There are nine months to Christmas, the sun is shining and we haven’t had our Easter eggs yet — but Ripon hairdresser Marie Challis already has her festive plans in hand..
Ms Challis, who has owned and run Cameo’s hair salon on North Street for 20 years, is planning a Christmas creation to enter in the Winter Wonderland Alternative Christmas Tree competition at Spa Gardens in December.
What she needs are rollers — and lots of them! She plans to put her creative talents to use by transforming them into a festive tree.
Ms Challis told the Stray Ferret
“People may think I’m crackers, but you have to plan ahead and I need to collect as many hair rollers as possible by September so that I can start making my tree.
“It doesn’t matter what shape, size, colour or material that the rollers are made from. I’m asking customers to let me have any that they no longer use.”
Ms Challis, who comes from a highly-creative family, headed by mum Hazel Barker, whose designs for the Ripon Community Poppy Project adorn the city’s streets each year, will be a first-time entrant in the Christmas competition.
She said:
“I’ve already had a good response to a note that I put in my salon window, but I’m going to need a few hundred more rollers for the design I have in mind, so it’s a case of the more the merrier, because the greater the number, the bigger the tree.”
Anybody who was planning to take their unused rollers to the tip, is invited to take them to Cameo’s instead and watch out for them turning up later this year as part of an unusual Christmas tree.