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Hair Disciples is the newest, exciting addition to the growing Battersea Rise hair and beauty scene; this truly is a salon with a difference: "for followers of hair and organic colour".
The show is run and owned by big town girl Rachel, born a Londoner and amongst hundreds who applied to train alongside Vidal Sassoon - but the only one who made it all the way through to qualification. It was when Sassoon was considered the top cutting school in the UK and it was at an exciting and buzzy time in the London fashion scene. Rachel worked for the group at their Sloane Street salon and later as a teacher at the Academy, where she first learned her skills. Rachel tells me she has always loved her job and is proud to have worked - and been photographed - alongside Kate Moss and Corinne Day, plus to have worked at London Fashion week at such run-way shows as Ghost and Katherine Hammnet. It is with the confidence that these years of experience gave her, that she opened Hair Disciples in Richmond and now happily, a second salon here in Battersea.
"Beauty Disciples" will be the newest, welcome addition to the Precision Cutting and Organic Colour Salon, offering the very best in natural facials, nail and waxing treatments, opening in the spring of 2009! For "Life Disciples"; the salon brings a range of complimentary therapies, including acupuncture and reflexology. Customers should certainly pre-book if they wish to receive any of the non-hair services this beauty-meets-life emporium.
For most, the main reason to visit Rachel and her team is their dedication to providing a natural alternative to the chemical-heavy hair colours, used by most other salons. It has been reported in the press, that using these products, packed full of amonia, resorcinol and phenylendiamines, can not only damage the hair's ability to hold colour, but more alarmingly has been linked to increased risks of cancer. Rachel assures me that choosing the organic alternative brings nothing but benefits to the user: not only are the chemical related risks totally avoided, but the process of application is exactly the same and the hair colour usually lasts even longer than the chemical laden products. As a (faking it) blonde, I had often wondered how long my poor, bleached scalp would put up with my monthly visits to the peroxide bottle. It seems now, I don't have to.
The standard this salon strives to maintain for all its clients is precision cutting. "Not just a good blow-dry," Racheal says, "but a really excellent cut"; which for those of us who have had both, know them to be two very different things. All the Hair Disciples staff are continually trained and twice yearly, they shut shop to spend a day back at the Vidal Sassoon Academy, where it all began. Whenever I visit Rachel's salon, I always find her team to be hugely welcoming and friendly - plus, the salon has its very own buggy parking!
For more information on Hair Disciples, visit their dedicated page on BatterseaRise.co.uk
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