A hair–raising offer for salon’s anniversary

A hair – raising offer for salon’s anniversary

A shrewbsury hairdresser at the top of his profession has found a unique way to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of opening his first salon

Philip Minton, a Bond Street stylist in the swinging sixties and owner of K2 hair Salon in the Darwin Shopping Centre, is giving his prices a quick trim on special offer days to roll back the years to the 70s.

He has found an orginal price list from the days when he opened his first salon, Cameo, on the towns castle street back in Dcember 1971 – back in the days when Ted heath was Prime Minister , Sir Alf Ramsey was manager of England and Bennie Hills “Ernie, The Fastest Milkman in the west was keeping T Rexs “Jeepster off the number one spot in the charts.

Customer who visit his website and sign up could find they are entitled to a restyle and blowdry for under £5 or a shampoo and set for £1.50.

Philip, 62, of Weston Lullingfields who has a second salon in Newtown said he wanted to share the special anniversary with his loyal customer and think back over his career which started when he was only 15 and was inspired by Vidal Sassoon, the inventor of the bob.

He said: “ Ido remember the moment I wanted to be a hairdresser. I was watching TV andsassoon came on one of these Saturday night programmes with two lovely girls on each arm and these two women just stood there and shook the beautiful bobs he had for them.

“I just loved the way he was selling himself and his company and i thought to myself, I would like to do that.”

By te=he age of 22, Philip, who is married with three children, was opening his first salon and four years later he was in the Christmas edition of Vogue magazine.

But little did he know that the former wife of the man who inspired him to get into hairdressing would later become a customer.

He said: “ when we opened our salon in Newtown 12 years ago, Elaine Nations, vidal sassoons first wife came in to support the salon.”

“she is a nice lady and we have had some fascinating conversations with her over the years....