Kym

Kym’s been with medusa since 2002, and in 2012 became a salon business partner. She has a deep understanding of all things hair! 

Kym’s experience is reinforced by technical knowledge. While gaining her Wella Master Colour degree, Kym achieved an exceptional 98%, and she has been teaching others for more than ten years.

Aside from the day-to-day work of making clients look and feel fantastic, she has also participated  in industry training events, fashion shows, and editorial photo shoots, and has won many industry awards (including the title of Medusa Fantastic Hairdresser for three years in a row).

“The most enjoyable area of my working life has to be my clients – without them I’m no one! I love suggesting tweaks and changes for their hair, priding myself on trying not to do the same thing twice.  Whether it’s changing  colour from cool to warm, drying hair from straight to waves, I always like to experiment when the client is game for shaking things up a little… and subtle changes can often change how confident a person feels about themselves.”

Kym has many regular clients, and it can sometimes be hard to get an appointment with her. For this reason, she invests a lot of time on teaching and making sure the next wave of stylists are as much of a perfectionist as herself.  As joint owner of the Broughton salon, she is responsible for making sure everything in the salon is tickety boo (did I really just say that?) and running like clockwork.

“I genuinely love to ‘catch up’ with my clients and want to know what’s happening in their lives. As the conversation twists and turns down many a path,  I love how often I stumble upon something that I never knew and that helps me in my own life. You can learn an awful lot when you cut hair if you listen.”

Away from the hustle and bustle of Edinburgh, Kym is an animal lover at heart, and is at risk of converting her home into an animal sanctuary.