Tag: hairdressing

Over 200 women have trained and graduated from Vurve Academy. Their stories and the questions they had before they enrolled are more common than you might think.

Key Takeaways:

• Why hairdressing is no longer just a skill, but a highly lucrative business model for modern Indian women.
• A raw look at how two Vurve graduates from completely different backgrounds and age groups built their financial independence.
• A transparent breakdown of who this career is actually for and the exact industry-standard syllabus required to master it.

There is a conversation that happens before enrolment. Not in the Academy. At home.

It happens at the dinner table, in a phone call to a relative, in the pause before telling someone what you are thinking of doing. It is the moment where a woman who is genuinely interested in hairdressing as a career runs into the weight of what other people think a career should look like.

Is it stable? Is it serious? Is it really something you build a life around?
These are fair questions. And the honest answer, the one backed by real outcomes from real women who have gone through Vurve Academy and come out the other side is yes. Unambiguously yes.

More than 200 women have trained and graduated from Vurve Academy across its three centres in Chennai, Bengaluru, and Kochi. They came from different cities, different backgrounds, and different stages of life. Some were fresh out of school. Some were already running businesses and came to sharpen the skills behind them. Some were makeup artists expanding their craft. What they share is this: they made a decision that most people around them did not immediately understand, and they built something real from it.
This blog is for the woman who is considering the same decision and for everyone in her life who has questions about it.
 

The Hair Dressing Industry for the Indian Women

Hairdressing in India is not what it was ten years ago. The market has matured, client expectations have risen sharply, and the premium salon segment is expanding in every major city. What this has created is genuine, sustained demand for skilled, trained professionals not hobbyists, not generalists, but specialists who know their craft. 

The women entering this industry today are not entering a declining trade. They are entering a growth sector one where the skills they build have both employment value and entrepreneurial potential. A trained hairstylist can work at a premium salon, build a freelance client base, specialise in bridal and editorial work, or own and run a salon of her own. The path is not fixed. That flexibility is part of the appeal.

What has also changed is visibility. The senior stylists, colourists, and educators who are shaping Indian hair culture today include a growing number of women. The image of hairdressing as a male-dominated craft at the top end is shifting partly because more women are training seriously, and partly because clients, especially female clients, increasingly seek out female specialists.
 

Two Women. Two Completely Different Starting Points. One Industry.

The range of women who choose hairdressing as a career is wider than most people assume. These are two real Vurve Academy graduates of different ages, different cities, different reasons for being here.
 

Amirthaa Srinivasan

Batch 36  ·  Chennai Alwarpet  ·  From London

She came in curious. She left with a craft and a career direction.
Amirthaa grew up in London and completed her 12th grade through NIOS. She had always been drawn to creative fields but had not found the right one. Hairdressing was, by her own description, something she chose somewhat randomly. She was bored, she was curious, and she wanted to try something new.
 
What she did not expect was to genuinely fall in love with it.
 
"Once I started learning, I genuinely began to enjoy it and developed a real interest in hairstyling and creativity," she says. "Vurve Academy helped me improve my confidence and practical hair skills by giving me hands-on experience and exposure to the salon environment."
 
Amirthaa balanced her Academy training with ongoing academic studies running both simultaneously. Today she is interning under the Vurve Director, building the foundation for a professional career as a stylist.
 
Her advice to other women: "Definitely go for it if you're interested. Even though it's considered a male-dominated field, I believe women can achieve a lot more in this industry with creativity, confidence, and passion."

Nadhiya Murugan

Bangalore Batch 5  ·  Coimbatore  ·  Age 36

She was already running a business. She came to Vurve Academy to make it better.
Nadhiya's story is a different kind of entry point. At 36, she was already an entrepreneur running her own beauty salon in Coimbatore. She found Vurve Academy through Instagram and made a decision that many established business owners hesitate to make: she went back to structured training.
 
Not because she did not know what she was doing. Because she knew that upgrading her hairdressing skills would directly translate into more clients, better service quality, and stronger business outcomes.
 
That is exactly what happened. Post-course, Nadhiya returned to Coimbatore with sharper technique, expanded capabilities, and the confidence that comes from training under specialist educators. Her salon's capacity to take on more clients and more demanding work grew with her skills.
 
Nadhiya's story makes an argument that is rarely made clearly enough: professional training is not just for beginners. For women already in the beauty industry, adding structured hairdressing skills to an existing business is one of the highest-return decisions available.

Two different ages. Two different cities. Two different reasons for being there. The Vurve Academy classroom holds both and designs the training experience to meet each of them where they are.

 
What Questions do Women Hear Before Entering the Industry and the the Honest Answers

Before most women who enrol at Vurve Academy arrive, they have already navigated a set of objections from their families, from their social circles, sometimes from themselves. These are the four most common ones, and what the evidence actually says about each.

