The East Village manages to support an unfathomable number of "too cool" salons where, without fail, a hair-dresser can be spotted weighing hair in hand while tossing questions at a mirror, remarking something I imagine to be vapid, and then letting out a giggle that snaps them back to snipping.
When I sat down with him at his uber-cool salon (his partner is celebrity colorist, Tracey Cunningham), to talk hair, here's what secrets he revealed to rock great hair every day.
Upstairs, a narrow terrace with daybeds hugs three sides of the building, with an after-work crowd not quite as cool as Salon de Ning's and mediocre views of office buildings.
Kirsty's living her life… she's got this cool, hipster salon, whereas Joanna's life is now very much baby-focused and dealing with the husband and the ex-wife… They are two friends who are slowly separating because they are living out two different parts of their life.
Licari, a portrait of cool in his salons, was a wreck when Gostigian took him out for his first race -- a three-mile run in Central Park.
There's nothing cool about this dowdy tea salon.
I just moved to Los Angeles and I have an outdoor sink, so I don't have to go to a salon, which is cool.
"I keep telling people it's going to be launching in two or three weeks, but we don't have a set date," said Ms. Bronfman, in cool braids from the John Barrett salon.
There is this cool hair bleaching bar called Bleach Salon inside the Topshop flagship store.
The color also appeared on a crocodile bag exclusive to the store, selling at a cool €16,000, or $21,000, while a watch salon displayed tony timepieces.
So Cool John Reverol was a longtime habitu f coffeehouses and tea salons before he realized that he was on the wrong side of the equation.
