Absurdly Good Education 1
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Craft, creativity, confidence
evo education blends the practical with the imaginative to help you succeed. From product knowledge and creative styling to cutting techniques and colour mixology, we’re here to bring out your best. Good hair. Good products. Good people. 4
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Course overview
Built to bend, not break. Start with the fundamentals. Build confidence in the essentials, then dive into creative sessions to challenge your noggin’, spark ideas and bring your style to life.
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Know your place
Knowledge Every adventure starts somewhere. Build your basics, master the portfolio and head off road. 8
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Knowledge master
evo knowledge
Know your products inside out. Learn how to mix, match and layer to create tailored solutions for every client. No scams. No snake oil. Good products, used well.10
Outcomes • Introduction to the evo ethos and ranges
(evo, evo fabuloso, top drop) • Learn how to blend and layer the evo styling range • Business-building through product use
Level
All
Format
Demo
Duration
3 hours
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Pigment party
evo fab pro + staino knowledge
Go heavy on the pigment. Get to know the evo fab pro and staino systems inside out in this hands-on demo. We don’t promise cake, but we do deliver direct dye colour theory, formulation, removal and customised retail know-how. It’s a party and you’re invited. 12
Outcomes • Discover evo fab pro and staino systems • Formulate customised retail • Application, timing and removal
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All
Format
Hands-on demo
Duration
3 hours
Base coat certification
evo hue-verse knowledge
Go where you’ve never been before. Explore the evo hue-verse colour wheel, decode undertones and sharpen your formulation skills. We may not possess the answers to the universe, but here is your universal answer to colour. 14
Outcomes
• Discover evo hue-verse and bottle blonde systems • Core colour theory and formulating • Fundamental application, mixing and processing
Level
All
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Fundamental You know the basics. Let’s build. No fads or fleeting trends, just timeless techniques, transferable skills and a stronger foundation for creative exploration. 16
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Conquer the combo
Fundamental product combinations Like peanuts to butter and burgers to fries, some things are better together. evo products are no exception. Learn how to cocktail, layer and combine products to create customised finishes and extend performance beyond the bottle. 18
Outcomes • Conquer cocktailing to expand the evo styling range • Blending and layering to customise shine and hold • Match product to hair type to create unique finishes
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All
Format
Workshop
Duration
3 hours
Blow with the flow
Fundamental styling
Don’t get blown away. Get unfathomably good at going with the flow. From twisting and wrap-drying to diffusing, curling and waving, you’ll learn how to use tools, brushes and products to tackle whatever lands in your chair. Whoosh. 20
Outcomes • Prep for success with the right product and tool selection • Blow wave techniques: wrap-dry, round-brush, twist and diffuse • Hot tool techniques: classic tong set and flat iron waves • Finishing techniques for all textures
Level
Basic-intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
One stop chop
Fundamental cutting
One stop. All chop. Master the foundation of layering, shags, mullets and bobs, then learn the styling techniques that make a good cut a great one. Chop to the top. 22
Outcomes • Learn the fundamentals of cutting • Master the overdirected layer, square layer, round layer with graduation and box bob • Product selection to master prep and styling to enhance shape
Level
Basic-intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Curl intentions
Fundamental curl Less guesswork. More intention. Learn how to cut, style and colour curls with purpose through intentional shape building, thoughtful product selection and techniques that enhance texture, define movement and bring out the best in every curl pattern. Commit to the curl. 24
Outcomes • Decode curl patterns and curl types • Choose the right products to care, prep and style curls • Work with curls intentionally • Diffuse, scrunch and style to build body, enhance texture and shape • Cut curls with layering, graduation and weight distribution • Colour curls using freehand, board and foil techniques for seamless dimension and versatility
