Creative need leads to fashionable role
ALICIA NALLY tography, visual, hands-on sort of stuff,” she said.
“I wasn’t really sure if I wanted to do hairdressing but ever since I started I love every minute.”
Ms Newton said every day was a chance to learn something new at Edge Hill’s Reds Salon and she hoped to enter her first hairdressing competition next year.
“I love talking to everyone. I love communicating and watching all the stylists create something beautiful and mak- ing people feel good about themselves,” she said.
“We do a lot of outside work with the Cairns Amateurs, high tea events and fashion shows.
“We also do a lot of location work with weddings. I love watching the stylists transform beautiful brides with hair and make-up.”
Long hours on her feet does not faze Ms Newton – she said it is all part of the job.
“Hairdressing is an amazing career to be in because you meet people all the time and you make incredible contacts,” she said. “Plus, it’s always good to have a hairdresser in the family.”
The bubbly Stratford resident said constant requests for services from friends and family were not necessarily a downside when they became a source of new clients.
“It’s always good to get friends and family. When we start doing our friends’ hair, they tell their friends and it is the start of client building.”