After years of coming agonisingly close, Perth Road stylist Radek Lewandowski has won the Editorial Visionary Award UK at Wella Professionals’ TrendVision Award, with a Dundee client as his model.
Dundee salon McIntyres is celebrating one of the biggest wins in its history after stylist Radek Lewandowski was named UK winner of the Editorial Visionary Award at the Wella Professionals TrendVision Award 2026.
The UK and Ireland final was held on 14 September at Town Hall by Bottaccio in London, in front of more than 450 hair professionals. Estetica reported Radek finishing ahead of runner-up Natassia Dean of TONI&GUY Derby, with Samantha Byrne of Vanilla Hair Design taking the Irish title. According to the salon, McIntyres was the only Scottish salon to win a title on the night.
Third time lucky, and then some
TrendVision is one of the most prestigious competitions in professional hairdressing, and Radek knows it better than most. He first made the UK final in 2020, when he took silver in the Colour Specialist category. In 2022 he was UK runner-up in Colour Specialist, and last year he was runner-up in the Editorial Award UK.
“He has been runner-up for the past three years,” said McIntyres owner Kay McIntyre, who called the win “a real testament to his creativity and talent”.
Radek said he was “absolutely over the moon” and thanked Kay and the whole team for their support.
One colour, one Dundee model
This year’s brief centred on monochrome: the whole look had to be built from a single colour family, with tone and texture doing the work that contrast normally would. Radek worked in red, moving from a deep, saturated base to brighter scarlet and copper, with a heavy full fringe and long soft waves.
His model was Ola, one of the salon’s own clients from Dundee, rather than an agency model. Finalists in the new-look final had to recreate their looks live on stage.
How the competition works
Each country runs its own national contest, with winners going on to Wella’s International TrendVision Award; the most recent international finale was held in Malta. This year’s UK and Ireland final also had a new look, reimagined as an evening spectacle and staged as part of House of Wella, a two-day showcase of Wella Company brands. Max Amen, Wella’s General Manager for Northern Europe, described it as a platform celebrating innovation, creativity and professional excellence. Past winners say the education and mentoring that follow have opened doors to working alongside some of the industry’s biggest names.
For Radek, the win rewards years of persistence, from his first UK final in 2020 to three years as runner-up before this year’s gold.
A long TrendVision tradition
McIntyres has been sending stylists to TrendVision finals since 2010, and the salon had a second finalist this year in Keira Milne, named among the 2026 finalists by Salon Business. Owner Kay McIntyre is a three-time Scottish Hairdresser of the Year and a member of the British Hairdressing Hall of Fame, and the Union Street salon celebrated 25 years in Dundee last year.
You can read more about McIntyres’ recent award nominations in our earlier story, and the salon’s own account of Radek’s win on its website.
Radek works from the McIntyres, Perth Road salon.
Sources
- Revealed! Winners and wonder at Wella Professionals TrendVision Award Final — Creative HEAD, 17 Sep 2026
- TrendVision Award 2026: Wella Professionals unveils winners — Estetica, 16 Sep 2026
- Wella Professionals announces TrendVision Award 2026 finalists — Salon Business
- TrendVision Award 2025 winners revealed — Creative HEAD
- TrendVision Award 2022 winners and runners up — HJi
- History of hairstyles: 25 years of McIntyres — The Courier
- Our Radek is a TrendVision UK winner — McIntyres, 16 Sep 2026
