Day in the life: marc trinder, session stylist

Being a terrible morning person, it's a constant struggle to get up, so I seem to snooze through my alarm for at least 45 mins and get up at the last possible minute. 

Allowing myself 15 minutes to get ready, a brisk 10 min walk to the train station, then an overground train from Hertfordshire, followed by a short bus journey I'm at work 15 mins before my shift to prepare myself for the day, usually picking up breakfast on the way.

I work mainly at our Percy Street Salon in Fitzrovia, or occasionally at the House of Charles Worthington in Covent Garden. I start at 8am with client appointments, which is a really popular slot with those clients short of time who like to come into the salon before they start work at 9am. However my day starts way before this as I work on the train on my way in, researching trends on my iPad, writing quotes for magazines or simply catching up with emails.

There are so many best parts to my role.  Not only do I make customers happy by making them look and feel good, I am able to create trends, educate trainees throughout the UK and abroad, and work on glamorous events such as BAFTAs. Working with Charles is a huge privilege as he has personally taught me so much over the last few years.

If I'm not with clients, a typical afternoon would involve an hour or two to prepare for an event, making mood boards or getting creative on hair ideas using either wigs, dolls' heads or models. This is sometimes followed by a meeting with Charles Worthington, or our Art Director Carolyn Newman.  Every week we have an Art Team training session, where we work on getting ready for events. Depending on appointments I usually return to the salon until 8pm.

 

The commute home is just over an hour, and I usually pick dinner up from M&S on the way back. I don't get time to watch much TV, so I'm really into my box sets.  At the moment I'm really into Mad Men, so when I get home I'm watching two or three episodes.  The styling is so inspirational; I'm totally hooked on the late 1950's right now!