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✨ASIAN FUSION GROOMER OF THE YEAR 2024✨
✂️Golden Scissor Asian&Poodle Supreme Champion
🫧Houndsly Ambassador
🐩Training available
📍Berkshire

03/06/2026

🎀 Luna 🎀

I am utterly in love with my ‘big fairy bow’ from linkyspetparlour 😍 when I say it suits Luna perfectly… I mean, just look at her 🥹

Lunas legs are also growing back in nicely after having to shave them off towards the start of the year. She’s got a hard coat to work with but the end result is always worth it 😍

Bathed in houndslypetproducts Intensive repair shampoo 🫧
Equipment used from pewtnergrooming ✂️

22/05/2026

🤎 Rory 🤎

How absolutely gorgeous is this nearly 5 month old standard poodle puppy 😍 I really am a sucker for a brown poodle, our first poodle was brown, so it was so nice to be able to have one on my books finally, and a standard at that too!

He has come from a wonderful breeder who has clearly given the new pups owners plenty of advice and also given him a very good start to being groomed as he wasn’t fazed by much considering it was his first time with me today!

He is currently growing out his face and feet and we are going to try a more teddy look for a little while and see how we get on, but the fact that he has had them shaved at such a young age means that if the owners decide to go back to the shaved look it won’t be such a shock to his system as he is already used to it. This is why I love poodles, they are so versatile! 🐩

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05/05/2026

** PLEASE READ **
Earlier today I had to say a final goodbye to my best friend, my soulmate, my utter world, Benni ❤️

I would have waited to post this but as a few people knew what was happening this was the easiest way to tell you all as I really am not up to talking currently.

This dog was more than just a dog to me, he was part of my soul, I truly believe he was sent to be mine. He was rarely ever apart from me, we went through everything together.

After only being here for 10 years, he has made the biggest impact on so many lives, unfortunately over the last few weeks I noticed that he wasn’t quite ‘right’. I knew him inside out, and knew something was wrong, after hoping for the best we unfortunately got the worst news. It was not going to be something we could heal him from, and the kindest thing to do was to say goodbye on our terms. So we did just that, but first we spent the weekend together as a family doing all of his favourite things, he’s always been a spoilt dog and wanted for nothing, but the past few days he’s been even more spoilt than usual and loved on by everyone.

Not only would I not be where I am today in my career without this dog, but I wouldn’t be who I am in my life either, he has taught me so much, but he also kept me grounded, he was here through so many memorable moments that I will never, ever, forget. Life is not fair and I thought that we would have so many more years together.

But I am proud to say he went to sleep peacefully in my arms knowing nothing but love. I won’t go into more detail at the moment as you can imagine my heart has been shattered into a million pieces. My soul has been torn in two, and I am not ok. So please do not ask me if I am. I need to grieve in my own time.

Just a few photos to celebrate him for now, I have hundreds of thousands more to share which I will do in my own time. He will never be forgotten 💔

Benni, thank you for being my everything, I love you forever and I will miss you for longer. I will find you again one day, I promise ❤️

09/04/2026

✨ Everyone meet Fizz ✨

I wish I could say she’s mine, but she’s not 😂 however she is owned by someone I know well and you will hopefully be seeing a lot of her in the future.

Her owner is amazing and has got her used to so many things so young already that for her first professional groom today at just 13 weeks old, she didn’t batter an eyelid! So much so I did her feet while she was laying down sleeping! 😴

Bathed in houndslypetproducts White Peach and Marshmallow Deep Conditioning shampoo as always 💖

07/04/2026

🌸 Helga 🌸

Or hairy Helga as I called her a lot today 😂 she was unfortunately overdue (due to no fault of her owner, I was out of action for 2 weeks with really bad chest infection) and right in the middle of coat change 😬 so I decided to take her back down a bit to give her coat a good chance to mature and grow through healthier. Though she wasn’t knotty in her jacket the ends definitely needed a good trim to get rid of that last puppy fluff.

I absolutely adore this dog and for 10 months old she is an absolute rock on the table with a coat to die for 😍 she was with me for about 5 and a half hours though we had plenty of breaks in that time as she is still young and we both needed a drink break as the suns finally decided to come out 😎

Baby Helga photo at the end just because I can’t believe how grown up she looks 🥹

Coat maintained in houndslypetproducts Intensive repair shampoo and Deep conditioner 🫧
Scissored using pewtnergrooming Master Straights and Celestial Curves ✂️

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26/03/2026

✨ 2023 vs 2026 ✨

I was going through some old photos the other day before I cleared my old phone, and found some photos of old grooms and couldn’t believe the difference between them and my grooms now!

