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Looking for a colourist in Chester?

If you need a colourist, Chester has many salons, but if you are looking for a great Chester based colourist, for an affordable price, Soul Hair is the place for you.

Chester based Soul hair, is a leading Chester salon. Soul Hair is a beautiful looking salon, wonderfully decorated in a contemporary and stylish way. Comfortably furnished, you can relax as you wait to be seen in stylish, beautiful and comfortable surroundings.

Soul Hair has one of the most highly qualified colourists in Chester

A leading member of the Soul Hair team, Sarah Stead has completed a Masters in Colour with Wella. This Master colour award (equivalent to a university degree) is the highest qualification a colourist can achieve in the UK, and there are very few of these in Chester.

Sarah started hairdressing from an early age, and right from the beginning learned that the colourist aspect of the profession was what she really excelled in. Chester based Soul Hair invests a lot of time and money in professional development of their staff, and it was as a result of this, that Sarah now has the Wella Master colour award.

This colourist award allows Sarah to attend the annual colour congress at the Wella Studios. Here, she is able to learn from and adapt skills taught by guest artists who are amongst the best in Britain. She also gets to learn of the future trends and products available before they come onto the market. This knowledge is relayed back to us, here at Chester giving us a leading edge over our competitors.

Some Chester women have not used a colourist!

Across Britain, women have attempted to colour their own hair and Chester is no exception. Transfixed by the beautiful models on the bottle or packaging, they think they can achieve this in a do it yourself fashion. We all know someone who has been at best disappointed with the results of do it yourself hair colouring, and at worst a disaster. What the packaging won’t tell you is that the models themselves (displayed) have not, of course, done it themselves. They have had the benefit of a qualified, professional colourist to apply the colour for them.

Here in Chester, Soul Hair Salon often sees the result of do it yourself efforts gone wrong, whereby we are given the task of correctional work. And our colourists are kept busy correcting badly done colours, but for the purpose of assisting you, we’d strongly advise you use a professional, qualified hair colourist.

Soul Hair receives terrific feedback.

Testimony to this is in the fantastic feedback we get from our clients. Comments such as Chester based Soul Hair being “the best hairdressers I’ve been to in a long time”, amazing haircut and lovely surroundings”, “I have never had so many complements” and so on are testimony to the fact that Soul Hair is one of the best salons in Chester.

So if you are looking for a stylist or colourist or both in Chester, look no further than Soul Hair.

Looking for a Hair Colour Technician?

If so, you have come to the right place. Soul Hair not only offers outstanding haircuts, but hair colour services that are among the best on offer in the region. How they achieve it is down to a dedicated, motivated, skilled and highly trained staff.

Take one of our top hair colour technicians for example!

One hair colour technician that works for Soul Hair, Sarah Stead, has just completed her Masters in Colour, namely the Wella Masters Colour Award. This award has been recognised as being the equivalent to a university degree, and is the highest qualification a hair colour technician can gain.

Sarah gets invited to the annual colour congress at Wella Studios. Only hair colour technicians with Masters Qualifications from Wella can attend this prestigious event. Here, Sarah gets the chance to see firsthand, the new developments in the colour industry before they become widely available. This knowledge is fed back to us, here at Soul Hair, so then to our customers.

What makes hair colour services so important to our clients?

Soul Hair Salon has some terrific, highly qualified stylists. It is very important for our customers to be advised on, and get a great hair cut. They naturally want a hair style that compliments their features, the shape of their face and so on.

Equally, many of our clients want to compliment a great hair style with a terrific colour. They want a colour that either enhances their natural colour or matches the colour of their eyes for example. Equally, they may want a colour that really makes them stand out in a crowd, or specialised highlights and so on.

A new or enhanced hair colour or tints can have a huge impact on their looks and clients are increasingly aware of this. New colours, new techniques and unique blends are always changing, so it’s important to have a hair colour technician that is not only well trained and qualified, but is able to have access to all the new developments in the hair colour industry.

Our Masters qualified hair colour technician fulfils all the above, with this knowledge transferring straight to our salon staff, then of course the clients.

Why use a hair colour technician?

