Assessor Resource
SIHHTLS806
Conceive, develop and realise innovative hairdressing concepts for events
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Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 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 freelance session stylists and provide technical and creative leadership, training and support to colleagues and the industry at large.
In these roles, individuals play an important leadership role for the industry. They determine and lead the future hair designs that the industry will create through the development and realisation of the innovative hairdressing designs. These hair designs promote current and future hair fashions, products and techniques to 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 and realise hairdressing concepts for events.
It requires the ability to develop the hairdressing design concepts based on the event objectives and to plan and realise the presentation of innovative hairdressing designs for the event.
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