Creative Team at Dare Salon

Team

Creative Team

Below you will find an introduction to some of our Creative Team members

John

Dare Salon’s owner and director, John has been hairdressing since 1980 and has headed Dare Inspirational Hairdressing since 1986.

Having been at the forefront of hairdressing in Aberdeen for many years, he has already achieved much in those years including published photographic work for leading hair magazine the Hairdressers Journal and other top publications. Seminar and show work have been John’s staple over the years and has seen him and his team extremely active in the last 3 years doing cutting workshops for Wella and most recently for Schwarzkopf International.

Neil

Creative Stylist Neil has enjoyed a career that has so far seen him enjoy prominence within the Dare Artistic team and a stint at Saks hair and beauty. He has contributed to several shows and had a hand in assisting in photographic work that still adorns the salon walls. He has a great interest in anything that is difficult and enjoys dressing hair. If you need someone to look after your needs for a special occasion Neil is the man to help you. He will help you find the look that will both suit the wearer and be practical for the occasion. “If it’s possible we will get the job done and if it’s not then we’ll think of something.”

Special skills include:
Big glam hair
Curls, movement, texture
Design cutting, asymmetry, bi level, androgyny (Le Roux)
Colour Specialist

Debbie

Senior Creative Stylist Debbie works only two days a week at Dare and spends the rest of her time at the Aberdeen Commercial College as a lecturer in Hairdressing. One of our longest serving Stylists Debbie was our Education Director before handing the mantle over to Suzanne. She is an expert colourist and completed the Schwarzkopf Masters Colour Course. An experienced stylist and expert in all fields she is also a renowned presenter and still presents with the artistic team when called upon. Her restricted time makes her availability limited.

Specialist Skills Include:

Restyle
Colour Correction

Natalya

Natalya hails from Estonia and is fluent in her native Estonian Russian and English. Already a hairdresser at home she nonetheless retrained here in Scotland and is now one of our senior stylists. Other than her linguistic attributes she is also particularly skilled in dressing hair and her work is now featured on our new gift vouchers and can be seen in our gallery.

Specialist Skills Include:

Special Occasion Dressing Hair

Visit our movies page to see Natalya at work on one of our photo shoots

Gemma

Gemma is one of our senior stylists and has been part of the team for the last 20 months. She is unusually well skilled for this generation of hairdressers, well versed in all aspects of the hairdressing arts including perming, setting and in particular dressing hair. She is particularly popular when graduations and party season is upon us. Gemma is sometimes available for wedding parties in situation but these have to be booked far in advance as she is pre-booked for up to several weeks.

Gemma is also available to all new clients with our introduction voucher (downloadable in our special offers page) so book now and avoid disappointment.

Emma

Emma is one of our home grown senior stylists who joined our team as a school leaver. Now one of our longest serving staff members Emma enjoys a busy clientele and is known for her quick and efficient work ethic. Emma has been our model trainee in the past and keen proof of our training systems. She enjoys all aspects of hairdressing especially dressing hair and men’s styling.