As any hair colour technician will tell you, the application of a hair colour is not an easy process. There is a science to doing this well that takers specialised training and years of practise. Moreover, there is a health and safety aspect to the procedures with regard to the possibility of allergies when not properly tested by a qualified hair colour technician beforehand.

Many of our clients have attempted to colour their own hair with disastrous results. If we are honest, we all know someone who has tried to colour their own hair with disappointing results. Much of our hair colour work is based on correcting these attempts.

Now the models you see on hair colour products may look amazing, but you can be sure that a professional, qualified and experienced hair colour technician has done it for them.

To conclude, if you want your hair coloured, you need a good hair colour technician to do it. And here at Soul Hair, we have some of the best hair colour technicians in the region.

Soul Hair is an outstanding hair salon with two branches, one in Chester with a sister branch in nearby Tarporley (both in Cheshire). You will see that this popular Salon is outstanding in many ways, not least as a result of the dedication and skills of its staff.

An example of a highly qualified member (colour expert) of the Soul Hair team

Soul Hair has a ‘highly qualified’ hair colourist on board, namely Sarah Stead. Sarah has just completed the prestigious Colour Congress Course gaining a Masters in colour. The wella master colour award is wellas highest qualification that can be gained in colour and has been recognized to be the equivalent to any other university degree. It covers absolutely everything a hair colourist will ever need to know in application, product knowledge, and the science behind the colour. They even look at how the eyes work and how we see colour. There is a scientific aspect to it that far exceeds any other colourist course available.

Colour expert, Sarah has been invited to the Colour Congress held at Wella studios. Only those that have gained their Masters in Colour with Wella can be invited to this prestigious annual event.

It’s a great opportunity for Masters in colour graduates to catch up with other members and get a firsthand look at the future trends before general release. Sarah will be attending the colour congress in February and always looks forward to the demonstrations from the guest artists and adapting it to bring back to the salon.

As a colour expert technician it was always a dream of Sarah’s to do this course and it has proven to be invaluable and defiantly, according to Sarah, “the hardest thing she has ever done”.

How it all began for Sarah

Sarah started hairdressing when she was 18 years old. She began working for a lovely lady who put her on the floor, colouring hair almost instantly, before she even began to attend college one day a week. When she started cutting hair at college she realised her true calling was in colouring and she dreamed of becoming a colour expert.

After finishing college, Sarah knew that to progress in this field, she needed to work for a bigger company. At Soul Hair she discovered a first class salon with a training program and career path, so she was then able to fulfil her ambition to become a specialist colour technician.

Sarah herself tells us….

“I love this time of year in the salon after the Christmas rush. It’s the month following our reviews so we plan our years training, that is for courses we will be attending externally and in house. We will be viewing new trends, techniques and products we have for the year and also all the competition. When competition applications arrive through the door, there is always a real creative buzz about the salon and everyone gets involved. I love the ongoing training that hairdressing brings. I learn something new almost daily and it’s so lovely to watch the salon junior’s progress and gain confidence, especially when I am able to share tips and knowledge.”

To conclude:

Soul Hair is a top salon but can only be so by hiring, training and developing their staff. There are few hair salons with such highly trained colour experts as Sarah Stead so you can be confident that when you want a great colour, as well as a cut, you are in the right place.

Are you looking for a Hair Colourist in Chester?

If you live in or around the Chester area, let us introduce you to a fantastic Salon that provides hair colourist services that produces happy clients through outstanding results.

Hair Colourist services – safety first

Soul hair provides the full range of hair colourist services. For full head or semi permanent tints, an allergy patch test is provided. Safety of their clients, for Soul Hair, is paramount.They ensure an allergy patch test is carried out without exception, before applying any colour directly to the head.

There is rarely a problem, but this procedure is necessary to ensure clients don’t experience any allergic reactions.

A Soul Hair, hair colourist will ensure that the best quality, safest products are used, to further ensure both the health and safety of the customer and the quality of the procedure. The safest products and highest quality results is what you will get from a Soul Hair, hair colourist.

