We are a UNISEX SALON that opened in Tingley, Wakefield on Monday 5th March 2012. THE HAIR LOUNGE was launched, solely owned by Hayley Dean. She is joined by two part time stylists, another full time stylist and two apprentice stylists, to make the team at The Hair Lounge. Find out more about the girls below...

The Hair Lounge offers an excellence in all services provided by our stylists with the professional help of Matrix Professional Hair Care expertise. This allows our creative stylists to provide an ambitious and artistic service to each and every one of our clients.

With outstanding customer service and complete satisfaction we can ensure you receive a satisfying experience here at The Hair Lounge.

Hayley Dean - Owner/Manager

Hayley opened the salon at the young age of just twenty one. She is a local girl from Tingley with over 12 years professional in-salon hairdressing experience, providing services in all aspects of hairdressing. With excellent knowledge and creativity skills in colour, cutting and styling, she is an extremely popular hair stylist in the area and a highly sought after character.

Training began in 2005 working in a hair salon in East Ardsley to assist an apprenticeship at Philips Hair Academy in Wakefield. Hayley was selectively chosen to pursue a fast-track course meaning basic training was completed within 12 months. Hayley continued her career in the same salon building a positive rappore with clients and building confidence and experience within the industry. She then took the opportunity to better her qualifcation and completed  the City & Guilds NVQ Level 3 in Hairdressing, also at Philips Hair Academy whilst working at Fusion Hair Studio, East Ardsley.
 
After working at Fusion for two and a half years, in January 2012 Hayley chose to study the City & Guilds TAQA course; a training and quality assurance course to become an in-salon assessor. This enables her to accompany young apprentices through their NVQ qualification. More recently, in April 2015, Hayley completed a NVQ Level 3 in Training & Education through Wakefield College to allow her to pursue her career later down the line, as a hairdressing tutor. This is the ultimate goal for Hayley; to teach her passion and profession to young adults wanting to start a career in hairdressing.

Hayley now has an established client base which she has brought into her salon but is also increasingly gaining more and more new clients as well. With ambition and passion, she is driven to provide the best service to each and every client who enters the salon.

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Sarah Longfellow
-Senior Stylist

                                                                                                                     

Sarah has been hairdressing since the age of sixteen when she first left school, she is now a well experienced stylist and a senior member of our team. She is qualified to City & Guilds Level 3 standard and has over 15 years in-salon experience.

Sarah is local to the area and grew up in Tingley where she attended Woodkirk High School. Once she had left school, she began her hairdressing career at a salon in East Ardsley and has worked locally ever since. Through this she is reputable around the area and known for her excellence and high standards of the services she provides. 

From August 2009 Sarah worked at Fusion Hair Studio until June 2012 when she left to become a member of the team at The Hair Lounge.  After giving birth to two beautiful babies in recent years she now works part time and runs a busy column of loyal customers that she has built up over the years. Sarah is superbly experienced and competent in all aspects of hairdressing and delivers this into each and every one of her clients. Her expert knowledge and understanding of the technical aspect of this profession is publicly recognised and so her clients can enjoy her outstanding level of work.

Since joining our team Sarah is continuing into her next chapter in her hairdressing career by offering her outstanding standards to the clients of the salon along with her loyal customers that she has brought with her. We are proud to be working along side her.

Rebecca Tate
-Stylist

Becky joined our team at The Hair Lounge in September 2014. She has been in the hairdressing industry for almost six years. She is qualified to City & Guilds Level 2 in Hairdressing and Level 2 in barbering and has also completed the Advanced Level of Hairdressing - City & Guilds Level 3. 

Becky chose to pursue her career in hairdressing straight from leaving school at Outwood Grange Academy. She started out working full time for Philips Hair Salons (Morley) to accompany her hairdressing qualifications at Philips Hair Academy in Wakefield. It was here that Becky's passion for hairdressing grew and her career took her from an Apprentice through to a Stylist.

Becky now joins us full time at The Hair Lounge looking to further her experience whilst working to offer an exceptional service to all her clients.

Leonie Sykes
- Apprentice Stylist

 As the busy Christmas period of 2013 approached us, Leonie was thrown in at the deep end when asked to help us out. She adjusted quickly and fits perfectly into our team. She is extremely hard-working and a credit to our team at The Hair Lounge. Her personality is beginning to shine as she is gaining more and more confidence each and every day. From August 2015 she has been working full time as she began her NVQ apprencticeship through Philips Hair Academy, Wakefield.
Leonie is now qualified in Level 2 Hairdressing & Level 2 Barbering and also completed  NVQ Level 3 in Hairdressing in June 2019. As a recently qualified stylist, she is offering 20% off all services until further notice.

Jodie Bedford
- Senior Stylist

Jodie is a thirty year old young woman who has worked in the industry from the young age of fifteen where she began working as a junior at David Charles Hairdressing, Tingley. Jodie then moved salons to begin her career working at a salon in Morley and in 2003, completed her NVQ Level 2 Hairdressing at Intuitions Private College, Harrogate, six months prior to the expected completion date.  Jodie made the decision to study extra courses once her basic training was completed, these include 'Creative Cutting', 'Creative Colouring' and an 'Application and Styling of Great Lengths Hair Extensions' course. 

To further her career, Jodie then joined the busy team at Williams Hair Salon, East Ardsley, working along side Hayley & Sarah. During her time at Williams, Jodie studied her NVQ Level 3 in Hairdressing and also attended other courses for cutting and colouring. In 2006, Jodie had the opportunity to study the 'Application of Balmain Hair Extensions' course which she completed in her own time. 

Jodie continued to work in the same busy salon, applying  her expert knowledge to create a trusting and satisfying relationship with her clientele. After working at Williams for a few years, Jodie then decided to take a short career break to start a family; she is now a proud but busy mummy of two beautiful children.

Jodie has taken great pleasure in joining us at The Hair Lounge to make her come back into the Hairdressing industry. She is currently working part-time to fit around her busy home life, be sure to catch her in the salon on Thursdays and Saturdays!

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