Rodney Wayne & Shampoo 'n' Things Manukau sits on Wiri Station Road in the heart of Manukau City Centre, pairing a full-service hair salon with a dedicated professional haircare store under one roof. It is part of Rodney Wayne, recognised as the most awarded hair salon group in New Zealand and voted Hair Salon of the Year in the Remix Magazine Reader's Choice Awards in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025.
The brand's story began in 1980, when Rodney Wayne opened his first Auckland salon in the heart of the city. Within eight years he was operating eight salons, built on the belief that a quality consultation is vital to understanding what each client truly wants. That early guiding principle — 'We listen. We care' — still shapes visits today, starting with an individual consultation with an expert hairdresser before any scissors or colour come out.
The Manukau team offers world-leading hairstyling and expert hair coloration, using genuine L'Oréal Professionnel colours and Kérastase treatments. Authorised L'Oréal Colour Ambassadors are available in every Rodney Wayne salon, and stylists and colourists are trained to enhance the beauty of your hair without compromising its health or integrity. Deeper care options include Kérastase Fusio-Dose treatments — such as Concentre Blond Absolu + Booster Cicablond and Concentre Genesis + Booster Reconstruction — with pricing confirmed during a complimentary consultation. The K-Scan hair and scalp analysis is offered complimentary as part of the consultation with any service, or as a standalone analysis.
The 'Shampoo 'n' Things' half of the name is a store in its own right, stocking guaranteed genuine ghd, Kérastase, Redken, L'Oréal Professionnel, Pureology and other leading salon-quality brands, so your at-home routine protects the same health and shine your stylist works to create in the chair. Behind it all sits one of New Zealand's most developed hairdressing education programmes, led by Creative and Education Director Newton Cook and the Rodney Wayne Artistic Team.
Step into Rodney Wayne & Shampoo 'n' Things on Wiri Station Road and you're walking into a brand with more than four decades of New Zealand hairdressing behind it. Rodney Wayne is recognised as the most awarded hair salon group in the country, voted Hair Salon of the Year in the Remix Magazine Reader's Choice Awards in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The Manukau City Centre salon brings that track record to South Auckland, pairing a full-service salon with a dedicated Shampoo 'n' Things haircare store.
Rodney Wayne opened his first Auckland salon in the heart of the city in 1980. The luxurious salon quickly captured the attention of Aucklanders seeking world-class style, and within eight years Rodney was operating eight salons. From the start, he insisted that a quality consultation was vital to understanding what each client actually wanted — the principle 'We listen. We care' became the company's guiding light, and it still shapes visits today.
That ethos shows up in the details. Authorised L'Oréal Colour Ambassadors are available in every Rodney Wayne salon, and stylists and colourists are trained to enhance the beauty of your hair without compromising its health or integrity. Clients are pampered with genuine L'Oréal Professionnel colours and Kérastase treatments, and every appointment begins with an individual consultation with an expert hairdresser.
Rodney Wayne positions itself as The Hair Coloration Expert, and the proof keeps arriving. In 2026, four of the fifteen New Zealand finalists in the L'Oréal Professionnel Style & Colour Trophy — the world's longest-running professional hair competition — were Rodney Wayne stylists, more than a quarter of the national shortlist from a single salon group.
A big part of that colour confidence is K-Scan, the group's hair and scalp analysis. K-Scan is complimentary as part of your consultation with any service, or available as a standalone analysis, so your stylist can see exactly what condition your scalp and hair are in before any colour or treatment begins. Every transformation, the thinking goes, should be built on a healthy foundation.
For deeper repair, the salon offers Kérastase Fusio-Dose treatments. Options include Concentre Blond Absolu + Booster Cicablond for blondes and Concentre Genesis + Booster Reconstruction for strengthened hair, with pricing confirmed during your complimentary consultation so you know exactly where you stand before anything is mixed.
The Shampoo 'n' Things part of the name is more than a tagline. Alongside the salon sits a haircare store stocking guaranteed genuine professional brands — ghd, Kérastase, Redken, L'Oréal Professionnel, Pureology and other leading salon-quality names. The idea is simple: the at-home care you use between appointments should protect the health, integrity and beauty of your hair just as carefully as your stylist does in the chair. Stylists can recommend take-home products proven to extend the life of your colour and treatments, and the store runs seasonal gift-with-purchase promotions — recent offers have included a complimentary Blunt Metro umbrella with purchases of full-size Wella Ultimate products at participating salons.
What happens in the chair at Manukau is backed by one of the most developed education programmes in New Zealand hairdressing. Creative and Education Director Newton Cook leads ongoing training across the network with the Rodney Wayne Artistic Team, whose members are selected through a rigorous audition process. Newton himself has been voted Hairstylist of the Year at the Viva Magazine Beauty Awards, joined the L'Oréal Professionnel Artist Team across Australia and New Zealand, led hair shows at New Zealand Fashion Week and worked backstage at Armani's Sydney headquarters. The group's core values run through it all: everyone deserves to look and feel fabulous, and everyone on the team deserves help reaching their true potential.
Appointments at Rodney Wayne & Shampoo 'n' Things Manukau can be made through the group's online booking system. If you need to change an appointment time, contact the salon directly. Start with the complimentary consultation — it's where your stylist listens, your K-Scan can be done, and pricing for any treatments is confirmed. Whether you're after a refresh of your current style, a full colour transformation, a targeted Fusio-Dose repair, or simply the right products to keep the salon result alive at home, the team follows the same principle the brand has held since 1980: we listen, we care, and great hair follows.