Hair colourist services available in our Chester salon

The range of hair colourist services include the aforementioned full head permanent tints and semi-permanent tints for which an allergy test is required. Also, easy meche or foil high-lights or low lights. They also provide hair wedges that provide your hair with a flash of colour where required. Lastly, they provide burnt in colour hair colouring procedures.

Soul Hair are adept at transforming badly done hair colouring procedures a client has either attempted at home, or has had done by a less able hair colourist from a rival Chester salon. Soul Hair has assisted numerous customers who have made an appointment with our colourist, having had a bad result at another salon or having attempted it themselves.

What makes a good hair colourist?

Firstly, a good hair colourist will be well trained, of course qualified, and through experience, skilled at colouring hair to a high standard. They will be able to advise the client on what colour would work best in unison with their skin tone. Furthermore, they should be able to advise on what colour to avoid; put differently, what colour to avoid in terms of what wouldn’t work well with their own natural hair colour.

In sum, as well as skills, creativity and experience, a good hair colourist has to be competent enough to correctly advise his / her clients on what would work best and what to avoid as well as being creative.

There are some wonderful examples of some stunning styles and colour combinations created by our hair colourist(s) and stylists’ in our Chester Salon on the Soul Hair Gallery page. Every customer is unique, and the fusion of creative styling and head turning colour combinations is truly outstanding.

So if you are looking for a hair colourist in Chester, look no further than Soul Hair!

What else do they do?

Soul Hair is a beautifully, stylish and modern fitted salon offering a range of hairdressing/hair styling services, perms, hair colourist services and complimentary treatments such as head and hand massages and finishing touches.

Hair and Beauty services are more popular than ever

A peculiarity in a struggling economy (which thankfully, is now improving in the UK) is that hair and beauty services have become even more popular than they ever were. Maintaining ones beauty and having great looking hair can make you feel good, as well as your significant others. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the expression goes, it’s nice if you are the one receiving the attention. Moreover; there is a feel good factor relating to beauty and great looking hair. The therapeutic effect of treating yourself to a great styled haircut, colour or perm does wonders for your self esteem.

Beauty comes at a price!

That may be true, but it doesn’t have to break the bank. Soul Hair is an outstanding hair salon with branches both in Chester and in Tarporley. This hair salon offers an array of pricing options to satisfy any budget, in fact four. At the higher end, when you really want to treat yourself, there are options of booking a senior hair stylist. You also have lower priced options of booking a non senior stylists or graduate hair stylist. So yes, beauty does come at a price, but the price is up to you.

Hair styling in beautiful surroundings

Soul Hair, is a salon you enjoy being at. It’s a depressing experience to pay for hair and beauty treatments in a dingy looking or run down salon. Their salons are beautifully furnished and decorated exquisitely, giving them a modern and contemporary feel. You are more able to relax and feel good in a clean environment with stylish, modern decor and Soul Hair does not compromise on this. 

Professional, skilled hair stylists that is also helpful and friendly

Of course, having booked hair and beauty services, you expect to have well trained, skilled and professional staff. But alongside professionalism and skill, you also want helpful and friendly staff. Soul Hair employs friendly and helpful stylists. Soul Hair has hair stylists that will go out of their way to ensure you feel comfortable and relaxed. They are always willing to go that extra mile to ensure you leave the salon happy and satisfied, not just with your hair, but the whole experience.

Complimentary, great quality teas and coffees are offered as you wait, and the senior hair stylists and managers are always at hand to advise you when you are not quite sure on the look you want to achieve.

Hair and beauty treatments on offer

Soul Hair caters for women and men, and offers a range of hair and beauty services. These include cut and finish haircuts and cut and blow dry, hair and scalp treatments, semi-permanent colour treatments and highlights; they also provide specialised fashion colour options, colour correction and lowlights.

Beauty is even more important on special occasions and Soul Hair can provide Wedding Hair Services and packages (by quotation), and have generated some really happy clients as a result. Whether you need wedding hair styles or cuts organised for the bride, the groom, maids of honour, page boys or whoever else, they can organise it, and at a price that may surprise you.

We’d love to hear from you – Please get in Touch

To book an appointment at our Chester salon please call: 01244 320 014

To book an appointment at our Tarporley salon please call: 01829 730 433

Looking for a terrific Hair Salon?

