Hmmm 🤔 I run a Salon, we do high end services for both Afro and European hair textures. Bouncing back after lockdown, has been fantastic for us. But I wish I knew back in 2008, how many of us who serve the texture, extension, and hair loss community, would suffer as a result of lac of access to ever evolving education, and unavailable qualification, or courses, to enable them to insure themselves so they could continue trading. In other words… It hadn’t dawned on me that the Afro industry in uk and Europe, only have one qualifying model for Afro hair, hooked onto the end of the European NVQ course. And without this, now regulations have been put in place. (Quite rightly so) There’s a massive loophole of texture hair experts that have suddenly become unemployed, unemployable, uninsurable, and even more unsupported than ever. Instead of fast tracking the qualification of these artists who have experience. I heard it is now mandatory for all European hair salons to now have basic experience.
But this is to be taught by who?!… As I nor any of the other qualified Afro hairstylists at the forefront of the industry have been contacted to offer this training!. But what I do get to see is the fall out, the damaged heads, bad experiences, and lack of support and interaction with the poor clients who suffer as a result.
I wish I knew or recognised how unsupported a fragile it would be for us and was in a better position to help. but I’m starting now. Please join our @afrohairfederationuk page.
