From Bangstyle
Looking over Dat Tran‘s amazing portfolio, it’s hard to believe the hair industry almost lost him to welding or cooking. Based in Toronto, Dat owns his own salon, Dat Salon, which gives him the artistic and creative freedom he needed after working at his mother’s salon for 7 years. He creates hair art that is soft yet incredibly stunning. Read our interview with Dat to learn about his path to the salon and why he loves being a stylist!
As seen in Fantastics Magazine: Photography and concept by Christoph Strube: Styling by Randy Smith: Hair by Dat Tran: Model: Paul Mason
BANGSTYLE: What made you choose to be a stylist? Where there other careers you considered before?
Dat Tran: I didn’t choose be a stylist, it actually just came into my life. I studied computer science in high school and college, realized I didn’t want to sit in front of a computer all day, I changed over to business administrative. During those times, I had a bunch of other jobs from book keeping to welding, and as a cook, which I loved and thought I was going to make it a career. Growing up with my mother who was a hairstylist, I would help out here and there. It was when I came back from the prairies in my early twenties and my mother saw me doing nothing and offered me a job in the salon. That is where it started and grew from there.
BANGSTYLE: If you could have anyone in your chair and be given complete freedom with their hair, who would it be and what would you do?
Dat Tran: Alex Box the make up artist. I had a chance to work with her and she has this bigger than life approach to make up. I would love to create an Avant Garde hairstylist that would suit her personality.
BANGSTYLE: What would you tell the younger you? What advice would you give yourself?
Dat Tran: To be patient “It’s a journey not a race.”
BANGSTYLE: What is the most surprising thing you have found about the career of hair?
Dat Tran: That I was good at! I never image that I can create that type of hair styles and the people I get to work with!
BANGSTYLE: What was the most nerve-racking moment in your career?
Dat Tran: When Kevin Murphy himself ask me up to the stage to help him out with the models for the Shoot.Me workshop.
BANGSTYLE: What is the most fun you’ve had on a shoot?
Dat Tran: I always have fun on shoot. Being able to be part of a creative process is where I have the most fun.
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