Hairdressing Quotes:

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

- Mark Twain

source: "The Unabridged Mark Twain".

topic: Money, Hair, People, Hairdresser, Ginger

I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.

- Joan Crawford

topic: Beauty, Thinking, Hair, Hairstyles, Hairdresser

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

- Vidal Sassoon

topic: Mother, Would Be, Premonition, Hairdressing

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

- Vidal Sassoon

topic: Home, Years, Profession, Hairdressing

I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

- Jane Goodall

source: Interview with Ira Flatow, blankonblank.org. 2002.

topic: Party, Clothes, Care, Hairdressing

Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.

- Fran Lebowitz

source: Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

topic: Children, Real, Cutting, Hairdresser, Salons

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

- Vidal Sassoon

topic: Mother, Father, Home, Hairdressing

I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.

- Erich von Stroheim

topic: Atmosphere, Attention, Deals, Hairdressing

In the beginning, I found myself dealing with a show business dictated by male white supremacists and chauvinists. As a black female, I had to learn how to tap dance around the situation. I had to ... find a way to present my point of view without being pushy or aggressive. In the old days, the only women I saw in this business were in makeup, hairdressing, and wardrobe departments. Now I'm surrounded by women executives, writers, directors, producers, and even women stagehands.

- Diahann Carroll

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Makeup, Views, White, Tap Dance, Pushy

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.

- Vidal Sassoon

topic: Art, Color, Years, Perms, Geometric

I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown

- Cassandra Clare

source: Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

topic: Fall, Watches, Beef, Meltdowns, Empty Stomach

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

- Vidal Sassoon

topic: People, Crafts, Enough, Hairdressing

I got into hairdressing and moved from Dorset to London, where I got an apprenticeship at Vidal Sassoon. This was around '83 or '84. I was working on South Molton Street, which was then the epicenter of all the shops. It was like a catwalk. So I did my apprenticeship there, but I wasn't successful.

- Guido Palau

topic: Successful, London, Apprenticeship, Catwalk, Hairdressing