Level
Basic-intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Shade shifter
Fundamental direct dye colouring
If you can imagine it, you can make it. Whimsy Wisteria, Pete’s Periwinkle, Tears of Lost Teal. Everything is possible with evo’s direct dye portfolio. Learn how to create, mix, customise, remove and repeat. Get shifty. 26
Outcomes • Master evo fab pro and staino mixology • Maximise use of at-home colour maintenance for any colour • Perfect the art of direct dye removal
Level
Basic-intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
3 hours
Light side of life
Fundamental lightening
Bend at the knees. Lift with care. Become the master of evo bottle blonde. From developer selection to foiling, freehand and on-scalp application, learn the techniques behind better blondes. Take the walk. 28
Outcomes • Lightening mastery with evo bottle blonde • Correct product choice and application • Foiling, freehand and scalp lightening techniques • Precision application
Level
Basic-intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Not for the paint hearted
Fundamental colouring
Build the nerve, the knowledge, the know-how to tackle whatever colour comes your way. Learn the principles of colour selection, mixing, toning, lightening, and removal. evo hue-verse favors the bold. 30
Outcomes • Advanced colour theory • Understand texture, porosity and resistant hair types • Corrective colour, filling and removal • Mix tones for perfect colour
Level
Intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Tone deaf
Fundamental toning
Get in tune with your tone. Learn to read the colour wheel with composure, understand undertones and chose the right tone to hit the right notes. You’ll explore toning strategies, formulation and application techniques, plus how to actually keep your colour work looking fresh. Pitch perfecto.32
Outcomes • Master the colour wheel, colour theory and undertone • • • •
selection for the perfect tone Types of colour and their role in toning Enhance and neutralise customised colour work Toner formulations and applications At-home maintenance for optimal condition and longevity
Level
Basic-intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
3 hours
Steady ready
Fundamental fashion colouring
This workshop offers a complete lack of mundane colour work and boring beige. It’s the only workshop that will make you a steady pair of hands when it comes to fashion colour. After this session, you’ll know everything about theory, selection, consultation and at-home care. Steady at the ready. 34
Outcomes • Master the colour wheel, colour theory and undertone • • • •
selection for the perfect fashion colour Alignment of consultation to expectations Maximise vibrancy through colour and developer selection Utilising lift and mix tones for the perfect tone At-home maintenance for optimal intensity and condition
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Basic-intermediate
Format
Workshop
Duration
3 hours
Creative The journey doesn’t stop here. Push past the familiar with creative sessions built to spark curiosity, stretch your skills and push your potential. Off you go. 36
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Beyond the blow
Creative styling
Less blow, more style. Learn how product choice, tool use and finishing techniques work together to create shape, movement and hold. You’ll leave pinning, braiding, sewing, brushing and finishing like you know what you’re doing. 38
Outcomes • Product choice and combinations to prep and enhance shape • Hot tool shaping and curl enhancement • Build up-styling foundations with confidence • Braids, plaits, sewing, pinning, polished ponytails, and a fresh take on buns and knots • Brushing and finishing techniques with multiple tools
Level
Intermediate-advanced
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Chop shop
Creative cutting
Don’t hack and hope. Get the grip on graduation, layering, disconnection and texture while building confidence in tool selection, tension control and shape refinement. Designed for real clients, real salons and real life. Chop, chop. 40
Outcomes • Commercial cutting for all clients • • • •
Layering, graduation, disconnection and texturising Tool selection, tension and head mapping Intentional design and personalisation Shape refinement, detailing and products to elevate
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Intermediate-advanced
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Lift shift
Creative lightening
Here’s the point things get interesting. Learn smarter pre-lightening, strategic sectioning and tonal combinations that deliver depth, dimension and blondes you’ll actually believe in. From slicing and weaving to airflow and layering you’ll leave seeing 42 the light.
