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There's something about Megan
Date Added: 2009-04-08
She’s gorgeous, young (just 22) and incredibly talented. Every credential for hob’s Megan Zarrabi to be viewed with green-eyed envy. But charming, friendly and modest – she’s a very popular colleague indeed. Sarah Andrews chatted to this young award-winning hairdresser.…
Megan works for salon group-of-the-moment – hob – adding to its accolades by making it through as a FAME Team member and being titled the Clothes Show Live Young Hairdresser of the Year.
Megan’s beauty has meant she’s been modelling since she was four years old, but this wasn’t enough to sustain her interest: “I was always more interested in the other side of the camera,” explains Megan, “I loved watching the hairdressers and make-up artists at work.”
It was this that made her declare her dedication to hairdressing. Twelve years on and Megan was working as a Saturday girl in a local salon. “I then became interested in hob because of the company’s photographic work,” says Megan. She now works hob’s Northwood branch. “My first success with the company was having my own blow drying column at the weekends and went on from there,” she says.
Between building up a great reputation with her increasing and loyal clientele, her profile hit the headlines when she made it through to the FAME team. Says Megan: “When I heard my name called at the Fellowship Luncheon, I was so overwhelmed I walked the wrong way to the stage and had to be helped onto it by Sean Dawson!”
The dust from her whirlwind FAME Team year has only just settled, a highlight of which involved going to Australia: “There was literally no time to think,” says Megan. “We didn’t even have time for jetlag! We got off the plane, chose our models, got on with the hair, ready to present at Hair Expo – the big Aussie trade exhibition.”
Megan admits being in The FAME Team pushed her boundaries: “It team taught me to be more of an all-round hairdresser,” she says. “Before, I was scared of working with long hair, but now, I love it. The experience really took me out of my comfort zone.”
And sorry to the chaps out there, but this lovely lady is already spoken for by another very gifted hairdresser, Jamie Stevens from Errol Douglas’s salon: “I try not to talk about that too much, but
we’ve been together for a few years and he’s very supportive of my career,” says Megan.
This career became even more rewarding as Megan was made Young Hairdresser of the Year at the 2008 Clothes Show, one of her favourite memories so far: “I entered pictures of a style I created,” explains Megan, “a sharp, sixties geometric look. I couldn’t believe I won!” The prize was an enviable one too – two industry magazine front covers and the chance to work with an industry icon of her choice.
Future ambitions for Megan include furthering her career within hob. “I really want to be a part of the hob artistic team and to enter the British Hairdressing Awards one day would be amazing.”
Other opportunities which present themselves by being part of hob include working on television programmes: “We did Paris Hilton’s programme – My New Best Friend and Gok Wan’s Miss Naked Beauty, which is a lot of fun.”
But away from such glamour, Megan is a normal 22-year old who loves Primark, music and (slightly stranger) listening to Heart Radio. Her love of fashion means she’s excited about the idea of session styling: “I worked on a Thomas Vicary show and it was great, I really like the fashion side of hair,” says Megan.
“Right now I’m working on building-up my profile and respectful of all the opportunities I’ve been given, I eventually I want to give back to the industry with education,” says Megan says with a generous smile.
