A Cambridge appointment with nowhere to park. Except your own kitchen.
Cuts, colour and blow dries at home across Cambridge and the villages along the A428. Twenty years behind the chair, Vidal Sassoon trained, half an hour up the road in Yelling.
Cambridge is a difficult city to have your hair done in.
I say that with affection. It is a lovely place and a genuinely awkward one to drive into for an appointment. The salons are mostly in the middle, the middle is mostly closed to cars, and a full head of foils takes two to three hours, which is a long time to be feeding a car park. By the time you have added the parking and the walk and the walk back, a cut and blow dry has eaten most of an afternoon.
So I come to you instead. I have been doing hair for twenty years, I trained at Vidal Sassoon, and I run a home salon in Yelling with a mobile service that covers Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. Cambridge is one of the runs I do most often, partly because the A428 points straight at it from the end of my village and partly because it is the place where not having to go anywhere is worth the most.
What you get is the appointment you would have had in a salon. The same Wella, Moroccanoil and Olaplex products, the same professional dryer and tongs, the same proper consultation before anything happens. What you do not get is the journey, the waiting area, or the bit at the end where you walk out into the rain having just spent forty minutes being blow dried.
Four steps, and one of them is parking.
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Book the home visit
On Fresha, choose the Home Visit version of the service rather than the salon one. They are listed separately and the home visit is what tells me to drive to Cambridge.
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Tell me where to park
Put your address in the booking notes along with anything I should know about parking. Half of Cambridge is permit only and that is worth two minutes of planning rather than ten minutes of circling.
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Kitchen sink, not a backwash
I do not carry a hydraulic chair or a portable backwash. Your hair gets washed at your sink or in the bath, which is perfectly normal and works fine in the smallest Cambridge bathroom.
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Cut, colour, tidy, gone
Same appointment you would get in a salon, same products, and I sweep up after myself. You never left the house or paid to park.
The parking one is not padding. It is the single practical difference between a Cambridge home visit and one in a village, and two lines in the booking notes save both of us a quarter of an hour. A driveway, a visitor permit or a road that is not controlled during the day all work. If you genuinely have nowhere, say so and we will work out whether an earlier or later slot makes it easier.
The city, and everything on the way in.
- Girton
- Eddington
- Newnham
- Chesterton
- Arbury
- Trumpington
- Cherry Hinton
- Grantchester
- Coton
- Madingley
- Dry Drayton
- Hardwick
- Comberton
- Barton
- Bourn
- Caxton
- Elsworth
- Boxworth
- Highfields Caldecote
- Cambourne
- Papworth Everard
The A428 runs from Yelling to the Madingley Road side of Cambridge, so the villages strung along it are on my way rather than a detour. Cambourne and Papworth Everard are barely a journey at all. The rule everywhere is the same: anywhere within roughly a 30 to 40 minute drive from Yelling.
If you are the other side of the city, or out towards Newmarket or Royston, ask before you assume the answer is no. Colour appointments and group bookings are worth the extra miles, and I would rather tell you honestly on the phone than have you not bother asking.
Everything except the plumbing.
The whole services list comes with me. Cuts for the whole family, blow dries and up-dos, half, three-quarter and full head foils, balayage, toners and colour refreshes, keratin and smoothing treatments, Olaplex and mask treatments, men’s perms and flow cuts. Brows, lashes, waxing and facials travel too, and a lot of clients stack those onto the same visit so they only have to be at home once.
The one thing that does not travel is a backwash. I do not carry a hydraulic chair or a portable basin, so your hair is washed at your sink or in your bath. I am putting that in writing because Cambridge has a great many Victorian terraces with small bathrooms and I would rather you knew before I arrived than after. In practice it is a non issue: the kitchen sink is usually the easiest, a shower over the bath is fine, and I bring the towels and the gown.
From you I need a chair near a plug socket, a bit of floor space and a sink I can rinse at. That is the entire list. It is the same in a Newnham cottage, a Trumpington new build and a shared house off Mill Road.
Two things about booking, because they catch people out. Choose the Home Visit version of the service on Fresha rather than the salon one, since they are listed separately and the home visit is what sends me to you. And there is a £10 call-out charge on top of the service price, which is built into the home visit listing and covers the travel anywhere inside the usual area. There is no Cambridge surcharge on top of that.
If you are having colour with me for the first time, the skin test is not optional and it has to be at least 48 hours before the appointment. I can post it or drop it round, and it takes about a minute to do, but it has to happen before the day rather than on it. Colour cannot go ahead without one, and I will not bend that for anybody.
On timings I will give you an honest figure when you book rather than an optimistic one. A wash, cut and blow dry is about an hour. Foils are two to three hours depending on how much hair you have. Knowing that in advance is half the reason people switch to a home visit in the first place, because you can put the washing on, keep an eye on a toddler or take a call in the middle of it.
