July 2010 :
The Total People Training Awards 2010
Emma, the manageress of our Tattenhall Salon, reached the finals
of training organisation Total People's awards for Advanced
Apprentice of the Year. This was for the excellence that Emma
had shown during her management training, especially with
respect to producing an extensive 'how-to' guide for all aspects
of customer service within our salons. We attended their awards
ceremony at Crewe Hall on Thursday the 15th of July. Our
congratulations to Emma for doing so well.
June 2010 :
The Race for Life
On Sunday the 13th of June 2010, the Tattenhall salon put
forward a team of four for the Race for Life, a 5km run in aid of Cancer
Research UK. There were over 4.5 thousand participants in the
Chester Race for Life, making the race quite an emotional
experience. The race started and ended at Chester's race
course, taking in a large part of the city during the run.
We're very pleased to say that, thanks to generous sponsorship
from our clients, the team raised over 500 pounds for Cancer
Research. Our congratulations to everyone who took part and our
thanks to everyone who sponsored us.
May 2010 :
Stylist Chloe is a WINNER!
There's just no stopping Salon Vie's stylist Chloe. As well as
winning our 2010 Stylist Shootout, which you can read more about
below, Chloe reached the finals of training organisation Total
People's men's hairdressing competition, held in Liverpool. Well
done to Chloe and we'd like to thank Andrew, Chloe's model, for
his time and patience. In case you're interested, Chloe is
available for appointments in both our Nantwich and Tattenhall
salons.
The three winning stylists of our 2010 Stylist Shootout, Chloe,
Emma and Jasmine, are pictured below. Well done to all of them.
This is Andrew, Chloe's entry for the men's hairdressing
competition. We've included both colour and black and white
images of the finished style to see which you prefer. We prefer
the moodiness of black and white in this case.
April 2010 :
The results of the 2010 Salon Vie Stylist Shootout!
The results are in! Thanks to the public vote, we now have
our winning stylist, the second-placed stylist and a special
award for the highest-placed junior stylist. You can view the
winning entries, and what you had to say about them,
here.
We've also had our prize draw, from those who voted for the
winning stylist, and would like to congratulate Lucy who wins
£300 of hair and beauty services. We had such a large response
to the competition that we decided to draw a second winner,
Ceridwen, who wins £100 of hair and beauty services.
If you didn't vote in the competition, before looking at the
winning entries, you might like to browse through the
photographs below to see what your choice would have been.
Our thanks to everyone who took part and we mustn't forget Sarah
and Daisy, beauty therapists at Salon Vie, who were responsible
for the makeup of many of the models.
March 2010 :
Introducing the 2010 Salon Vie Stylist Shootout!
We've unleashed our stylists, with
the brief to create a selection of useable high-street fashions,
and we need your help to judge the results.
Please have a look at the portfolio below and then vote for your
favourite, basically the look that would make you most likely to
use the stylist that created it. One lucky voter will be
awarded, via a prize draw to be held in the Nantwich salon on
Saturday the 4th of April 2010, a
prize for £300 of hair and beauty services,
redeemable within the salons. To make choosing your favourite a
little more difficult,
only those who vote for the winning entry will be entered into
the prize draw. Full terms and conditions for the prize
draw are available
here.
Please choose one of the 10 models shown below. You can click on
the photographs to enlarge them or you can
scroll through them in a gallery. Once you've chosen, you
can
register your vote. Even if you'd be unable to use the
prize, which you can indicate on the
voting form, you're welcome to
vote.
Model 1 - Danielle
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Model 2 - Kelly
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Model 3 - Gemma
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Model 4 - Ros
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Model 5 - Emily
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Model 6 - Betty
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Model 7 - Eleanor
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Model 8 - Sarah
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Model 9 - Lucy
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Model 10 - Penny
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With the exception of one of the models, who's a junior stylist
at Salon Vie, all of the models are Salon Vie clients. We'd like
to sincerely thank all of them for their time and patience. We'd
also like to thank you if you've voted.
December 2009 :
The Nantwich Charity Santa Dash
On a bitterly cold Sunday morning, just
before Christmas, a team of ten brave souls, from Salon Vie,
took part in the first Nantwich Charity Santa Dash. Our
congratulations to everyone who took part in what turned out to
be a great event.
Have a look at a few images from the day:
November 2009 :
Salon Vie Beauty is
OPEN in Tattenhall
 Over
the past two months, we've been working quietly but feverishly
to prepare the Tattenhall salon for the opening of Salon Vie
Beauty. We're pleased to announce that Tattenhall's Salon Vie
Beauty is now OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
Occupying the second half of the
ground floor at
Olympus House, in the heart of Tattenhall's High
Street, the Tattenhall beauty salon offers the same set of
professional beauty treatments as is currently offered by our
Nantwich salon including:
- Facial treatments by
Dermalogica
- Nails by Essie and Bio Sculpture
-
Spray Tans by Sun Laboratories
- Semi-permanent
eyelash extension by Lash Perfect
- Makeup by
RVB
- Massages
- Waxing
-
Manicures and Pedicures
You can have a look at Tattenhall's beauty treatment menu
here.
