The talent and creativity of hairdressing students from South Eastern Regional College (SERC) was recently showcased as the Northern Ireland Hairdressing Championships 2015 which took place at the Hilton Hotel in Belfast.
Some of the finest student hairdressers the province has to offer competed against each other in fifteen categories including; junior day style, party girl, ladies day style and ladies hair-by-night.
The aspiring hairdressers competed before a large crowd of supporters, which included students and staff of SERC and renowned representatives from the hairdressing industry.
Beating off stiff competition, SERC student Nicola Rogan who studies women’s hairdressing at the colleges Downpatrick campus, was celebrating when the results were announced. She won the Junior Creative Colour category and finishing runner-up in both the Junior Day Style and Overall Junior Champion of The Year categories.
The competition challenged competitors to create a range of creative hairstyles and colours for their client, under challenging time constraints all under the watchful eye of the judges.
Nicola Rogan said: “I’m absolutely delighted at winning this very prestigious competition. I’m just over the moon. I just love hairdressing and I work at Georgine Crothers Hairdressing. When you do something every day you really enjoy, it makes it much easier to succeed. So I hope to be taking part in many more competitions in hairdressing.”
SERC hairdressing tutor Sharon Rogan said: “The students all worked very hard learning new styling techniques and the competition was a nice way to finish the first term and let the students showcase their skills whilst competing against their peers in a fun environment.
“The standard of the competition was extremely high and the judges had a very difficult job trying to pick the winners. I would like to congratulate everyone who took part. I am sure that it has proved a valuable experience for everyone. I would also like to thank the judges for passing on some of their knowledge to the students. The competition produced amazing creativity from the students and the judges were bowled over with the standard of skill.”
The judging panel, which consisted of prominent hairdressers and salon owners were extremely impressed with the stylish performances of each of the individuals who took part, despite the stringent time constraints that the competitors’ faced.
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