I started doing hair in 1986. Somewhere in there I worked out that the part of the job I love is not the volume — it is the person in the chair. So I built a studio where there is only ever one of you.
What a private studio actually means
No second stylist. No waiting room. No one is double-booked behind you, and nothing gets cut short to make room for the next appointment. You can say what you actually want out loud, change your mind halfway through, and not do it in front of an audience.
Redken Master Colorist
I keep going back to school, because colour keeps changing. Master Colorist is not a certificate you hang up and forget — it is the reason a correction that would take somebody else three visits sometimes takes one.
Who sits in my chair
Women who have been coming for twenty years. Their husbands, who swore they would never sit in a salon. Their kids. Teachers and nurses from around the valley. People who just moved down from Northern Virginia and are tired of driving back up for a haircut.
Where I am
Gainesboro, just outside Winchester in Frederick County. People text me from the road asking if they are going the right way. You are. Keep coming — it gets quieter, and that is rather the point.
