Hair & Care Project CIC

18/03/2026

Volunteer at our Hair & Care Workshops 🧡

Our volunteers play one of the most important roles within Hair&Care.

By guiding participants through hair tutorials at our workshop session, and explaining products and tools to participants, they help us to create an inclusive creative space for blind and low-vision women and girls. In doing so, they are providing participants with the tools and knowledge to care for their hair as well as the confidence to be independent.

Our workshops would not be possible without the generosity of our volunteers. Their hospitality is what allows us to continue to hold workshops free of charge for blind and low-vision participants.

We’re always looking to expand our network of amazing hairstylists to support our workshops for our community.

If you are a professional hairstylist and interested in volunteering at one of our workshops, please DM us to learn more!

17/03/2026

Hair & Care was featured in .independent for our Making Fashion Accessible initiative!

Written by Lara Owen, this article emphasises how Making Fashion Accessible is cultivating new spaces for inclusivity with the fashion world. Audio descriptions, touch tours and swatch booklets are key when it comes to making our blind and low-vision guests feel recognised and included within fashion.

“Fashion for me has always been something that’s felt a bit out of reach,” she says. “As a visually impaired person, I have no central vision. I can’t see detail. So actually, fashion is really hard to be engaged in, because the detail is everything in fashion.”

The full article is linked in our bio 🔗

Thank you for spotlighting our work through

16/03/2026

March Workshop Recap 🧡

This month, we took a look back at this season with Making Fashion Accessible to take inspiration from Chet Lo’s AW26 collection.

Our participants utilised professional brushes and accessories from and high-quality hair styling products from to recreate one of the looks from London Fashion Week this year.

It is such a joy to welcome new and returning participants to our monthly workshops so that we can all come together as a community to learn and support one another

Our next workshop will be on Wednesday 8th April. If you are blind or low-vision and are interested in learning more about hair-styling, please visit our website via the link in our bio to book a place at our next workshop!

# Inclusive Beauty

13/03/2026

Touch tours are a key part of our Making Fashion Accessible initiative.

They create a shared experience for blind and low-vision guests to explore a designer’s collection before the show through conversation and hands-on interaction with the garments.

This year, guests met to experience his new AW26 collection up close. Known for his signature spiked knitwear, the collection also featured appliquéd feathers and lace detailing. Guests were able to feel the techniques used throughout the pieces, helping them build a fuller picture of how the collection would appear on the runway at London Fashion Week.

Through , we’re creating space for blind and low-vision guests to feel immersed in fashion and included in the Fashion Week experience.

Photography by: John

Slide 1: A close up of a hand feeling a vibrant red spiky knitted fabric. The image is highly saturated, focusing on the fabric.

Slide 2: One of our MFA guests in an interview with Hair & Care. She sits against a grey wash wall, with her cane beside her. She wears a semi-sheer long sleave top, mottled with blue, purple and green. Her hair is a dark strawberry blonde and she is facing off camera, laughing.

Slide 3: A close up of a hand feeling a dark mauve satin dress, with black lace detailing the hem. The person wears sparkly rings on the three middle fingers of her right hand.

Slide 4: A candid shot from the touch tour, where a guest feels the spiky panels of a black blazer. Around the image are the blurry figures of those standing beside her.

12/03/2026

12/03/2026

This International Women’s Day, we’re reflecting on the role selt-care can play in how we see ourselves. For many people, hair is a meaningful form of self-expression and part of everyday care.

For blind and low-vision individuals, learning hair care and styling techniques can sometimes require different approaches. At Hair & Care, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to feel confident in their own routines.

That’s why we host free monthly workshops with experienced hair stylists, where blind and low-vision women can explore practical hair-styling skills in a supportive environment. Because moments of self-care can be powerful - helping us express who we are and strengthening the sense of identity that so often sits at the heart of womanhood.

We’re always looking to welcome more women and girls into our community to discover how to style their hair and feel confident caring for it. Our next workshop takes place on Wednesday 8th April, 11am-1pm - find the link via our Instagram bio and book via our website.

We’re always looking to welcome more women and girls into our community to discover how to style their hair and feel confident caring for it. Our next workshop takes place on Wednesday 8th April, 11am-1pm - find the link via our Instagram bio and book via our website.

Alternatively, you can get in touch with the team directly by emailing workshop enquiries to: [email protected]

10/03/2026

Reflecting back on making our ninth show accessible through our , and the incredible support from our sponsor Authentic Beauty Concept.

Thank you to all the team and for believing in what we do and the collective change we are making to the industry🧡

Videography: Charlie .uk

10/03/2026

This MFA season, we were delighted to welcome Faye McConnell from , a recent supporter of Hair&Care

As a sighted individual, Faye describes how attending our touch tour with designer Chet all allowed her to perceive the collection and fashion as a whole from a different point of view.

Not only are our touch tours and pre-show experiences beneficial for our blind and low-vision guests but they are also incredibly impactful for sighted individuals by allowing them to understand the need for accessibility and inclusivity within the fashion industry.

Thank you Faye for joining us this London Fashion Week for our AW26 season of Making Fashion Accessible 🧡

09/03/2026

Making Fashion Accessible | London Fashion Week

This February, we attended London Fashion Week, and worked with designer Lo to make his show accessible to blind and low vision guests. We invited brand strategist Victoria Seffens to experience fashion week with us.

Victoria shared how the warm atmosphere, thoughtful pacing of the models, and theatrical scale of the designs made the event particularly engaging for guests with low vision. She also highlighted how the expressive and artistic audio description elevated the experience - showing that accessibility can enhance creativity, not just support it.

Thank you, Victoria for joining us this MFA season and helping highlight the impact of inclusive experiences such as these🧡

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A graphic slide with an orange background and white text. Large quotation marks appear at the top. The text is a quote describing a guest’s experience of an accessible fashion show, highlighting the warm atmosphere, the pacing of the models, and the expressive audio description that helped bring the designs to life for guests with low vision. Near the bottom, smaller text reads, “Victoria Seffens – Brand Strategist.” The Hair & Care logo appears at the bottom of the slide.

05/03/2026

Hair&Care featured in for our Making Fashion Accessible initiative

Written by Chloe Mac Donnell, this article describes how we have utilised touch tours, swatch booklets and audio descriptions to create a unique sensory experience for our blind and low-vision guests to perceive Lo’s AW26 collection this London Fashion Week.

“I have enough vision that I can kind of see the general silhouette of a look on the catwalk and maybe the colours. So I used the fabric swatches when I could tell there was some detail I was missing. Having the capacity to feel, imagine and sense the detail opened the whole show up to me so I could feel completely part of it.”

This piece eloquently highlights what we work towards at Hair&Care. Through our Making Fashion Accessible initiative, we continue to create inclusive spaces for blind and low-vision individuals within the fashion world.

Thank you Chloe for sharing our work 🧡

03/03/2026

We’re so so proud to announce that Hair & Care has won an award for the category ‘Innovation of the Year’ at the British Hairdressing Business Awards (BHBA), presented by !

The BHBA celebrates excellence, leadership and forward-thinking across the UK hair industry, spotlighting businesses that are shaping the future of hairdressing. To have this industry recognition is an incredible honour for us.

This particular award recognises the impact our hair care workshops deliver, not just on a ground level supporting our community of blind and low vision women, but through working alongside hair professionals to improve accessibility for blind and low-vision clients, helping to create more inclusive, welcoming salon environments where no one feels overlooked.

We’re so grateful to everyone who has supported our journey - to our wonderful community of participants, volunteers and supporters who have helped us get to where we are today - this award is for you 🧡