Beauty Salon Uniforms for Auckland Studios, Spas and Barbershops

No — we do staff wear only. Capes, gowns, robes, towels and headbands are what your client wears, and they come from a salon supplier who stocks them by the dozen. What we do is the tunic, apron, polo, tee, hoodie or shirt your staff have on, sourced as part of an order or decorated on garments you already own. If you need both, order the client-wear from your usual supplier and send us the staff side.

Polyester and poly-cotton in a dark colour, mostly. Cotton takes bleach worse and shows every splash of tint; a poly-rich tunic or apron sheds more of it and dries faster after a wash. Black hides the most and fades the fastest, so it is a trade rather than an answer. The honest version is that anything worn at the colour bar is a consumable — buy the garment expecting to replace it, and put the money into the decoration surviving until you do.

Embroidered, for most of it. On a tunic, an apron, a polo or a woven shirt the stitching is structural, so acetone and bleach run past it rather than lifting it the way they lift the edge of a pressed transfer. Print earns its place on lightweight tees — the barbershop end — on full-colour artwork that stitching would flatten, and on large back panels. Embroidery is stitched here in Glenfield; transfers are printed by a trusted partner and pressed here on our own heat press. Caps and beanies are embroidery only — pressing headwear needs a cap press and we do not have one yet.

Not really, and it is worth saying plainly. A bleach mark is missing dye rather than added dirt, so there is nothing to lift out — the fabric is that colour now. What we can do is decorate replacements from the stitch file we already hold, so the new ones match the survivors exactly and you are not reordering the whole floor at once. If it keeps happening at one station, an apron over the top is cheaper than a tunic underneath.

Roughly 5 to 21 working days from artwork approval. A straight reorder sits at the fast end — a stitch file we already hold, at the same size, with stock on hand. Artwork we have not stitched at that size before, a garment we have to bring in, or a run across several sizes and styles sits at the slow end. If you have an opening date or a new starter with a start date, say so when you ask and we will tell you honestly whether it is achievable rather than agreeing and hoping.

Yes, and plenty of salons do — a brand of tunic your therapists already like, or a part-used run from a previous supplier. Send them in and we will decorate them. The one thing worth knowing is that we cannot replace a customer-supplied garment if something goes wrong on the press or under the needle, so on something you cannot get again we will tell you the risk before we start.

No. Two tops for a chair renter is a real order and so is forty for a new site. Larger runs get better per-unit pricing, because the setup work is the same whether it is one garment or fifty — which is also why a very small order carries a handling charge. It is shown on your quote, so there is nothing to discover later.

No — there is nowhere to collect from. We work out of a workshop in Glenfield that takes no visitors, so everything goes by courier, including Auckland deliveries. We can send an order straight to the salon or to a staff member's address rather than to wherever you do the admin, and tracking goes out when it ships.