D Wednesday, December 9, 2009 METRO 20% opening this friday 11th december. off everything in-store until 12 noon. CULT 6-10 suffolk street, dublin 2 cult.co.uk A cut above: Flexing his fingers, Mr LoSauro gets the blades out The very talonted barber Easy, tiger: The Clawz LOTS of people are terrified of going to the dentist all that scraping and drilling. But with the prospect of a head massage and a new look, not many are scared by a trip to the hairdressers. However, if your stylist was sporting razor- sharp talons on his fingers, you might have second thoughts. Valentino LoSauro has been dubbed the real-life Edward Scissorhands, with his revolutionary Clawz. The barber spent 150,000 developing the fingertip blades in his Fort Myers, Florida, salon and claims they cut hair twice as fast as normal snippers. I cant believe the time it took before, he said. I am a pianist as well as a hairdresser and wanted to combine that light-fingered touch with my styling. When I cut hair, I use methods I call Flight Of The Bumblebee and Zap. No future handed to budding photographer Snow picture wins Metro world title Waiting for the bus: A man stands in the snow in the winning image captured by DIT student Hazel Coonagh, below WHEN we are not cheated out of a chance to compete on the world stage, this is how well we can do. One of the Irish winners of the Metro Global Photo Challenge has gone on to claim the world title. No Future, by Hazel Coonagh from Glasnevin in Dublin was chosen from more than 130,000 entries to be named best photo in the People category by a panel of international judges. The 23-year-old DIT graphic design student, who wants to be a profession- al photographer, said she hadnt in- tended entering, despite a top 100 fin- ish in Metros Urban Jungle photo challenge last year. I wasnt even going to enter it again. ... But a friend of mine sent me the link and said just messing enter that and give me a shout when you win. The winning snap was just a fleeting moment in time and Hazel was lucky to have her trusty camera at the ready. I was coming home from Clondalkin on a January morning, and it had start- ed to snow. I got on the bus, I had loads of gear with me. I sat down the back and was looking through my camera at some of the shots I had taken, and just started taking pic- tures out the bus window, I do that quite a lot sometimes. People look at me like Im mad and I never get anything de- cent, its always blurred from moving or the windows are dirty. But we came along the quays and stopped in a bit of traffic, and I just seen this elderly gentleman waiting for his bus as it was snowing, with the poster beside him it was just handed to me, how could I not take it? The prize includes a trip to any city where Metro is published, and as well as top-of-the-range Nikon photograph- ic equipment and mentoring by a pro- fessional photographer, she has been invited to the Fotografia festival in Rome to see her photos exhibited. BY ROSS McDONAGH index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html