myhairdressersearch isn’t just a place where you can find your favourite hairdresser, promote your salon or even show off your talents. It’s an online salon where anyone can find anything and everything to do with hair styling, colouring and cutting. Be it yours or somebody else’s hair, our vision is to enable you to find out what you need to know – quickly and easily.
The only service of its kind in Australia, myhairdressersearch.com is the ultimate way to search for a hairdresser. Simply search by name, suburb and postcode. It’s the ultimate database for hairdressers across the country to be part of and, best of all, it’s FREE! We're connecting the Australian Hair community.
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The people behind myhairdressersearch
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Karen O’Reilly – CEO & founder
Karen has established, managed and designed a string of successful salons over the last 10 years, including Helmet Palm Beach, Helmet Junior in Paddington and Hare House and Beauty in NSW’s Southern Highlands.
Following a five-year career as one of Asia’s top full-time models and a successful stint in Hong Kong production management, Karen returned to Australia in 1996 and began at Sydney’s most prestigious salon, Helmet. In 1998 she became life and business partner to Helmet’s proprietor, hairstylist and make-up artist Glenn O’Reilly and together they grew the business from a single salon to three. Karen also developed the fragrance- and colour-free children’s hair care range, Helmet Junior.
After a stint in Paris marketing Helmet Junior, Karen returned to Australia and, in 2006, opened the Hare House and Beauty salon. It was during the planning stages of this that Karen saw the need for an industry resource like myhairdressersearch.com – and so it all began.
karen@myhairdressersearch.com
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Glenn O’Reilly – Hairdresser and founder
A hairdresser, salon owner and contributor to the likes of Vogue and Marie Claire, Glenn is one of the top hairstylists and salon owners in Australia.
After an apprenticeship at Melbourne's Zimmer, Glenn helped open Kabu Haircutters in Toorak in 1985 which he then managed for seven years. He later moved to Sydney and, in 1993, set up Helmet with the legendary hair and make-up artist Stephen Price. Added to this, Glenn opened Helmet Hair and Make-Up Academy in 1995 and managed freelance hair and make-up for editorial clients including Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire and Madison.
By 2002 Glenn’s stable of salons had grown to three and, when an offer came in, Glenn accepted and relocated to Paris. The ensuing 12 months saw him working for the Paris and Milan runways on mega labels Chanel, Emelio Pucci and Antonio Beradi. Upon returning to Australia, Glenn joined the highly regarded Names Agency and, in between celebrity engagements, continued freelancing at top Sydney salons. In 2006 Glenn and his wife, Karen O’Reilly, felt it was time to open their own salon again, with Hare House and Beauty in the Southern Highlands.Today, Glenn continues to work in his own salon and exclusively at Sydney’s Rugerri and the Names Agency.
glenn@myhairdressersearch.com
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Victoria Meppem – Founding editor
Victoria Meppem blames her mum for starting her obsession with hair. "I'll never forget her sticking hot rollers in my hair every morning before I left for primary school so my bob was perfect. It's a bit scary because I see myself doing exactly the same thing with my two-year-old daughter Alice but these days it's with the blow dryer, not rollers." An early passion for beauty and fashion translated into a determination to work in magazines and it was work experience at Vogue when she was 16 that led to a twenty-five year career working in senior beauty roles on Australia's leading magazines like Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire.
Now Victoria finds herself in the role of editing myhairdressersearch.com to keep you up to date with the latest and greatest features, news and profiles in the hair industry.
victoria@myhairdressersearch.com
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Victoria Lea – Associate editor
Victoria has worked as a writer and editor across print, online and film for the past seven years, and titles she has written for include The Australian, TV Week, Empire, Australian Creative and Inside Film.
In 2004, she launched MediaConnect Asia, a Singapore-based media publication covering seven countries including Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand. Following that she worked as features editor of AdNews magazine, the highest-circulating media magazine in Australia, and as editor of Junior, the country’s number one magazine for parents in the AB bracket.
viclea@myhairdressersearch.com
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Elena Sabag – Advertising Sales Manager
Elena comes to myhairdressersearch after four years as national sales & marketing manager at Dayton Tech, a global technology leader and part of the high-profile Jebsen group in Hong Kong. Here she headed up all consumer electronics products, from TVs and LCD screens to MP3 players and digital voice recorders, managing the Australia-wide consumer retail channel. Prior to Dayton, Elena spent three years as senior account manager across technology and business titles at Sydney-based award-winning magazine powerhouse, AJB Publishing.
At myhairdressersearch Elena heads all advertising and marketing opportunities, from banner ads and newsletter opportunities to sponsorship, award programs, multimedia opportunities and content partnerships.
elena@myhairdressersearch.com
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Rob Kotevski
After graduating with a major in journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney, Rob worked for a US firm about to launch in Australia, where he headed the editorial development of the company’s new site Down Under.
The next step for Rob for the following twelve months was a stint working as a web co-ordinator for Reed Business Information, where he worked on an industry leading site and he was closely involved with the launch of the site in two new territories, New Zealand and India.
One year later, Rob travelled around Europe and the United States, based in London where he worked as a web sub editor at RBI’s London offices. This involved managing projects across print, online and multimedia, where his work was picked up by the BBC.
rob@myhairdressersearch.com
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