Jodie Dick<\/a>, who flew Munro to Paris to attend to her hair after she finished the Camino trail. <\/p>\n![\"Robyn]()
Robyn Munro styled Jodie Dick for her 50th birthday at the Northern Club last year. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery<\/p>\n
\u201cRobyn is so much more than my hair stylist and more than a friend – she\u2019s family and like a sister to me,\u201d Dick tells Society Insider. <\/p>\n
\u201cEvery year, she attends the Ayrburn Classic with me, and has shared so many of life\u2019s milestones with me, including weddings, special events and events I host at Hartfields.\u201d <\/p>\n
Munro says some of her favourite work has come from styling hair for themed parties. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been neon butterflies flying around the head, glittered finger waves, creating a bird\u2019s nest with a little bird in it \u2013 the list is long,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n
There have been plenty of commercial shoots too, where she has styled celebrities. Her best celebrity moment, however, was a surprise. In 2023, Munro arrived at a booking with no idea she\u2019d be doing hair for visiting Hollywood star Natalie Portman, who was in Auckland for a Fifa speaking engagement. <\/p>\n
These days, Munro operates a small salon in her picturesque part of the world, Leigh, north of Auckland, where she lives with her partner Scott. <\/p>\n
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In-demand luxury stylist Robyn Munro relaxing at home in Leigh. <\/p>\n
\u201cFrom there I freelance, doing private clients for business-related events and private functions. <\/p>\n
\u201cBridal clients keep my diary locked up over the summer weekends.\u201d <\/p>\n
Much like her luxury styling business, Munro\u2019s education business has also grown organically. <\/p>\n
As well as teaching at salons throughout the country, she has been offering private one-on-one hairstyling lessons for people trying to cope with their own hair. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s happened with clients being frustrated that they can\u2019t have me there in those early mornings, when they have to make a TV appearance or speaking event abroad, and just have to be able to take things into their own hands,\u201d she says. \u201cInterior designer Shelley Ferguson was an early adopter of my lesson offer, and now I just love seeing her on socials etc, looking fab.\u201d <\/p>\n
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Robyn Munro gave Shelley Ferguson, Julia Leuchars and Anna Mowbray the Slim Aarons look at Mowbray\u2019s after-wedding day party in Fiji in 2024. Photo \/ Instagram @ShelleyFergusonstudio<\/p>\n
Munro says that she and Scott have become empty nesters; her youngest daughter, Bianca, has recently moved to Miami for a cruise contract as a singer-dancer, while her eldest daughter, Claudia, has been studying in Sweden for several years and is now finishing her fine arts degree. <\/p>\n
Clients who holiday in Europe will be happy with Munro\u2019s new \u201ccreative\u201d project, which will take her to Sweden for holidays once a year. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve bought a little old farmhouse in the Swedish countryside. We\u2019ve just come back from eight weeks of gardening, painting, sewing and scraping beams, and loved every minute.\u201d <\/p>\n
Munro says she is living her dream life, and is planning to enjoy her youngest child\u2019s singing on a Royal Caribbean cruise sometime this year, in between weddings. <\/p>\n
Party People of the week<\/p>\n
Bendon and Breast Cancer Cure at The French Caf\u00e9<\/p>\n
Media, influencers and special guests gathered at Auckland\u2019s The French Caf\u00e9 last week, as the restaurant opened its doors for a one-off, pink-themed breakfast celebrating the launch of the Bendon x Breast Cancer Cure Sleepwear Collection. <\/p>\n
The space was transformed, with guests enjoying coffee and pastries before sitting down to a two-course breakfast. <\/p>\n
MC\u2019d by Breast Cancer Cure (BCC) ambassador and broadcaster Wilhelmina O\u2019Keeffe, guests heard from BCC chair and breast cancer survivor Fay Sowerby, before Bendon CEO Anna Johnson and GM of merchandise and design Kirsty McKeown walked them through the inspiration behind the eight-piece collection. <\/p>\n
Among those attending were broadcaster Petra Bagust, former Shortland Street actor Ben Barrington, former Silver Fern Courtney Tairi, and influencers Mandy Duncan, Simone Anderson, Holly Estelle and Jess Molina. <\/p>\n
The collection has launched both online and in stores, with $5 from every item sold going to Breast Cancer Cure to help fund life-saving breast cancer research in New Zealand. <\/p>\n
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Wilhelmina O’Keeffe and Ben Barrington. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Antonia]()
Antonia Cosma and Mia Burgess. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Sonja]()
Sonja de Mari and Anna Johnson. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Charlotte]()
Charlotte Lockhart, Catherine Cooke and Fay Sowerby. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Holly]()
Holly Lindsey and Jahna Barraclough. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Simone]()
Simone Anderson, Christina Dellar and Mandy Duncan. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Julia]()
Julia Leuchars, Sonja de Mari, Jessica Taplin and Tess O’Neill. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Hannah]()
Hannah Chidley and Piers Bebbington. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery ![\"Rebecca]()
Rebecca Armour, Andrew Shelling, Piers Bebbington and Anna Johnson. Photo \/ Norrie Montgomery <\/p>\n
Ricardo Simich<\/a> has been with the Herald since 2008 where he contributed to The Business Insider. In 2012 he took over Spy at the Herald on Sunday, which has since evolved into Society Insider. The weekly column gives a glimpse into the worlds of the rich and famous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was there I really got an appreciation for the dynamics of great event hair, so in 2007,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[133240,2300,3952,50605,156,91655,134714,234522,20285,206675,2936,13458,663,56715,9862,279452,111,139,69,5823,12886,1517,3876,4625,2935,1361,223,2044,61,134103,2940],"class_list":["post-567589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alist","tag-asia","tag-aucklands","tag-creating","tag-entertainment","tag-fivestar","tag-hairdresser","tag-hairstylist","tag-hotels","tag-indemand","tag-insider","tag-inspired","tag-looks","tag-luxurious","tag-meet","tag-munro","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-passion","tag-professional","tag-reveals","tag-robyn","tag-singer","tag-society","tag-that","tag-the","tag-time","tag-to","tag-ultrawealthy","tag-wealthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}