Dunstable Family Independent businesses: Chicks Crop Shop

Here for Hair Cuts and Treatments

Chicks Crop Shop, at the top of West Street, is one of a small selection of shops going towards Tring Road on the west side of Dunstable.

The owner, Tony, has been in the hairdressing business for some 40 years. He has owned a couple of shops in Dunstable and one in Leighton Buzzard.

The move to West Street was a result of needing larger premises for his growing clientele.

Tony explains his introduction to the business: “I was 13 years old. My cousin had a hairdressers and I started by helping out with menial tasks. I then worked for him as a hairdresser. Later I needed to venture out on my own, so started my own business.”

Tony’s children, when youngsters, did help a little in the business. Now they have moved into banking and dog grooming, the latter perhaps a nod to hairdressing!

Chicks offers a wide range of hair care. As well as children’s haircuts, hair braiding, colouring, extensions, weaves and highlights, balayage is also available. Balayage is a ‘low maintenance, freehand hair-painting technique creating soft, natural looking highlights with a seamless gradient from roots to tip’. It requires less frequent touch-ups as would other colouring and highlighting techniques. (I learn much writing these articles!)

Tony thanks his customers and praises his staff: “I love the business, have good, regular customers and an excellent staff.”

Models are wanted every Wednesday. Call or drop in to the salon.