If you really want to know about this salon and a few of the people there, this is long, but a MUST read!
First let us talk about the salon. It is clean, upbeat, personable, and a place you can feel completely comfortable to be yourself. There is Behi who immediately searches for ways to make sure you enjoy and pamper yourself with drinks, has even offered to get me something for lunch several times, and so on. She is an absolute doll!
Secondly, let us talk about my history with salons and stylists:
1) I do NOT like salons where you walk in and immediately feel bombarded with them trying to sell you this and sell you that.
2) I do NOT like salons that make you feel like you are waiting for your number to be called.
3) I do NOT like stylists that do not listed to what you want, cannot provide a knowledgeable consultation on your hair cut, color, style, and the biggest is explaining how to maintain it.
4) I also cannot stand it when the stylists says they understand what you want, and then you leave with something that you could have gotten done at some cheapo salon.
With all of that being said, if you are like me and do not like salons like that.....YOU HAVE TO TRY JON DAVID SALON! I have never experienced any of those things that I do NOT like there.
Third, I have saved the best for last; let us talk about my stylist, Carmen. I have extremely thick, coarse, curly, and long hair. I have been told I have enough hair for 2 people. It is extremely difficult to find a stylist who can cut your hair to fit the curly locks you have going without making you look like you are wearing a bell or Christmas tree. For some reason many stylist struggle with cutting curly hair where the curls just flow beautifully.
Carmen actually started out cutting my husband's hair, and he told her about my hair struggles. She told him to have me come in. The first time I was there she had me so relaxed that I fell asleep while she was doing the blowout. It might be easier if I provide a list of all the things about Carmen that I can tell you:
1) She is highly attentive
2) She listens to you during the consultation - which she repeats every time you go to ensure you both are still on the same page
3) She will advise you about choices you are making (ya know since she is the expert), and will let you know how it will affect your hair as well as what you would have to do to keep up that look you are going for. She will even let you know if what you want is not a good choice if it will not produce healthy beautiful hair.
4) She will tell you that her business card is your hair so she is going to make sure it is a walking advertisement for her - in other words you will look like you have the hair of a model when you leave, trust me.
5) We decided to make a color change to my hair, and there is no going back now. I get so many compliments on my hair everywhere I go, seriously - Restaurants, stores, public events, work, walking to work, and the best place of all is at home from my husband - which is what all us wives want, right ladies?!
6) She remembers what is going on in my life and asks me about how those situations are going and so forth.
7) She explains in detail how to take care of your new do, and provides options for any changes you want to make.
8) If she sees your hair doing something such as with color/highlights that is not up to par she will continue working on it to make sure your hair is gorgeous instead of just leaving it there (which I have actually had some other stylists do).
9) She can cut, treat, color, highlight, and style hair like nobody's business. Even thick, coarse, curly, long hair like mine.
10) This is the one that is going to come from the heart, and tell you exactly the kind of stylist you have in Carmen....she cuts our entire family's hair. She has become a part of our lives, someone we care about to and we know she cares about us.
So in closing, I went to Carmen with a cut that needed fixed, color that was blah, and curls that needed control. I am sitting here today with gorgeous red hair, that is softer, shinier, and healthier than it has ever been. It is straight right now, but even curly my hair looks fabulous. I leave that salon feeling like I have the hair of a super model. I feel gorgeous. I also feel like I just got finished spending time with friends.
If you are looking for your next salon; man, woman, child.....this is the place, and Carmen is your go to stylist. If she can turn my hair around, she can be that stylist for you to, and you can have the same experience of leaving feeling like you just spent time with friends and came out a super model. read more
