NICK TEDD - BLISS OWNER

Hi Everyone!

Well, a HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone! All of us at Bliss are looking forward to making all your hair dreams come true in 2008!

February 19th saw our Annual Awards Ceremony - the tension was mounting in anticipation of who's won this year! The categories were as follows:

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BLISS PLANS FOR 2008
The following is a list of achievements, events & happenings we have organised for our teams so far for the coming year. Look out for much more to come!!

Wella Trend Vision Presentation.*
New Wella Quad colour technique workshop.*Also added to Wella look book. To be featured heavily in the glossies incl Elle.
Wella Colour correction training workshop*
Wella column consequences training workshop*
Wella basic colour theory*
Wella Master Colour Award. We're going to win!
Wella Trend Vision Competition, entrants from all Bliss salons
TIGI PHOTOGRAPHIC competitions, we're entering - who's gonna win??
TIGI Europe Black Magic Party & colour launch featuring 3 course dinner, TIGI awards, incredible TIGI illusion show, after party, accommodation & travel for LUCKY INCENTIVE WINNERS, Cara Bosustow, Liam Baxter, Aulene Smith & Yasmin Fitzgerald - WELL DONE!
ECHO wedding fayre.
BLISS make-over competition. 6 finalists, prize now over 5,000.00 value. Watch this space to see the lucky winners!
BLISS Loughborough photo shoot, Sunday 17th Feb. Do you have the look? Send us a recent head & shoulders photo via our website to be considered as a Bliss house model.
BLISS Exclusive VIP shoot, date TBC
BLISS Nottingham photo shoot, Sunday 10th February. As above -send us your picture via our website.
REDKEN Symposium Iceland, Liam Baxter & Stef Wall are the lucky winners of this amazing trip in Febraury.
BEVERLY C has nominated Nick into the Fellowship of British Hairdressers.
BLISS AWARDS 2008!!!
BLISS MAD DAY OUT 2008?????
Rainbows Hospice fashion show - Fairfield School Loughborough 24/3/08, more Bliss hair & make up & our travelling roadshow.
Our Ladys Convent Fashion show 17/3/08, we'll be backstage doing hair & make up!
Nottingham Trent Finals Fashion show, Bliss Nottingham will style hair backstage in the Market Square!
RACOON RATPACK, An amazing year lies ahead for Stef Wall from Sister Bliss

FEBRUARY PHOTO SHOOTS - LOUGHBOROUGH & NOTTINGHAM - These are to produce our new images & collections for the Summer!

*all these are exclusive Bliss in house training session organised by Head Office Manager Zoe Ellison & Director Nick Tedd.

BLISS.JULIE OSWIN PHOTOGRAPHY.LASER & LIGHT CLINIC.LOUGHBOROUGH ECHO.SUTTON BONNINGTON HALL

5,000.00 MAKEOVER COMPETITION
Here is a re-cap of our Bliss Makeover competition in collaboration with the above friends. I am very focused on my double anniversary of my 25 years in hairdressing & 18 years since opening my 1st salon. I just thought I’d re-cap & update visitors to my blog with the current situation as we have decided to increase the prizes for the 6 Echo Reader finalists. This has now swollen to a value of over 5,000.00!!! The reason for this is that we felt the final 6 all deserved a make-over for different, yet special reasons which were very varied: upcoming 50th birthday parties, nightime care work, losing looks & being devoted full time carers or Grandmothers.

As Bliss is all about make-overs, fashion & looking good, I decided to mark my double anniversaries by, re-designing & refitting all 3 Bliss salons & making over our website. While I was in make-over mood I decided it would be great to collaborate with some my friends at JULIE OSWIN PHOTOGRAPHY, THE LASER & LIGHT CLINIC, THE LOUGHBOROUGH ECHO & PRESTWOLD HALL to offer ECHO readers the chance to get involved in all this madness, by organising a competition with prizes of fabulous make-overs.
The standard of entries was very high & after very careful consideration, myself & judges from BLISS, THE LASER & LIGHT CLINIC & JULIE OSWIN PHOTOGRAPHY decided that all the entrants from the final 6 all deserved a make-over as their individual reasons for entering were so touching & deserved. Therefore BLISS, THE LASER & LIGHT CLINIC, PRESTWOLD HALL & JULIE OSWIN PHOTOGRAPHY, are now donating over £5,000.00 worth of '10 years younger' TV style makeovers - one lucky winner will then recieve a LUXURY VIP photo shoot & upgraded treatments......look out for the winners here!

Wella Colour Experts are now resident in all Bliss salons - what they don't know about hair colour & current Winter trends isn't worth knowing, just ask if you need advice or inspiration request to check out our colour look books.

We now have Redken Hair & Scalp Clinics in all 3 salons - so please feel free to book in & discuss your concerns & requirements confidentially with any team member.

Stef Wall from Sister Bliss beat of stiff competition on stage in London to win a place on Racoon Hair Extensions International Art Team - well done Stef! Look out for the latest extension looks as worn by the Bliss team & applied by Stef herself. Stef has already been to her first RATpack session & trained in all the latest extension looks from the catwalks. The newext addition to the world of extensions are Racoon microwefts - these are re-usable, affordable, high quality human extensions -Racoon have trained a microweft specialist in each bliss salon - so contact usto find out more & book your consultation. Scroll down to see pictures from Stefs win & read more.

Me with Olympic medalist Tony Ally

Deaf Awareness Presentation I was invited by my audiologist Ian Arnold at Arnold Hearing Care, to deliver 2 presentations about how I manage my deafness at work & in my career as a hairdresser & salon owner. I began by screening a high fashion video presentation of Bliss's portfolio of photographic images, set to a pumping house track. I did this to show what I do professionally as I don't think many people associate this with a hearing loss. My presentation was put together to challenge peoples perceptions of what kind of life a typical person with a hearing loss leads. I discussed the challenges I have faced both personally & professionally & demonstrated with a video how I manage these with equipment & techniques to help me communicate better at work & in social, noisy situations. One of the other presenters was Olympic Medalist & Swimmer Tony Ally, who faces similar challenges through his hereditary hearing loss as a professional sportsman. I am now involved in other campaigns for deaf awareness as I feel if I can achieve what I have at Bliss with a hearing loss, I hope it inspires others to realise they can do it too, whatever challenges they face. My Dad, Brother & Aunt all have the same type of loss as me, so I know it is getting progressivley worse as I get older - therefore I am currently learning British Sign Language at college in Nottingham to enable me to communicate with all types of people both at work & socially. I just wanted to say a big thankyou to Ian & the team at Arnold Hearing Care for inviting me to speak at these important events - if any deaf or hard of hearing clients have had problems when having their hair cut in the past, do come & see us as my team are very aware of your needs through communicating with me. Please email me at our contacts page for more information.

(below) I was the compere/MC on stage at the maze in Nottingham the other Saturday for a hilarious one off panto entitled Pinochihohoho!

Thank you for reading!
All the best for 2008!

Nick & all the teams at Bliss x