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Vidal Sassoon snubbed for new £20 note as "Hairdressers are NOT Visual Artists"

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Melanie Heas
11 years ago

I am a visual artist. Hairdressers are artists.

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Aaron Mellinger
11 years ago

Masters of structure, shadow and colour are not visual artists? Fuck you, dumbass. You must be only a doctor or a lawyer.

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Roopa Ambekar
11 years ago

Its time for this indusrty to be recognized.

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Davy
11 years ago

Hairdressing is all about articulating art on hair. Creativity is all around us

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dawn mann
11 years ago

What?? Of course!

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Melinda Hauff Belletieri
11 years ago

I am a visual artist!

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Lucy Rebel
11 years ago

As an aspiring hair colorist I am both disgusted and outraged by reading that people still cannot consider our craft as a form of art.

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Deborah Brown
11 years ago

Really?

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Andrea Morgan
11 years ago

Hair styling is absolutely an art! It requires any and all the same qualities required of sculpters, as well as painters.

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Vanessa Root
11 years ago

#iamavisualartist :-)

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Ashley Nicole
11 years ago

I am a visual artist

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Meagan Cusack
11 years ago

Hair stylists most certainly are artists and Vidal Sassoon shaped the way women looked and empowered them with the freedom of men. To not be expected to get tortuous perms and roller sets and hair spray but to just be given a perfectly shaped cut to fit their hair and face shape.

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Rachael Wooldridge
11 years ago

A persons hair style is often the first thing you notice about someone. It can also be the making of their unique style and personality. That is why a highly skilled professional with unlimited creativity is where you go for advice.

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iana witham
11 years ago

I and several of my coworkers got into hairdressing DIRECTLY after attending ART SCHOOL and practicing more traditional visual arts. You cannot tell me there's no link between the two.

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Doreen Levy
11 years ago

If Dismalworld is art then hairdressing is art cubed

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Nina Clark
11 years ago

hair ARTISTRY

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Anonymous
11 years ago

Ridiculous when Laura Ashley was considered!

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Kevin Lee Light
11 years ago

Please consider Vidal Sasoon

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Jeff Wacker
11 years ago

VISUALLY ARTFUL !!!!!

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Vicki Meredith - Reed Hair Salon
11 years ago

From the Reed Hair Team in Maldon Essex UK