Lady Barber

It was the urging of friends and family that propelled hair and make-up artist Vanessa Hurley to open her funky little “haircutting saloon” at the Matakana Country Park two months ago.
She says that after lockdown, she was inundated with haircuts.

“I really enjoyed the feeling of giving someone a great haircut, especially men’s haircuts, considering face and head shapes and textures of the hair and what suited them best,” she says. “My brother-in-law said,

‘You should be a lady barber’, and we all looked at each other and chanted ‘Lady Barber’. It was meant to be.” … read more