DO NOT go to this salon to get your hair done!:
I decided to go here because I did a search for "master colorist DC" and this salon popped up, also, due to all the positive press articles. I should have been wary when I got an appointment with one of the owners, Daniel Levy, in just two days.
I came in with a years and a half's worth of virgin hair and I told him I wanted blond. I had a photo of me with the blond shade that I liked, and a photo with me as a kid when my hair was a light golden blonde naturally. He was very gruff and rude and hardly looked at the photos at all. But I gave him creative license and ignored it. I told him that I absolutely did not want any gold or red, I liked ash tones. What I got were streaks (he didn't bother to weave the comb in and out through the parts to be highlighted) of dark golden blonde mixed in with a lot of my natural brown. In the back, at the nape, were the product was left on longer was the color I wanted. The next day I drove all the way up to a top salon in NY to try to have it fixed. Because it was already processed the best they could get it to was a dark bronze (read reddish) blonde. They said that Daniel had left way too much brown in the front, and since my hair was virgin I should have been able to get the exact color I wanted.
So after growing my hair out for a year and a half because I had had to cut it off due to damage, it's fried again thanks to Daniel at the Hair Lounge. This is exactly why salons get successfully sued.
I wasn't the only one who got ripped off here, while at the salon I watched as other women got their hair single-processed bleached to disastrous results. The resulting color was garishly yellow and the hair wiry. It looked as if it had been done at home.
When I asked for a refund and told him (on the phone after calling back after a week of waiting for him to return my call) what they had said in NY, he said "Wow" and hung up on me. If this is the way he runs his business, I would be surprised if it is not defunct shortly.
Be skeptical of the authenticity of any positive review of this salon.
by Eve8 on July 16, 2009