Customers flocked, on this rainy Friday at the end of July, to Aude Livoreil-Djampou’s hair salon, a stone’s throw from the Sorbonne, in Paris. A hairdresser applies color to the straight hair of a neighborhood client. On her right, two colleagues, armed with brushes and hot plates, smooth Sylvia’s thick, long frizzy hair. After six long hours of waiting, her grandson grows impatient. But he looks at his grandmother, amazed, and compliments her: “You are really beautiful, Grandma. »
Both traveled from Lagny-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne) to come to this establishment spotted on social networks. The Ana’e studio (“all” in Tahitian) has the specificity of taking care of all hair textures, from straight to frizzy. It offers haircuts and brushings, braids, wigs or styling in a spacious space, for a price ranging from 20 to 200 euros.
Aude Livoreil-Djampou, 53, has been working for years to ensure that hairdressers are trained in the care of textured hair, which is rarely the case. She won her case: at the start of the school year and, for the first time in France, five training centers will issue a certificate recognized by the State for the styling of curly, frizzy and frizzy hair, “BFC”, as they say in the middle. The 200-hour training, accessible after a “hairdressing” CAP, will be offered in Île-de-France, Hérault, Moselle, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Normandy.
France’s delay
In 2015, when she was launching her salon, Aude Livoreil-Djampou, who was also a hairdressing trainer, asked to be received by the Ministry of National Education and the National Union of Hairdressing Companies (UNEC), to talk about a training project for textured hair. Faced with growing demand, the UNEC has recently been working on the subject.
With the help of a former national education inspector and After speaking with Afro hair professionals, Aude Livoreil-Djampou presents a market study on textured hair, then is invited as an expert to discuss a future diploma. “We relied on his work to develop the training, explains the president of the UNEC, Christophe Doré. Aude has experience and mastery of this market segment. »
The 50-year-old had to learn to style curly hair at the birth of the first of her three children, in 2008, born of the union with her husband Henri Djampou, originally from Cameroon and tram driver for the RATP. In Le Bourget (Seine-Saint-Denis), where she resides, the mother of the family then struggles to find a hairdressing salon in Le Bourget, which agrees to style both her straight hair and her daughter’s curly hair. It notes the significant delay in France in this area.
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