The Practitioner
Certified Trichologist · Master Stylist · Co-Founder, AWARE Hair
Forty years behind the chair, fifteen salons built, salon and spa services developed at Ritz-Carlton and Fairmont properties. Co-founder of AWARE Hair, the professional scalp care line used in the studio.
Sit in her chairI started behind the chair in the 1980s - the era of perms and bleach, when no one asked what was in the bottle. Across four decades and fifteen salons, I watched clients struggle with scalp issues that hair care couldn't solve - and developed a sensitivity of my own from years of chemical exposure. I began to question the formulas the industry had always accepted.
As a trichologist, I went looking for something better - formulas that could still perform in a professional salon, built around the scalp as living skin rather than the hair alone.
When my daughter Jade was working in Dubai, she called me in tears. Her hair was falling out in clumps, and her symptoms were severe. I spent months studying scalp science alongside doctors, chemists, and formulators until I had built something that finally worked. Refined over several years and more than a hundred iterations, it became AWARE, the brand we launched together in 2025.
“You don't wait until your skin is wrinkled to wear sunscreen. So why do we wait until our hair is shedding to care for the scalp it grows from?”Tina Mui, Co-Founder - The Hype Magazine
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The analysis, in practice.