THESE strapping students from Craven College are defying sexual stereotypes to prove hairdressing is no longer a female profession.
Eight out of the 20 students on the college's NVQ level two in hairdressing are men - in the past, only an odd one or two have been brave enough to try it.
Mikey Lamont, from Barnoldswick, said: "I thought I would be the only lad. I was quite disappointed really!"
He added he had been a gardener for four years and thought hairdressing would be a good career move.
Scott Henderson-Garner, of Skipton, works as a junior at the Cutting Room 2 in Skipton and attends college on a day release basis.
Lee Cutler, of Gargrave, already owns a local tanning shop in Skipton, and would like to expand into hairdressing.
James Bairstow, of Shipley, wants to emigrate to New Zealand and work in a hair salon there, Ben Thompson, of Queensbury, would like to work as a hairdresser on a cruise ship, and Phil Turner, of Clitheroe, and David Binney, of Queensbury, are both following in their mothers' footsteps and eventually want to open their own salons.
The eighth man is late entrant Scott Clayton.
Course tutor Sue Woodall said she was surprised to have so many men on the course although a conscious effort had been made to promote the course.
She thought that in the past so few men had applied because of the area's rural nature and most often it was the youngsters' fathers who needed persuading that hairdressing was a career for men!
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