You'll have to be very lucky to recruit established stylists into a new salon that hasn't yet earned a reputation. It's a bit of the old chicken and egg syndrome here because a GOOD stylist will only want to work for a GOOD salon where they can be sure to progress well whilst earning the salary they deserve. Until you have those good stylists you won't get the clients in. Catch 22!

In our experience, the ONLY way to get stylists of the standard that you want is to take on Juniors straight from school and train them yourself. But of course this takes time and you don't have that luxury when you're setting up from scratch.

We have 3 stylists who we trained and they are all wonderful. We also have a stylist we recruited early on who came to us with 10 years experience - she's OK but not up to the standard of our other girls.

I'm sorry, this isn't really helpful advice, but it's to say that we understand your problems and wish you loads of luck and success. Just don't give up.