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SIHHTLS705A
Conceive, develop and realise innovative hairdressing concepts for media
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Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
This unit applies to highly skilled senior hairdressers who have substantial experience across the industry. The job roles include creative or artistic directors who work for larger hairdressing organisations or a hairdressing products company or independently as a freelance session stylist and provide technical and creative leadership, training and support to colleagues and the industry at large.
In these roles, these individuals play an important leadership role for the industry in determining and leading the future hair designs that the industry will create through the development and realisation of the innovative hairdressing designs that promote current and future hair fashions, products and techniques to the hairdressing industry and consumer markets through a range of media. They are able to operate at a national or international level.
A person undertaking this role applies a range of specialised technical, creative, conceptual and team leadership competencies to plan, carry out, evaluate and take accountability for personal outputs and usually, those of a team.
They possess a substantial depth of theoretical knowledge of hairdressing design elements and principles and highly developed and specialised technical skills. They possess the research skills to gather and synthesise future trends and technologies in related creative industries such as fashion, graphic art and product design to design and create hair designs influenced by these trends.
This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to conceive, develop plan and realise innovative hairdressing designs for media.
It requires the ability to develop hair design concepts based on media objectives and to plan and realise innovative hair designs for media that are used for the promotion of product and services, including hair design directions for the hairdressing industry and consumer markets.
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