So it turns out my hair is going to be a little bit of a project. However, I will judge this salon visit for now as a success.
I went to Sublime on Cedar Street near 4th Avenue in Seattle. The staff was friendly and comfortable to be around. The atmosphere was fresh, clean and bright. Wasn’t a busy time of day (Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.) so it was laid back, and I didn’t feel like my stylist was rushed. However, even if it were packed, the place is so wide open (nice high ceilings, stylist stations are not crowded, big skylight), that I don’t think it could ever feel cramped.
Sabrina the stylist was great. She was super nice and easy to talk to, and she seemed to have some good insight into what my hair should look like over time.
The last time I got my hair colored, I personally thought the highlights may have been too light. But I’m not an expert, so it was hard for me to be able to communicate to the stylist what should happen, and it’s hard for me to tell in-process if something is wrong and I need to stop. And after over 2 months of washing and blow-drying, the color had gotten to the point where I felt washed out. Not to mention the fact that my roots had grown in a good couple of inches…natural dark brown and streaks of silver meeting up with almost dark blond tresses.
The Lobby (photo from their web site)
I didn’t tell any of this to Sabrina, just that I was playing it safe with color for now…just wanted it to look healthy and natural because I had potential job interviews coming up. Her response was almost exactly what I had said…the highlights were washing me out and she suggested that next time I come in she do something that was more of a subtle blend. But she didn’t want to do anything yet until it grew in more, so she touched up my part, blended it nicely, and then did an overall toner to calm down the “blonde” a bit. Great!
The main room...wish I had a better pic...pulled from their site. The work station tables are actually Craftsman tool chests. heh. Picture makes it feel smaller than it is.
She also saw more wrong with the layers than I did because, well, she can see the back of my head. Going to take a while for everything to grow smoothly together, so she did take a good bit off in the end. With my hair dry and curled up, it goes only just past my shoulders right now. However, the layers are BLENDING which is great. Yay!
I would post pics, but a) I dislike posting pics of myself, and b) I have a LOT of product in my hair so it’s not necessarily at its best. After I give it a good wash tomorrow, maybe I’ll update this post and drop one in 😉
(“booo! hiss! You always insist others post pics of haircuts, you hypocrite!” yeah, yeah…MY blog.)
______UPDATE_______ OK fine, here’s a photo 😉
xo
en