Specialties
Aveda Hair & Beauty products. From advanced skin treatments to beautiful candles & aroma packed lifestyle choices.
The team at Urban Escape specialise in AVEDA colour services & advanced cutting/styling techniques, including bridal and formal hair styling & all your make-up needs.
As a AVEDA concept salon we beliveve in caring for the environment by using renewable resources, recycled materials & products free of synthetic ingredients or petrochemicals.
With our internationally experienced & highly awarded team we create an environment of hairdressing excellence where the client is our guest.
We welcome you to come & experience a sensory journey of relaxation away from the outside world.
History
Established in 2011.
Urban Escape's winning of the international Aveda Green Salon Design Award in 2011, earned Craig a guest speaking spot at the Aveda World Congress that year.
His attention to detail, from perfecting the lighting of the salon so that colour mixes could be varied by 0.1g and noticed, to the reuse of materials forming the salon, to colour waste management and efficient hot water usage, made his salon the most innovative, sustainable, and eco-friendly, service-oriented salon for 2011.
Meet the Business Owner: Craig W.
Hairdresser Craig Withers does nothing by halves. For all of his hairdressing career, he has been a super-achiever, albeit a quiet one, but possessing an innate ability to inspire people from all walks of life. Currently, he is Aveda's only Purefessional worldwide qualified in teaching both cut and colour. He travels Australia educating Aveda salons on Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter collections as well as Advanced Colour and Cutting Master Classes. His salon, Urban Escape, is a state-of-the-art, eco-salon, winning the 2011 Aveda Green Salon Award from an international field.
On completion of his multi-award winning apprenticeship in 1998, Craig ventured to the UK, working his way up the career ladder at Aveda under the tutelage of the one and only Antoinette Beenders. Craig was based within the famous Harvey Nichols department store, and in 2000 was promoted to Top Stylist and Assistant Manager of the Aveda Institute at Covent Garden.