How Much Difference Can a Hair Cut Make? All Depends on the Tools You Use– and the Salon You Choose!

How much difference does a hair cut make? It can make a lot of difference– but sometimes it’s about the tools and how you put the look together.
As a beauty editor in past work lives and positions, I have had everything done to my hair including turning it orange (and trying to fix it) and cuts that work or didn’t work.
Here’s the original look from one year ago that was created by another top stylist in LA– which I loved.

I had the opportunity to go Gavert Atelier last week for a haircut

(and what turned out to be a lot more fabulous visit and treatments than I thought it would)
* Caveat: the hair color was done a week ago by my usual stylist, the lovely Amber. It’s pretty much the same mix of colors we have been rocking for a year.
Realize that I have not had straight hair or worn straight hair in over several years. Not even once in at least 5 years.

(not the most tcurrent photo of Mika but close! Her hair is much longer! She’s fabulous!)
Mika did the cut. She has an unusual technique– she washes first, blowdries the hair completely including a light flat-iron to see what the ends look like and then she starts cutting Honestly– I was scared. I always am fearful of a new hairstylist cutting my hair, having had people who don’t understand how to cut curly hair.
What Mika did was send me through the Hair Spa treatment (and that is covered in another post about the entire experience of what that is) and then sit me in her chair.
The Cutting Technique
Typically she blow-dries every client’s hair and then does her cutting on dry hair– to see the texture, the ends, the way it hangs in a normal straight way. Her cutting is precision-based and given that my hair was much longer than the photo of me above (I had my last haircut in October), it was below my shoulders in the front, with bangs to mid-cheek level and shorter in the back.
Mika kept the style that I essentially wanted which was shorter in the back, with an angle to the sides and longer bangs. This allows me to switch between curly (where hair gets shorter because of the nature of curls) and go straight without having to wince over hair that looks funky because it’s too short (curly) or too long (straight).
Here’s the results. Tell me what you think

What Mika did was send me through the Hair Spa treatment (and that is covered in another post about the entire experience of what that is) and then sit me in her chair.
The Cutting Technique
Typically she blow-dries every client’s hair and then does her cutting on dry hair– to see the texture, the ends, the way it hangs in a normal straight way. Her cutting is precision-based and given that my hair was much longer than the photo of me above (I had my last haircut in October), it was below my shoulders in the front, with bangs to mid-cheek level and shorter in the back.
Mika kept the style that I essentially wanted which was shorter in the back, with an angle to the sides and longer bangs. This allows me to switch between curly (where hair gets shorter because of the nature of curls) and go straight without having to wince over hair that looks funky because it’s too short (curly) or too long (straight).
Here’s the results. Tell me what you think— post comments here or on facebook please!!

Slight angle shot

From the front

Close-up — you can see my color dimension better here.

And the bangs away from the face.
So.. if you are looking for a new style or want to do something different, check over the new location (and new services) at Gavert Atelier.
Also — tell me what you think about the cut and style!!
Stevie Wilson

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