colorna Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 My wife and I own a house in Charente Maritime for family use only. Our son is a UK qualified hairdressing instructor and examiner at NVQ level. He is considering re locating to France (living in our house!!) to either take up employment or be self employed as a hairdresser, not as an instructor. Are his qualifications (NVQ) acceptable in France or will he require French qualifications? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaysBasque Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 I think the only people who can answer your question correctly are at either your local Chambre des Metiers or Chambre de Commerce.Good luck, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeb Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 You might get a more "qualified" response if you post this on the www.totalfrance.com forum as I know that there is someone (tazza?) who works part time as a hairdresser at a salon in France, and she may know the answer. Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emma5 Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 if he starts up in business, please advertise on total france as well, as depending on where you are, i know a few friends who are deperate for an english speaking hairdresser. emma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Avery Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 " a few friends who are desperate for an english speaking hairdresser...........and who are desperate enough to travel up to 500kms to have their done by an english speaking hairdresserDoes anyone who subscribes to TF ever suggest to these people that they learn to SPEAK French or if that is too hard get themselves a phrase book with a section for "At the hairdressers" and learn the key phrases like "something for the weekend madam?". Just a thought, are all these friends letting their hair grow until they find an english speaker? Or are they offering themselves up as sacrifices to a FRENCH speaker with a pair of scissors and a blow dryer. Too awful to contemplate, I must lie down now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Really Ron, shows what you know about women and their hairdressers Don't you know it's a 'special' relationship and even in England there is a seperate (almost secret)language called 'hairdresser'......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Men are from Mars, Women from Venus...I'm with Ron on this. I go to places where no-one tries to engage me in conversation. My favourites so far are "Where you goin' on your 'olidays is it?' and "Not at work today then?" "No, I'm a teacher, it's half-term." "Oh all them kids is ******s innit? I dunno how you does it."I once had a haircut in France. Just once. You can see the result (and how pleased I was with it) in my avatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted October 20, 2005 Share Posted October 20, 2005 Hmmm, doesn't make a blind bit of difference if you can speak french or not. When I get back to France I am going into my local hairdressers and play merry hell.I had it permed just before I came back and hoped it would settle down, it didn't, I just ended up looking like my mother and have had it cut three times and it is now very short and at last alright. I had been hoping to grow it a bit this winter....... no chance, I just could not walk around looking like that.The ladies barber I have been going to is the gobbiest hairdresser I have ever been to and she is from down south. She does a remarkably good job though and is cheap and I am very happy. I had told my french hairdresser that I didn't want the bigoudi putting in in the way she was doing them, but she was adamant that she knew best....... I have never felt so old looking and decrepit in years as after her doing my hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorna Posted October 21, 2005 Author Share Posted October 21, 2005 Very interesting comments about hairdressing relationships, French speakers etc but I really only wanted to know about NVQs and UK qualifications acceptable in France. My son does speak French by the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 If he belongs to a professional body/association/union perhaphs they would be able to advise or alternativley use google.fr to search for the same in France and ask them.Good Luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 Colorna, I hope your son will be a big success here, especially as he is bilingual (he will be able to "coiff" the French as well ).If some of you are not happy with the hairdressers here, what do you expect if you go and see Mme. Bigoudi Rural down the road. There are top quality salons here, the same as anywhere else, here are a few :http://www.modefashion.net/index2.php3?cd=70c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted October 21, 2005 Share Posted October 21, 2005 I recently braved my first hair cut in France as I started to resemble the blokes you used to see in 70s prog rock bands! I quickly came to the conclusion that there are 4 ages in French hairdressing minds and that each one gets shorter! I don't think I will be needing another haircut until 2007!Do they actually know what 'layers'are over here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony F Dordogne Posted October 22, 2005 Share Posted October 22, 2005 My OH is really particular about her hair, she used to pay a small fortune in the UK going to some very smart and exclusive hairdressers in Covent Garden, Trevor Sorbie I think.Over here we managed to find a place where the owner, just by chance, not only trained at Vidal Sasoon in London in the 1970s but also speaks some English. So now we get both haircuts/whatever women have done, for less that I used to pay in the UK.What amazes me is that a small town like St Cyprien in 24 can support so many haidressing establishement and the coiffeur domiciles also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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