We’re delighted to announce that the award-winning Clifton hairdressers at NOCO Hair have been nominated again for industry accolades – twice.

Having been awarded as the Best New Salon of 2019 at the Hairdressing journal’s British Hairdressing Business Awards, our Clifton hair salon on Whiteladies Road has now been nominated as finalists for two upcoming award for the prestigious British Hairdressing Awards 2020.

NOCO Hair have been nominated as finalists for two Awards categories, namely Independent Salon – Business Newcomer of the Year and Salon of the Year, with hair salons across the entire country competing to win.

Our Whiteladies Road salon is one of only six in the whole UK to be nominated as finalists in the Salon of the Year category, which celebrates hair salons that are excelling in all aspects of their business.

The Independent Salon Business – Newcomer of the Year award recognises the top six UK hair salons that have launched successfully, and is open to any hair salon in the country that’s two years old or less.

The entire team of Clifton hairdressers at the salon are completely blown away to be finalists in two award categories, and our lovely guests are as excited as the team to find out what will happen at the award ceremony on Monday 25th January at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

Hairdressing Journal’s British Hairdressing Business Awards have been running for 22 years, and promotes professionalism, innovation and excellence in the hair industry, so to have such a prominent place in the 2020 awards has been an incredible result for our Clifton hairdressing team.

We’ll keep our lovely guests informed of the Awards, and hope to chat to you on your next visit about how excited and privileged we all feel here about it.

To find out more about the awards for 2020, please visit here.

To experience our award-winning Clifton hairdressers for yourself, please book online here.

As leading hair colouring experts in Bristol, many of our guests come to us looking for the best balayage in Clifton – and at NOCO Hair, we don’t disappoint.

For new guests visiting us for balayage hair colouring, one of their first questions is often why are your Clifton balayage services so popular – and we offer the following reasons.

When it comes to new trends in hair colouring, balayage is essentially an upgraded version of classic hair highlighting, with some magic thrown in.

Balayage is a French hair colouring technique, utilising the freehand application of colour placement. It’s a highly skilled hair colour method.

Our Clifton balayage service focuses on three different styles, namely:

1. Strand lights
2. Face framing
3. Airtouch balayage

We deliver signature colour techniques, and train each staff member in-salon. The focus on each and every balayage hair colour at NOCO Hair is on blending, and delivering seamless colouring and quality for our guests.

Airtouch balayage, for example, has become one of our most popular bayalage hair colouring services in Clifton, and gives guests safe hair colouring, stronger hair, and a low maintenance but stunning new hair colour.

The Airtouch technique used by our Clifton hair colouring team uses air instead of backcombing, to create a seamless blend of colour. By taking a section of hair with tension on the longest lengths, a hair dryer is used to push the shorter hair and internal layers down and out of the way.

Colour or lightener is then applied on the remaining hair, giving blended colour with natural-looking effect that will survive grow-out. The key difference with our Airtouch balayage hair colouring service is the sectioning and the use of a hair dryer. The results are incredibly natural, and our guests love it.

Strandlights are the evolution of babylights, and our Clifton hair colouring team are getting more requests from guests for this technique and styling. They require far less hair density, and are designed to mimic a bright, natural hairline with hints of light. They also have zero horizontal grow-out.

Strandlights are a low-maintenance hair colouring option for guests who want a low-maintenance look that still transitions their hair colour from Summer to Autumn. This is perfect for detailing a balayage or touching up highlights.

Strandlights can accommodate blending in grey hair, and is a hair colouring service that can comfortably last for up to four months between salon visits.

Face framing highlights are tied closely to balayage hair colouring techniques at our Clifton hair salon, because it’s a great way to add brightness around the face whilst also boosting the hair colour and facial features.

Face framing is a simple way to add to any look, regardless of the face shape, haircut or hair colour. It’s low-maintenance too, so guests can either let the highlights grow into the hair, or boost the colour over time.

We’ll be offering guests free hair colour consultations for a limited time during September and October, so please keep an eye out for these on our website.

We recently wrote a News post outlining the Covid-safe measures now in place at NOCO Hair for all hair colouring services. Please visit here for further details.