When Louis first came to me I hadn’t done a full handstripped spaniel trim in some years, he was also in need of a complete re shape as his pattern wasn’t quite right and although in my head I knew what I was aiming for, I knew it would take some time to get there along with some practice on my behalf also as getting the techniques right can take a few times after a good few years.

Until I saw the old photos though I didn’t realise how far we had come! I am by no means a spaniel expert and this is certainly not a perfect groom but I have learnt most my tips and tricks by watching and learning from the best, pooches_studio and jo_silksmithk9transfurmations to name a few!

I love continuing my education on every type of dog I groom, and can’t wait to keep learning with this trim 😍 it does also help that I have the best model to learn on, I really do love this little dog, he is so patient and so handsome, he also has the best owner who looks after that coat IMMACULATELY which is so important if you want a trim like this 🫶🏻

He has been maintained in houndslypetproducts Deep Conditioning shampoo since he came to me, and his coat always leaves looking extremely silky and smooth 😍

13/03/2026

Trying really hard to catch up on content and messages I’ve got from the last 4/5 months, unfortunately I hit major burn out towards the end of last year and my mental health went down the drain a little too because of it. I think I’m just about on the way out of it all now, some days I still really struggle, but I have plans in motion that are helping me keep focused and get out of this slump 🤞🏼

This is just your daily reminder to be kind with people as you never know what’s going on behind the scenes!

Heres a little video of Greggy from The Grooming Show in January, I wasn’t 100% happy with this groom but I always have the best time grooming this dog, he is an absolute angel for me and when I say he LOVES being on the table (and the podium, if you know, you know😂) I really do mean it, he loves the attention he gets from everyone and honestly I think he just likes being a bit of a show off when he’s all freshly groomed! 🥹

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12/03/2026

✨ Crufts day 2 ✨

On the Friday I got the opportunity to do a demo on the houndslypetproducts stand and my gorgeous model was this brown miniature poodle, Vinnie 🤎

I fell in love with this gorgeous boy he is only young and never done anything like this before so I was very proud how well he coped having a new person groom him in such a busy environment. He had lots of people stopping to watch and take photos of him and I mean you can clearly see why! He is rather handsome looking 👀

Lots of hair came off him and he needs a couple little places to grow out but I was very pleased with how well he looked 😍

Thank you so much to his wonderful owner groomsbycarly for prepping him and bringing him along for me to borrow! (Carly also came 3rd in the poodle open class on the Thursday with her other dog, massive congrats!) 🙌🏻

Equipment used from pewtnergrooming 🖤✂️

11/03/2026

💚✨ RKC Grooming Competition at Crufts 2026✨💚

Poodle Champion - 2nd place 🥈

I still can’t quite believe what happened! On Thursday last week I competed in the first ever grooming competition held at Crufts, one of the biggest dog based events in the world! I entered the Poodle Champion class with my best boy, Greggy.

It was the biggest and strongest poodle champ class I have ever entered and I really did not expect to place in the slightest, I just went for the experience and also the feedback from some of the top poodle judges around.

When I found out I had placed I instantly cried, quite a lot 🙈 thank you to everyone who ignored me balling and just let me get it out my system 😂 the main reason this got to me so much was because I knew this meant we were going into the MAIN ARENA for the results to be told during the evening performance! I never in a million years thought that this would have been something I’d ever achieve. So to achieve it with a dog I’ve worked so hard on for so long really meant the absolute world to me 🥹

Not only that but I only went and placed bloody 2nd place! 🥈 the atmosphere in that main arena is like nothing else.

Biggest of thank yous go out to my judges Kirsty Hunt, Marita Roger’s and Allison Alexander for thinking so highly of my work, the compliments I got afterwards will stick with me forever 💖

Massive thank you to Sharon Mills and Katie Murrell for helping me out the ring and running all my stuff over to the main arena, also a massive thank you to so many of you fellow competitors in and outside of the ring who came up to me after to congratulate me and who took pictures and videos and sent it to me, there’s too many to tag but you all know who you are and really are amazing! 💖

Well done to the team who made this competition possible, I had the best time and will certainly be back next year! 🤞🏼

Swipe to the end for one of the best photos ever 🤣

19/02/2026

I absolutely adore these photos of my handsome boy 🥹🎀🥰

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