Ivan Rodriguez - Born To Be The Boss

Ivan Rodriguez has been part of the creative artistic team of Farouk Systems since 2002. With more than 20 years of experience in the beauty industry, he has received multiple awards. With Salon India, he shares his professional journey.

- Aradhana V Bhatnagar

Please share with us your early years.

I was born in Chihuahua in northern Mexico and grew up in a family of four brothers, two men and two women, being the youngest of the four, in a modest house with my parents. When I was young, my major hobby was to go for a bicycle ride and spend hours observing the windows or doors of salons. I liked to peek in to know what they were doing and how come women left feeling happy? I was too young to understand.

How did you get interested in hairdressing?

Sometimes I think I was born to be a hairdresser. As a kid, I would comb my doll’s hair, and when I was 15, I joined a small salon and worked as an assistant hairdresser for two years. Over the months I felt hairdressing was my natural ability, and so I decided to enroll in an academy. I fell in love for the first time with the subject, as never before had I been interested in hair structure and colorimetry, but I knew that something more was needed and it was therefore, the cut of hair and hairstyle so that everything looked integrated.

Which hairdresser has made an impact on you?

Undoubtedly many hairdressers have impacted me, for example in the artistic area and innovation in colour techniques, I love the work of Angelo Seminara; in hairdressing, precision cuts and educational techniques, I am definitely going for Toni&Guy; in hair, without hesitation Jean Luc Mineti and Sharon Blain for his passion and his long educational career at a global level; in logistics and infrastructure of a salon, it has to be W Studio in Sao Paulo Brazil, a salon that has more than 2,500 sqm with hairdressers working all the time.