Outcomes
• Advanced lightening and airflow techniques • Intentional foil and freehand placement highlighting focal points • Creative sectioning and tonal work • Use of evo bottle blonde and hue-verse
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Intermediate-advanced
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Know your place
Creative placement
Saddle up Susan. Go all in on colour placement. Master salon-friendly and creative placement that delivers maximum impact every time. Explore strategic placement, seamless melts, tonal accents and believable dimension with techniques that actually work. Giddy up. 44
Outcomes • Master colour placement • Salon-friendly efficient colour techniques • Saturation, dimension, melting and accenting • Use of evo staino and hue-verse
Level
Intermediate-advanced
Format
Workshop
Duration
6 hours
Educators Experts in craft. Believers in better. evo educators share practical skills, fresh perspectives and a willingness to question the status quo. Serious about craft, themselves less so. 46
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evo educators
Creative team
These kids live outside the influence. They are beating heart of evo education. They make the curriculum, help design the products, build platforms and write the rules.
Regional team
These educators have accomplished a lot. They’ve trained the masses and performed audacious acts of righteousness in the pursuit of absurdly good hair.
Heavy hitters
They’ve done the hours, mastered the fundamentals and collected enough stories to fill a room. They’re seasoned operators, trusted advisors, and the biggest of wigs.
Young blood
Under the guidance of the regional team, the Young Bloods are equal parts student, steed and future leader. They’re here to learn, grow and question it all.
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Nicole Kae
Creative director, Australia Cut + style When you’ve worked on a Vivienne Westwood show, you know your stuff. Smooth operator Nicole Kae oozes an effortless edge that words can hardly describe. Crowned 2026 Educator of the Year, Nicole knows a thing or two about sharing knowledge that sticks. She’ll teach you how to approach styling the evo way, create shapes you never thought possible and cut like a pro. Her goal? To push you past the ceiling and beyond. Because education is knowledge, and knowledge is kool. With a Kae.
Location Sydney, Australia Connect @nicolekae_creative Loves The Shag Beach Paste
Tom Smith
Creative colour director, Europe Colour As the brains (and beauty) behind expensive Brunette, Bottleneck Bangs and Botticelli Waves, Tom Smith knows a hair trend when he sees one. His talents have not only seen him featured by the likes of Vogue, Glamour and Byrdie, they have earned him quite the name on Instagram and Tiktok. When he’s not busy predicting the next viral moment or navigating social media fame, you’ll find him tending to the tresses of a long list of vip clients, judging magazine awards, and spreading his knowledge far and wide as our international colour creative director. Is there anything this internationally acclaimed hair stylist can’t do? Location London, England Connect @tomsmithhd Loves Hue-verse Permanent Colour 50 50
Jules Tognini
Creative director, Australia Cut + style Jules Tognini is a household name in the cutting world and evo world alike. Five-time Australian Educator of the Year and three-time Men’s Hairdresser of the Year, Jules drinks Salty Dog for breakfast, and is always up for a good time. Always. He’ll teach you that no two clients are the same and how to bring out their best with a proper cut. He’ll show you how to chop in simple sections and explain the best way to tackle a bowl of pasta and a bowl of ice cream combined. With enough trophies to fill a stable, rest assured, you’re in good hooves.
Location Brisbane, Australia Connect @liloffthetop Loves Salty Dog Salt Spray
Belinda Mills
Creative team, Australia Cut + style Some people dabble in colour. Bel lives in it. After 28 years in the industry, she’s built a reputation for creating colour that’s equal parts technical, creative and bloody good. Salon owner, content creator and passionate educator, she’s on a mission to share what she’s learned, build your confidence and prove that good colour doesn’t have to take itself too seriously. With a knack for cutting through the noise, you’re always in good hands with Bel.
Location Adelaide, Australia Connect @belinda_lee_mills Loves Fab Pro Direct Dye
Ky Wilson
Creative team, Europe Cut, colour + style Londoner Ky Wilson starts his day with a dip in the ocean and a decaf coconut latte, much to the dismay of baristas everywhere. An education all-rounder, Ky guarantees you’ll leave his courses knowing far more than when you walked in, thanks to plenty of real-world scenarios and practical tid bits. Named Creative HEAD’s ‘It Guy’ and ‘Entrepreneur’ and Hairdressers Journal’s Barber of the Year, Ky lives and breathes his craft, constantly pushing boundaries without the aid of a life jacket or caffeine. His biggest kick comes from seeing stylists take his techniques and make them their own.
