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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 hair and beauty salon 'West End Hair' in Glasgow's west end.

Big Bold and busy was taking its toll on work life balance. A new project was in the making with the 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. This little piece of paradise has now been adopted by fellow colleagues and is thriving.

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.