A father-daughter partnership is ignoring the difficult economic climate and creating up to 20 jobs by setting up a “super salon”.

Dina Andreou, 24, an English Literature graduate who was working as a PA in London, has decided to pack it all in to set up a beauty salon in the Whitgift Centre, Croydon with her father, Andrew Andreou, a trained hairdresser.

She said: “I want to get in up to 20 members of staff who we will give on the job training to. Yes you could say it is a difficult time, but it is something I am 100 per cent behind.”

Miss Andreou, from Purley, has already invested £100,000 setting up the salon, 1400 square feet site, including a nail bar, hair threading, massage and pedicure, a fully equipped tanning room, treatment rooms and a hairdressing area.

She said: “When you are getting ready for a big night out there is no-where you can go to get your eyebrows threaded, hair done, nails done all in one place. I think there is a market for this, a super salon.”

The business Amai Salon, is set to launch on October 15.

To apply to work visit recruitment@amaisalon.co.uk