Mum's style proves a winner

A great mother-daughter grooming day resulted in a beautiful image and a win for a Wanganui woman.
Hair stylist Belinda Overton recently spent a day working on the hair of her 16-year-old daughter Hollie Tindale.
"It was like when she was a little girl and used to let me do her hair. She was so patient, and now we have some beautiful pictures."
Miss Overton's best friend and next door neighbour Mikel Guilford did the girl's make-up and Wanganui photographer Megan Holmes photographed the result.
The pictures were entered in the national De Lorenzo Get Noticed Colour and Style competition. Entries closed in May, and there were more than 80.
Miss Overton got a phone call on Tuesday last week, to say that one of the photographs of her daughter had won. On Wednesday the judges flew down from Auckland to surprise her at work with flowers and a trophy.
She won $1000 worth of travel and $500 worth of De Lorenzo products, which she uses all the time and loves. The salon where she works, Raffles, gets an enormous poster of the image, and the picture will also be on the cover of three hairdressing magazines.
Her employer, Kathryn Alston, now wants Miss Overton to enter more competitions.
She has previously won the Oceanic category in a Wanganui region hairdressing competition, and went on to compete in Melbourne in 2007.
"It was really neat. We had a hairdressers' party on the 897th floor, and when you get a whole group of hairdressers in a room there's always some colourful people there," she said.
She's now planning to return to Melbourne using her travel windfall.
Miss Overton has worked at Raffles Hair Salon for the Past five years. She did her apprenticeship with Julie Turner at Tulips in Ikitara Rd.