{"id":135055,"date":"2025-11-12T02:36:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135055\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:36:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:36:14","slug":"helen-johnston-celebrates-milestone-of-20-years-of-hue-hair-salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/135055\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Johnston celebrates milestone of 20 years of Hue Hair Salon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Johnston, proprietor of Hue Hair Salon in Letterkenny, marked twenty years in business this week with a celebration filled with friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>Helen\u2019s career began at sixteen, and since then, she has built a thriving salon that has grown with the valued customers who walk through its doors.<\/p>\n<p>Helen began her training at just 16 years of age, enrolling in North West Regional College where she spent two years building the foundations of her craft.<\/p>\n<p>She went on to work in a number of salons, eventually spending sixteen years with David\u2019s Hair Salon on the Port Road.<\/p>\n<p>With the encouragement of her family and her late husband, Sammy Johnston, Helen made the leap to open her own salon on the 8th of November 2005.<\/p>\n<p>As her business flourished, Helen moved Hue Hair Salon to a larger premises nine years later. The salon is now located in Unit 1 Pearse Road, where it continues to grow from strength to strength.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613911\" class=\"size-large wp-image-613911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0856-503x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-613911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Helen of Hue Hair Salon celebrating 20 years in business on 8th of November<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613917\" class=\"size-full wp-image-613917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0859.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"841\" height=\"753\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-613917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hue Hair Salon<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The past decade has not been without immense heartbreak. Helen suffered the loss of her daughter, Tory Johnston, ten years ago, followed by the passing of her husband, Sammy, eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>During the most difficult period of her life, her two brothers, Mickey Dorrian and John Dorrian, encouraged her to return to her passion and supported her every step of the way. Helen remains deeply grateful for their strength and guidance.<\/p>\n<p>Helen added her thanks to all her customers and staff: \u201cI am so grateful for every client who has come through the door over and supported my journey and given me the strength to keep the salon going and to help make it a continuous success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613912\" class=\"size-large wp-image-613912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_0858-1024x482.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"482\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-613912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hue Hair Salon Letterkenny<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also want to thank all the past staff members who have been part of Hue Hair Salon. And to my current staff, Gemma McCracken, Nicole Parke, and Julie McDaid, thank you for all your help and support within the salon. I am truly grateful,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Helen celebrated her special anniversary on Saturday last in Theo\u2019s Bar in The Orchard, where friends, family, clients, and supporters gathered to mark the occasion. Helen would like to thank everyone who joined her to celebrate the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>See photos from the event here:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-613919\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/9897ccfd-2b36-4906-b5f6-b9b882796dbc-1024x1019.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1019\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-613916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/8c0a26b1-2874-4e01-901d-870153a877e2-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-613915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/99582fed-9ef7-408e-8aa9-0a259e58a0cc-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-613914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/0be7deae-7c97-4d5e-b366-54a3b37f55f4-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\"  \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-613910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7f7bea84-9807-4ac5-a31a-8313b810fcb1-984x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"984\" height=\"1024\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Helen Johnston celebrates milestone of 20 years of Hue Hair Salon was last modified:  November 11th, 2025 by Staff Writer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Helen Johnston, proprietor of Hue Hair Salon in Letterkenny, marked twenty years in business this week with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-135055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}