“Folks come to me for this cool, easy haircut. It’s the cool woman hair the place you don’t must model it—you would if you happen to needed to, however you can too embrace the pure texture. It’s that messier, layered, tousled haircut. It’s just a little shaggy, perhaps there’s some longer curtain bangs. 

“Rising up as a stylist, I assisted Sally Hershberger. I imply she did the Meg Ryan shag minimize! And so everybody got here to her for this not-so-done, texturized haircut, and what’s actually nice about them for maturing ladies is that they immediately make you look youthful. I used to be so impressed by that, and it nonetheless influences the best way I minimize hair 20 years later. 

“I really feel like after I wish to give folks a haircut that once they go away, they’ll take it residence and make them look actually good. You’re all the time going to get compliments in your hair once you go away the salon—however what a few month, two months? I find it irresistible when somebody comes again and says, ‘Oh I’m nonetheless getting compliments on my hair minimize.’

“Right here’s the deal: COVID actually modified issues. It introduced folks again to that place of embracing their pure texture. Individuals are all the time going to need an attractive blow dry—that may by no means exit of fashion. And other people may have occasions the place they wish to appear and feel glam. However let’s be actual, not everybody goes to wish to do that the entire time. So that you desire a minimize that may look good on the times the place you don’t wish to do something.”