Chizuru Akao, 43 years old, changed her career from graphic designer to Public Relations for hair salon group “Blossom” that runs 30 hair salons in Tokyo and Saitama.

Chizuru used to be conservative about her hair style and kept medium length hair.  It was a hair stylist Ms. Takahashi from Blossom who recommended Chizuru to change her hair style.

At the beginning, Chizuru cut her hair to bob, since then, she cut her hair shorter and shorter… now she has a stylish short hair style.

“What surprised me the most was people started to talk about my hair style. Nobody mentioned about my hair before.” Chizuru smiled.

The stylish hair style suits her career as hair salon PR.

Privately  she is a mother of teen-age boy and for her, being a busy woman in both her career and family, it is good for her to have a easy styling hair style.

Ms. Takahashi, the hair stylist, said, “I designed her hair to make her active character and positive facial expression to be highlighted.”

Her hair style looks cool, well-rounded on top, sharp along her face, and short bang. Ms. Takahashi cut with graduation style, and a technique of vertical slicing cut. To make a round style, she cut to 5 cm on the top to be conic.

She permed the top by using 2 perm rods to give a natural volume.

For color, she used “lavender ash” color (6 tones) around her face, then put “mermaid lavender ash” color (8 tones) on top of the other color.  By applying dark color along face, it makes face smaller and well shaped.

“I really appreciate that Ms. Takahashi changed my hair style. It also changed my life style.”

Chizuru smiled to her hair stylist.

Hair Salon: Blossom, Tokiwa branch

Hair Stylist: Miki Takahashi

Photo by Akio Nakamura

Text by Yumi Masuda