A HAIR salon is over the moon after scooping six top awards at a national ceremony.

Witham-based salon Cabello Hair and Beauty was victorious at the British Hair and Beauty Awards on Monday.

The salon entered six categories for the South-East region in 2021 – excellent customer service, top rated salon, hair salon of the year, employer of the year, best marketing and entrepreneur of the year.

More than 7,000 words of supporting evidence were also sent to the judges when the salon entered for the awards in lockdown.

The salon had a job on its hands telling the judges all about the work it had done in the past year.

During that time, owners have been working behind the scenes to decorate the salon, update its systems, increasing its presence on social media and support its customers despite being closed by the pandemic.

But the hard work paid off after it won awards in all six categories at the awards this week in an online ceremony.

The salon achieved gold for excellent customer service and top rated salon, silver for hair salon of the year, best marketing and entrepreneur of the year and bronze for employer of the year.

Owner Kat Berale was thrilled with the result.

She said: “We entered the awards back in lockdown.

“I wrote supporting evidence to the awarding body with pics of what we had achieved during the pandemic.

“There was lots to tell them, as we had been working behind the scenes even though we were obviously closed.

“We are absolutely thrilled with the results and look forward to entering even more for next year.

“Thank you to our team and especially our customers, who have supported us during 2020/21.

“I am particularly proud to win gold for customer service as customer service is where we focus our business every day.”