AN Oldham salon has been shortlisted for the UK Hair and Beauty Awards 2022.

Do Or Dye hair and beauty salon on Ashton Road is a finalist in the Best Colour Salon and Best New Salon category.

The salon’s owner Terri Leanne Daly,30, from Bardsley, said the salon’s team is ‘really happy’ to have been shortlisted and would be ‘absolutely made up’ if Do Or Dye won.

Terri started at the salon when she was 14 for work experience. The salon’s then owner Sue Fink was so impressed by Terri that she wrote to her school St Augustines to say she was a ‘born hairdresser.’

Terri then started as a Saturday girl before becoming an apprentice after leaving school. In 2017, when Terri was 26, she took over the lease.

Discussing her job, Terri said: “I absolutely love it.

“During the pandemic it was really hard not just financially but mentally. Before then I had only ever taken time off for my maternity leave.”

Terri, who now has two boys aged six and 10, is currently completing a teaching qualification at University Campus Oldham and is set to graduate next year.

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Terri Daly (centre) with stylists Jack Lester, Molly Johns and Lauren Moss.

The salon owner has ambitions to transform Do or Dye into an academy and change people’s perception of Oldham as a ‘run down town’.

She added: “I want to take the salon to the next level and teach people what I do.”

To be shortlisted for a UK Hair and Beauty Award Terri had to show the judges what makes Do Or Dye stand out.

She said: “The salon is known for its great environment. People come in and say it feels like home.”

Do Or Dye’s popularity is apparent on social media.

A photo of Terri holding the salon’s finalist certificate alongside the salon’s stylists Jack Lester, Molly Johns and Lauren Moss has so far received more than 100 likes on both Facebook and Instagram.

One person commented: “Fantastic team well done and well deserved.”

A second wrote: “Congratulations to you all. Well deserved.”

Another added: “Well done, you are all fabulous.”

The salon will find out if it has won the UK Hair and Beauty Award in March.