To experience our superb and professional balayage service in Clifton for yourself, please book online here.

The management team at award-winning Whiteladies Road salon NOCO Hair are super-excited to announce the launch of a unique hair consultation service in Clifton.

Called Beautiful You, this unique hair consultation is now included with all services in-salon, and is an in-depth examination of a guest’s hair condition, follicle integrity, face shape, and can identify issues such as hair loss.

As leading Clifton hairdressers, we’re seeing more new guests coming to us with a cut or hair colour that has gone wrong – and it’s usually down to a bad hair consultation. Our Beautiful You hair consultation eliminates this problem.

Our hair consultations in Clifton are always carried out face-to-face and not at the salon chair. This is to give a guest the full attention they deserve during their hair consultation, as well as allowing us to take notes for their benefit.

Too often, we hear that a hair consultation in Bristol means no more than asking “What are we doing today, then?” just before the haircut begins.

Beautiful You is totally different to this, and our hair consultation service offers a full examination, diagnosis of the guest’s hair, as well as a prescription with recommendations to improve hair condition and the best haircut for that guest.

Our hair consultation will also highlight the best conditioning and styling products for a guest to use on their individual hair, as well as showing them how their face shape, eye size, shoulder width and jawline all influence the way a hairstyle will look on them. We provide full details for every guest.

For example, a soft jawline is well-suited to a haircut that utilises a defined line and shape, whilst a hard jawline suits a longer, softer hairstyle.

We also examine hair strand thickness, as well as the amount of follicles in the scalp using a scalp camera to get really close during a hair consultation. This can help to identify issues such as hair loss, which could be a temporary problem due to stress.

Whilst our Clifton hairstylists aren’t tricologists, we’re experienced hair professionals and can recommend the best hair care regimes for our guests.

We also examine hair type, hair condition, hair strand density, neck length, and a number of other factors during our Beautiful You hair consultation service in Clifton. We’ve copyrighted this unique new service, because it contains decades of Bristol hairdressing expertise and hair industry inputs.

To experience our unique Beautiful You Clifton hair consultation for yourself, book online here.

We’re really pleased and proud to announce that Whiteladies Road salon NOCO Hair has launched an updated and improved version of The Clifton Cut, following amazing guest feedback and inputs over the last 12 months.

Introduced as the signature style for our Whiteladies Road hair salon, The Clifton Cut has become the most popular hairdressing service we offer in Bristol.

With the re-opening of our salon following Government guidelines around Covid-19, the team have improved and updated elements of The Clifton Cut following extensive guest feedback, to offer what we believe is the best hairstyling service available in Bristol.

The Clifton Cut promises to deliver hair that is fuller, healthier and easier to manage. We focus on delivering more volume to the crown whilst also maintaining hair weight in the external shape and reducing split ends.

The Clifton Cut follows a simple three-step procedure, whereby guests choose their hair length, add the shape, and finish with styling. Simple!

This luxury hair service delivers a superb overall experience every time including an in-depth face-to-face hair consultation, full hair wash at our reclining massage chairs, a shiatsu head massage, the best in Bristol hair care advice, a bespoke blow-dry (wavy, straight or curly), our signature cut, a complimentary wash and blow-dry within two weeks of the original appointment, and 20% off your next visit within seven weeks of the first service with us at NOCO Hair.

The Clifton Cut is designed to work best on hair at jaw-length or below, and is bespoke for each guest. It can be worn with straight or curly hair, and comes as standard with any member of the NOCO Hair team without extra charge.

It works with balayage hair colours, and will enhance the richness of hair colours by reducing split ends and increasing overall hair shine and tone.

Designed to be manageable at home, The Clifton Cut is perfect with or without a fringe, and focuses on hair around the crown whilst also enabling hair to be tied up or worn loose. It’s a truly versatile hairstyling service.

To find out about more about the technical expertise and bespoke creative inputs delivered with The Clifton Cut, please visit here.

To experience The Clifton Cut for yourself, book online here.

With July rapidly approaching, the team at NOCO Hair have had clients getting in touch asking what happens with hair colouring in Clifton from 04th July with the new Covid-19 regulations in place.

