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Headhunters Hair Studio Celebrates 30 Years
Based in the Peth suburb of Wembley, HeadHunters Hair Studio was founded in 1999 by multiple awardwinning stylist Donna Greyson growing from a modest salon to a highly sought after hair and beauty destination.
Greyson’s passion has always been to create beautiful, healthy and wearable hair with the salon known for its superior services and highly trained professional stylist team.
Greyson’s passion has always been to create beautiful, healthy and wearable hair with the salon known for its superior services and highly trained professional stylist team.
The salon’s success has been built on a commitment to constantly evolve, improve and develop the teams’ skills and services.
A champion of ongoing training and education Donna recognises this saying, “business development is a never-ending journey, you can’t take your finger off the pulse, and I am always striving to make things more personal, innovative and above all provide the best service experience for every client.”
“I believe that my commitment and flexibility towards our salon guests has been a huge part of our success, we always roll with a “yes” attitude and our salon guests really are like friends to us.”
It’s this unwavering dedication and strive for excellence that has seen Headhunters Hair Studio continue to grow year on year. The Headhunters Hair Studio embraces a culture of service excellence. Donna and her team of stylists are specialists in colour, colour techniques, cutting techniques for all hair lengths as well as event hair.
“I believe that your hair is the most important part of our image, it shows individuality and a person’s personality. These days that’s a really important thing. We wear our hair every day and the way we style it completes our look. There is nothing better than watching a salon guest strut out of the salon after transforming their hair,” says Greyson.
EDITOR LOUISE MAY CAUGHT UP WITH DONNA TO FIND OUT A LITTLE MORE ABOUT HER JOURNEY OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS.
This year Headhunters Hair Studio celebrates 30 years, what an amazing achievement. Can you tell us how the salon first came about and some of the milestones you are most proud of?
I come from a very business-oriented family. My parents probably were the ones that gave me the confidence and the push I needed to start my salon in Geraldton. I was 22 and I guess I thought I had nothing to lose. I have learnt so many lessons about people and business since HeadHunters began. I competed and encouraged my team to compete in state and local competitions and we were very successful. I sold my salon in Geraldton and moved to Perth in 2003 keeping the salon name HeadHunters, I opened up in Subiaco. I feel proud that I was able to start HeadHunters in Perth on my own with basically no clients and build my business to what I have today. Having success in competitions, marketing this to the local community and still travelling to the East to judge hair competitions, attend Goldwell conferences, MBE and hair expo has allowed me to meet so many inspirational people in this industry. I then was lucky enough to buy my own property in 2016 in Wembley. After many months of planning and designing my new premises, we moved there in May 2017. We have never looked back; we have gained so many new clients and managed to retain most of our clients from Subiaco.
How do you think the industry has evolved in the last 30 years?
I think the power of social media has helped us to engage directly with new and existing clients.
What has been the secret to Headhunters Hair Studio’s success?
Probably many things but I do like to keep things real in my salon. Flexibility for all our salon guests and the power of not using the word NO. Our motto is if you want it, we will make it happen. No one wants to wait for anything anymore so where possible we will always say yes. Our clients truly appreciate that.
Your vision at Headhunters Hair Studio is to create beautiful, healthy and wearable hair – can you sum this up for us?
Hair is what we wear every day, it’s as we say if your hair doesn’t look good you don’t feel so great. It is such an important part of our image.
What or who inspires you and who do you most admire in the hair industry?
vision and creativity was always next level. I love Angelo Seminara’s work, I also love following Sophia Hilton she is so real and such an individual, there is not enough of that these days in my opinion.
30 years is an incredible achievement for any business, how do you stay motivated and abreast of trends?
I am lucky enough to be involved with Intercoiffure in WA. We have an incredible group of salon owners who I’m lucky enough to network and train with monthly. I have always travelled to any hair event I can. In the past 12 months it’s been Zoom training and following different hair artists on social media. Goldwell is always an integral part of our salon training programme.
You have also been a Goldwell partner salon to the Kao Salon Division for 30 years! What do you love about working with the Kao Salon Division?
I’ve been with Goldwell for 30 years. Everyone I have come in to contact with over the years from the CEO to Marketing, reps and technicians are nothing but friendly and willing to get to know me and my business. They have always made me feel included and like a friend, not just a client. I have had some wild times with the Goldwell teams over the years, (we all love to party in our industry) the connection I have had with many of them over the years has been so important to my relationship with the company.
How would your team describe you?
Probably a control freak and a workaholic HAHAHA. They all know how passionate I am about every detail in my business and respect that. My mission is always help them to become the best hairstylist they can. I want to get the best out of them every day and I believe they give it to me.
What will the future bring for you and Headhunters Hair Studio?
Hopefully more success, lots of laughs, a stable salon team and travel again.
