SHE has been nominated more than 10 times in the past and won the Scottish Hairdresser of the Year award in 2011, now Suzie McGill is in the running for the top accolade again.

The flair of the creative director of Rainbow Room International and director of the Uddingston salon has been recognised in her entry for the award this year, to be presented at the British Hairdressing Awards on November 23 at the Grosvenor Hotel in Park Lane, London.

“I work on it from February, it’s a really long project and it evolves as it goes along,” she explains.

Her first collection of four photographs were submitted for judging in June and the category, with more entries than any other at this year’s awards, is whittled down to six finalists.

Another set of four photographs expands the collection and Suzie’s forward-thinking ideas.

“The collection has to be really fluid. Although all the hair is very different, the inspiration was movement. It’s very editorial looking, quite fashioney and it has a slightly 70s feel,” she says.

“There is a lot of movement, whether it’s in the hair or in the clothes. The colours of the clothes are really high in fashion just now, there are a lot of pale blues and greens, in suedes and silks. It’s really beautiful.

“We were quite experimental this year, we wanted to create textures inside the core of the hair. There’s a lot of braiding but slightly more avant-garde than you would see elsewhere.

“In Rainbow Room International we do braknot, it’s like braiding with knots. We have done internal weaving. It’s all very technical.

“I’ve done cuts, long hair, braknots, weaving: I wanted to show everything I can do and show off a wee bit.

“I’m really proud of it, I love the feel and the look of it. It’s quite sensuous and very expensive looking.”

All the stylists in the salon are going to London to cheers Suzie on, including Diana Carson, who is just back from working on the Bernard Chadran show at Paris Fashion Week, and Chantal Mcauliffe, a member of the elite hand-picked Leap Team at Schwarzkopf, who works in London every month on seminars and fashion shows.

Suzie, meanwhile, is just finished work as part of the behind-the-scenes team on this year’s Marks & Spencer Christmas advert.