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Paul Mitchel (born Cyril Thomson Mitchell; January 27, 1936 – April 21, 1989) was a
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and co-founder of
John Paul Mitchell Systems John Paul Mitchell Systems (JPMS) is an American manufacturer of hair care products and styling tools through several brands including Paul Mitchell, Tea Tree, Neuro, Pro Tools, Awapuhi Wild Ginger, MITCH, MVRCK, and Professoinal Hair Color. Hi ...
, a company that sells hair care products and, since 2000, also runs hairdressing schools.


Early life

Paul Mitchell was born in
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in Scotland. His mother Jenny was the village's first hairdresser. His family moved to
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in 1939. He trained as a silversmith before enrolling in the Morris School of Hairdressing at age sixteen. By eighteen he had won multiple hairdressing competitions.


Career

After graduating he worked as a hairdresser in London salons, moving to Vidal Sassoon's in Bond Street in the early 1960s. In 1965, Sassoon sent him to New York City to train staff at his first location in the United States. Mitchell left Sassoon's employ in 1967 and headed up Crimpers, a salon within the
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flagship store on Fifth Avenue. Its success led to further branches opening in Boston, Chicago, Dallas and Philadelphia. In 1971 he took a break from hairdressing before opening his salon Superhair in New York in 1972. In 1974 he sold Superhair and moved to Hawaii. By the end of the 1970s he demonstrated hairdressing techniques at up to 150 beauty shows per year. In 1980 he and
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founded John Paul Mitchell Systems, selling hair care products via hair salons under the Paul Mitchell brand name, marketed as professional quality products for home use. The company thrived and later expanded into hairdressing schools. In 1985, Mitchell established an awapuhi farm on the
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.


Personal life

Mitchell married Jolina Zandueta Wyrzykowski, an American fashion model and actress with Polish-Filipina family roots. Their only child, Angus Mitchell, was born in 1970. On July 18, 1988, Mitchell was diagnosed with
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. He died in 1989 in
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. He is buried on his estate on the Big Island of Hawaii. Angus inherited his father's share of John Paul Mitchell Systems & Schools and opened his own salon, AngusM in
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.


References


Further reading

*''Paul Mitchell: Man, Work Vision. Who Was He?'' Jocelyn Fujii.


External links


John Paul Mitchell Systems , Official websitePaul Mitchell , Official Supplier
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Paul American hairdressers American cosmetics businesspeople 1936 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople California people in fashion Deaths from pancreatic cancer People from South Lanarkshire Scottish emigrants to the United States 20th-century Scottish businesspeople