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WHEN YOU VISIT When you visit Hannah
Evans-Scott’s website at www.hevan.co.nz
(her business, Hevan, is an obvious play on her name), you are met
with bright pinks and an uplifting feel. It expresses her philosophies
admirably: to enhance one’s natural and inner beauty, maintaining
the results of a treatment, and total commitment to the client.
Even the site is a nice place to visit.
It was little surprise to find that Evans-Scott herself
is personable, a great conversationalist, and an optimist: qualities
that have seen her business rise quickly among Wellington circles.
Evans-Scott, whose beauty salon is in a private location
in the centre of the capital, is a businesswoman who has been able
to combine her talents in beauty therapy, health, and event planning
into a single and growing enterprise.
And somehow she has done all this by the age of 24.
Evans-Scott started working at 18 and describes her
early years as ‘a time to make mistakes, because you are learning
about life. I would recommend that to anyone,’ she says philosophically.
While holidaying in Australia, she and a friend tried
spray-tanning. On returning to Wellington, she could only find one
salon that had this service. She began as a regular client, before
being asked to train as a technician.
Eventually, she was offered the opportunity to join
the Getfunkd team and to continue
spray-tanning from one of its salons. ‘It was still new, at the
time, to have beauty therapy and a hair salon [together],’ she recalls.
During her two-and-a-half years working with Getfunkd
(‘still like a second family’), Evans-Scott learned about business
practices as well as ‘a lot about hair’. But she felt a need to
go out on her own, and did so from the beginning of 2008, encouraged
by both her partner and a business mentor. Since then, Hevan has
been based from the Robert Hannah Apartments in Wellington, in a
private but very comfortable salon.
The salon is quiet, and surprisingly so. For a salon
in the middle of the city, where one can see the Manners Street
shops through the window, there’s next to no noise. Clients are
treated to a comfortable waiting area, and the rooms are professionally
appointed.
‘Women work damn hard. It’s important for for them
to look after themselves. Coming to see me is one of the treats
they can look forward to.’
Evans-Scott’s initial fears about moving the business
home seem unfounded with hindsight, but she admits that at the time
she felt anxious. But she says the move has been great for her productivity:
she gets more done during the day, and that she is ‘more creative.’
She adds, ‘I don’t want [my premises] to feel like
a “home”, but comfortable, like an escape. We are still
in the city, so it’s easily accessible. If I were shopping around
for a space, it would be exactly like this,’ she says.
It’s not the only thing in Evans-Scott’s life that
has just fitted into place. As she developed her business and gained
rapport with her clients, Hevan began advising and consulting in
beauty and health. With her partner, Shannon
Rawiri (a well known DJ in Wellington),
Evans-Scott began coordinating events, and finding success there.
‘I want to build on beauty consulting. Events come
under that umbrella. I have done a lot of music events last year.’
Cocktail evenings also come under her speciality.
The Super Club events that Evans-Scott has organized
brings together talents in djing, dance and related arts. ‘We build
a community. It’s not about us getting anything out of it.
‘I definitely want to do what I am doing now, and get
my message out there. Everything I do is an extension of myself.’
But Evans-Scott does not want to make it sound like
that everything has automatically come her way. There is a lot of
hard work involved, and she rejects the lament of people who say,
‘I woulda, shoulda, coulda. You go and do it.’
Her philosophy is to get a good routine and stick to
it. ‘If you set yourself up to have a good day, you will have a
good day.’ They are positive words to live by, and Evans-Scott is
living proof that one can. •
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‘I don’t want [my premises] to feel like a
“home”, but comfortable, like an escape. We are still
in the city, so it’s easily accessible. If I were shopping around
for a space, it would be exactly like this’
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