November 2009 :
Shopping can be so Mysterious!
If you read the article about our team building
weekend in Dublin, below, you'll know that the Salon Vie teams
spent some time being mystery shoppers. Usually, it's the other
way round where we ask both new and existing clients to visit us
as mystery shoppers and then report back on every part of their
experience.
Recently, we invited Julie Coxall, editor of local publication
The A41 Magazine, to visit our Tattenhall salon as a
mystery shopper. After her visit, Julie kindly offered to write
up her findings, good or bad, for the magazine. You can read
Julie's review
here.
September 2009 :
We're back from our team building weekend
in Dublin
The entire team had a fantastic
time on a team-building weekend in Dublin. Apart from a bit of
sightseeing, and the occasional glass of refreshment, the aim of
the weekend was to be mystery shoppers at a variety of hair and
beauty salons throughout Dublin. The team was armed with
questionnaires, given sealed envelopes revealing their
destinations and treatments, then bravely set foot into the
unknown. It was surprising just how nervous some of the team
were at having salon treatments done outside of our own salons.
Let's have a look at a few images from the trip:
We had great time at
The Church:
...and, after that, went for a sit down and a cup of cocoa at
The Academy:
The next day, a little sightseeing:
... then to Temple Bar:
So, what did we learn from the mystery shopping exercise? Well,
quite a lot really but, mainly, that it's the attention to
detail in the end-to-end service that makes the difference. We
have lots of examples of how the service didn't match up to
expectations but, given that the exercise was aimed at showing
us where we can improve, it'd be unprofessional for us to
mention specific salons. We must say that, in pretty much all
cases, our mystery shoppers were happy with the end results of
their treatments. You'll have to visit us to find out more!
June 2009 :
Listen mum, we're on the radio!
We've teamed up with
Chester's Dee 106.3 to run a competition where the winner
will get a free hair & beauty makeover and then £500 of
hairdressing services, to use whenever they like, at our
Tattenhall salon. Radio advertising is a first for us and this
is a bit of an experiment to see how effective it might be. As
well as the competition, we'll be
running an advert three times a day over three weeks. It'll
be interesting, for us, to see how it compares with more
traditional advertising methods.
To get things started, Jane, our art director, and Emma,
the manageress of the Tattenhall salon, joined Mike James'
lunchtime show to have a chat about Salon Vie, the Tattenhall
salon and the competition. To be honest, they were both
terrified but Mike was very professional and helped to calm
their nerves. In looking at Mike's hair, both of our stylists
agreed that he could benefit from a 'flick & smack', you'll see
some examples in the news article below, and Mike's bravely
opted to visit the salon. You can
listen to the interview here.
The competition will run on the breakfast show, from the 8th to
the 12th of June. There'll be some questions about hair, not
always as simple as you might think although Google will
probably help, and a tie-breaker asking the competitors to
explain why they should win the prize. On the 12th, Jane and
Emma will be joining the breakfast show, at 08:30, to judge the
competition.
The week after, Irene, from Dee 106.3's breakfast show, and the
competition winner will both be in the Tattenhall salon for a
makeover.
Phew! We'll keep you updated on how the makeovers go, and should
have some images to post here when they happen. Have a look at
some of today's images:
One week on and we're back at
Chester's Dee106.3, this time to appear on the breakfast
show. Have a look at some images from the day:
The main competition, for the makeover and £500 of hairdressing,
is now underway. All of the questions are related to
hairdressing. Let's see what the questions were:
Monday's question was 'What does GHD stand
for?'. We'll let you look up the answer for yourselves. You can
listen to:
Tuesday's question and answer
Wednesday's question and answer
Thursday's question and answer
Friday's question, answer and selection of the winner
Jane and Emma have also been talked into helping with the show's
'Singalong' competition where they'll sing a track, using a
completely different tune to what it's supposed to have, and the
listeners will try to work out what the track is. More of the
track will be played throughout the week. Correct answers will
be entered into a prize draw to win a goodie bag of exclusive
styling products from Salon Vie. You can listen to:
Monday's interview and Singalong competition
Tuesday's Singalong competition
Wednesday's Singalong competition
Thursday's Singalong competition
Friday's Singalong competition, Jane & Emma choosing a winner
and the answer
Do you know what the song is? Are you as, ahem, impressed as we
are with the vocal talents of Jane and Emma? To be honest, they
did great. It can't be easy standing in a recording studio not
knowing what you're singing.
