The Colour Boom

Koleston, which was the first ever cream hair colour, was researched and developed in Germany and then launched in Britain in 1955. The colouring boom brought with it the need for many hairdressing assistants to be trained. Teach and sell became the order of the day and in 1955 a showroom and tuition centre was opened in the Euston Road close to Warren Street tube station in what had been a Lyon's tea shop. Leeds also started courses followed by Glasgow, Liverpool and later Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and St. Ives.