No joke, I'm the girl who gets the worst haircut. So much so that I dread going to the hairstylist. From Beverly Hills to edgy Venice Beach to downtown Boston salons, none of these big city stylists get it right no matter how much money I throw down. So I've settled for strip mall salons in the Inland Empire, tiny no names in Somerville or Medford. Every time the cut looks awful and accentuates my round face. It's just hopeless - no one knows how to cut pin straight, Asian hair without giving me the bowl cut. I've learned to hate the word bob. Even long layers started to look like a bob on me (widest part around my cheeks). I bring photos, share pics on my phone, and ask the stylist to please make huge choppy layers around my cheekbones, but without fail that always do. The past couple of years, I've been relying on a good friend at the hospital for courtesy cuts in the MGH bathroom... Figured I'd venture out and get a "real" haircut so I purchased a groupon for Renee at Salon De Fleur and drove out to Burlington for a cut and color.
Unsurprisingly (like all the other stylists) Renee suggested a bob when I asked for a modern and slimming cut. I was hesitant because Renee had curly hair and I feared that she, like all the others, had no clue how to cut Asian hair. However, she reassured me that she knew exactly how to cut the bob asymmetrical bob to give me a sleek and modern look (no more bowl cut!!!).
She then spent the next 3.5 hours coloring my hair and carefully creating the blunt, choppy layers that I've only seen in magazines and TV makeover shows and gave me the BEST haircut of my life!!! Long, blunt bob that meet at my chin, and a crisp, clean line in the back. I felt like Jennifer Aniston circa 2013 with the perfect, slimming, and modern asymmetric bob. Oh, and Renee ignored phone calls from her husband to go to dinner on a Saturday night, all so that she could perfect the cut.
I've never seen any stylist be this meticulous about a cut, and in the end, I felt really crummy for having gotten what by all means was a $300+ cut and color for the groupon price....
So with great hesitation, I do want to recommend Renee (hesitant because I really hope she doesn't start charging $200 for her amazing haircuts).
The real test? My Santa Monica friends who routinely get $500+ haircuts by celebrity stylists actually told me that my hair finally looks decent, and was curious to know where I had it done!!!
And yes, my coworkers told me how great my hair looked......few times a week for the past 4 months!!!! People even started asking me if I had lost weight, and I got ID'd more at bars... I guess the right haircut can make you look younger and thinner!
I am so glad I found Renee -and that she restored my faith in bobs (and hairstylists!) I will most definitely be going back to her.
It's been 4 months and I haven't touched a curling iron. Haven't even bobby pinned my hair to make my face look less round, straightened my hair around my face to get rid of the poof, or teased my hair to create a higher crown. Still, I wake up each morning, run my fingers through my hair and get compliments regularly....thank you so much Renee, for giving me the perfect, low maintenance cut!!! read more