Our Whiteladies Road hair colouring experts have been putting together guidelines to help guests feel welcomed and ready to get more of our incredible hair colouring services in a Covid-secure Bristol hair salon.

We’re hoping to be re-opening our Clifton salon from 04th July, subject to it being safe to do so, and having gained approval, and with that in mind, we’ve got a few changes in place to ensure our stylists and guests are totally safe.

These hair colouring service changes around Covid-19 will include:

1. The New Normal – we’re working really hard in the run-up to July, to put measures in place at our Whiteladies Road salon, to ensure your peace of mind during your visit. Although NOCO Hair will look a bit different, and we can’t serve you a frothy coffee anymore, we promise that the standard of hair colour service you receive from Corey, Noel and the team will not be compromised.
2. Our promise to you – we are committed to giving guests a salon experience that can be enjoyed safely. How the NOCO Hair team makes you feel has always been our top priority, and as an award-winning Bristol salon, we’re going to make sure that appointments don’t feel clinical. We’ll be guiding guests throughout each step of the hair colouring journey, as always.
3. Refresh & Revamp – Some guests will want to get rid of the grey, whereas others will want a big change. Maybe now is the time to consider something different, such as moving from a full head of highlights to a balayage, and embrace a more lived-in look post-lockdown. Or, alternatively, to add some new highlights to frame your face and provide new life to your hair.
4. A Special Feeling – hair is an important part of how your feel about yourself, and getting hair done is often the pampering and ‘pick-me-up’ guests need. As a leading Clifton hair salon, we’re here to make that happen for you, and our hair colouring services will give you something to feel good about again.
5. Colour Focus Salon – NOCO Hair works with passion, knowledge, and offers a bespoke hair colour service for every guest. We have two L’Oreal Colour Specialists in our Bristol salon, and our focus is to give guests beautifully-blended colours. NOCO Colour equals beauty and quality.
6. Ongoing education in lockdown – we’ve also been brushing up on our knowledge in-salon, to ensure we’re ready to deal with the results of three months of no salon time, DIY hair colouring at home, and six-inch roots.
7. Online consultations – NOCO Hair now offers online hair colour consultations in Bristol, so that we can assess your hair, manage your expectations, and come up with a service plan prior to your booking. This offers an alternative to coming into the salon before your hair colouring appointment. Skin patch test kits are also now available to be sent to you, so you can do them at home.

To find out about our latest News about hair colouring in Clifton, please visit here.

With July 04th soon to be here, and hairdressers across Bristol hopefully re-opening their doors, the entire team at NOCO Hair are committed to offering you a Covid-safe Clifton hair salon.

Our main concern, of course, is to provide a completely clean and safe environment for both our Whiteladies Road hairstylists and our lovely guests from 04th July and beyond.

It’s really important to us here at NOCO Hair for our guests to feel special and to enjoy an amazing in-salon experience with us. The last thing we want is for any guest appointment to feel daunting, and so we wanted to take some time here to outline some of the recommended measures we’re putting in place.

There’s a new salon layout: we’ve re-positioned our styling stations to allow us to increase the distance between each guests to the required amount.

We will have a new guest welcoming protocol, involving a cleansing zone and hand-washing facilities in the side room that was previously our Beauty Room.

We’re now unable to serve you refreshments, but there will be self-service bottles of water available in-salon for each guest when they visit us.

The NOCO Hair reception area will be fitted with a glass screen, to protect you and our team, and we’ll be preferring to take card not cash payments. All card machines will be disinfected and sanitised before and after each use.

Our Covid-safe Clifton hair salon has introduced new cleaning measures, to ensure thorough sanitisation in-salon between each guest visit. Each stylist will have their own cleaning tray in their trolley, to allow them to thoroughly disinfect all tools and equipment, as well as their styling station, before and after each guest visit. High-traffic salon areas will be regularly disinfected.

Adjustments have been made to our booking system, too, to allow us to spread out appointments, reducing waiting times, and allowing us to thoroughly clean in-salon between each guest visit.

We will be changing staff rotas, and ensuring that there is no over-crowding.

Staff training on new procedures including PPE will be introduced, and it is likely that the minimum requirement for staff will be gloves and face mask. This will be confirmed further to ongoing government advice being updated.

