Before moving to Miami, I had seriously not been in a salon for roughly 5 years. While I modeled I had my hair cut TOO frequently on set, and after that I had great hairstylist friends who would cut my hair at their place over a bottle of wine. Even now I’ll hit up the stylist on set to give me a quick trim, but after some rather strange cuts done on wind swept beaches or in hotel bathrooms, I decided it might be in my best interest to stop beings such a cheapster and start looking into this whole ’salon’ thing again. 

After trying a few places I settled on a cool local girl named Kaylan at Aveda for a pretty fair price. Just last week, though, she moved up to ridiculously outlandish and fun salon in swank Bay Harbor. The interior is very Betsy Johnson meets Design Within Reach. Or, Design NOT Within Reach as my Friend Daniel calls it. Referred by Kaylan, I went by today to meet with them about doing makeup for their large wedding parties. While there, Kaylan asked if I’d be her hair model next week for both cut and color….for $10! I remember hearing about stylists at Bumble and Bumble or Arrojo’s in New York giving free or low-cost cuts for new stylists to prove themselves…. but kind of forgot about that whole deal. 

Fancy salons are, by nature, constantly turning over staff and thus always looking for guinea pigs. This isn’t beauty school, these stylists just have to show what they can do, quite a few times over. Often times the stylist has to find their own models, and as I remember from New York, will even solicit people on the street to fill the need. So, for a high end salon experience at a below Super Cuts price, give your local posh-o-rama a call and offer yourself as a hair model. Just don’t forget to tip!

Pics of the new 1160 Salon: Above is the hair washing station…. dude, fireplace! To the right is the pedicure station. Personally I like the massaging chairs, but this certainly looks gorgeous. Below is Kaylan (hiding her face like she’s someone famous)getting a manicure done by a technician who is also going through a process of showing what she can do.