I am a foreigner having come to Cork some weeks ago and I still wonder why there are so many hairdresser here. Is it similar to other Irish places?
Are Irish people obsessed with having an ideal and impressive hairstyle? I do not suppose so, I have seen only some girls with a shiny pink look or a young man having a green head.

People spend a lot of money on their image, a lady who is a hairdresser explains. It is not only a Cork phenomenon, all over Ireland its inhabitants like changing their haircuts approximately every month. But there are many people who want to be glamorous or expressive for the weekend night life and visit their stylist every week paying no attention to the money it costs, just to be sure that a man or woman who wanted their telephone number at the last disco won’t recognize them.

Passing street after street I am checking the windows of salons. Most of them are in a modern style, some have a similar atmosphere to those in old movies, having representative workers in both categories. If you want to be a hairdresser in Ireland, you should be trained. Even colleges ffering work practice exist for talented people interested in this area.

You get trained in a few months or even years and then you can test your knowledge and ideas with the hair of Irish people as many of them love crazy aircuts, a hairdresser supposes. f you just come to Ireland for the first time you can find the hairdresser
business unusually spread, however there are also immigrants working in beauty salons

Polish hairdresser
D’Arcy’s Design Team, 27/28 Paul Street, Cork, Tel: 021 4277216

Turkish hairdresser
Malaysian hairdresser
Jeff Devine Hair Group, Wilton S C, Cork, Tel: 021 4341474

Croatian hairdresser
Frank Victor Hair Studio, 42 Marlboro Street, Cork, Tel:  021 4272008

Russian hairdresser
Tel: 086 3896710
 
Nigerian hairdresser
Obison Hair Salon, 47 Barrack Street, Cork , Tel: 021 4808607