Partition dividers have been fitted between each backwash sink in the salon, and we have changed to disposable and bio-degradable towels for all guests.

There will be glass partition screens at each styling station, to extend the barrier between guests and further reduce the risk of virus droplets in-salon.

We’ve introduced temperature checks for all NOCO Hair staff and guests, as well as a ‘Stay Home’ policy, so if you’re feeling unwell or someone in your household is unwell, please stay at home and self-quarantine.

The above measures are subject to ongoing government guidelines, and are subject to change. For example, we may need to provide all guests with PPE, floor stickers maintaining a two-metre social distancing policy in-salon, as well as additional hand sanitizers at styling stations.

We’ll keep all guests informed as the rules and regulations develop, of course.

There will also be an upcoming NOCO Hair video once all of our PPE has arrived, so that we can show you what new client journey will look like.

Finally, the entire team here at NOCO Hair would like to reassure our current and new guests that we are fully committed to providing you all with a Covid-safe Clifton hair salon, and many more award-winning hair salon experiences.

To find out about our latest Bristol hair salon News, please visit here.

We’ve had a number of clients asking us for advice during lockdown, so we’ve decided to launch online hair consultations in Bristol at NOCO Hair.

Called NOCO Connect, these free hair consultations will give our lovely clients the opportunity to catch up with us on a live video call during lockdown, to pass on free hints, tips and expert hair care until our Bristol salon re-opens.

NOCO Connect, delivered via the ZOOM App, is a new and free hair consultation service from our Bristol hairstylists, which gives a complimentary 15-minute live consultation to discuss a number of issues such as:

1. Hair Care problems and issues
2. Hair colouring problems
3. Hairstyling hacks to save time
4. Hair treatments and hair serums
5. Easy low-maintenance hairstyles

Our salon Directors Noel and Corey are providing this introductory free online hair consultation service to help clients manage hair issues and problems that might be cropping up as a result of the current Covid-19 lockdown in Bristol.

NOCO Connect is part of a wider package of online-based hairdressing and hairstyling services our Clifton Hairdressers are currently developing, to ensure that our clients maintain the best possible hair health at this time.

To find out more about our new online hair consultation services, and to book in your free 15-minute slot with us, simply email [email protected] and mention this News item in the email headline.

Please note that this free online hair consultation is only available to the first 10 people who get in touch, quoting this Blog post. We will look to extending the offer in coming weeks, depending on stylist availability.

If you’re looking for hair inspiration during lockdown in Bristol, our talented team of hairstylists have been putting together loads of superb content including How To video tutorials, handy hints, top tips on styling and hair care, as well as an incredible gallery of inspiring looks to try.

Visit the NOCO Hair Inspiration Hub here to find out more.

We’ve also got some stunning and exclusive benefits for clients via our exclusive and unique NOCO Hair Memberships packages.

To find out about our latest Bristol hair salon News, please visit here.

As the Covid-19 outbreak continues across the UK, we decided to dedicate a News post to provide Bristol hair inspiration from the Whiteladies Road hair salon team at NOCO Hair.

These are challenging times, and our lovely guests have been getting in touch via social media platforms and contacting us directly to ask about ways in which to better manage lockdown hair care and hairstyling at home.

We’ve got a few fantastic online resources to guide and advise, as well as providing simple tips, hairstyle inspiration, and ways in which to maintain optimum hair health during the Covid-19 lockdown.

One of our most popular Bristol hair inspiration resources in the last few weeks has been the NOCO Hair video section. This gives you total control on how to achieve a number of quick and easy hairstyles at home.

Our unique video clips, produced by different members of our talented Clifton hairstylists, give free hints and tips on hair care, and the very best hairstyles to try for an easier life with hair during the Bristol lockdown.

To find out more, please visit our NOCO Hair Videos here.

Another really popular online resource for guests wanting to maintain hair health and simple, practical advice on Bristol hair inspiration has been our Inspiration Hub section.

This provides numerous ideas on ways to make you look and feel amazing during lockdown, including our Blow-Dry Menu and exclusive Clifton Cut. This will provide ideas and tips when styling and drying your hair at home.

