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Private
Melissa Timperley built the most decorated salon in Britain. Her private practice exists for the people who can never be photographed walking into it.
2×
Best Salon in the UK
3×
Best Salon Team of the Year
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Photographs of private clients
Her salon has been named the best in the United Kingdom — twice. Fleet Street prints her opinion on colour. Her cuts walk red carpets under someone else’s name.
The private practice exists for one kind of client: the kind who can’t be seen getting ready.
Best Salon in the UK
British Hairdressing Business Awards
Best Salon Team of the Year
British Hairdressing Business Awards
National awards & titles
Service, experience & independent salon of the year
Photographs of private clients
The only number she's prouder of than the rest
Every name, exactly as it will ever appear. Hover if you must — the ink doesn’t come off.
Names withheld from the page, the press — and this website’s source code.
MT Private — Client Register
Northern Quarter, Manchester · Vol. I
When the nationals need an authority on cutting, colour or what a salon should feel like, the call goes to Manchester. The work follows your cursor.
Faces cropped, names withheld — and the hair still gives the game away. A glimpse of what leaves the chair.
Precision only reads at full speed — the angle of the scissor, the weight of a section, the fall of the finished line.
The craft, in real time
One client · one stylist · one room
Absolute discretion
No public bookings, no photographs, no posts. The NDA is offered before you think to ask for it. Your appointment exists only between the two of you.
Wherever you are
A locked floor of the salon after close. Your kitchen at dawn. A suite, a green room, a trailer on set. The chair travels better than most entourages.
Whenever it matters
The night before the premiere. Three hours before the interviews. The morning of the announcement. Her diary bends around yours — never the reverse.
No price list. No menu. A conversation, then a plan — entirely yours.
The entire process is built to be forgettable to everyone except you. No reception desk, no waiting room, no audience.
A quiet introduction
Most clients arrive by referral. A short, private note is all that's needed — who you are stays between us from the very first message.
A private consultation
Melissa meets you — in person or by call — to understand your hair, your diary and the level of privacy your position demands.
The appointment
At a time and place of your choosing. One client, one stylist, one room. Extraordinary hair, and no trace you were ever there.
Private client · name withheld, as always
There is a door on Tib Street most people walk straight past. Behind it, three floors up, a room that doesn’t appear on the booking system — no salon floor, no walk-ins, no eyeline.
For clients elsewhere — London, the Cheshire triangle, or a departure lounge at six in the morning — the room comes to you.
By appointment only
- Base
- Northern Quarter
- Hours
- Yours, entirely
- Beyond
- Anywhere, on request
No forms, no booking systems, no records you didn’t agree to. Write a line — or have your people write it — and Melissa will reply personally.
Or by introduction, through a current client