Award Winning Hair “I came from a Hair influenced background. My late father Jimmy was a well known businessman who founded Crossan Hair & Beauty Cosmetics. My mother Pamela was a hairdresser so it was a natural progression for me. I grew up with it and loved it. At 23 I opened my first salon in 2009 in Riverstown, Sligo. In 2013 I opened a second salon in Ballymote, Co Sligo.
Business was good and I also loved the competition element of the industry. I won several competitions including the 2017 Irish Hairdresser of the Year, Northern Ireland Champion and also at the BEST of the BEST Awards I won the prestigious Frank Hession Cup. I was delighted to be asked to be a member of Team Ireland and I travelled to several countries with them including Milan, Frankfurt and Moscow which was all very inspiring. I furthered my long hair training in USA with Sharon Blain
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which was amazing and helped me further my passion for presenting seminars in upstyling and dressing hair. It also flourished my bridal hair business which I do in-salon or at destination of wedding party. Fast forward 12 years in business, a pandemic happened, which dare I say, was the best thing to happen for me as it allowed me focus on a complete over-hall for my business. I got the time to think, reevaluate, train more, build my online shop and add a private hair loss and scalp clinic along with a whole range of other new services to what I already offered. I have now relocated my Riverstown salon to Ballysadare. I designed everything myself for my new salon and chose to get custom made furniture in Istanbul. I am delighted with the finished result and that we are now in a larger, brighter salon in a more centralized location.”
