{"id":48422,"date":"2025-09-07T02:45:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48422\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:45:17","slug":"wicklow-sisters-thriving-after-uniting-their-unique-beauty-businesses-under-one-roof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/48422\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow sisters thriving after uniting their unique beauty businesses under one roof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Dilllon sisters Nicola (Pure Beauty by Nicola) and Shannon (SA Artistry) of Her HQ Creative Beauty on Arklow Upper Main Street. Photo: Michael Kelly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Her HQ 3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Dilllon sisters Nicola (Pure Beauty by Nicola) and Shannon (SA Artistry) of Her HQ Creative Beauty on Arklow Upper Main Street. Photo: Michael Kelly<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">In the bustling seaside town of Arklow, two sisters\u2014each a master of her craft\u2014have merged their businesses, creating a sanctuary of specialised beauty and training. Her HQ \u2013 Creative Beauty is more than just a salon; it&#8217;s the culmination of two distinct career paths and a shared vision forged by family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Born and raised in the Granite City of Aughrim, Nicola and Shannon Dillon\u2019s careers diverged early on. Older sister Nicola stayed in the area, creating her own beauty salon in 2017, while Shannon opened two salons in Kilcarra and Arklow, before working commercially, all while doing freelance bridal makeup, hair, and lashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dilllon sisters Nicola (Pure Beauty by Nicola) and Shannon (SA Artistry) of Her HQ Creative Beauty on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,2864,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-48422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-eoin-mac-raghnaill","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}