Filippo Russo

I travel 84 miles to Bedford to get me hair cut here which tells you everything you need to know! I’ve known my super star hairdresser since when I first started work and his cousin opened a salon behing the office. Over the years, I’d been to hairdressers in the places I’ve lived and the good one’s always seem to move on!
When I moved back to Bedford I found Franco again, now with his own salon and when I was looking for offices for my new business, I choose the ones’s across the seat from the salon!
Having had cropped short hair for years, I had tried to grow it out but not being a girly girl I don’t like spending too much time on my appearance but having Franco across the street meant I could go in every week and he would wash and style for me, whilst we had business chats. He didn’t even normally work on Mondays but came in at 7.30am to wash and dry two customers’ hair and I got to know the other lady well too!
So apart from the level of customer service that Franco is passionate to instill in his large staff too, it’s all in the cut. Something that Franco does means that my now long hair grows out and doesn’t look ridiculous in between cuts. Seeing as my hairdresser is 84 miles away, I can’t get there as regularly as like, particularly as there is no train line between Birmingham and Bedford, but I won’t change. I even waited 6 months between cuts when I was in New York!
Filippo Russo are also excellent colourists too and I have watched the staff grow from being Saturday staff to becoming these experts over the years. I’ve also seen his son grow to be a senior stylist now and every single staff member knows me and greets me by name, despite there sometimes being months in between my visits. It’s a joy to know them all!