Take good advice, make sure it is good advice, then do it your way.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

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

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

I was a bit of a rebel.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.