Deal with: Brooks & Brooks, 28 Nice Queen Avenue, London, WC2B 5BB.
“I have been very fortunate to have my hair reduce in a lot of London salons – all of them great – however I’ve by no means been happier with a restyle than I used to be after I stepped out of Brooks & Brooks earlier this 12 months. I hadn’t had my hair trimmed in virtually a 12 months (shameful, I do know), so the workforce had their work reduce out. However from the second I arrived on the salon – which lately relocated to a historic Grade II-listed constructing set in opposition to the backdrop of bustling Covent Backyard – the workforce did not make something really feel like an excessive amount of work. Not even a change of my cut up, dry locks.
“I used to be put within the secure palms of Marlon Hawkins, the salon’s Creative Director who has, because the model instructed me, been an ‘integral a part of the workforce for the previous 5 years’. He is a well-respected educator for a number of the greatest hair manufacturers within the business, has gained a Visionary Award on the Artistic Head Most Wished Awards – and was a complete pleasure to be within the firm of.
“After a protracted and completely personalised session – fuelled by espresso and chocolate brownies – we determined to refresh my balayage, add bangs and provides my lengths a choppier end; the complete course of was a complete dream. I received a complimentary head therapeutic massage, free-flowing refreshments, and Marlon took time to elucidate each step of the method intimately. We completed up with my hair trying more healthy than it had in years – and since visiting, the reduce and color have been straightforward to model myself.
“The salon itself, a takeover of the area as soon as occupied by Charles Worthington, displays each the wealthy historical past of the situation and the revolutionary spirit of the creative workforce. It is residence to numerous elite creative hair stylists from totally different backgrounds who’ve mixed expertise which spans decade. I’ll, most positively, be again.” Sophie Cockett, GLAMOUR’s European Senior Commerce Editor.