Regina hairdresser kinds her option to New York Model Week

A Regina hairstylist is on the point of display her creations within the Giant Apple.

Rocelyn Hodson says heading to New York Model Week is a dream come true and evidence that doing hair is a occupation with limitless doable.

“I used to be instructed as a tender teen that doing hair, you’ll by no means truly do the rest along with your existence, and you’ll by no means truly get anyplace,” stated Hodson. “I believe like I’ve been proving the ones other people flawed the entire time, which is superb.”

This video used to be produced by means of Jasmine Pelletier, a College of Regina Movie Faculty graduate and Masters Journalism Scholar, in collaboration with CBC’s Author Community.

Hair has at all times been Hodson’s pastime. She says she wasn’t the most efficient pupil in highschool, but if she began doing her buddies’ and circle of relatives’s hair, it used to be a herbal have compatibility. She went to hair college and excelled. Since then, she’s been running in salons, competing and travelling to important occasions together with the Juno Awards.

“I in truth love the large hairpieces and lavish seems,” Hodson stated.

Hunter Davis is a hair type and one in all Hodson’s lifelong shoppers. The pair labored in combination for an avant garde glance that took best spot at a up to date Regina festival.

“She’s at all times been part of my existence, whether or not it’s her coming to do my hair or my mother’s hair, or her coming to get her nails executed by means of my mother. She’s simply at all times been there,” Davis stated. “I really like her. She’s my queen.”

“Some of the biggest issues is once I get started doing shoppers hair when they’re truly little after which I am getting to peer them thru their other levels of existence, like a Grade 8 grad or a Grade 12 grad,” Hodson stated.” I’ve had shoppers who’re getting married now.”

Hodson is married and has a daughter, Aaralyn, who simply grew to become 5. She says you have to display her daughter that the rest is imaginable.

“I would like her to understand that you’ll do no matter you wish to have to your existence, and you’ll achieve success at it so long as you place your thoughts to it.”

Hodson leaves for New York on Sept. 5. She can be experiencing New York Model Week for the primary time with two different stylists thru her employer, Chatters Hair Salons. The trio gets coaching thru a best hair logo, UNITE, and do hair for quite a lot of vogue presentations.

Hodson has additionally labored at Toronto, Vancouver and Saskatchewan vogue weeks.

When she’s again at the back of the chair within the salon, Hodson hopes to stay making her shoppers really feel nice about themselves. She says the relationships she has shaped together with her shoppers over time are past rewarding. 

She plans to show at some point, to lend a hand the following technology of stylists see luck like she has.

“I wish to lend a hand the formative years, and the following upcoming hairstylists see the potentials in themselves and turn into nice.”

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