Here’s my hair after sixty, thinner in some spots, sneaky waves I never asked for, and somehow still my best accessory once I stop fighting it. I’ve watched clients cry actual tears in my chair over a bad cut, and I’ve watched those same women walk out feeling ten years lighter after the right layers …
Fine hair has a personality problem. It looks perfect at 6pm and completely gives up by 7:15, right as you’re walking out the door. I’ve had clients text me mid blowout meltdown from their bathroom floor, convinced their hair simply refuses to hold anything fancier than a ponytail. Here’s the truth I tell every one …
Fine hair does not need more product. It needs a better haircut, full stop. I have watched clients dump an entire bottle of volumizing mousse into their roots every single morning, only to look flat by lunch anyway, because the cut underneath was working against them the whole time. Your strands are not broken. They …
Bangs are the haircut equivalent of a first date. Everyone’s terrified of them, half the internet has a horror story, and yet the second they’re done right, you wonder why you waited so long. I’ve had clients walk into my chair convinced fringe would ruin their life, only to leave asking why nobody suggested it …
I have never met a haircut that causes more salon chair anxiety than the pixie mullet, and I get it, because “short in front, wild in back” sounds like a recipe for regret. Here is the thing my clients never expect: this cut rewards a little texture and forgives a lot of bad hair days, …
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 …