Amcanu help provide the ‘cutting edge’ to new children’s hair salon

By Robert Lloyd

A Burry Port design and manufacturing business has helped provide the ‘cutting edge’ to a new specialist children’s hair salon which is reckoned to be the biggest in Wales.

The Tickled salon is opening in High Street, Swansea, this week (May 1), with owner and stylist Damian Hart grateful for the help of his engineering expert friend Owain Davies.

Mr Davies is the managing director of Amcanu, a firm which normally provides tailored sheet metal solutions for industrial purposes.

He explained: “Damian was looking for something novel for his new salon and hit upon the idea of using toy quad bikes and cars as ‘barbershop chairs’.

“We enjoy a challenge here at Amcanu and we were able to adapt battery and pedal-powered toy vehicles to suit Damian’s needs.

“With close attention to detail and safety, we were to provide him with some eye-catching ‘barbershop chairs’ for his new venture.

“Our normal work sees us building giant acoustic enclosures for noisy industrial machinery. Doing work for a hairdressing salon is something of a first for us, but it was great to be able to help Damian out and the team at Amcanu thoroughly enjoyed the project.”

Mr Hart has run the Menz Trendz salon in The Arcade in Llanelli town centre for 11 years. But he has chosen the new Urban Village in High Street in Swansea to expand his business and offer a service exclusively for children.

The £25 million Urban Village development is a Coastal Housing project designed to regenerate the High Street end of Swansea. The building was previously used for the South Wales Evening Post theatre showcase for Cappuccino Girls.

Mr Hart, 38, expects his specialist children’s salon to be the biggest in Wales, with four stylists, a receptionist and nursery nurses making up a staff of seven.

Painted murals on the walls and ‘Children’s Choice’ TV screens make for a colourful atmosphere at Tickled.

Mr Hart added: “We hope the new chairs and the salon will be a great hit with families who will come to us from all over South Wales.”

Websites –

http://www.tickledsalon.co.uk/

http://amcanu.co.uk/