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I'm Marta
I don't specialise in one technique. I specialise in getting it right.
Balayage, corrections, vivids, blonding, grey blending - I do all of it,
because your hair doesn't fit into a box and neither do I.
I've been doing this long enough to know that great colour isn't about which method you use. It's about understanding hair. Reading it. Knowing what it's been through and what it can handle.
Most of my clients found me after someone else let them down. A colour that pulled orange. A balayage that grew out wrong. A stylist who said it wasn't possible.
I won't always have the answer on day one. But I'll be honest with you about what's realistic, what it takes to get there, and how long it'll actually need. No false promises.
Just a proper plan and someone who knows what they're doing.
Market Drayton, Shropshire.
People travel for it.
The woman behind the chair
I tried to fit in. I failed. So I stopped trying.
Kids at school called me a squirrel because of my curly ponytail.
I never understood why I couldn't just blend in.
Average. Background. Forgettable - that's what I felt like for a long time.
At 17 my parents suggested hairdressing.
I was a tomboy. Baggy trousers, basketball.
In my head hairdressing meant Barbies - perfect makeup, high heels, picture-ready at 8am.
That wasn't me.
It took me nine years to give it a chance.
Even then I didn't fit in.
I finished college faster than anyone in my group.
Went straight into doing my own thing - mobile, home salon, first salon property.
And now eleven years running Hair By Marta.
Seven years ago my husband said something that changed everything.
"Why do you care so much what people think? Just be yourself."
So I stopped performing.
Stopped trying to be what a salon owner was supposed to look like.
Dark humour. Borderline rude. Obsessively driven.
I use fear as fuel. I hate failing.
I love proving people wrong.
My personality doesn't do your hair - but my standards do.
If it's not right, you're not leaving my chair.
If it doesn't suit you, it doesn't happen.
I've stopped trying to be liked by everyone and the clients who get that?
They stay forever.
Turns out not fitting in was the point all along.
Marta x
