went down to the Blue Hotel in Wooloomooloo after work to check out all the great work that the countries best hairdressers had created. Hair Expo is a fair competition, it's judged on a collection of photographs and on what the individual or team has done for hairdressing in the year.
We are super proud of the work our team produced this year.
Elly made Judges' Recognition in the hardest category- New Creative Force
Joel made Judges Recognition in Apprentice of the Year
Stevie made Judges Recognition in Colourist of the Year
This means these three awesome members of #TeamEnglish are in the top 10 in Australia . And this is the first time that they have entered Hair Expo-for our junior staff members Elly and Joel this is a very big achievement. We knew ourselves what they we capable of, but it's nice for a bit of external recognition. We are now focussing on blowing everyone's minds at The Gen Next Showcase event!
Stevie English Hair Shaves for a Cure
Sunday has come and gone. And so has our hair. On Sunday we opened up our doors to all who wanted to have their heads shaved or coloured for Shave for a Cure and had loads of people to turn up just supporting mates. The event was a fundraiser for The Leukaemia Foundation, a cause that is very dear to our Jade and thus very dear to all of us. Jade worked so hard organising the auction, raffle, party, and shave participants and deserves full credit for the day's success. It will take a few days to get all the sponsorship dollars in, but we estimate our final total to be around $7000- $8000. We are blown away by all the support we received from family, friends, staff and of course our amazing clients. In the end, shaving our hair off was easy and we are very happy to have been a part of such a fantastic charity event. Can't wait for next year!
mel shaves - MediumStevieHairCuts - Medium Great day! Thanks to all who came out, and thanks to the awesome staff in the salon who helped out.