McIntyres Hairdressing group in Dundee are looking to attract additional stylists for their expanded and award winning Union Street salon. After extensive refurbishment and expansion the salon now has 26 styling positions and 7 backwash areas with dedicated colour bar. The increase in capacity has opened up opportunities for an additional hair stylist/senior stylist preferably with their own clientele and the necessary skills and experience to work in a creative,challenging but rewarding hairdressing environment

Hairdressing salons provide a professional hair care retail range and expert product knowledge that simply cannot be found anywhere else.

Salon shampoo’s, conditioners and professional hair products are much more concentrated and can only be purchased from hair salons and can last more than 6 times longer than brands from chemists or supermarkets. Salon products are dedicated to the protection and nourishment of the hair and effectively reduce colour fade, can add volume and lock in shine so much better than any consumer brand.

Clash Magazine invited Dundee salon hairdressing group McIntyres to art direct and style the hair for its fashion shoot in London. Three times British Hair Award finalist and twice Scottish hairdresser of the year Kay McIntyre kept the hairstyles based on the music theme ‘Northern Soul’ loose and cool. Clash Magazine were voted ‘Magazine of the year’ at the PPA awards and its distributed worldwide.
Kay said ‘ The shoot was great fun and a welcome break from the hair and beauty looks we normally create, it’s a great magazine , popular with salon clients and stylists’

GHD have denied any intention to supply high street retailer Boots with ghd’s, instead, confirming their allegiance to the professional hair salon network. GHD is the UK’s market leading hair straightener and now their styler is as popular as ever and faces huge demands as desperate attempts by high street retailers to obtain the highly acclaimed ghd styler product

A feature on the Marketing Magazine’s website which claimed the brand were looking to adopt a roll-out retail strategy and that they had declined to comment. Hair industry and trade publication Hairdressers Journal International spoke to ghd global brand director Guy Longworth who claimed ‘We have never sold to Boots and do not have any plans to do so’

GHD created a sensation with its ‘new religion for hair’ advertising campaign and has seen its product rise to become the ultimate hair styling tool. McIntyres salons opened their new hair training and colour academy and are the regions chosen ghd ambassadors and educators delivering ghd structured training courses

Leading magazine publication Homes & Interiors Scotland featured McIntyres Hairdressing salons based at Union Street Dundee. Having won several top awards including RIAS and British Civic Trust Commendations, Dundee By Design and other top design accolades the publication paid tribute to its attention to detail in particular with customer care. The Union Street salon has recently undergone major expansion and is one of the largest hairdressing salons in Tayside,Scotland with 26 styling positions and 7 backwash units,separate retail floor, dedicated colour and new training academy.

London Heathrow was the setting for a fashion shoot involving model and artist Sophie Ellis Bexter for the publication Jump Magazine. Kay McIntyre three times British Hairdressing award finalist and Scottish hairdresser of the year art directed the shoot and also styled the singer/songwriter hair in a tongue and cheek shoot involving a supermodels arrival and departure at the busy London airport. Kay has art directed many shoots for various publications and says’ its a welcome break when we do fun shoots that involve you having to improvise on the day or simply go with the flow’

Hairdressers Journal International is a leading UK weekly publication and hair industry magazine. Its cover image is always a coveted destination for the great and the good in the world of hairdressing and McIntyres shot to glory with their front cover which was a local client of the Perth Road salon, Claire McGoldrick from Dundee. Hair was left curly,loose and natural and had a fashion, contemporary feel and attitude that reflected the time which was why the shot was chosen.

McIntyres, Dundee have expanded their Union Street Salon adding a new Hair Colour Training Academy, 10 additional hair styling & colouring positions with separate colour backwash area, private consultation area and dedicated colour bar. The Union Street salon has won several top design awards including RIAS Commendation,Dundee by Design and British Civic Trust commendation as well as a special award by the Dundee City Council. The Salon is convienyantly located opposite Dundee Train Station ,MalMaison Hotel and V&A close to Dundee’s Discovery point.

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McIntyres Union Street Salon has won two architectural awards. The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland A Regeneration commendation award for their investment in the Dundee City Centre salon and is one of the most coveted awards the judges felt that the salon had ‘Brought new vitality to the area’ helping the Waterfrontbdevelopment with The V&A and Malmaison and that the design both internally and externally and the consideration shown for the clientele was highly impressive. In addition McIntyres won the Dundee by Design accolade for Best Environment Design which covers architecture design and landscape both are firsts for the hairdressing industry