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.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.

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