I fell into hairdressing when I was nineteen. I met a bunch of hairdressers in a club one night and they gave me the idea. A week later, I walked into my first salon and never looked back. 

From 1999 through to 2001 I worked for Alan Edwards in Glasgow. When I moved back to London I worked at Toni and Guy in Farringdon for three months, then I got a job at Trevor Sorbie in Covent Garden. I worked briefly at Vidal Sassoon and then I moved through to Nottingham where I worked for Keith Hall. 

On my return to London I worked for Aveda in Covent Garden, then an independent salon in Mayfair for three years. I worked at Headmasters, then Hair Associates, both in Chiswick, before moving through to East London in 2005 to work for an independent salon on Brick Lane for five years. 

After Brick Lane, I spent a year working my private list of clients. Still in East London I settled in an independent salon on Bow road but after a year decided to move to Italy for a three-month hiatus. When I came back to London I worked for a big company in Westbourne grove. 

Every time I moved salons, I picked up a few new clients some of which I still have today. In 2011 with an already established client base, I looked for a suitable premises to open my first salon. I found a premises in W6 near Hammersmith, the estate agents call it ‘Brackenbury village’. I stayed in my first premises for five years and then moved to my current premises which I have now been in for five years. 

I’ve met hundreds of hairdressers and worked in more than twenty salons and I’ve been in the industry for twenty-two years. I’ve been an assistant, I’ve been a boss, I’ve worked for myself and I’ve run my own business. I know what it is like to work as a hairdresser in every capacity. I’ve picked up information along the way about how to apply my craft, but also about business and also about the salon industry. I have had some amazing experiences and some awful experiences. I have worked with the people who consider themselves the top of the industry and I’ve worked with people who just want to party. Hairdressing is such a varied world with big personalities that there has never been a dull moment.