Salon owner looks ahead to style trends with vegan nail polish

Hillary O’Reilly at her salon in RanelaghMaura Hickey

The opening of her own salon in Dublin unleashed the entrepreneur in stylist Hillary O’Reilly, who has since brought to market her own range of vegan nail polishes and has plans to develop a line of shampoo.

O’Reilly opened Hillary salon in the south Dublin suburb of Ranelagh a year ago following a 20-year career with British-owned salon chain Toni & Guy.

“I was a style director and I was teaching, but I ...