DAWN RICHARDSON

Dawn started her career in Leeds in the early 1980's when, fresh out of school, she found work in a local salon. The owners took a keen interest in this hard-working and focused girl and told her if she was serious about hairdressing, she should apply for an apprenticeship with Vidal Sassoon.

In 1982, aged 18, she began working in Sassoon's Leeds salon. It was an exciting time to be in fashion and Dawn quickly became one of the company's high flyers, travelling the world, racking up air miles and working with the top names in hair dressing, not to mention A-List celebrities such as Madonna and Kylie.

Her horizons expanded further by working in Sassoon's salons in California and Germany and across the Far East.

Dawn arrived in Glasgow in 1988 to be director with Sassoon's new salon in Princes Square. At the start of the new century, having started a family by then, she set up her own salon in Glasgow's west end.

For the last four years, Dawn has run the pocket-sized Tête-à-Tête salon in Bearsden. Putting her famous transformational skills to the test, she took a tired old decorator's hut and turned it into a haven of precision cutting and colouring.

Dawn has a natural approach to cutting and colouring hair; adopting a "wash and wear" attitude which sees her hair cuts lasting longer with minimum intervention.

With Dawn, a client reaps the benefit of more than 30 years spent advising clients. She works on their hair with a creative freehand underpinned by the precise methods she learned working alongside the finest stylists in the country.

GAYNOR CAMERON

Gaynor has been a hairdresser for over 20 years and has developed a reputation among her peers as an expert in colouring. As Dawn says: "There is nothing Gaynor doesn't know about the business of colouring. Her technical expertise is second-to-none."

Growing up, Gaynor always wanted to be a hairdresser. She started out in Alan Edwards' salon in Glasgow's Briggait as a 14-year-old and spent seven years working with him, developing a particular interest in colouring hair and gaining the industry qualifications to take her onto the next level working with Vidal Sassoon in Glasgow.

Sassoon requires all its stylists to retrain in its own cutting and colouring techniques and after spending a vibrant period working in the Glasgow salon, she moved on to its Edinburgh salon when it opened in 2004.

Working with Sassoon led Gaynor into doing a mix of catwalk styling and she headed back to Glasgow to do more fashion work with Saks before setting up her own salon in Anniesland.

With three children under 11, Gaynor now juggles family life with styling clients at Tête-à-Tête, where many long-term clients beat a path to its door.

STASSIA POCAI

Stassia is a local girl, who grew up in Bearsden. The daughter of well-known Glasgow hairdresser, John Loannou, she started out as a 15-year-old, washing hair, sweeping up and "chatting to her dad's friends" in his salon in Glasgow's west end.

She comes from a creative family on both sides. Her uncle on her mother's side is the famous photographer, Harry Popadopoulos, who photographed everyone from Blondie to David Bowie during the 1980s for Sounds magazine.

Always a bright spark, Stassia's career as a stylist took a "detour" via Glasgow University, where she studied Genetics for two years before deciding it wasn't the right fit for her.

She went travelling for a year and made the decision to train as a hairdresser when she returned to Scotland.

After doing her training in Glasgow, Stassia worked in various salons in Milngavie and the west end of Glasgow before joining Dawn and Gaynor at Tête-à-Tête in 2018.

Stassia lives and breathes the natural approach to life; getting up early to go to the gym every day, eating healthy foods and cooking from scratch. This extends to her attitude to cutting and colouring hair and she has trained in Aveda's natural eco-friendly products.

RUBY

Our special other team member Ruby is a key member of the tete-a-tete team. Usually to be seen basking in the salon window, the X-year-old King Charles Spaniel keeps her human, Dawn, on her toes. Her preferred mode of transport is in a wicket basket aboard Dawn’s bicycle, from which she can survey the world. Laid back with the occasional flash of diva-like behaviour, all she asks is the odd ear-tickle, oatcake and not-so-brisk walk. She is - in all respects - a lady.