Location London, England Connect @kycutwilson Loves Salty Dog Salt Spray
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Cassie Harwood - Jacquet Regional team, Australia Colour + style
Cassie is obsessed with good colour, good spaces and good coffee. She’s a pro when it comes to colour that looks better six months later than it did on day one. Specialising in lived-in blondes, grey blending and low-maintenance colour, she shares practical techniques, smarter systems and honest salon insight. Equal parts colourist, organiser and salon experience enthusiast, Cassie believes the best education happens when everyone leaves feeling empowered to go their own way.
Location Adelaide, Australia Connect @cass_nyc Loves Head Mistress Cuticle Sealer
Lauren Cooper
Regional team, Australia Colour As 2022 AHFA creative colourist of the year, Lauren Cooper is no stranger to hair. The dancing queen, colour expert and dog-mum-of-two owns Adelaide’s most Instagrammable salon, Etcher, where she helps her clients live their very best life and express themselves through hair. When it comes to education, she’s here to empower you with fundamental skills and easy-to-follow techniques you’ll actually be able to replicate on a busy salon floor. So strap yourself in for a colour-fuelled journey and a few dance moves thrown in for good measure.
Location Adelaide, Australia Connect @laurencoophair Loves Salty Dog Salt Spray
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Nathan Cherrington
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Regional team, Australia Cut + style
As Fame Team Alumni, newcomer of the year and two-time NSW hairdresser of the year, Nathan Cherrington has more than a few trophies in his cabinet. Fuelled by a strong almond latte, The Sydney-based salon owner teaches all things cut and style and lives by the golden rule that knowledge is meant to be shared. Much like his coffee order, this dog-loving Aries wants you to leave his course with a strong foundation, the techniques to match and the confidence to add your own flavour to every style. With evo in hand, of course.
Location Sydney, Australia Connect @natesthekid Loves Shebang-A-Bang Dry Spray Wax
Janelle Grech
Regional team, Australia Colour Colour and pasta enthusiast Janelle knows how to pair a good colour with a good cut. Much like a good wine and good pasta. Janelle brings a sunny perspective (she’s from Brisbane) to colour, blending simple ideas, technical expertise and creativity to help you get the very best out of her classes. She loves to go deep on the why and believes that with just the right amount of curiosity, you’ll be perfecting every look, for every client. Plus, she’s among the very best evo hue-verse colourists worldwide, so you know you’re in good hands. Location Brisbane, Australia Connect @janellexhair Loves Mister Fantastic Blow Out Spray
Marie Kieffer
Regional team, North America Cut, colour + style Chop, swish, set. Marie Kieffer is our all-round hair nerd. She’ll show you how to master the scissors, the sprays and the colours to take you beyond your comfort zone. Unsurprisingly, her coffee is short and hot, just like her hair. She’ll push you into new techniques and give you the freedom to explore your repertoire in cutting, colouring and styling. Fun fact: she breeds wild cheetahs in her spare time.
Location Wausau, USA Connect @mvkieffer12 Loves Haze Styling Powder
Alisha Dryburgh
Regional team, North America Cut, colour + style Alisha Dryburgh’s passion is contagious. Like a fire and her hair, get ready to ring the alarm. She’s ripe and ready to show you how to elevate your work in cut, colour and style. Taco and Dolly Parton obsessed, she left the sunny beaches of Australia for the mountains of Vancouver to pursue her hair dreams. She wants to wow and excite you, because growing and evolving your skills is the most fundamental partof your success. Boom.
Location Vancouver, Canada Connect @westandunder Evo Fabuloso Copper Colour Depositing Conditioner
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Louanne Ferro
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Regional team, North America Colour Most kids dream of being an astronaut or athlete, but not Louanne Ferro. Taking to a pair of scissors like a duck to water at age 11, this San Diego born Virgo has a passion for hair that has taken her to the tents of NYFW and beyond. A self-proclaimed lover of science and colour, Louanne is the proud owner of Joy Hair Space and has had her work published by the likes of Behind The Chair. She’s ready to teach you the science behind hair and will leave you confident in the fundamentals of colour, so long as you come bearing a tint brush and an open mind.
