I have been a hairdresser for over 27 years now. I started my hairdressing career in 1985 in Shibuya, one of the biggest and busiest towns in Tokyo, Japan, learned all the aspects of hairdressing, and gained experience until I left the country in 2010.  And then a new chapter of my life began in Australia. I worked in Brisbane and Sydney from 2010 -2012 and then moved over to New Zealand, worked in Auckland from 2012-2014 and in Dunedin from 2014 to the present.

My passion is to provide high-quality hairdressing services to make people happy with their hair, especially knowing that not many local hairdressers are highly skilled at perming or chemical straightening around here, I just use my skills and knowledge to handle Japanese products of good quality, although I use European colour products as well to do colours for European hairs. I believe that is how I contribute to this society as an immigrant from the far East in the Northern Hemisphere not wasting years of my experience and making my hairdressing life more worthwhile.

Shin Namiki