Soul Hair salon has two branches. One hair salon is located in Chester (13 Watergate street, Chester, CH1 2LE – Telephone: 01244 320 014) and the other in Tarporley (67 High Street, Tarporley, CW6 0DP – Telephone: 01829 730 433).

This is a terrific hair salon which rapidly grew in popularity since it opened in 2007. Whether you are looking for a hair salon that offers colour treatments, colour correction, highlights or lowlights, hair styling or perms, Soul Hair’s hair salon can accommodate.

A Hair Salon with prices to suit every budget

Unusually, this hair salon has prices to suit every budget. This is an important factor in these recessionary times. Soul Hair salon is however, a salon that does not compromise on quality with senior stylists and style directors overseeing all that goes on, ensuring happily satisfied customers.

In this hair salon, you have the opportunity to book a graduate stylist, a stylist, a senior stylist or a style director (manager) with the cost rising incrementally according to their experience and skill. So with four cost options, it is not difficult to get great hair results, whether you are on a budget or want to pay for the very best. This four-fold pricing option is not available in every hair salon, and allows for every budget.

Range of services the Soul Hair offers

Soul Hair is a unisex hair salon catering for ladies and gentlemen. The salon provides a range of services including a cut and finish, hair up, wedding hair packages’ (by quotation), blow dry, perms, colour treatments, fashion colour, colour correction and highlights. The hair salon also offers a range of complimentary treatments. These complimentary treatments include a relaxing head massage, a wonderful stress busting hand massage and finishing touches. 

Soul hair salon does not compromise on quality

Soul Hair is a salon that refuses to save money by compromising on quality. Only the safest and best organic hair products are used. For example, Soul Hair uses products such as Wella Professional and Aveda (including Aveda powder and lip gloss) which is 97% organic.

A Hair salon with a friendly, helpful team of stylists and a pleasant, relaxing atmosphere

The Soul Hair salon employ incredibly friendly, helpful staff who are more than willing to go that extra mile to ensure that you are a satisfied customer. You will be able to relax in their stylish and contemporary looking, well furnished surroundings and will be offered a selection of coffees and teas including the comforting tea that Aveda produces.

A Hair salon with outstanding testimonials

Soul Hair just keeps on getting better and better! Their recent testimonials from more than satisfied clients speak for themselves. The fact that customers keep on coming back to Soul Hair, not to mention the referrals they receive from clients who regularly visit the salon, is the reason one salon expanded into two salons very quickly.

To book an appointment with the Chester salon please contact one of their friendly team on: 01244 320 014

Or to book an appointment with one of the friendly team at Tarporley salon please call: 01829 730 433

Thank you for your time and we hope to hear from, you soon!

Do you need a qualified hairdresser, a good hairdresser or a great hairdresser?

A lot of people can claim that they are a good hairdresser, but not every hairdresser is passionate about cutting hair. The hairdresser may have received College training that may make them a qualified hairdresser. However, a hairdressing qualification does not necessarily mean they are a good hairdresser and certainly not a great hairdresser.

Everyone’s hair is different and a great hairdresser is not dissimilar to a great sculptor or artist. A great sculptor will start with a block or wood, or perhaps a blank canvas as with an artist. They then have to create something beautiful from scratch. Moreover, a great hairdresser will both know what their client wants, and be able to advise on the potential style, colour, texture and cut that suits them. A great hairdresser (in a great salon) will use only the best products available; to help achieve the amazing look the customer really wants.

For a hairdresser to be able to advise, they have to know how to communicate is a professional, yet friendly manner. The hairdresser must know what the client wants, yet be knowledgeable enough in their ability to advise the client on what styles may suit their hair length, shape of face and so on. To do this, the hairdresser has to be passionate, creative, experienced, skilled and well trained.

So to sum up; there are a plethora of qualified hairdressers in the Chester and Tarporley areas. There are even quite a few that are regarded as being a good hairdresser. But a great hairdresser is hard to find, and as their testimonials can testify to, Soul Hair in Chester is (and Tarporley) staffed by great hairdressers.