Another week on and it's time for Irene and Kay, the competition
winner, to have their makeovers at the Tattenhall salon. We've
got some before, during and after images of both. Irene also
called in to Mike James' lunchtime show to let him know how the
makeover's were going on and let Salon Vie's stylists, Jane and
Emma, explain what was happening. These are the audio clips:
Irene during her makeover ... clip 1
Irene during her makeover ... clip 2
Irene during her makeover ... clip 3
The before images of Irene, who's seven months pregnant by the
way!:
Irene during her hair and beauty treatments:
Irene after her treatments:
The before image of Kay:
Kay during her hair and beauty treatments:
Kay after her treatments:
Our thanks to both Irene and Kay for letting us use the photos.
We hope you'll agree that the end results are fabulous.
May 2009 :
A look at the Tattenhall salon
It's hardly news but, since there are lots of images of
the Nantwich salon on here, we thought we'd include a few of
Tattenhall.
Salon Vie has the ground floor of a lovely building, Olympus
House, that's right in the centre of the high street, directly
across from the
Village Indian. There's plenty of free parking at the back
of Olympus House where you'll find the entrance to the salon.
Let's have a look at a few historical images of Olympus house:
You may have noticed the post box that's in our stairwell. Why
is it here? We're assuming it's a leftover from the M.O.D.
occupying the building. Do you know different? When we did the
re-fit, the interior, which used to be three offices in what's
now the main salon, went from this:
... to this:
April 2009 :
Can
we interest you in a 'flick & smack'?
What's that? Well, it's
Wahl-speak for one of their creative techniques in clipper
cutting. All stylists from our Nantwich and Tattenhall salons
have completed an exciting, in-house practical seminar run by
Simon Shaw of
Wahl, suppliers of professional hair clippers. Our
vocabulary is now extended with, in addition to 'flick & smack',
phrases such as 'teardrop fringe', 'boomeranging' and 'hair
peeling'. These are amongst a variety of terrific hair effects,
for both men and women, that can be created using clippers. Have
a look at some images from the day:
December 2008 :
Salon Vie Beauty Opens
We're fully open, with Salon Vie Beauty now occupying the first
floor. The first treatment room on the first floor, used for
massages, used to look like this:
and now looks like this
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The waiting area, makeup and nail bars are in treatment room two
which used to look like this:
and now looks like this
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We're just waiting for some soft fabrics to be delivered to
completely finish this room.
Another massage bed, and the spray tan equipment, is in the
third treatment room:
Our beauty therapists have been busy rehearsing their spray
tanning techniques using eager volunteers from our hairdressing
stylists. We're delighted with the results from the Sun
Laboratories equipment and it's proving very popular with our
clients.
The main hairdressing salon has had a few more soft furnishings
installed. We love these rather wild chairs:
November 2008 :
The new salon is open
for business!
Well, as at the 17th of November, almost. It's what we're
calling a soft opening at the moment. The interior of the salon
is complete and fully operational but there's some exterior
decoration to be completed and the upstairs beauty rooms will be
completed in a few days.
Why not have a look at what we'll call mad Sunday, the 16th of
November. It took a superhuman effort, with everyone telling us
there was no way we could open on Monday, to go from this at
16:00 on Sunday:
   
... to this at 03:00 on Monday:
 
October 2008 :
We're moving to an amazing new
salon in Nantwich
We've been looking for new premises in Nantwich for a
while and, finally, we've found the ideal location, in the heart
of Nantwich, at 12 Beam Street. We're busy creating the salon
right now and expect it to be ready for mid-November.
The ground floor will be a beautiful, spacious hair salon
delivering the latest hairdressing techniques from our talented
team. Located on the first floor will be Salon Vie Beauty, a new
venture for us, offering incredible nails, inspirational makeup,
heavenly massages and skin-friendly spray tans.
We'll have so much space that we'll need more team members to
fill it! It'll be an exciting time as the new salon opens. Have
a look at our
jobs page for
more information.
If you'd like to see the new salon, in a rather unfinished
state, have a look at the images below.
 
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February 2008 : Salon Vie's
Charity Fashion Show - 'One Night In Heaven'
The show, in aid of
breast cancer research, was held at the Barbour Institute,
Tattenhall on Friday the 1st of February. We're very
pleased to say that it was a sell-out and raised over two
thousand pounds for the charity. That's DOUBLE what we were
expecting!
We'd like to sincerely thank everyone involved including the
fashion suppliers, the models, the beauticians, the Salon Vie
teams, who worked feverishly throughout the day and night,
friends and business associates who donated prizes for the
raffle and, not least, everyone who attended. We hope you had a
great evening.
Many people asked us where we'd got the models from. Well, they
may have looked like professional models, but they were all
friends and clients of Salon Vie who freely gave up large
amounts of their own time to help with the event. We can't thank
them enough.
To see some
videos from the show, please click
here. Once you've selected a video, you can see it full-screen by
clicking the icon on the bottom right of the player. These are quite
large videos so, if you get problems with the replay, just hit the pause
button for a while to let the video download.
Thanks again to anyone who contributed.
Jane & Mike
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