Finalists have been announced for the Goldwell Trend Zoom Award for New Zealand and all 5 are from Ryder! A winner will be chosen from Pamela Tinning, Belinda Murrell, Salina-Pearl Griffiths and Tom Agolli and they will represent New Zealand at the International final in Valencia, Spain in October along with Vesna Choklo whom although selected as finalist has already been invited to attend this year’s event. Trend Zoom is an event focusing on innovation in hair colour and is open to competing stylists from around the country who work in Goldwell salons.

Vesna Choklo and Craig Hughan have been named as 2 of the 3 finalists in the Northern category in the Schwarzkopf New Zealand Hairdressing Awards for 2008. Entrants had to submit a portfolio of 3 photographs which demonstrated all-round skill with fashion feeling. The New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year is then chosen from the winners of the 3 regional categories of Northern, Central and Southern at an Awards night on May 10. Congratulations to Vesna and Craig! Click here to view Craig’s entry.
Click here to view Vesna’s entry.

Pamela Tinning has been named as 1 of 4 finalists in the Hair Expo Australia New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year. This is the same award that our very own Craig Hughan won last year! Entrants had to submit a 6 photograph portfolio in addition to a very involved written submission. Pamela now travels to Sydney for the Awards night on June 9. Congratulations to Pamela! Click here to view Pamela’s work.

Tiffany Jeans leaves us to go on Maternity leave on May 8 as she awaits the birth of her second child. Best Wishes from all of us at Ryder go out to Tiffany and we hope to see her back with us in the new year.

Ryder created the hair looks for Little Brother Autumn/Winter 08 at the Little Brother Loves Mala show at St Paul’s Church on Symonds St in Auckland in March. Hair Director Greg Murrell was given a brief of 4 distinct categories of 4 models each for the show. These were: Turds/nerds, Stoners/metallers, prefects and Toughs/Biffs. Playing with these references, hairstyles were created in homage to the characters found in our schooldays. Click here to view images from the show.

Vesna Choklo will be participating in the Goldwell International Trend Zoom Award for 2008. Vesna participated in the 2007 event in Berlin and the judges were so impressed by her efforts that they have invited her back, this year the event being held in Valencia, Spain in October. This event focuses on Hair colour and winners are then invited to help Goldwell develop new colour collections.

In early September, Greg Murrell travelled to Taiwan with Kms California to present ideas to 1500 hairdressers at the KPSS Hair Festival. This type of work is designed to educate and inspire the audience.

Ryder stylists are often to be found doing fashion editorial hairdressing for magazines. Check out the Spring issues of Black and Pulp magazines to see the latest editorial work by stylists Greg Murrell and Pamela Tinning or click here..

At Air New Zealand Fashion Week 07, Ryder created the hair looks for 2 key shows; Zambesi and Stolen Girlfriends Club.

Click here to see the catwalk looks of Zambesi and Stolen Girlfriends Club.

Click here to see how we created the looks for Zambesi and Stolen Girlfriends Club.

On successive nights in June, Ryder won two major industry awards.

Vesna Coklo has won the Goldwell Cut, Colour, Style competition for New Zealand at an awards ceremony in Sydney for the second year in succession.

The brief was to create a contemporary cut and colour as part of a photographic submission. Vesna now travels to Berlin with her model in October to compete in the Goldwell Global Cut,Colour,Style Final where she will recreate the look in front of an international panel of judges. Congratulations to Vesna!

Craig Hughan has been named New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year for 2007 at the Hair Expo Awards in Sydney. Craig won his award in front of 1200 of his peers in the Australasian Hair industry. Entrants submitted a photographic portfolio and a written submission. Click here to view Craig’s collection – "Don’t you want me?" Congratulations to Craig!

We are pleased to announce that Belinda Murrell has returned to Ryder as a Specialist Colourist, after 2 years travelling the country working for Goldwell as a Colour Educator. This involved visiting salons and educating them on product performance and colour techniques. Belinda is passionate about colour and has a wealth of experience in colour selection and correction and is now available for bookings.

In May, the Ryder Artistic Team travelled to Sydney to create the hair for Zambesi at Rosemount Australian Fashion Week for the sixth year in succession. Designer Elisabeth Findlay presented a simple collection which featured short skirt lengths, 60's shapes and clean graphic lines with a monochrome palette.

Complementing this simplicity, Hair Director Greg Murrell concocted a simple backcombed up-do with height at the back. It seemed timely to revisit the up-do, seemingly ignored in recent seasons, to utilise the graphic silhouette and controlled volume possible with this look. No mere parody of a "Ladies" style however, this version avoided looking too pretty as the hair was not over-finished, thus appearing like the models could have constructed it themselves. And with this a contemporary slant on a hairstyle with much historical precedence.

See how we created this look.

In his role as Kms California Artistic Director for New Zealand, Greg Murrell presented Hair Industry educational seminars in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in April. These presentations are designed to educate and inspire the attendees.

To view pictures from the Auckland event, go to www.runwayreporter.com, select Parties and then scroll to find the Kms/Ryder Show.

Craig Hughan has been named as one of the four finalists in the "New Zealand Hairdresser of the Year" category at the Hair Expo Australia Awards. The Expo Awards are highly coveted and are renowned as the only non-partisan (i.e. not sponsored by a single Hair product company) awards in Australasia. The winner's are announced at an awards dinner for 2000 people in Sydney on June 11, 2007.

Click here to see the rest of Craig's collection "Don't You Want Me?"

Vesna Coklo and Salina-Pearl Griffiths have been named as finalists in the Senior Creative Colour, New Zealand, category at the Goldwell Cut, Colour, Style Awards in Australia. Vesna won this award in 2006. Entrants submitted photographs of a creative cut and colour. Finalists were chosen who had their entries re-photographed. Winners are announced at an awards function in Sydney on June 12, 2007.

In March, the Ryder Artistic Team worked with M.A.C at an evening showcase in Auckland to launch their "M.A.C meets Barbie" collaboration which is a new makeup line. The models were all styled with wigs to resemble Barbie dolls.

In the December 2006 Metro Magazine Annual "Best of Auckland" Awards, Ryder has been awarded "Best place to get your hair done for a party". In their words, "We're not big on migraine-inducing prom queen up-dos so for a mussy blow-wave to last all night we love Ryder."

Issue 3 of Black Magazine is just out at newstands across Australia and New Zealand. Purchase a copy and check out the editiorial work of Greg Murrell, Pamela Tinning and Tiffany Jeans.

On your next visit to Ryder, peruse our new complimentary refreshments menu. In addition, we have combined with local salad bar 'Toss' to create a menu of salads which can be delivered to you whilst at Ryder during daytime hours. We simply phone an order through for delivery and the total is added to your bill at the end of your visit.

Congratulations to Vesna Coklo of Ryder for winning the Senior Award in the New Zealand Category of the Goldwell Australia/New Zealand Cut/Colour and Style Competition for 2006.

In Vesna's words her entry symbolised "The Modern Day Twiggy, taking inspiration from mod style and it's icons like Twiggy in the sixties. Hair with strength and simplicity with the addition of slices of tone on tone colours make this style a now look."

The hair look created by Greg Murrell for Zambesi a