The 2017 HAIR+ Summit provided heaps of education for attendees, but an integral part of the summit is the connections stylists, owners and medical professionals make with one another while they're there.

Inspired by the online portrait series Humans of New York, we sat down with 2017 summit attendees throughout the weekend to see what brought them to the event and what they hoped to achieve during the summit and beyond.  

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