Christchurch Hair Stylist Wins Prestigious International Competition

Soho Hair and Beauty's Lyndsay Miller has been awarded the Redken International Influencer Award in the prestigious Redken Colour Generation awards for 2012.

Miller is off to Las Vegas in January where she will receive her award and demonstrate her award winning skills at the Redken Symposium at Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas - one of the world's largest gathering of key people in the international hair styling sector with around 8000 delegates in attendance.

Winners were originally expecting to be notified on November 6th but the storms in the US delayed that and Miller had almost forgotten about it.

"Well I hadn't forgotten but it certainly wasn't foremost in my mind," she says. "In fact I thought the reason I hadn't heard was because I had come last!"

The phone call came last week (Thurs 13 Dec) and Miller says the word managed to get around the salon by the time she got to the phone and everyone was standing looking at her when she took the call.

Nineteen entries from all over the world were competing for the award; Lyndsay Miller was the only New Zealander.

Auckland hairdresser and New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year multiple winner, Mana Dave, is also attending the symposium and Lyndsay understands she will be demonstrating on stage alongside him.

"He is so incredibly talented and such a nice guy; I am nervous but really looking forward to being able to work with him," she says.

Miller was working in the Soho salon on February 22nd 2011 next to Alice in Videoland in the CBD, and the brick building has since been demolished.

Soho owner Alana Fiebig says the new location on Lincoln Rd in Addington has proved a successful decision for the new salon.

"It's so vibrant and social around us; it's great to be a part of that," she says.

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