About Zoltan
My career: 1991 to today
From a first perm to Maddox Street. Scroll back through the salons, the products we brought in and the Atelier years: each one in its own look, as it was.
Budapest · first permUP 1991
Hajas, Kiss József utca
Hajas, Kiss József utca 10, Budapest VIII — assistant, then colourist, graduate stylist and stylist. Trained as an all-round hairdresser: cutting, colour, permingUP. First perm: 1991.
Budapest Taught
Vargyai Fodrászműhely
Vargyai Fodrászműhely, Kertész utca, Budapest: my own salon, where I trained my own staff.
Hungary Taught
L’Oréal Professionnel
On stage for L’Oréal Professionnel on its tour of Hungary.
Mid-1990s →
Blonde Soft
Salon management software, built by a hairdresser for salons: co-founded in Hungary; in the UK, Blonde Soft Limited, registered in England in 2005, from Covent Garden.
1996 · Budapest
Fashion and front covers
Hair for Szulák Andrea’s album iQ – Te Vagy Aki Nekem Jár! (Félix Invest, 1996).
Credited “Hair: Vargyai Zoltán – Giline”.
c. 1998 · London
Molton Brown Hairdressing, Hampstead
Senior Colour Technician, second to the Colour Director, working with owner Michael Collis and his son Joseph Koniak.
1999 · Curzon Street, Mayfair Taught
Yuko, Curzon Street
1999: the first straighteningDOWN, and the first in Europe to offer the Yuko System outside Yuko’s own salon. By his 2014 bio, the first to straighten Afro-Caribbean hair with the Japanese method.
First a technician, then Manager of the Yuko System salon and hair academy, Curzon Street, Mayfair (1999), learning straightening from Yuko Yamashita herself.
Then an educator at the Yuko academy.
from 2002
Compton Hair
The salon group I founded and owned: Soho (7 Old Compton Street) from 2001, then Covent Garden (44–46 Shelton Street) and the Barbican (161 Whitecross Street).
The first salon in Europe with the rights to perform the Yuko System.
X-Tenso and Wellastrate straighteningDOWN alongside the Yuko System.
“One of the first to bring the Japanese permanent hair-straightening technique Yuko to the UK”
HELLO! UK, August 2012 Read → 
c.2010–12 Taught
Compton London
The distribution company: it brought Onix to UK salons, imported Zoltan’s own brand Eternity Liss from Brazil, and was CREATE’s sole UK distributor for the Korean ATS range.
c.2010
Onix
The second-generation Brazilian blow-dry: no three-day rule, rinsed out in the salon the same day.
2010–2011
Eternity Liss
Zoltan’s own Brazilian keratin therapy (progressiva): made in Brazil, imported and sold to UK salons by his company, Compton London.
2012
The Korean imports
re:flash permsUP, the Water 3-Step and NewBorn, from CREATE in Korea: Compton London was the sole UK distributor.
Aug 2014 · Whitecross Street
Hair Rehab
Compton’s Barbican salon at 161 Whitecross Street, renamed Hair Rehab in August 2014.
c.2014–16
Josh Wood Atelier
By appointment at Atelier Lansdowne, 6 Lansdowne Mews, W11. Hot Smooth launched here in 2014, with Keratin Smooth, Repair, Wave and Straight.
“Brazilian straightening is really a craft, and Zoltan is an artist.”
The Sunday Times Style, June 2014 Read → 
2015
Olaplex and Zolaplex
One of the first in the UK to test Olaplex, before its UK launch.
From July 2015 my own Olaplex treatment ran as Zolaplex.
c.2016–2018 · Soho
Soho
D’Arblay Street, Soho.
keraSWIFT, my own treatment, featured in HELLO! in summer 2017.
2018 → today Taught
Zoltan Hair, Mayfair, and tecSture
Straightment and Wavement at Maddox Street, Mayfair.
Since Yuko, teaching UP and DOWN treatments to my own staff and to other hairdressers.
For hairdressers: training and technique on tecSture.
“Every beauty editor in the know is a fan of hair texture supremo Zoltan Vargyai”
Daily Mail, June 2017 Read → 
