Georgia Winchester

Team True Grit tore up the town on Sunday as we celebrated our girl Georgia, who was a finalist in this year’s Industry Awards for Editorial Stylist of the Year – Next Generation! Well done Georgia. We are all so proud of you 🧡… Read More

Libby Fleck 2019 NZARH Competition

A huge congratulations to Libby Fleck, one of True Grit’s New Generation Stylists on her amazing success at the Canterbury NZARH 2019 Hairdressing and Barbering Competition on the weekend. Libby created some amazing work and walked away with not just one but 3 outstanding, well-deserved awards! đŸ”„Â Next Generation Winner for Colour: En-Trend Ombre đŸ”„ Next Generation Winner for Colour: Future Trend Colour đŸ”„ Next Generation Winner Top Colourist Well done Libby! We are so proud of you and all your hard work. Keep working it girl! In other honourable mentions, our wonderful Style Director Amber King also secured 2nd place in the Senior Colour Concept category. Congratulations… Read More

Jacqui Victor_True Grit

Newsflash!! We are so excited and proud to announce that we took out six awards at the Kitomba NZARH Business Awards including NEW ZEALAND SALON OF THE YEAR! ?? This was at the Industry Awards held in Auckland over the weekend. On top of this prestigious award, True Grit won Grand Salon of the Year, Marketing Salon of the Year, Salon Design of the Year, 2016 editorial stylist for the Canterbury-Westland region and Ashlee van Wijk won Apprentice of the Year for the Northern/South region in New Zealand! Here’s what the judges had to say … Excellence In Marketing In… Read More

Ashlee with Michael Beel

Jacqui, Sarah and Ashlee have been in Melbourne for the Australian Hair Expo and Awards. We were nominated for Best Salon Design and although we didn’t win (congratulations Edward and Co Alexandra!) the team had a fantastic time and were wowed by the truly inspirational hairdressers in Australia. They attended many look-and-learns and discovered new styles of cutting and colouring which they’re keen to put into practice back home in the True Grit salon. The work was original, pushed boundraies with colour and inspired Sarah to create her own collection, ‘Aztec’ (see photos below!) Jacqui attended the Top Salon Summit… Read More

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True Grit and our New Generation stylist Libby are heading up to Wellington this weekend to compete in the HITO Industry Awards. Libby is competing for the national title of ‘Apprentice of the Year’ and we are planning on retaining our status as ‘Training Salon of the Year’. Wish us luck! In the preliminary competition in October, our wonderful style director Haley Scandrett received the third place award in New Zealand for ‘The Cut’ at the NZARH Supreme Awards and Libby Morton took out the HITO North of the South Regional Apprentice of the Year! Check out some photos of… Read More