Birdie Hair and Beauty is a hair and beauty salon in Bell Block, New Plymouth, located on Bell Block Court directly opposite The Warehouse. The team offers a full range of hair and beauty treatments under one roof — from cuts, colour and blondes to eyelash extensions, lash lifting, facials, hair extensions (weft and tape-ins) and nanoplasty smoothing treatments.
Behind the chair, the stylists bring serious experience. Nadia Farmer has more than 20 years in the industry, a decade of them at this Bell Block salon, and is the resident curly hair specialist with a flair for bright colour work. Senior stylist Jamie Ditchburn has been hairdressing for around 15 years, loves colour and long hair, and is the salon's queen of tape-in extensions. Junior stylist Sophie Nairn, who completed her hairdressing qualification at WITT in November 2025, handles the hair specials and has a soft spot for fashion colours. Owner Andrea Crowe is a senior beauty therapist who specialises in lash lifts, lash extensions and all things brows.
The beauty menu runs deep, with facials for every skin concern — deep cleansing, relaxation, express, peels, dermaplaning and bio needling — plus massage and a brand-new line-up of pedicures. Thoughtful extras like Gold Card offers on Mondays and Tuesdays, cuts for under-18s and gift vouchers make it easy to keep the whole family covered. If you can't find the appointment time you want online, just call or message the salon on socials — the team will do their best to move things around and fit you in.
Tucked into Bell Block Court, directly opposite The Warehouse, Birdie Hair and Beauty is a friendly one-stop salon for hair and beauty in New Plymouth. The team keeps things simple: a full range of treatments under one roof, a warm welcome from the Birdie Team, and flexibility when life gets busy — if you can't find the time you want online, they invite you to call or message on socials and they'll try to move things around to fit you in.
The service list is broad. On the hair side, that includes colour work and blondes, hair extensions in weft and tape-in styles, nanoplasty smoothing, permanent straightening, and cuts for men, women, high schoolers and clipper-only regulars. On the beauty side, expect eyelash extensions, lash lifting, brow services, facials, massage and — new to the menu — a full line-up of pedicures.
Birdie is owned by Andrea Crowe, a senior beauty therapist who specialises in lash lifts, lash extensions and, as the team puts it, loves anything brows related.
Jamie Ditchburn, a senior stylist with around 15 years behind the chair, brings passion and kindness to the team, loves colour work and is obsessed with long hair — she's the queen of tape-in extensions. Nadia Farmer brings more than 20 years of hairdressing, a decade of it at the Bell Block salon, and is the resident curly hair specialist with a love of bright colour work. Junior stylist Sophie Nairn, who completed her hairdressing qualification at WITT in November 2025, runs the hair specials and specialises in fashion colours, while beauty therapy apprentice Amber holds down the beauty specials every Friday.
One of Birdie's standout offerings is its dedicated curly hair service with Nadia. New curly clients begin with a consultation that includes advice and product education on how to care for your curls. The full curly cut is designed specifically for naturally curly, coily and wavy hair, working with your curl pattern to enhance shape, definition and movement — with a relaxing cleanse, a customised cut and a professional dry and style to show your curls at their best.
For those battling frizz instead, the salon offers nanoplasty, an innovative straightening technology intended to replace keratin systems. It straightens and restores the hair from the inside out, delivering long-lasting results of up to eight months, an impactful shine and gloss effect, elimination of frizz and deep hydration. Permanent straightening is also on the menu for a lasting transformation of frizzy, curly or wavy hair.
The beauty room covers a lot of ground. Facials range from a quick Express Facial to a Relaxation Facial with face, neck and shoulder massage, a Deep Cleansing Facial for congestion and blackheads, targeted peels for ageing, sun damage and acne, Dermaplaning to lift peach fuzz and dull skin, a Dermalplaning & Peel combination, and the Idenel Bio Needling Facial — a needle-free treatment using thousands of naturally derived microscopic spicules to support collagen production and skin renewal.
Eye enhancement is a house speciality: lash lifts with or without tint, classic lash extensions using YY lashes, brow lamination, brow tint-and-shape combos and Brow Code's Hybrid Dye brow stain, which leaves colour on the skin for up to ten days and on the brow hairs for up to six weeks. Pedicure options run from the simple Birdie Toe Tidy to the Birdie Luxe Pedi, a full foot spa with soak, scrub, extended massage, buff and your choice of gel or classic polish. There's even a hot stone massage to melt away back, neck and shoulder tension.
Booking is easy through the salon's online system, and you can request a specific stylist — handy if you're after Nadia's curly expertise, Jamie's colour work or Amber's Friday beauty specials, which need to be booked by calling the salon. On Mondays and Tuesdays, Gold Card holders can take advantage of a wash, cut and blowdry offer; just show your card. Gift vouchers are available for anyone keen to treat a friend.
Birdie Hair and Beauty is the kind of neighbourhood salon where experience runs deep — whether you're after a bright new colour, a curly cut that finally understands your hair, a lash lift before a big event, or a quiet hour of facial-and-pedicure self-care in Bell Block.