I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls. This was in the late '70s, early '80s, so it wasn't like today, where you kind of know all about the industry. Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

All hair is away from the face - there's no emotion and all of the personality is taken away. I envisioned the way a 'virtual girl' is drawn in a cartoon. Then I added these different colored extensions - white, red and black, which adds to the synthetic feeling of the hair. I used colors which looked most dramatic against each of the models' real hair. The different colors give you that pop of fakeness so we're not talking about reality. Like a futuristic princess.

I took Instagram off my phone! I took it off because I found I was looking at it too much.

I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.

When you work with great people, you learn - about film, about clothing, about life, about sex.

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.