Eirik Thorsen (b.1979) is a hairdresser and freelance session hairstylist. He is currently based in Oslo Norway, where he is the art director of the Adam og Eva Academy. Eirik began his career in hairdressing at the age of 17, and has since then built a reputation as one of the leading hairdressers and session hairstylists in Norway. He has more than six years of professional experience in the fields of fashion, beauty, music, advertising, and shows.

Eirik has a humble approach to hairdressing and hairstyling, and sees experience, creativity, technical skills and professional strength as the most important factors to being a great hairstylist. What makes him stand out is his ability to think hairstyling outside the box, and his dauntlessness towards playing with new ideas.

Since 2003 Eirik has been one of the most requested educators at the Adam og Eva Academy. This has taken him all over Europe teaching the latest hair trends in seminar settings, doing in-salon training and creating shows for Loreal Professionell and Redken. Adam og Eva Hairdressers awarded him with the Freshman of the Year Award in 2004, and Creative Hairdresser of the Year Award in 2006.

Eirik is a former winner in the Avant Garde category of the prestigious Norwegian Hairdresser of The Year competition (Norwegian Hairdressers Associations), judged by Trevor Sorbie in 2004. He has been nominated impressive eight times in this competition in various categories: Hairdresser of the Year, Mens Hairdresser of the Year, Hairstylist of the Year and Avant Garde Hairdresser of the Year. He has also won the audience award at the Loreal Colour Trophy 2006.

Early 2009 Eirik moved to London, and joined the award winning company Hob Salons. He worked as a educator at their academy in Camden, and also did teaching for the Fellowship of British Hairdressers. During his stay in London he also did test shoots, and assisted various session stylists. The summer of 2009 he returned to Oslo to become the art director of the Adam og Eva Academy.

Eirik has great experience with catwalk hair, as he has worked as lead hairstylist at Oslo Fashion Week for several years. Inspired by the designers vision, he has created the looks for their runway shows, and managed a team of hairstylist. Designers include Moods Of Norway, Elton & Jacobsen, Morami, Ida Gullhav, FIN and Fam Irvol, Vips, TSH, Vatle, Epilogue and Anti-Sweden. He won the Hairstylist of the Year Award at Oslo Fashion Week 2008. In 2009 Eirik was the lead hairstylist for FINs show at Copenhagen Fashion Week. The same year he also worked as a hairstylist at London Fashion Week (Charles Anastase and House of Holland), Copenhagen Fashion Week (Minimarket, Rutso and Karin by Simonsen) and New York Fashion Week (Lacoste, Philip Lim, Julian Louie, Milly and Band of Outsiders).

His work has appeared in Norwegian publications such as Costume, Tique, No Magazine, Elle, Troll, Carl’s Cars, Henne, Det Nye, Natt og Dag, Cosmopolitan, Woman Inside and VG, and he has worked with photographers like Knut Bry, Thomas Brun, Siren Lauvdal, Renate Torseth, Veslemøy Vråskar, Stian Andersen, Sebastian Ludvigsen, Evy Andersen, Thomas Olsen, Marcel Lelienhof, Massimo Leardini, Julie Pike, Baard Lunde, Per Heimly, Johs Boe, Morten Quale, Tove Sivertsen, Levent Ultanur, Ragnar Hartvig, Joakim Krøvel and Jørgen Gomnæs.

Advertising clients include jewellery David Andersen, CC Vest, Lene V, Specsavers, Steen & Strøm, Eurosko, Netcom, Match and designers like Moods Of Norway, Elton & Jacobsen, Morami, FIN, Sophie Faroh and Maggie Wonka.

Eirik has worked with artist like Maria Mena, Marit Larsen, Briskeby, Margaret Berger, Rebekka Karijord, Maria Solheim, Nathalie Nordnes and Elin Gaustad. He also has experience of being in front of the camera after appearing as hairstylist in TV-shows like Norwegian Idols 2004 (TV2), Shopaholic (TV3), Rockeskolen (TV2 Zebra).