AN INDEPENDENT Bridgwater salon has made it to the finals of a national hair and beauty awards.

This weekend the staff at Feel Better Days salon in the High Street will find out if they are a cut above the rest at the English Hair and Beauty Awards night in Manchester.

Business owner Hayley Partridge told the Mercury that it was beyond her wildest dreams to be named as a finalist for the prestigious award.

She said: “It’s absolutely crazy – we are a tiny salon in Bridgwater and now we are up there with the best in the country.

“Being named as a finalist is incredible and if we actually win it’ll be better than my dreams.

“We didn’t even know about the awards until one member of staff noticed that the English Hair and Beauty Awards Twitter account started following us.

“Our amazing customers have been voting for us over the last six weeks.

“When I saw the reviews that our customers were writing about us I was an emotional wreck.

“The point of Feel Better Days is that we hope that people do feel better about themselves when they leave the salon and now we know that they actually do.”

Feel Better Days is one of five finalists from the South West and if it is named as regional champion it will be in with a shout of being crowned the national winner for 2015.

Since opening two and a half years ago, the salon has rocketed to success, doubling the number of staff from four to eight in that time.

“It’s been absolutely fantastic and more recently it’s gone absolutely crazy in terms of the number of customers coming in.

“I would like to thank all of our customers for getting us to the finals – we have the nicest customers in the world.”