Location San Diego, USA Connect @louanneferra Love Hue-verse Permanent Colour
Ashley Osterlund
Regional team, North America Cut + colour If Ashley Osterlund were stranded on a desert island,you’d probably spot her clutching onto Happy Campers and Water Killer Brunette. Lucky for you, she’s basking in sunny California, ready to teach you all things cutting, colouring and styling. Her main mission? To unravel the “why” behind your decisions, erasing any trace of guesswork. Ashley thrives on those lightbulb moments, when everything falls into place, and she’s determined to have you leave a better stylist than you were yesterday. Location Sacramento, USA Connect @_the_ashdoeshair Loves
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Lorelle Perrin
Regional team, North America Colour + style If you ask Lorelle Perrin, there is no part of education that isn’t valuable. This animal-loving Canadian believes that there’s always more to learn in this ever-evolving, always changing industry. Inspired by Frida Kahlo, she’s the ultra-efficient, forwardthinking educator with an unwavering passion for colouring and finishing. Walking away from Lorelle’s classes, you’ll have the confidence to provide salon services in better, more efficient ways. Location Saskatoon, Canada Connect @lorelleperrin Loves Day Of Grace Pre-style Primer
Sam Kane
Regional team, North America Cut + style Sam Kane is nothing short of a cutting guru. Whether it’s scissors, razors, or clippers she knows it. A class with Sam will be jam-packed with lightbulb moments, where you understand the ‘why’ behind every snip. Her inspiration comes straight from the salon floor, especially from apprentices, who remind her to slow down and focus on the basics. Awards? she’s got a few: 2019 Best Of Boston, Beauty Launchpads 30 over 30 (2024), and Modern Salon top 100 stylists of 2021. When she’s not shaping the next big trend, she’s all about pasta, travelling, and a good red wine. Location Boston, USA Connect @samkanehair Loves Liquid Rollers Curl Balm
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Sophie Bergevald
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Regional team, Europe Cut, colour + style
The epitome of Scandinavian cool, there’s nothing Sophie Bergevald can’t do. Whether it’s nailing the perfect shade of lived-in blonde or creating sleek and interesting shapes with scissors, she’s a master of her craft. She’s been nominated for multiple accolades, at the Swedish hairdresser of the year awards, winning the Textured and Avant-Garde categories. Come for the hair, stay for the secrets. It’s guaranteed her tips and tricks will keep you on your toes. Location Gothenburg, Sweden Connect @sophber Love Salty Dog Salt Spray
Raymon Van Der Meijden Regional team, Europe Cut + colour
With a passion for cutting, Raymon knows that good hair starts with good products. Our resident Dutchman will take the time to solidify your skills and knowledge before showing you how to make truly great hair using simple techniques. As owner of Amsterdam’s Sessions Salon and Dutch Hairdressing Awards nominee, this beer-loving night owl finds his inspiration from everything around him. With a can of Whip It Good in hand, he’s ready to give you the tools you need to dominate in all things cut and colour. Location Amsterdam, Netherland Connect @raymonvandermeijden Loves Staino Intense Direct Dye
Jodie Palmer
Regional team, Europe Colour + style Fresh from a Barcelona Beach, resident Salty Dog, Jodie Palmer, knows a thing or two about hair. Inspired by everything from cinema to subculture, drag, punk, club kids, street kids, chavs, Jodie thinks creativity should move and break boundaries. She wants you to leave her course confident in yourself, and to have loads of fun along the way. Jodie created the viral Hairtan™ Technique and has worked on some pretty big shoots, but when asked, her highest accolade is gaining respect from those she respects. So you can expect a whole lot of respect, with a side of evo. Location Barcelona, Spain Connect @jodiepalmer.hair Loves Bottle Blonde Hair Lightener
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