About Rachael Johnson. She started hairdressing after she left school in 1986 with a YTS Scheme  apprenticeship at my local salon, where she built up a large clientele along the way, until 1992 when one of her male colleagues (who was completely bald) suggested I worked freelance.

Up until then, she’d never considered it, but the more she thought about it, the more she liked the idea, and decided (not without some fears) to hand in her notice. She then left to set up her own mobile hairdressing business which ran successfully for about ten years (thanks to the support and advice of my bald hairdressing friend), before she was asked to teach hairdressing at the local Further Education College.