Etch Salon

Go see Alex! She is amazing - a total miracle worker. Seriously. Call her.

My fiance and I have been seeing Alex since she was at Salon Blanc, although her latest home at Etch Salon is probably our favorite location so far. Convenient location, has its own parking lot, great overall.

I have really really difficult hair to cut - it's insanely thick and has a mind of its own. As you can imagine, I had many many years of bad haircuts before finally finding Alex. When I tell most stylists that I have thick hair, they say "oh, no problem." But they don't take the time to understand my hair, and I end up looking awful.

But Alex understands my hair! She spends as much time as it takes (which is close to 90 minutes) and does a phenomenal job. We start with the standard shampoo and conditioning, then Alex does the initial cut of my hair. After cutting off whatever length I want gone, she blow dries and flat irons my hair before continuing the cut. (This is where most stylists go wrong with my hair - they think they can handle the thickness and cut it while it's wet, but then it looks horrible and choppy when it dries.) Once my hair is dry and tamed, Alex takes her time cutting my layers and thinning out the exceptionally thick spots. Her attention to detail is fantastic, and I am ecstatic with my haircut every time I see her.

Never in my life has my hair been so cooperative, easy to style, and healthy and happy overall. This is all thanks to Alex! She is an incredible stylist, and I recommend her at every opportunity.

My friend recommending Joy after I had a very bad experience at another salon.  Joy was friendly, professional, listened-well and made some awesome recommendations for my hair color. I have fine, blonde and short hair and she took great care in keeping it healthy and shiny.  I love my new color and cut.   I will be going back to her from now on.

Finding the right hairdresser is like finding your soulmate, so when you finally find "the one" you stick with 'em.  A couple of years ago my former hairdresser moved to the mainland and I spent over two years wandering around to different people and different salons, trying to find someone who understood me, my style, and what I wanted.  When I got engaged I was desperate to find a good hairdresser so that my hair would look good on my wedding day, so I did what every normal Yelper would... I read the reviews. ;D  Everyone seemed to comment about this one hairdresser named Alex, so I decided to give her a try.  After our first meeting I knew... she...was...the...ONE (cue jumping up and down and yelling huray)!!

I have been seeing Alex for about a year and a half now and she is by far the best hairdresser I've ever seen.  She moved to Etch Salon and I, of course, followed.  What makes her so good?  She is very knowledgeable about hair and is passionate about doing things right, while making your hair stay healthy.  For example, when I first saw her (like I said, I was pretty desperate) my hair was a mess, all sorts of different colors from past dye jobs.  She, of course, fixed it, but when I asked for highlights she told me I had to wait because my hair was corse and it needed to get healthy first.

She's also very meticulous in her work.  She will spend the time needed to make sure you come out of that chair looking fab-u-lous!  She's constantly measuring your hair strands on each side to make sure it's even.  I've never seen anyone do that before, but being someone who's who's had her hair cut with one strand longer than the other, I could appreciate this method that she uses.

And then finally, I LOVE the EXTENSIONS that she uses on me.  I don't put extensions in my hair all the time since my hair is thin and she doesn't want my hair thinning out even more, but when I do, I get tons of positive comments.  This time around she tried a new type of extension.  She always intertwines my real hair with the extensions, crocheting it and then clipping them at various places on my head, but this time she used a long strand of hair and the extensions started from all the way at the bottom of my hair to the middle of my head (I've uploaded pics so you can see what I mean).  This allowed me to have even longer hair and because the extensions were all over you can't tell they're extensions, it just looks like I have layered locks.  Even my co-workers who know I'm wearing extensions (since my hair couldn't grow that long overnight. lol) commented how the extensions she used this time around was much more real looking.  And of course, I get to curl my hair and rock it like I'm Kim K. The extensions are light on your head, you can wash your hair and brush it without fear that the clips will fall off and as long as you take good care of it, it will last for a long time (you just need to go in to re-tighten it about once a month).

I would recommend anyone to Alex, I even got my mother-in-law to start going to her.  I don't know if I want the word to get out about her, though... then that means I'll have to wait longer to get an appointment with her. ;)