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MHDPro instructor, Martyn Holmes returns to 5Star on Thursday for episode 2 of Extreme Hair Wars, judging the latest round of creative avant-garde hairstyles from the four teams.

This week’s challenges include a fingerwave challenge, and a final theme entitled Sweet as Candy. The contestants, Evan Huang, Brandon Messinger, Jodie Austen and Laura Kulik continue to stretch the possibilities of hair with their teams as they compete to become Britain’s best fantasy stylist and take the crown in the grand final in episode 6 – read more

MHDPro instructor Martyn Holmes is set to appear on British TV screens from Thursday 25th January as a judge on 5Star’s new show Extreme Hair Wars. The show, presented by London Hughes, also features multi-award winning stylist Robert Masciavé.

Who’ll be the Champion?

Over the next six weeks, the pair will judge hairdressers and their teams from across Britain as they compete to enter the Grand Final in a battle to find Britain’s best fantasy hairstylist and be crowned Champion – read more

One of the core skills every barber must know is how to do a fade. From the blowout fade to high fade and shadow fade, and everything in between, the ability to apply the correct fade haircut to your clients is absolutely essential. Fades come in a variety of styles, and with practice can be adapted to suit individual clients’ suitability and personal look.

A fade is essentially a tightly cropped short back and sides, involving subtly blending hair lengths from around the temple to the neck with clippers and scissors to give the hair at the back and sides of the head a smoothly graduated or faded effect – read more