What's unique About the Academy

In the efforts in helping the industry to grow the hairdressing standards, HAIR CONNECTION's academy caters solely to aspiring stylists who are interested in upgrading their knowledge and skills with specific session works with Andy Ho and his team of experienced educators.

Fully fitted out with the latest equipment, HAIR CONNECTION's Academy is a dynamic professionalism at its best, offering a range of basic hairdressing skills to inspiring courses for stylists of all levels. The Academy has been specifically designed to offer the best training, seminar and conference facilities with first "hands-on salon environment experience", away from the typical classroom style during practical training.

HAIR CONNECTION's education programme is determined to embrace Creativity, Innovation and Professionalism that will in turn, ensure all students deliver hairdressing to the highest standards. Its uniqueness is, first hand salon environment experience during practical hands-on. This allow students to build their confidence in and around salon environment, while getting themselves ready during the course in moving on to the real world upon completion of the course.

Started his hairdressing career at the age of 21, Andy opened his first salon; Impress Artistic located in KL Plaza in 1983. He has then moved on to his now location, Haute Impress Artistic in Lot 10 Shopping Centre which has been developed to provide high-quality services to a clientele that includes celebrities and high profile social scene people of the city.

Being a multi-talented trendsetter, Andy has long been one of Malaysia's top hairstylist, who provides services not just related to hair but also, make-up to art direction and fashion concepts. Andy's creative work has been well sought after by both international and local media and fashion concepts. Andy's creative work has been well sought after by both international and local media and fashion scenes. His work has been published in international magazines like Passion International, Asia Passion, Vogue, Elle and in local fashion & lifestyle magazines like Nu you, Female, V-Mag and many others. Andy has also time and again, created images for magazine covers, fashion spread and also directed in thes fashion shootings for fashion brands like Vincci, PDI, Seed, Padini Authentics and others. His passion and commitment in this industry does not limit him domestically, in fact he became the Creative Director for a well-known and best selling beauty & makeup label in Hong Kong.

Andy Ho's reputation in the industry is credited to his dedication in achieving credibility and excellence in hair styling and in order to help progress the industry further, Andy is set to share his knowledge with the introduction of the Academy.

The team of Educators has been hairstylist and even salon owner themselves for many years and thus, is very much aware of the needs of aspiring hairdressers. The uniqueness of this team is attributed to the fact that they have constantly been keeping abreast of the latest hair styling designs, fashionable hair styling applications techniques and concepts as well as product knowledge and the latest available equipment in the market.