The people who stopped going into town.
Parents, mostly, and particularly parents of small children who have worked out that an hour at the kitchen table is achievable and a trip into Cambridge is not. Children's cuts are far easier at home anyway. A child who is frightened of a salon is usually fine in their own front room with their own toys on the floor.
Then people who work long hours in the city and want an evening appointment without a drive at either end of it. Older clients, and anyone whose mobility makes a trip into town hard work, which is a large part of why I do this at all. And groups: weddings, proms, birthdays, mothers and daughters booked back to back in one house, which is one of my favourite ways to spend a morning.
If you are weighing it up against a salon, I have written honestly about what a mobile hairdresser actually costs and why clients make the switch, and there is a walk through of exactly what happens on a first home visit.
What people said after I came to them.
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First time experience with Biba has been wonderful! I have a small baby and she was very understanding of my needs. Haircut was just the way I wanted it. Thoroughly recommend her to anyone looking for a beautiful home haircut
Elisa G · Wash, cut, style and blow dry · Fresha, June 2026
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Biba came to do my little boys hair, he hates having it cut but Biba was amazing, she spoke to him very calmly and somehow, despite all of his wriggling has given him a fantastic hair cut.
Vikki Gibson · Children's haircut · Google, February 2026
All of them, from Google, Facebook and Fresha, are on the reviews page.
Yelling is closer than it sounds.
If you would rather have the salon experience, the home salon is at 10 High Street, Yelling, PE19 6SD, five minutes off the A428 and about half an hour out of Cambridge on a normal day. There is somewhere to park, which is the part that tends to appeal, and the kettle is always on. You can read how I got here if you want to know who is doing your hair first.
Plenty of my Cambridge clients do a bit of both: a home visit when the week is busy, a trip out to Yelling when they fancy the hour to themselves. Either way it is the same hands and the same products, and both versions are on Fresha, listed separately so you can see what each one costs before you commit.
The wider picture of how the mobile service works, across both counties, is on the mobile hairdressing page. If you have a question that is not answered here, send it over and I will answer it myself.
What Cambridge clients ask first.
Do you actually come into Cambridge?
Yes. Cambridge is one of the regular runs. The home salon is in Yelling and the A428 goes almost door to door, so the city is usually about half an hour away. I am out that way most weeks.
Which parts of Cambridge do you cover?
Everywhere inside the city, and the villages on that side of the A428 on the way in: Girton, Eddington, Newnham, Chesterton, Arbury, Trumpington, Cherry Hinton, Grantchester, Coton, Madingley, Dry Drayton, Hardwick, Comberton, Barton, Bourn, Caxton, Elsworth, Boxworth, Highfields Caldecote, Cambourne and Papworth Everard. If you are further out than roughly a 30 to 40 minute drive from Yelling, ask before you book rather than after, and I will tell you honestly whether it works.
Is there a call-out charge for Cambridge?
Yes, £10 on top of the service price, the same as everywhere else inside the usual area. It is built into the Home Visit version of the service on Fresha, so there is nothing extra to pay on the day and no surprise because you live in the city rather than the next village.
Where do you wash my hair?
At your sink or in your bath. I do not bring a portable backwash or a hydraulic chair, and I would rather say that plainly on this page than turn up and surprise you. A kitchen sink is usually easiest, a shower over the bath works, and I bring the towels.
What about parking?
This is the one Cambridge specific thing I will ask you about. Most of the city is permit controlled and a colour appointment is two to three hours, so a visitor permit, a space on a driveway or a quiet side street makes the whole thing easier. Tell me in the booking notes and I will plan around it.
Can you do colour at my flat?
Yes. Foils, balayage, toners and colour refreshes all travel, and a lot of my Cambridge appointments are colour. You will need a skin test at least 48 hours before your first colour with me, which has to happen before the appointment rather than on the day.
Do you do student houses and shared flats?
Often. A cut and blow dry in a shared house is straightforward: a chair, a plug socket and a sink is the whole requirement. If a few of you want appointments back to back that is easier for everyone, and worth asking about.
Can you come in the evening or at a weekend?
Evenings and Saturdays are a normal part of my week rather than a favour, which is the point of a mobile hairdresser if you work in the city. Those slots go first, so it is worth booking the next one before I leave.
How much do you charge?
Prices depend on hair length, thickness and how long the appointment takes, so they live on Fresha where they stay accurate instead of on a page I might forget to update. I have also written about what a mobile hairdresser actually costs and how the service price and the call-out fit together.
Book a home visit in Cambridge.
Choose the Home Visit version of the service on Fresha, then add your address and a note about parking. I will confirm the same day.