The Hair Festival Competitions assessed talented hairdressers across men’s hair, colour, street style and more over the June long weekend.
Editorial Glam Slam Winner, Rose Thorogood, of George Biantes Hair Design and The Hair Posey, inspired with elegant, artful style in a pearl-infused long hair look that she describes as a “warrior mermaid princess”. We spoke to her about her winning look, her approach to editorial work and more.
Tell us about your editorial hair career.
I work full-time at George Biantes Hair Design and, in my spare time, I do braiding, bridal and editorial work, as well as creating hair accessories under my own brand, The Hair Posey. I love what I do as it is a great way to be creative.
Why did you enter the hair festival competitions?
I love to do styling and wanted to push myself out of my comfort zone.
What does it mean to you to win?
It proves to myself that I can do this and makes me proud of my achievement.
Tell us about your winning look.
My winning look is a warrior mermaid princess look. She started off as the idea of a Viking warrior and then slowly transformed into a mermaid princess. The two ideas came together to blend into the resulting look with the help of the award-winning dress of talented designer Errick Kim and the fabulous skills of makeup artist and model Jolie Nguyen. I truly feel like it was a team effort for the final look, much the same as it is when doing editorial work.
What would you advise to future applicants?
I would definitely say to practice a lot and be flexible in what you are doing and your design process, to change part of your design on the fly if needed. There will always come a time where you need to change what you are doing as it just isn’t working how you’d like.
What do you love about creating editorial work?
I love the creative freedom that you can have with editorial looks and being able to go outside the box depending on the brief.
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