Hair & Care's Impact
At Hair & Care, we’re reimagining what inclusion truly looks like in the hair, beauty, and fashion industries.
While hair is at the heart of our work, our mission goes far beyond styling - it’s about transforming how these industries see, serve, and include blind and low vision people.
How are we making the hair, beauty and fashion industries more accessible?
Our work aims to shift these industries that have historically overlooked disabled communities by:
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Creating inclusive spaces and experiences where blind and low vision women can engage with hair, beauty, and fashion with confidence.
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Collaborating with professionals and brands to support accessible services, products, and education.
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Raising awareness and changing narratives around disability, beauty, and representation.
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Empowering women through hair as a form of self-expression, identity, and autonomy - having supported over 500 individuals since 2019
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Reducing isolation and fostering community connection through hair & self care workshops
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Consulting industry professionals in accessibility - from inclusive practices at Fashion Week to upskilling hairstylists in inclusive skills that can be taken back to the salon
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Advocating for systemic change, ensuring accessibility isn't an afterthought but a standard.
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Hair & Care is about amplifying the voices and visibility of blind and low vision women, and creating space for this community to feel seen, heard and included. By working together to bridge the accessibility gap, we can work towards a future that is truly inclusive.
Martyn Wady
International Business Development
Manager, Denman International
"Denman feels so privileged to support Hair & Care. Anna has created something truly special by bringing both compassion and practical skill to the blind community in a way that makes a measurable difference to their wellbeing.
Denman provides hair tools and where possible, hairdressing services to Anna’s workshops. We’ve seen first-hand the positive impact teaching hair care, styling and tool use makes on those living with low vision. Haircare truly is self-care and Anna empowers her workshop attendees to take pleasure and pride in their hair and that’s priceless!"
What do industry experts
say about Hair & Care?
Sinéade O'Dwyer
Fashion Designer
"Working with Hair & Care has been an amazing opportunity to learn about accessibility for blind and low vision people and how to bring our brand to that community. It has been a very unique experience as fashion designers don't get training on how to share our worlds beyond the sighted community, but as creatives we are uniquely suited to think about ideas that bring the sensations together to create a multi sensory world.”
Nick Schofield
CEO of VICTA
“VICTA young adults love the Hair & Care workshops. They are truly transformative. Not only do our young people learn from the team of professional hairstylists but also Anna’s experience and benefit from her understanding of the challenges of living with sight loss."
Hair & Care’s sessions are brilliantly structured to create safe, fun, non-judgemental spaces that are inclusive, engaging, and instructive. A single session is enough to deliver personal growth, witnessed by increased confidence, self-esteem and a more positive body image. Everyone leaves a workshop feeling empowered.”
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