HIS clients have included Judy Murray, flamboyant singer Paloma Faith and British supermodel Jourdan Dunn.

But Scotland's current reigning hairdresser of the year, Dylan Brittain jokes he wouldn't recognise most celebrities even if they were sitting in his chair.

Dylan, who runs Scottish brand Rainbow Room's George Square salon, clinched the title for the second year running recently, earning him a 'hero-gram' at the Scottish Parliament.

But the modest super-stylist says he's more impressed by the courage of the teenage girls fighting cancer that he always makes time for twice a week in the salon.

Dylan create personalised wigs for young women who have lost their hair through chemotherapy as part of his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust.

He said: "I love doing it. The thing is, I'll see maybe two to three girls a week and I just feel like it's good to be able to give something back.

"For those girls, they are going through the hardest thing in their life so for them to just have that feel-good factor....It really is an amazing charity.

"Even though I am so busy - this year I haven't had a day off since the beginning of the year and I travel all over the Europe - I will always still fit that in.

"It takes up an hour consultation and two hours treatment but I absolutely love doing it. I couldn't give it up."

Dylan, who is from Erskine but now lives in Glasgow with his husband Marc, has been working for the famous Scottish hairdressing brand, Rainbow Room for 23 years, learning under the expert guidance of founders Alan and Linda Stewart.

Next year the well-known brand, which has 12 salons in the West of Scotland, will celebrate its 40th birthday.

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His first role was passing up hair grips to other stylists and he now heads up the team as well as seeing around 40 clients a week and styling some of the biggest names in pop and rock at festivals including Transmission and the Mobos.

He said: "Rainbow Room used to have a salon at 15 Royal Exchange Square, set up by Alan and Linda, who are still a huge part of the business.

"Next year the company will celebrate its 40th birthday. Most staff come and they won't leave because there are so many career paths.

"My career path was definitely artistic but the best thing is seeing the satisfaction on client's faces. I'm lucky as most clients let me do what I want.

"I have got clients who have been coming to me for 23 years. In the academy, those clients were paying £8 and they are now paying just slightly less than £80 for a haircut."

While he has a bulging black book of celebrity clients Dylan admits he isn't fazed by his better known customers.

"Sometimes I'll be doing someone's hair and they say to me, 'do you know who that is' and I'll say no." he laughs. " I'm terrible for recognising people.

"You do have to sometimes pinch yourself because you are entering into this different world but they are just people."

Although he won't name names, he reveals it isn't the uber-preened boys and girl band who are his fussiest clients.

He said: "What I find most interesting about the rockier bands, is that they are really particular about how they want their hair. They are more particular than the girls.

"They will come in and they are very much, I want it like this and they will very much analyse everything you do.

"It always makes me laugh. They then go onto the stage and they have got this image of rock and roll but backstage they are like, 'make sure it's sitting perfect.'

He is one of the few stylists to have scooped Scottish Hairdresser of the Year award two years running and has now set his sights on the coveted, British Hairdresser of the Year Award. He admit he as taken aback to receive praise at Holyrood for his achievement.

He says: "It doesn't happen everyday does it?

"For more hairdressers who come into the business, this is their goal. Most of people come into hairdressing because they want to be creative.

"For me, that was always my goal, to win Scottish hairdresser of the year.

"You can win it three times, so after the third time you get put into the hall of fame. I do it jointly with Suzie McGill (who runs Rainbow Rooms Uddingston salon.)

"It's amazing to think that they are not just talking about politics but raising other things and promoting Scotland and promoting businesses within Scotland.

"The amount of people that we employ in Scotland is huge.

"It's something that we really drive forward within schools and education is trying to get that mindset that this is a career that you can earn a lot of money at and the opportunities are endless."

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"I still have goals. I remember when I graduated - all the girls get given flowers - and I was given champagne.

"I've still got the champagne and I always said I would open it when I've achieved something. 

"My husband constantly says, when will you open it? If you win the award three times, at some point you will get nominated for British Hairdresser of the Year.

"That would be the pinacle and maybe then I'll open it."