Welcome to Mind The Gap – Hair Design
Hairstylist – Evangelia Morfogianni
Award winning hairdresser with more than 25 years of experience in education, superior client service & hair care expertise.
International artistic team member of “MICHELLE GRIFFIN – LONDON UK” more than 15 years experience of show work
Born to Greek parents on the 28th February in Stuttgart, Germany she came to an early realisation that she had an artistic inclination and wished to pursue a career in hairstyling under TONI & GUY. When they opened the first franchise salon worldwide in Germany she started working on Saturdays at age 14 while attending school.
By 16 she had become a hairstylist for TONI & GUY while being trained as a colour technician at the TONI & GUY haidressing academy. A year later she joined the Junior Artistic Team and became an instructor. Two years later she attended the Maske academy in Cologne in her pursuit of her dream to become a make- up artist.
Her patience and dedication led her to be promoted at TONI & GUY becoming an art director and manager which enabled her to travel around the world spending a significant time in London and Paris. During that time she was given the chance to engage herself in the movie industry doing the hair, make-up and styling of the film “Push it” followed by other projects for the big screen.
She also worked with music record labels doing the styling for music video clips and photo shoots for album covers of Atrocity, Elis, Theatre of Tragedy, Clock people, Him, Evanescence to name a few. Part of this partnership was her being responsible for the look of Alice Cooper appearing at a private concert in Phoenix, US.
Her world travels led her to places like Denver, Bologna,Paris until her return to Greece where she worked as a Manager as well as an instructor for TONI & GUY.
Among her landmark achievements is her participation in the Athens 2004 Oympic games where she involved herself with body painting.
Additionally, her contribution to the overall styling , hair and make-up of all the video clips for the Eurovision song contest of 2005 with Helena Paparizou representing Greece should be mentioned in her professional portfolio.
Before becoming a permanent resident of Thessaloniki she travelled to Nicosia where she was trained as a hair extentionist by Racoon under TONI & GUY. At that time she was discovered by the legendary Michelle Griffin making her the first member of her international Michelle Griffin artistic team which organised numerous events regarding haistyling, make-up and other fashion-related projects.
During her stay in Thessaloniki she was employed by shows like Kouzina ths mamas and Oxygono, brodcast by ERT3, a regional state-owned network. Continuing her career she became an instructor at IEK DELTA , a vocational training institute while making wigs and doing haistyles for theatrical performances for the National Theatre of Northern Greece and working with famous showbiz names such as Apostolos Rigas,Katerina Tzavalou, Ari Servetali, Giorgo Hranioti and others.
Having spent three years in Greece she decided to go to London to gain experience at the salon and academy of Michelle Griffin. On her return to Thessaloniki she became a make up artist for MAC and participated in contests such as Wella Trend vision 2008, British Fame Team 2007 and British Fellowship winning first place in Europe and fifth worldwide.
This distinction offered her the opportunity to work with designers and winners of Fashion Fringe Jena& Theo during Fashion week in 2010.
In May 2011 she decided to run her own business in the city centre.Being part of Michelle Griffin artistic team her success continued by winning 5 nominations for Artistic team of the year 2004, Midlands Hairdresser of the year 2004, Newcomer of the year 2015, Midlands Hairdresser of the year 2015,Artistic Team of the year 2015 at the British Hairdressing Awards.
In 2017 she was the winner of Schwarzkopf-Strong Bonds contest coming ” first ” worldwide with her artistic concept voted by judges making Greece proud of her talent and unique work.
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