Guido Palau Quotes

To be a good hairdresser, you have to understand what the vision is of the designer or the photographer and then sort of add your thing.

It's hard to be shocking now. It's hard to challenge people because the Internet has allowed everyone to become much more worldly, much more visual. It's very hard to surprise people.

I'm not giving up on my work. I'm still trying to challenge people's aesthetics and myself.

I'm not saying that everything I do is always tasteful - and maybe it's not always the normal idea of beauty - but hopefully it's always an empowering idea.

Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.

I try to be aware of technology and Japanese animation and old Belgian paintings, and get all my references from bits of everywhere.

Everyone has an opinion and I think we're at a time which is very heated all over the world, so of course people will speak out. And they have every right to.

You may say, 'That's naïve of you,' and maybe it is, but in my mind, I'm celebrating every kind of woman. That's what a creative person does.

I have a total complex [because of my curls], though, because I got teased a lot as a kid.

I haven't got a good reputation with pain.

I think to many people, textured curls still signify 'difference.' And kids like to pick on what's different.

I must say, Gisele's [Bundhen] got some of the best hair I've ever touched.

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

I think it's more funny how every bit of information is up for grabs.

Someone might say that's a naïve way of looking at things now, and I would respect their opinion, but I also respect every woman's right to wearing her own individual style, including hair.

Fashion now is just so confusing. It doesn't feel as easy. Fashion seems to be in a much more eclectic place.

I took Instagram off my phone! I took it off because I found I was looking at it too much.

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.

People comment, and that's where we are now. It's the way the world is.

I think now because of this whole social media thing, people obviously felt these things [about cultural appropriation] before, and they comment on everything.

I was building my work, and it took me a long time. For a good five or six years I was just kind of bobbing around, doing everything and anything.

When you look back at your career, there are moments that are levels that you hit and you bounce off them.

Suddenly it was cool to have your hair lank . . . It was a whole different way of looking at things, and it shook up the whole industry.

I worked in salons, where you do learn the basic sort of thing. But I didn't know anything about the kinds of things I'm doing now. I learned how to put hot-rollers in.

The Brits always favor the underdog. There's an eccentricity to us, and I think you can see that through the fash- ion and the music and the way people look.

I'm very lucky that I've worked mainly with two amazing photographers in David Sims and Steven Meisel.

Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.

With Steven Meisel, I'd looked at his work from afar and always loved it, and when I started to work with him, I was blown away. He taught me so much about looking at women and looking at images.

Beautiful things are different.

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

When you respect somebody who has talent, whether it's a designer or a photographer, then you don't want to let yourself down - but you also really don't want to let them down.

I didn't know I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was always interested in fashion and imagery in a very naive way, but it was always an attraction, like glitter balls.