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Silk Trends finalist for Hair Salon of the Year London in English Hair and Beauty Awards

Spirits are high at East London Hair Salon Silk Trends, after being selected as one of top 5 finalists for the Hair Salon of the Year London category in the 2013 English Hair and Beauty Awards.  This is the second year in a row Silk Trends has be selected as a finalist in this prestigious awards, with Ingrid (Silk Trends Salon Director) being selected as a finalist last year in the Women’s Stylist of the Year 2012 category.

Hair Salon of the Year London is a highly sort after title, and Silk Trends are up against some heavyweights in the hairdressing industry, namely Headmasters of Mayfair (who were last year’s winners of this award).

Silk Trends was selected with the help of public votes, and received hundreds of votes from their loyal clients to help steer them through to the final stages of the competition.  The final stage consisted of submitting a presentation of supporting evidence which will be reviewed by a panel of high profile judges.

Ingrid said, ‘Last year we were in the top 13 which was great, but this year I cannot believe that we’re in the top 5! It’s a great honour in itself to be selected, but to be selected 2 years in a row, and in the top 5 is a huge huge achievement.  The competition first stage is by public vote, and it’s a wonderful feeling knowing that our clients voted for us, and think so highly of us and are so loyal.’  This nomination is proof that all our hard work is paying off and that Silk Trends isn’t just another conventional East London salon.

The English Hair and Beauty Awards is a prestigious annual event that pays homage to the professionals that work in the hair and beauty industry. The ceremony gives thanks and recognition to those who work exceptionally hard and promote high standards in the industry.  With a public voting system, the English Hair and Beauty Awards is very much a celebration of homegrown talent.

The awards are sponsored by Fake Bake, and this year’s charity partner will be the Make a Wish Foundation, which aims to make children with life threatening illness’ dreams come true. The foundation’s patrons include Jude Law, Florence Welch and Amanda Holden.

Ingrid said, ‘Being nominated last year was an unbelievable experience and we had an amazing time attending the ceremony.  We have all our fingers and toes crossed for winning the big prize, and i think I will be speechless on hearing our name called out as winner of the Hair Salon of the Year London 2013′. 

The Silk Trends team will now have to wait patiently until 3rd March to find out if they have won, where they will be attending the glitzy event held at the Midland Hotel, Manchester and hoping to bring home the main prize to East London.

Check out Silk Trends in the Waltham Forest Guardian News

Happy New Year to all our lovely clients and friends.  The whole team at Silk Trends is sending warm love and best wishes to all our lovely clients, friends and family.  Thank you for all your support throughout 2012, and we look forward to providing you with quality hairdressing services, advice and hair care products throughout this year.  May you have a happy and prosperous 2013.

We’re enjoyed a very nice extended break (to recharge our batteries) and we’re now back and raring to go with a spring in our step and a fresh outlook on the New Year. Silk Trends is now back to our usual opening hours, so make sure you call us on 0208 529 8000 to book your next hair appointment.

We look forward to see you in the salon very soon

Love you all xxx

WE NEED YOUR HELP – PLEASE VOTE FOR SILK TRENDS

We’d be grateful if you could do me a big favour.  Please Pretty Please can you help me by voting for Silk Trends in this year’s English Hair and Beauty Awards 2013.  The awards is now open for nominations, and we need to get as many votes as I can.  We need to get as close to 300 votes by Monday 21st January.

We are desperate to get Silk Trends out there and recognised for the excellent work we do (well you told us in our last salon survey that we do a good job looking after you hair ).  We want to put Afro hairdressing on the map, and make the industry take Afro Hairdressing aseriously.  It would be great to bring this award back to East London, and we can only do that with your help.

Please can you also share this with your friends and family and ask them to vote too. It doesn’t matter if they are young or old, male or female, got long hair or no hair at all, every vote counts and we need as many votes as we can get.

The deadline is Sunday 20th January 2013 so please vote as soon as you can.

Please vote for Silk Trends hair salon in the English Hair and Beauty Awards 2013 for the  Hair Salon of the Year and Women’s Stylist of the Year orHair and Beauty Guru categories.

It only takes 2 minutes to complete the voting form (see the entry info to use below).  Click on this link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/85BSQ37

Then enter these voting details:

Name of Business:   Silk Trends

Name of Nominee:  Ingrid Farrell

Street:                     202 Chingford Mount Rd

City:                         London

Postcode:                 E4 8JR

Tel:                         0208 529 8000

Email:                     info@silktrends.co.uk

Choose the following Categories:   Hair Salon of the Year  and  Women’s Stylist of the Year

Click the Next button, then enter your details ( I think you can get away with just putting your name and email address).

Thank you so much for your support.  Please please please submit your votes by Sunday 20th January 2013. 

Silk Trends Creative Director Ingrid, have been selected as a Finalist for Women’s Hair Stylist of the Year in the English Hair and Beauty Awards 2012.

The aim of the English Hair and Beauty Awards 2012 is to acknowledge the hair stylists and beauticians across England who make us look and feel great and award them for their talent and hard work within the industry. The awards are decided by public vote, as you are the best judges of the true quality of a salon.

Silk Trends will attend a glitzy awards ceremony on Sunday 6th May at Manchester Midland Hotel, to find out if they have won the top prize. Please keep your fingers well and truely crossed for us .

To ensure our salon appointments run smoothly, we have introduced a deposit payment booking policy for securing appointments, and also introduced a cancellation policy.

Deposit Payment Booking and Cancellations Policy

We ask all clients to secure their hair service appointments booking with a deposit payment (£20 for normal hair services, £30 for Brazilian Keratin Treatment or Weave appointments).  This deposit will be taken off your final hair service bill at the end of your appointment.

If for any reason you have to cancel or change your appointment, please let us know at least 48 hours before your planned appointment and we will happily change your appointment (if new times are available) or cancel your appointment all together and refund your deposit payment to you.

Due to a number of clients consistently not showing up for their appointments without giving prior notice, this has resulted in other hair service appointments running behind as we wait for the person to arrive (assumed running late), and other clients being turned away unnecessarily when they could have offered an appointment.

We hope that you can understand that by giving us as much notice as possible, we can offer your unwanted appointment to another client on our waiting list, and it also helps everything run smoothly, professionally and on time at the salon. All we ask is that you give us a call on 0208 529 8000 at least 48 hours before to let us know you no longer require your appointment.

Unfortunately, any appointments that are cancelled with less than 48 hours notice or missed appointments (i.e. you simply do not show up for your appointment) will incur a fee (i.e. your deposit payment will be retained to cover the loss appointment).