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Shine Hair & Beauty has all you need for a top to toe makeover, including the perfect hair style, finds Zara Baker

When I first met Jonathan Harries, owner of Shine Hair & Beauty, he said that to find the right cut for his clients, he wanted to know the style you didn’t want: “What look would make you cry?”. It’s an effective approach as we often go to the hairdresser brimming with ideas and armed with magazine pictures (“this length, that fringe, those layers”…) but we can be unsure how the look would work overall.
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Zara Baker finds a hub for newly qualified stylists and excellent value for customers at the newly opened Pod in Kemp Town

Pod is the brain child of Jonathan Harries from the North Laine’s Shine salon. Taking a concept similar to Jamie Oliver’s London restaurant, Fifteen, Jonathan has created Pod to offer newly qualified hairdressers the chance to develop their skills.

Pod – Professional Ongoing Development – is a ‘place of development’. Jonathan’s Shine salon in Gloucester Road is an established haven with a loyal clientele and the partnership with a great ethical beauty brand, Aveda. Opening Pod has let Jonathan expand to another part of the city (in a convenient location off St James’s Street). The new salon opens doors to stylists who may otherwise spend a few years ‘climbing the ladder’, working under professional stylists and often just washing hair or offering drinks to clients. By giving the newly qualified stylists their own environment, they can develop and experience every day life as a hairdresser in their own, busy working salon.
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Latest 7 chats to Jonathan Harries, owner of Shine Hair & Beauty Salon in Brighton

When did you become interested in hairdressing?
“At the age of 15 my sister took me to a really great salon in London’s West End and said that while she was having her hair done, I could get my ‘mullet’ trimmed. The guy that cut my hair seemed to absolutely love his job and as I had no vision of what I would want to do when I left school, I pretty much decided then that I wanted to become a hairdresser. I then started an apprenticeship with Akin Konizi [British Hairdresser of the Year 2008 and 2009].”

What’s the best and hardest part of owning a salon?
“Other than VAT, I’d probably say that one of the hardest things is making sure that the people I work with are happy, otherwise everything else in the salon becomes pointless if they’re not happy with what they are doing. The best thing about owning a salon is being able to make decisions that please everyone without going through a head office or a giant HR department.”
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This month, Shine Hair & Beauty tailors skin-care products & treatments to suit your needs

What are the benefits of massage?
With ever increasing stresses in modern day life, our bodies suffer the consequences. Massage will help improve the function of muscles and joints as well as help reduce pain and improve posture. It is important that after a massage, you drink plenty of water to help rid the body of toxins which are released into the bloodstream during a treatment.
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