To find out more and access our Inspiration Hub for free, please visit here.

Another superb tool to try during lockdown in Bristol is our Instagram account, where the entire team provide stunning hairstyles, the latest looks, as well as top tips on what’s hot and how to look your best while styling at home.

To check it out, please visit our Instagram account here.

To sign up to our monthly NOCO Hair Newsletter, and to start receiving exclusive hairdressing and hair product deals, please visit here.

To find out about our latest Whiteladies Road hair salon News, please visit here.

The talented team of stylists at NOCO Hair wanted to highlight some of the latest hairdressing offers available from our Clifton hair salon.

As a new and exciting salon located on Whiteladies Road in-between Clifton and Redland, we’ve been trading for less than two years, but have already built up a fantastic and loyal customer base who love our expert hairdressing team and the high-quality eco-friendly product ranges we use and sell.

Although we’re not a Bristol hair salon that believes in discounting to drive new clients through the door, we love adding value for our lovely guests when they visit us, and have a couple of ways in which we share the hair love.

The most popular hairdressing offers at our Clifton hair salon are available through our exclusive and unique Membership Package scheme.

There are five different Membership packages offering various levels of hairstyling and hair colouring services, and starting from only £30 per month.

Our Guest Membership Packages provide unlimited visits for one set monthly fee, and the feedback we’ve been getting has been absolutely amazing.

Our new guest package is really popular and we love to add further value, by offering a free wash and blow-dry.

Furthermore, if the guest comes back within seven weeks of their first appointment with us at NOCO Hair, we also give them 20% off a cut or colour service as a thank-you from us.

Another way we provide regular offers to our loyal client base is via our monthly Newsletter, delivered direct to guest’s email inboxes.

Each month we offer special deals on selected services and products, which can only be gained via subscription to the NOCO Hair Newsletter.

This has proved extremely popular already, and the first salon newsletter offer around our Guest Membership Packages was extremely well-received.

To sign up to our monthly NOCO Hair Newsletter, and to start receiving exclusive hairdressing and hair product deals, please visit here.

To find out about our latest Clifton hair salon News, please visit here.

NOCO HAIR LAUNCHES CARE WITH HAIR CHARITY INITIATIVE

Bristol-based hairdressing salon Noco Hair has launched a new initiative with the aim of inspiring hairdressers to make a change to someone’s day and to raise funds for charity.

The idea came from when stylist Noel visited one of his oldest clients to cut her hair after she had moved into a St Monica Trust care home following being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

“After I cut Megan’s hair I gave her a head massage. In that moment something special happened. I didn’t realise it at the time, but as I gave her a massage and her daughter sat on the bed with a tear in her eye, there was a moment of calm and peace,” says Noel. “Megan looked and felt so relaxed, the energy in the room had shifted. It was like for that moment all the pain had gone. There is something so special about the human touch.

“At first I thought it was sad as it had turned out to be Megan’s last haircut. But then it came to me that this was a really beautiful thing and a huge honour to be able to give someone their last haircut along with a moment of calm and gentle release.

“This lead me to think about the fantastic work that hairdressers do on a day to day basis. We can literally turn someone for feeling terrible to fantastic. We can do something that doctors or no medicine can’t. This needs to be celebrated and sometimes hairdressers need reminding that we can literally change the world by changing somebody’s world.

“So we have set up Care With Hair with the aim of inspiring hairdressers to go out of their way to make someone feel amazing and to raise some cash for charity.”

The stylists from Noco Hair then teamed up with cancer charity Penny Brohn UK in Pill, who use complimentary treatments, yoga and massage as a healing and relaxing tool for people with cancer.

Together they recently hosted a Christmas fundraiser evening which included swing dancing, makeovers, hairstyling, and a raffle which raised £154 for the local charity.

Next year, the team at Noco plan to host more charity initiatives and Noel will be running the London marathon on behalf of Penny Brohn.

Main image: The Noco Hair and Penny Brohn UK Christmas fundraiser

This year Noel will run the London Marathon in aid of Penny Brohn

If we raise enough money – Noel has promised to run in fancy dress

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See below for photos of our amazing Care with Hair evening with Penny Brohn