We sat down with industry legend Adam Ciaccia, Director of Axis Hairdressing, Canberra and L’Oréal ACCESS educator, to discuss life in salon and beyond.
What’s your room service order? If I’m hungry after a big day for L’Oréal Australia on the road I may be tempted to order a club sandwich.
Choose anyone in the world to have dinner with and pick the menu. Elon Musk. Entree: Ravioli.
Main: Slow roasted lamb shoulder with roasted potatoes and green beans. Dessert: My wife’s rolled pavlova. Wine: Nick O’Leary Bolaro Shiraz.
What is your secret talent? Disappearing home when friends want to stay out late.
What are you working on mastering? Being a better human being and ensuring when it is my time to checkout I’ve left a positive in pact on those in my life and left something behind for the hairdressing industry.
Who do you trust to do your hair? Anyone in the talented Team at Axis Salon in Canberra if they aren’t too busy, but my brother Ben Tuita from BOY + CO in Canberra is one of the most talented men’s hairdressers I’ve ever had cut my hair.
Who was your first celebrity crush? Michelle Pfeiffer. Funnily enough my wife and her look like they could be sisters, which is not something I realised until many years after we got together. I guess I have a type.
What are your three non-negotiables in life? Integrity, loyalty and humility.
What is your scent of choice? Chanel Bleu up until I tried YSL L’Homme. Now I switch between the two.
What’s your pet peeve? People complaining that they are tired and those who sit in the right hand lane on a highway.
What would you like to see more of in the hair industry? I’d like to see more young people complete their Year 12 and strive for the best possible result and then consider hairdressing as a career path. It’s such a rewarding career with many different paths, the remuneration potential is up there with most professions nowadays.
What would you consider a lost art? Handwriting, with everyone typing most correspondence even signing my name feels foreign these days.
What is your go-to karaoke song? Ne-Yo for sure, but I can’t say I’ve ever done Karaoke. I did, on one occasion at a Matrix Australia conference after a couple of drinks, grab the microphone and hurt some ear drums. It won’t happen again, I promise.
What is your drink of choice? Morning coffee, and these days for alcohol, a Shiraz with Sunday lunch.
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