'The teamwork is what I love' - Friendly salon where staff listen and laugh with customers celebrates 25 years
25 years after a fateful decision to ‘give it a go’, a popular and friendly salon has celebrated a quarter of a century of hair and beauty treatments with its staff and customers.
Helen Humphreys set up Sophisticutz Hair & Beauty at The Levels, Astley, near Shrewsbury, back in the year 2000, having been operating a mobile salon for the previous two years.
Fast-forward 25 years and the business, which has expanded to employ six people, is marking a major milestone.
Looking back Helen, 48, said that setting out at the turn of the millennium she have never considered where the business would be come 2025.
She said: “I never really gave it much thought, I was only 23 and had to apply for planning permission from the council because we are in a barn conversion so I didn’t really give it much thought.
“I never really had a business plan or a future plan, I was just like ‘let’s wing it’ - and it has done me okay so far!”
