Meet Emilie: Colour, Considered

Before Emilie touched a colour bowl, she read faces for a living. Five years as a makeup artist on film and television sets taught her to see skin properly: undertone first, feature second. "I learned to enhance eye colour, undertones in skin, the features someone already has," she says. "I love it all." It's not a skill hairdressing school teaches. She brought it with her.

Hairdressing was always close by. Both her nan and her gran owned salons, and Emilie grew up around the trolley and the mirror before she grew up around much else. Film is what made the connection click. "Hairdressing is a major factor in the beauty world," she says of the realisation that sent her back to it. Her first job on set came at seventeen. The work ethic that got her there hasn't eased off since.

What she loves about colour is broad: the theory, the problem-solving, the creativity of it. What she's chasing right now is narrower, and sharper. Seamless blends. Dimensional colour. Placement precise enough to hold under any light, not just the salon's. It isn't a gap in her ability. It's the next level of it, the difference between doing beautiful colour and doing it the same way, every time. Her cutting is developing on the same track, built on the same instinct for structure and shape that already drives her colour work.

Lived-in blonde and subtle dimension are where her attention sits at the moment: minimal, controlled, the kind of colour that reads as effortless because someone did the work to make it look that way. She isn't interested in a dramatic before-and-after. She's interested in the client who already exists, refined.

Ask who she wants in her chair and the answer is specific. Someone ready to commit to colour, not test it. Someone who wants a look built around what already suits them, not one borrowed from somebody else's feed. "I love working towards a result that makes my client feel confident, refreshed, and excited about their look," she says. She talks about the process the way someone further into their career usually does: as something built over time, appointment by appointment, not solved in one sitting.

Outside the salon, the research never really stops. Family, the gym, a running subscription to Vogue that doubles as a moodboard. Her friends land on the same words from different angles: radiant, driven, patient, determined. She's twenty-two, which tends to surprise people more than it surprises her. Harder to fake is the decade spent watching her family run salons, and the five years spent training her eye on skin and colour before a client ever sat in her chair.

Book Emilie for colour that's built with intention, not guesswork.