Stine Enø from Enø Studio, Aarhus
Stine is a passionate hair stylist and proud founding father of Enø Studio in Aarhus.
We share a heat welcome to Stine to our Iles Method household.
To be taught extra about Stine, go to her web site. It’s also possible to comply with her on Instagram @enostudiodk
1. What would you time period as your specialty inside your commerce?
I like all components of the commerce. However face mapping and coloration is my absolute favourite a part of the job. Working with bone construction, facial options, eye coloration, skin-color, creating the suitable look to suit every shopper the perfect, and so forth., at all times makes me completely love my work. And I have been loving my work for 23 years now.
2. What’s essentially the most gratifying a part of your job?
Assembly individuals of all ages, all trades, making a distinction. As a stylist, we work with our shopper’s identities. We’re hair and make-up architects. We see completely different shades, types and buildings, and are compelled to create. There’s loads of drive and fervour in our commerce for those who proceed to feed it. I like the sensation of needing to create.
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3. Why did you select the trail of hairdressing and was it simple to fall into this work?
I used to be supposed to review drugs, however my palms and mind wanted to place within the effort and the hours to be taught the commerce. It´s like studying to play an instrument. Whenever you be taught to grasp the ability, it takes fixed and severe consideration to nonetheless push your ability set and uphold your ardour for the commerce. I nonetheless love science and am very keen on dermatology and endocrinology. I like chemistry as properly. So the technical a part of being a stylist is a giant a part of what I take pleasure in concerning the commerce. I´m a real hair geek I believe.
4. If you happen to had not made the choice to be a hairdresser what would you’ve got been?
I’d have studied medicine- little doubt.
5. What’s your best energy
I can talk with all types of individuals. I believe being a stylist is as a lot about communication as it’s about ability. I am a battery; I add vitality the place it is wanted & I am not afraid to talk my thoughts (in a well mannered method after all). I believe that a part of me you’d both hate or love.
6. Your favourite hairdressing instruments?
UHH that’s troublesome query. Scissors is the plain choice- however I may also make all shapes and types with simply my hairdryer and brush, or styler. I like altering types and textures. Don´t get me began on the world of a colorist.
7. Inform us about your relationship with ILES FORMULA. How did you uncover us and which formulation is your favourite?
The serum no 3 is my absolute favourite. If I went to a abandoned island, the serum is what would I deliver with me. I personally use it day by day, and likewise on everybody; it fixes every part like its magic. I used to be so lucky to have met Wendy and her husband Jacque in individual in Paris. I used to be in love with Iles Method earlier than we met in individual, however I believe I utterly surrendered after I met Wendy. The data, the curiosity, the professionalism, the stamina, and the drive- all mixed in one of the crucial coronary heart warming personalities I´ve ever encountered in my years as a stylist. I’m true Wendy fan.
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8. What was essentially the most difficult job you ever had?
That’s a troublesome query. However I believe working with shoppers which might be affected by hair loss, alopecia, or going via chemo is at all times delicate however very rewarding. I additionally educated many individuals through the years, and I actually loved it. Session throughout international locations, cultures, esthetics, and perceptions might be essentially the most troublesome a part of our commerce. What I conceive as lovely is merely a matter of notion, and vice versa.
9. What was your worst hair second and why….privately or on set/stage or within the salon?
Within the late 90´s I used to be a hair mannequin for Lee Stafford UK. He may have given me a buzz minimize for all I cared, he was simply so inspiring (and fairly good on the eyes as properly). He gave me overcut bangs and coloured my hair inexperienced. It was magic whereas we did the tour, however as Monday got here and I returned to Aarhus, my dad wasn´t very impressed; so the inexperienced didn´t keep for lengthy.
10. If you happen to may model anybody’s hair, who wouldn’t it be and why?
Her Majesty the queen of Denmark as a result of I believe she is superb and all her pomp and circumstance is sort of magical.
10. The place do you pull all hair inspiration from?
Wendy is superb. I am lucky to have seen loads of her work and completely find it irresistible. However I’ve additionally been privileged in my work life. I’ve labored aspect by aspect with loads of unbelievable hair artists who interpret hair in a different way than I do. I believe It´s inspiring to look and be taught from one another. I additionally discover inspiration from structure, vogue, historical past, and observing the world round and other people in it.
12. Your recommendation to younger hairdressers beginning out?
If It´s not an actual ardour, don’t even give it some thought. Being a stylist is a way of life, not a 9-5 job. All of the magic is completed after hours amongst many individuals and all of the craziness.
13. Aside from the drastic salon hygienic laws, what modifications to a salon’s day by day enterprise do you assume will keep after the Covid-19 disruption?
We at all times solely entertained one shopper at a time within the studio, so our on a regular basis routines did not change that a lot. I am all for the stylists world wide which might be held in a excessive esteem as a result of it isn’t a career for the faint of hearted. Being a hair stylist is tough work and lengthy hours all put in to changing into a talented craftsman. I hope that the world perhaps awakened and acknowledged that it isn’t simply hair and make-up. We work with our shoppers dignity and personalities. We will change how an individual feels about themselves for the higher, in a matter of hours. It´s one of many oldest trades on the planet, and it is an honorable one. I for one am very pleased with being a stylist.
However publish COVID, greater than ever it´s vital to control administration and numbers. If you happen to don’t run a good ship- forecasting and managing, or just don´t have the required skillset or curiosity, it’s essential to get your self a enterprise companion who can oversee that a part of the enterprise. Expertise and ability shouldn’t be value a lot if its not utilized in the suitable manner. Within the enterprise of being a hairstylist, it’s essential to put on many hats.
