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About Us
About Essence Hair
Established in Haywards Heath, West Sussex, for more than 20 years, Essence Hair is a professionally ran hair salon. Our skilled stylists always put the client first, making sure you leave our salon looking and feeling your best. Keeping up with the latest trends and techniques, we provide an exceptional salon experience, whether you’re looking for a cut and colour or something different. Get in touch today to speak with our professional team.
Meet The Team
Katie ( Senior Stylist / Technician)
Specialising in cutting and colouring, Katie has more than 6 years of experience in the hairdressing industry. She enjoys creating balayage styles, root stretches, and beautiful cut and colour transformations. Working closely with her clients, she strives to create the perfect style and look for everyone. The team describe her as caring, ambitious, talented, and a perfectionist.
What’s more, she has a real passion for training apprentices and enjoys seeing their confidence and enthusiasm grow. Katie says her own career highlight is training with Tony & Guy, which includes completing her level 4 exams, picking up tips and tricks from art directors, and developing a high standard of hairdressing. Her favourite part of her work is meeting people from all walks of life while surrounded by a lovely and supportive team.
What’s more, she has a real passion for training apprentices and enjoys seeing their confidence and enthusiasm grow. Katie says her own career highlight is training with Tony & Guy, which includes completing her level 4 exams, picking up tips and tricks from art directors, and developing a high standard of hairdressing. Her favourite part of her work is meeting people from all walks of life while surrounded by a lovely and supportive team.
Katy ( Creative Director / Senior Technician)
With more than 27 years of experience in the hairdressing industry, Katy specialises in cutting, colour, and hair extensions. Listening closely to her clients’ needs, she is passionate about creating a style that will suit them and their lifestyle. The team describes Katy as relaxed, committed, and enthusiastic, and helpful.
Katy’s career highlights include working at London Fashion Week, (LFW) teaching NVQ students, and completing the Durham University leadership programme. As a hairdresser, she gives her heart and soul to her job, and loves to meet a variety of people from all walks of life, learning something new every day!
Katy’s career highlights include working at London Fashion Week, (LFW) teaching NVQ students, and completing the Durham University leadership programme. As a hairdresser, she gives her heart and soul to her job, and loves to meet a variety of people from all walks of life, learning something new every day!
Sinead (Apprentice)
Enjoying all aspects of her career so far, Sinead has worked in the hairdressing industry for nearly 2 years. She loves to chat with clients whilst shampooing or blow-drying their hair, to ensure they feel relaxed and welcome.
Sinead is also very excited that her training is progressing and she’s able to cut and colour hair for her friends and family without supervision. Trained to a high standard, she loves working in our salon. The team describe her as hard-working, hungry to learn, easy-going, calm, friendly, and very talkative.
Sinead is also very excited that her training is progressing and she’s able to cut and colour hair for her friends and family without supervision. Trained to a high standard, she loves working in our salon. The team describe her as hard-working, hungry to learn, easy-going, calm, friendly, and very talkative.
Carice (Graduate Stylist)
Following 6 years of training, Carice has just qualified as a hairdresser. She is looking forward to learning new skills and building a client base. Passionate about hairdressing, she can’t wait to learn even more about her craft. Carice’s career highlights include a wide range of opportunities, from junior competitions to high-quality training and EPA assessments. The team describe her as creative, talented, and friendly.
Gemmy (Premier Stylist / Hair Extension Specialist )
Specialising in curly hair, short textured cuts, and hair extensions, Gemmy has more than 27 years’ experience in the hairdressing industry. She loves building a relationship with her clients and making them feel like family. Gemmy isn’t the quietest member of our team, but she wears her heart on her sleeve. The team describe her as passionate, with a positive and effervescent personality.
Sissi (Senior Stylist/Senior Technician)
Sissi has been in the hair industry for over 22 years. Originally starting her career in Turin, Italy, she also worked for L’Oréal in Milan, specialising in all colour and cutting techniques, and she joined the Best Club programme at Toni & Guy in 2015. Her career highlights include a range of catwalk and hair fashion shows. She also holds a Bachelor Degree in Modern Languages from the Tourism Industry, with a dissertation in Art, which is her biggest passion.
With a love of hairdressing craft as a form of artistic expression, Sissi’s extensive academic training background has given her an excellent understanding of hair, proportions, and beauty. Confident in working with any type of hair, she provides bespoke work to every client. Sissi loves to empower women with hair that is sexy and feminine. The team describe Sissi as a perfectionist, and a knowledgeable, reserved, and sweet-natured person.
With a love of hairdressing craft as a form of artistic expression, Sissi’s extensive academic training background has given her an excellent understanding of hair, proportions, and beauty. Confident in working with any type of hair, she provides bespoke work to every client. Sissi loves to empower women with hair that is sexy and feminine. The team describe Sissi as a perfectionist, and a knowledgeable, reserved, and sweet-natured person.
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Grace (Stylist Technician)
With more than 5 years’ experience in the hairdressing industry, Grace has a real passion and an abundance of aspiration and drive for her work. After 4 years working at Toni & Guy in Brighton, she moved onto Essensuals Haywards Heath, where she has grown and flourished as a stylist.
Grace loves expressing herself by creating bespoke cuts and colours, specialised to each client, to make them feel confident and beautiful. She has completed a high standard of training, including Level 4 training and L’Oréal colour keys 1 and 2 at the L’Oréal Academy. People describe Grace as relaxed, fun, down to earth, adventurous, and very driven in all her work.
Grace loves expressing herself by creating bespoke cuts and colours, specialised to each client, to make them feel confident and beautiful. She has completed a high standard of training, including Level 4 training and L’Oréal colour keys 1 and 2 at the L’Oréal Academy. People describe Grace as relaxed, fun, down to earth, adventurous, and very driven in all her work.
Lloyd (Technical Director)
Lloyd has been in the hairdressing industry for 16 years now, starting as an assistant and working his way to becoming a colour specialist. Lloyd’s career highlights so far include vardering at Toni & Guy and passing his RCH (Redken Colour Haircolorist) certification.
Lloyd loves hairdressing because it gives him the ability to make other people feel better about themselves and give them an image or style they want, allowing the client to be an individual. The team say Lloyd is knowledgeable, caring, attentive, calm and has a creative soul.
Lloyd loves hairdressing because it gives him the ability to make other people feel better about themselves and give them an image or style they want, allowing the client to be an individual. The team say Lloyd is knowledgeable, caring, attentive, calm and has a creative soul.
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