Earlier last month Elena Lavagni, co-owner of London based Salon Neville Hair and Beauty and “service provider” to the world's one and only Amazon Salon featured on Gordon Miller's podcast Hairbrained conversations. In this episode Elena makes a strong case for proactive evolution of how salons think about business and technology to remain competitive in a fast-changing world – and shares learnings from her experience working with Amazon and with her own Neville team over the course of the pandemic.

At Neville Hair and Beauty we are on a mission to salon sustainability and we’ve teamed up with environmental service Green Salon Collective, to make our salon more responsible than ever before with our salon waste.

We are now recycling your hair! Green Salon Collective are working on hair boom and mat projects that could see your hair soaking up an oil spill, and they will also be using it for gardening and composting too.

To join Green Salon Collective, we’ve decided to add a £1 “green fee” to each client visit. So now when you see us in the salon, you’ll also be helping us save our planet too!

If you have any further questions about our “green fee” please contact the salon on info@nevillehairandbeauty.net

Altruism, is when a person shows selfless concern for the well-being of others. A beautiful trait of character that I hold dear to heart and have also taken great pride in observing amongst some of my team members. In particular our colour director Seniz Alkan who recently decided to help raise awareness and funds for a little boy called Metehan. Metehan was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy type 1 - a neuromuscular disease so severe that many children with SMA type 1 do not reach the age of two.

As SMA is a rare disease, Novartis charges a huge fee to cover their R&D costs and make a profit: Zolgensma costs $2.1 million – with additional expenses such as travel, accommodation and consultancy fees, the total amount of reaches $2.45 million (currently £1.9m). Since deciding to join the cause to help Metehan, Seniz has raised over £100k. As a close friend and colleague I am keen to help raise further awareness about Metehan’s story and terrible disease.

For those of you who are interested to find out more or might wish to donate you may do so here:

www.metehansmajourney.co.uk

Dynamic Entrepreneur, Elena Lavagni is always on the look out for top experts in the aesthetic arena to compliment the cutting edge hair and beauty Neville Hair and Beauty is famed for. In her desire to offer a totally luxurious One Stop Shop experience to her high profile clients she is proud to announce the collaboration with London Skin Guru, Renee Lapino.

Elena Lavagni comments, "Its like finding a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow with Renée. Renée gives you the confidence to forget about makeup and simply be yourself. Her talent in fine tuning skin by her fair hands and gadgets has brought her own fame in London."

Renée Lapino provides premium advice, insights and inspiration to help their patients attain their skin goals. Renee's philosophy is that truly beautiful and youthful skin is only achieved by taking an integrated approach to your skin health that includes innovative science-backed treatments and skincare, energizing restorative lifestyle practices and a nutrient rich diet.

Renée opened her first clinic in Notting Hill in 2018, and is thrilled to be opening her second Clinic home on the third floor of Neville’s in Belgravia. With Renee, Elena is proud to give her space at the salon that compliments her legendary reputation and provides a chic environment for her discerning clients.

Each session is designed personally for the patient’s skin and body needs. Specialists utilize holistic therapies to cohesively support cutting-edge technology, which ensures the greatest results with the least amount of discomfort or downtime. Sound therapy, touch therapy and nutrition are all elements of your experience, and included in each treatment. Patients can expect an enjoyable experience and unparalleled results each and every visit.

Joining the renowned team at Neville’s is a natural progression for the Renée Lapino Clinic, and will allow the two powerhouses to offer a comprehensive treatment selection of face, body, makeup, lashes, nails, and of course, fantastic hair. The owners have both enjoyed attending each other’s locations as patrons for several years, and are thrilled to be able to move forward working together in one location.

The Renée Lapino clinic will consist of facial rooms, a dedicated body room, makeup artists and lash specialists in a bright, modern space. Renée and her team will also be launching new machines straight from the US, and offering those treatments exclusively in the Belgravia location.

Throughout the month of September Redken hosted a UK Instagram competition with the infamous Behind The Chair social account inviting colourists around the country to share the very best of their colour transformations using the #redkenxbtc.

Seniz Alkan – Colour Director, who began her career 18 years ago when she started working a Neville Hair & Beauty is a huge fan of the Redken products and jumped at the opportunity to enter the competition.

Having trained as a colourist at the salon and having since worked her way up to Colour Director at the salon, Seniz’s experience has enabled her to develop many colour techniques influenced by her work travels around the globe.

Seniz never stops learning and developing colour trends, and she regularly travels to Los Angeles where she has visited top salons including John Barrett, Tracy Cunningham and Ramirez Tran where she met top colourist to the stars Anja Burton 8 years ago.

Anja and Seniz have since worked together on creating a new variation to the classic Ombre/ Balyage, the Ombralayage, which is exclusive to Neville Hair & Beauty.

Ever the innovator, Seniz, who practices from her own ‘Colour Pod’ at the salon, has created trend after trend seen on the likes of London’s top press, including her new Silhouette Slicing technique she pioneered Spring 2020.

It was in her new Pod that Seniz bleached her client Bria's hair to platinum blonde. A winning look according to Redken and Behind The Chair who awarded Seniz with second place.

Alkan says; "Bria has very fine and brittle Afro Caribbean hair but she was keen to undergo a drastic colour transformation. After our initial consultation we agreed that a platinum blonde would be the ultimate colour for her. To achieve this colour, I used Flashlift with Bonder + 20 Vol to enable me to leave the bleach on as long as I could without compromising the condition of her hair. This mixture meant I was able to lift all the undertones and unwanted colour and achieve the brightness necessary for a platinum blonde. We then proceeded to tone with 9B + 9V + 9P in equal amounts leaving the toner on for 15 minutes on dry hair. It’s important the toner is applied on dry hair for maximum absorption."

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