Award for Shrewsbury hair stylist Lucie
A talented hair stylist has picked up a top award in a major competition. Lucie Ainge, from Copthorne, Shrewsbury, took bronze in an Avant Garde Hair-styling competition run by Wolverhampton College.
The 20-year-old who works at the K2 Salon in Shrewsbury’s busy Darwin Shopping Centre, was competing against stylist from salons across the West Midlands.
Lucie, who has been with K2 for four years, started as a Saturday girl while still in school at Meole Brace Science College.
K2 was launched by former Bond Street stylist Philip Minton in December 1971 and is officially a Vidal Sassoon support salon and over the years his staff have had access to top training with day long work experience with some of Sassoon’s top stylists.
She said: “I’ve always wanted to be a hair stylist and I really enjoyed the competition, it was a chance to be really creative.
“I enjoy cutting and colouring. It’s nice to do something different all the time.”
Lucie, who has qualified at Level Three, used friend Sophie Farrington, also 20, as a model for the competition and she added: “Avant garde is a very creative style so I did a bow at the back with her hair up.
“Sophie really liked it and she has asked me to do it like that again for a special occasion.
“K2 is a really good place to work because there is such a good atmosphere here and there is so much expertise and they are very focused on training so I would just like to carry on learning.”
