Twenty years, one pair of scissors, a lot of happy hair.
“I love meeting new people and helping them feel great, whether it is a restyle, a colour change or a fresh cut.”
From Sassoon to St Neots.
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The training
Trained at Vidal Sassoon, where cutting is taught as geometry and colour as chemistry. It is still how I think about every head of hair.
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The salon years
Senior stylist, then director, in prestigious salons. Long days, big colour corrections, wedding parties at 6am, and a lot of very happy regulars.
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Going mobile
Clients kept asking if I could come to them. I packed the car and never looked back. Cambridgeshire became the salon.
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The home salon
A proper salon room at home in Yelling, near St Neots, with the neon sign and the green wall you will see in every after photo. The best of both.
A consultation first, every time.
Every appointment starts the same way, whether it is a fringe trim or a full colour change. I want to know how you wear your hair on an ordinary Tuesday, how much time you actually give it in the morning, and what has been done to it before. Then I look at it properly, wet and dry, before I suggest anything.
It matters because the honest answer is not always the one you came in for. If a photo on your phone is not going to work on your hair, I will say so and tell you what will get you closest. If your hair needs repairing before it can be lightened, we do that first and get you where you want to be over two appointments instead of wrecking it in one. I would rather have you for ten years than for one impressive afternoon.
The Sassoon training is still in everything I do. I think about a haircut as geometry: where the weight sits, how the shape falls as it grows, and how it will behave on the days you have no time for it. That is why my clients tend to come back on schedule rather than in a panic.
Practically, that means you can book anything on the services list either here in Yelling or as a home visit across Cambridgeshire. Colour needs a skin test 48 hours beforehand, first time only. Everything else you can book straight in. If you would like a sense of what people think before you commit, the reviews are here, and I write up the questions I get asked most on the blog.
Three things clients come back for.
Cutting technician
Sharp bobs, soft layers, curly cuts and men's restyles. Cut to the way your hair actually falls.
Colour specialist
Foils, balayage, toners, scalp bleach and colour corrections that other salons turn away.
All hair types
Years of experience with Afro-Caribbean and Asian hair, textured hair and fine, fragile hair.
A salon chair without the salon noise.
The salon is a dedicated room at home in Yelling, seven minutes from St Neots and off the A428 for Cambourne and Cambridge. It has a proper salon chair, good lighting and the green living wall with the HairBiba neon sign that ends up in most of my clients' photos.
Free parking right outside. Tea or coffee on arrival. You will be the only client, so bring a book or bring the gossip.
Real clients, straight from the chair.
Cuts, colour, blow dries and men's work. No filters, no stock photos, just Biba's clients on the day.
Any questions? Just ask.
Call, message or email and I will get back to you between clients.