WATCH: Stylist of the year 2023 winner Sarah Bernat from Emma O'Malley Hair and Beauty, West Street, Midhurst

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Emma O'Malley Hair and Beauty, West Street, Midhurst has won Best colour salon for Sussex at The Salon Awards for the second year running. Sarah Bernat won Stylist of the year for Sussex.

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00:00 My name is Sarah Barnatt and I am an Artistic Director here at MMO Matleys Hair and Beauty.

00:05 I've been here for two years and I do a bit of everything, so the colouring, the cutting,

00:11 I also train some of the youngsters that we've got, we've got a new apprentice and so we're

00:15 kind of training her up within Salon.

00:18 So yeah, I'm kind of an all-rounder really.

00:20 This is our, I believe it's third year, entering the Salon Awards.

00:24 The first year for me to enter, won for myself.

00:28 Previously we'd worked as a team to enter the Awards as a Salon and we saw on the list

00:33 of the categories, Stylist of the Year, and it was actually Emma, my boss, who said, "Sarah,

00:38 you should go try out, try and go for it."

00:40 So a little bit of encouragement, I entered thinking, a bit of on a whim, thinking it

00:46 would just, "Oh no, you know, it won't be me, but I'll give it a shot.

00:49 We're going to be, you know, going for others anyway."

00:52 And that's kind of how it happened, so it wasn't really kind of, it was more my boss

00:55 and the team that kind of pushed me to do it.

00:57 So it's the first time I've ever done anything like that.

00:59 It was quite incredible actually.

01:01 It was really good.

01:02 The trip up there, going to London as a team, it's always nice as a kind of work event.

01:05 It's really good social, outside of work, to get together with all the girls.

01:09 And we're such a sort of, we're a bigger team now, so it was kind of nice to kind of all

01:13 together go out, with the beautician as well, everyone went.

01:16 Yeah, and my category was the first to be called out, out of the ones we had got into

01:21 the finals for.

01:22 And I think also for each region, they kind of call out the names, they reel them off

01:27 one by one, and obviously Sussex being the last one.

01:30 So every time it was kind of...

01:32 But it was felt amazing.

01:33 I was quite shocked actually.

01:34 There's a video of me, one of the girls got a video of me when they first announced it,

01:37 and I was, yeah, I was a bit like, a bit overwhelmed really.

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