1. "It's not a real career."
This is the objection that lands earliest and hardest usually from parents. The assumption is that hairdressing lacks stability, growth, and social standing. The reality: a trained specialist at a premium salon in India earns between Rs. 25,000 and Rs. 80,000 per month within the first three years. Salon owners and senior colourists earn significantly more. 20% of Vurve Academy's female graduates have started their own salons. This is a career with a clear income trajectory, an entrepreneurial ceiling, and skill that compounds over time.

2. "It's a male-dominated field."
Historically, the visible faces of premium hairdressing in India have skewed male. That is changing. Female clients who represent the majority of premium salon revenue increasingly seek out female specialists, particularly for colour, texture, and bridal work. Women trained in these disciplines are in genuine demand. Amirthaa named this concern herself before enrolling, and named it as something she moved through, not around.

 3. "What will people think?"
This one is distinct from the career viability question. It is about status the social cost of telling people you work in a salon. It is a real friction point, particularly in conservative families. It also tends to dissolve on its own timeline: when a woman is earning well, running her own business, or building a client base that recognises her expertise, the external opinion becomes less relevant. The women who get through this objection do not argue against it. They simply move past it. 

4. "I don't have the right background."
Amirthaa chose hairdressing, in her own words, randomly. She came without an artistic portfolio, without prior training, without a specific credential. What she brought was curiosity and willingness. The Vurve Academy curriculum is built to take a student from foundation to professional-grade technique regardless of where they start. Background is not a prerequisite. Commitment is.

What Training at Vurve Academy Actually Looks Like?

Vurve Academy is the training arm of Vurve Salon, a brand with 15 outlets across Chennai, Bengaluru, Kochi, and Hyderabad, founded in 2015. The Academy operates across three centres and has trained over 500 hair professionals to date, more than 200 of whom are women.

The training model is built around the same standard Vurve holds in its own salons. Students learn the foundation of professional hairdressing cut, colour, chemical treatments, scalp health, client consultation through a structured curriculum delivered by working specialists, not classroom-only educators. 

What does the Hairdressing Syllabus Cover?

1. Haircutting techniques from foundational to advanced, across all hair types
2. Hair colour theory and application including international colouring techniques and chemistry
3. Chemical treatments straightening, perming, bond repair, and product knowledge
4. Scalp health and hair science understanding what you are working with, not just what to apply
5. Client consultation and communication the professional skill most courses underinvest in
6. Salon environment exposure working on real clients in a professional setting before graduation

What can I leave with after the Hairdressing Course?

1. A certification from a brand with 10 years of premium salon operation behind it
2. Hands-on technique at a professional standard not practice-room only
3. The confidence that comes from supervised real-client experience
4. A network the Vurve Academy alumni community spans Chennai, Bengaluru, and Kochi

 For women like Nadhiya, who came with an existing business, the Academy also offers something less tangible but equally valuable: the credibility of structured training behind work they were already doing. Clients notice when a stylist has trained formally. Premium salons notice it when hiring. 

In Their Own Words

The most honest measure of what any training programme delivers is what the people who went through it say when they leave.

 “The academy atmosphere is friendly and motivating, which helped me improve my confidence and skills. Thank you Vurve Academy for giving me such a wonderful experience and strong foundation in hairdressing.”
Initha Arayichi
Batch 39  ·  Hair Foundation Course Graduate  ·  5-star Google Review

“I'm leaving with great skills and even better memories.”
Hema Narayanan
Vurve Academy Graduate  ·  5-star Google Review

Who Can Choose Hairdressing as a Career?

Hairdressing is not a passive career. It demands physical presence, consistency, and the kind of genuine interest in other people that makes a client feel seen and well looked after. It rewards those who approach it as a craft something to refine over time, not just perform on repeat. 

It is a strong fit for:

• Women exploring career options after 12th grade who want a structured, skill-based path with real earning potential
• Professionals from other fields including beauty, makeup, and wellness who want to expand their service offering and command higher rates
• Entrepreneurs already in the beauty space who want to elevate their technical capabilities and grow their business
• Anyone who finds meaning in creative, hands-on work that produces immediate, visible results for the person in front of them

 
It is not the right fit for someone looking for a desk-based career or a path that does not require physical skill development. Hairdressing is a craft, and crafts take genuine investment. But for the right person, that investment has a ceiling that most people underestimate.

The Decision Is Yours to Make

More than 200 women have sat where you are right now curious, a little uncertain, running through the questions that every person asks before committing to something new. Some of them were 20, fresh out of school, choosing hairdressing on instinct. Some of them were 36, running a business, choosing it on strategy. All of them found something real on the other side of that decision. The conversation at your dinner table will happen regardless. The question is whether the person having it is someone who is still wondering, or someone who already knows.
If you are ready to find out which one you are, Vurve Academy is the right place to start.

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