Interview with Vernon Francois:

Vernon Francois is a world-renowned celebrity hairstylist, as well as an artist and educator on the Ulta Beauty Pro Team. He is also the owner of haircare brand, VERNON FRANCOIS Haircare, an award-winning vegan and certified cruelty-free product line. The brand's design elements are centered around ‘intuitive color coding and visual icons’ to simplify the navigation process for consumers, an idea that stemmed from Vernon’s journey with dyslexia. 

Since childhood Vernon has always had a passion for hair and today he specializes in all textures and types. Throughout his career, Vernon has emphasized the importance of embracing your hair texture and has shown this in all of his high-fashion, celebrity red-carpet looks. His passion began while growing up in a Rastafarian family where hair was a symbolic part of his childhood and relationship with his mother. This passion and the lack of inclusion for different hair textures in the UK at the time inspired Vernon to start his brand. 

Vernon has a wide clientele and has achieved global publicity for a few of his looks, for example, his work with Serena Williams on the cover of Vanity Fair. Although he is a celebrity stylist, Vernon’s influence has reached people at home too. His attention to all hair textures has helped individuals feel seen and gives people all over the world a sense of confidence, something that was hard to achieve before you could see someone on the red carpet who had similar features as you. In 2023, Vernon won the Hollywood Beauty Award. 

Today, Vernon is the newest Global Ambassador for OLAPLEX. Like all of his other projects, Vernon will use this partnership to continue to empower individuals with coily, curly, wavy, or straight hair, and give them tips to style with ease.

Links:

• https://www.instagram.com/vernonfrancois/ 
• https://www.vernonfrancois.com/ 
•  https://www.thevisionariesagency.com/hair-stylists/vernon-fran-ois/bio

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