Who I Am:
Miila, an eco hairdresser and visual artist.
I cut hair, and from the cut fibers I create useful objects or storytelling art pieces.
For me, hair doesn’t end on the salon floor. It’s an ecological, biodegradable fiber — strong, absorbent and insulating with great potential as a design material.
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My Story
Growing up in Lahti, Finland, I always knew I wanted to work with hair — and that I wanted to see the world.
That took me from Finland to London, Mexico City, Berlin and Helsinki, working across hair, fashion, film and art. I specialized in wigs, prosthetics and special effects, while studying painting, sculpture and later ecological design.
Despite years in big cities and creative industries, nature remained my strongest influence. I began questioning the waste and environmental impact of the beauty industry and looking differently at the material I had worked with all my life: human hair.
In 2021, I founded Hiukka Hyvä, pioneering hair recycling in the Nordic countries and exploring how discarded hair fibers can become materials for art, design and environmental solutions.
Today, Studio Miila.H brings it all together: hair studio, art practice and material laboratory. Even my approach to cutting follows the same thinking — understanding the natural qualities of hair and working with them, not against them.
After more than 25 years, hair is still teaching me what it can become.
