For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.

If you look good, we look good.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.