Under his own name, his team are always working on new ideas, their collection, hair shows, seminars, photo shoots and magazine work. He and his team are always looking for that next bit of inspiration.

Q: When did you first realise you wanted to become a hair stylist and where did you start? I first realised when I saw my brother hairdressing two years earlier and then when I became 16 I started in a barbers shop in Oldham called Giacomo and Piero. Q: What made you move to London? Michael John Hair Salon at the time all the creative work was coming out of their Salon. Q: If you had chosen another profession, what would it have been? Something in the design field but really don't know.

Q: We always like to ask stylists, what is their own particular favourite hairstyle of all time? In the 70s there was a hair style by Sasson called the Fire Fly and since then there has never been a hair cut or technique to rival it.

Q: We're delighted that you are joining UKHairdressers as a member of the "Ask The Experts" team - are you looking forward to it?

Can't wait.

Q: What do you consider the finest scissors to use for cutting hair?
I have always used Yasake 5 inch

Q: Apart from scissors, what hairdressing tool or product would you never be without?
Vent brush

Q: What is the strangest brief/ location you've had to work with?

Quite a few but the strangest location must be Ayres Rock where we were shooting on location for English Elle Magazine I was stood on a rock doing the models hair in 118 Degrees heat, my experience of that heat with me beating away the flies, me trying to keep the hair looking like hair without it collapsing in the heat.

Q: Your Salon is a member of the Salon Partnership and your hair images are featured in the most viewed styles on UKHairdressers Style Gallery - are you surprised at how many times they have been viewed? Gob smacked! My web site visitors has increased by 150% in the last 10 weeks that it had been listed on the ukhairdressers site, and I have also benefitted from people asking for jobs, seminars, videos and most of all new customers. It's like having a second website on television. It makes the 199 I paid for my subscription quite insignificant. In June I was No 3 with one of my styles and in July it jumped to number 2 it feels like I'm an X Factor finalist ... come on I need your votes!! Q: For our many web visitors who want to become hairdressers, could you give them a couple of special tips to help them on their way to success?"

The Steven Carey style regularly in the UKH top 3 most viewed styles

First find the right salon by doing your homework by looking on ukhairdressers.com Secondly you need to be a good listener. Thirdly leave your ego outside the salon door and always put in 100% because remember what you put in you get out!

Q: Which celebrity would you like to create a new style for? I would like to create a new hair style for Madonna she is such an icon the last few hair styles have been quite normal! She really needs to be blinged up! Q: Tell us what's in the store for the lucky Makeover winner in our recent competition? She will come in and be made to feel welcome with a smile, she will be taken to the colour room consultation will be

done with two people the stylist and the colourist, colour work will be done during this time she will be having light refreshments and snacks also has the option has to the option for manicure and pedicure then up to the stylists to get the hair cut.