'I introduced hair extensions to Liverpool... I knew it would be a grower!'

Mum brought the then new idea back home after she spotted them in LA

- By EMILIA BONA

A MUM who brought Beverley Hills beauty to Liverpool claims she was the first person to introduce hair extensions to the city’s salons.

Dianne Marshall, 56, recently won Hair Extension Salon Technicians of the Year at the National Salon Awards 2025 for her Stanley Street salon, which customers travel to from across the UK.

Dianne, who lives in Ormskirk, trained as a hairdresser in Liverpool but spent much of her childhood and young adulthood between Crosby and Los Angeles when her family relocated to the gold coast. The mum-of-one saw hair extensions for the first time at a Beverley Hills salon and decided to bring the then new beauty trend back to Liverpool.

Dianne said: “I worked with a woman who specialised in hair extensions and did every celebrity under the sun and I thought ‘no one is doing this in the UK’ I was about 18 when I started there and I moved back here at 26. I always knew I was going to come back and I wanted to come back to Liverpool with something new”