So there is a great Hairdresser waiting for you at an amazing salon in Chester and Tarporley and their name is Soul Hair!

Soul Hair has two hairdresser salons, one at 13 Watergate Row in Chester (Tel: 01244 320 014), with the other located in 67 High Street, Tarporley (Tel: 01829 730 433).

Soul Hair opened almost eight years ago in 2007 and has continually received fantastic reviews from its inception. They are not the only hairdresser salon in Chester or Tarporley of course, but despite the competition, Soul Hair has quickly gained a reputation as being one of the premier hairdresser salons in both areas.

If you’ve been to see a great hairdresser in an amazing salon, the word will spread!

If you take a look at their testimonials you will see why people increasingly look for a Soul Hair salon hairdresser when they need one. Comments relating to them being ‘close to perfect’, ‘a luxurious and relaxing experience’, ‘excellent results’, and one client stating after her haircut, ‘I have never had so many compliments’ all stand as testimony to what is increasingly reputed to be a great salon.

Soul Hair is much more than a hairdresser

Whether you are a man or a woman in need of a great hairdresser, Soul Hair should be your first choice salon. This unisex salon offers some additional services as well as the usual cut and finish and cut and blow. You can get unbelievable value for money quotations on wedding hair requirements, be it for the bride, the groom, maids of honour or all of them. Complimentary treatments such as a relaxing head massage, hand massage and finishing touches are all part of the service.

So if you need a great hairdresser and live in or near the Chester or Tarporley area, get in touch with one of our friendly team and make an appointment with Soul Hair today!

Are you looking for a Hairdresser in Chester?

If so, Soul Hair located in Chester is an outstanding salon with a terrific reputation and ever expanding list of regular Chester customers who are more than satisfied with their services.

Chester has quite a few salons, but Soul Hair has worked hard to ensure they are now considered by many to be amongst the best in the Chester area. So if you are due a visit to the hairdresser, you don’t need to look any further than Chester based Soul Hair.

A good hairdresser has to be….

Today’s hairdresser does more than dress hair. A good hairdresser has to be a creative, intelligent and a contemporary stylist. A good hairdresser should also be an accomplished, experienced colourist. They should know how to perm well, give a great head or hand massage, be able to give sound advice and have excellent product knowledge. What’s more, a good hairdresser should be warm and friendly, a good listener and maintain a courteous and helpful attitude.

Chester based Soul Hair has a plethora of stylists that epitomise what a good hairdresser ought to be. They are well trained and managed, and the senior stylists and management team ensure the best quality hairdresser services are provided in their salon at all times.

You want to visit a Chester Hairdresser in a nice environment!

When you attend your appointment with a hairdresser, you want to visit her /him in a nice environment. Soul Hair ensures they make you look beautiful in a beautiful environment. Chester is a beautiful, historic city, and the Soul Hair salon is a beautiful yet contemporary looking, modern and stylish salon.

A visit to a hairdresser / stylist shouldn’t cost the earth!

Soul Hair provides a fantastic pricing structure, which many other Chester Salons don’t.  There are pricing options available depending on your budget and requirements, ranging from your trainee hairdresser to senior stylists and managers.

So whether you want to go all the way and book the very best, or a more modestly priced hairdresser, Soul Hair in Chester can accommodate you.

The Soul Hair Philosophy

You want to visit a hairdresser in Chester, whose salon does not rest on its laurels, but endeavours to implement a customer centred approach.

The Soul Hair philosophy is about ‘beautiful, individual styles and colours’ as well as equipping their clients with the ‘tools to replicate the style at home’.

Just take a look at their gallery page where you will find a menagerie of wonderful, unique, impressive and beautiful styles and colours. The fusion of colour and style surpasses mere functionality; Soul Hair aims to turn heads.

Services available

Catering for men and women, Soul Hair in Chester offers a variety of services, along with complimentary services.  These include a cut and finish (ladies and gentlemen), hair scalp treatments, blow dry, full or partial perms, retouched and semi-permanent colours, highlights and lowlights and more. Complimentary treatments include relaxing, stress reducing head and hand massages and finishing touches.

So if you live in and around the Chester area, next time you are due to visit a hairdresser you know where to come.