Abdul Rehman 
Every client who sits in my chair convinced they want “just a simple brown” ends up staring at forty different swatches and panicking like I just asked them to pick a college major. I get it. Dark brown sounds easy until you realize there are about a hundred versions of it, and picking the wrong …
Here’s the mother of the bride truth nobody tells you upfront. You will spend more time deciding on your hair than your daughter spent picking her dress, and that is completely normal. I’ve sat with dozens of moms in the chair, watching them cry a little (happy tears, mostly) while stressing over whether their updo …
Here’s my hair confession: the day I stopped fighting my clients’ flyaways and started celebrating them, my chair got booked out three months in advance. Turns out “perfect” hair after 60 reads a little stiff, a little trying too hard. What actually makes women look effortlessly put together is a bit of movement, a little …
Fine hair has a way of going flat by 10 a.m. no matter how much product you dump on it, and I have watched more clients cry over limp roots than almost anything else in my chair. Here is what actually fixed it for most of them: the right shag. Not the razored, overly thinned …
I have colored more heads of gray hair than I can count over the past twelve years, and I still remember the moment a client turned to me in the chair and said, “I don’t want to look like I gave up.” That single line changed how I approach gray hair with almost every client …
Turning fifty does not mean retiring your hair the way some magazines want you to believe. I have watched the opposite happen in my chair more times than I can count, women walking in feeling stuck in a cut from their thirties and walking out looking like they just remembered who they are. I have …