Samantha Jones reopens Ms Monaco Hair Society at Sippy Downs

Inside the “luxury” Sunshine Coast hair salon with a $600,000 fit-out which is offering a Qantas Club-like membership experience, complete with a private bar and lounge.

Inside Sippy Down’s award-winning salon.

A successful Sunshine Coast businesswoman has splashed $600,000 to create her luxury “dream” salon and provide the ultimate pampering experience for her members.

Ms Monaco Hair Society owner Samantha Jones has moved her Sippy Downs business from a 68sq m to 280sq m space and decked out the premises with a “Qantas Club” style experience.

First opening in 2018 at Sippy Downs, the former flight attendant said the new tenancy was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up.

Ms Monaco Hair Society owner Samantha Jones. Picture: contributed.

“We’ve designed it so we can grow into it over the next few years,” Ms Jones said.

The blonde specialist salon offering several levels of membership now offers a full size bar and member’s lounge.

Now a fully-licenced venue, the salon offers cocktails and barista-made coffee to its patrons. Picture: contributed.

The member’s lounge includes benefits such as cocktails, snacks, hot food and additional head and arm massages.

The main salon features 16 chairs, a shampoo lounge with lay-down beds for colouring and head massages and a hair extensions room.

Up above glitters a 24 karat gold plated chandelier for a final sparkling touch.

The salon includes eight beds for colouring and head massages. Picture: contributed.

Ms Monaco Hair Society's reopened salon features a $600,000 fit-out. Picture: contributed.

“People feel so very guilty often, mums feel guilty about spending time and money on themselves,” Ms Jones said

“We’ve really tried to create an environment here. It’s an experience when you come get your hair done.”

It offers several tiers of memberships with weekly payments ranging from $16 to $49 depending on the regular treatment the client wants.

The new fit-out is a "dream come true" for salon owner Samantha Jones. Picture: contributed.

The membership allows women who frequent the salon for touch-ups to have a budgeting option, Ms Jones said.

She currently has about 60 members.

Ms Jones said she had “put her everything into it” and sold her previous house to fund her upgraded facilities.

Ms Monaco Hair Society moved to the ground tenancy of 11 Courage Street, Sippy Downs.

The Sippy Downs salon is her seventh after she started in the UK and opened her first Australian business at North Lakes in 2011.

She said her years working as a flight attendant taught her the art of first class service.

“I wanted to take the importance of first class service from my experience as a flight attendant and I knew there was no reason why we couldn’t create a luxury destination for women to take time out, relax and be truly pampered,” she said.

Ms Monaco Hair Society offers several tiers of membership to provide extra levels of pampering. Picture: contributed.