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| - I have only been here twice so far, but I got probably the best haircut of my entire life.
I have extremely curly, yet paradoxically fine, hair. I wanted it cut short for ease of maintenance (I spend probably about 2 hrs/day in the gym, so I don't want to spend a lot of time fiddling around with my hair). Finding a good hairdresser is a challenge when you have curly hair. Finding a good hairdresser who can cut your hair short without totally messing it up is exponentially more of a challenge when you have curly hair. I've been going around to various salons in the area for a couple years now, and everyone basically did the same thing: "Um, I can't cut your hair short because it will look awful. How about we put some nice layers in it instead to give you some more volume up around the crown?" End result: Great-looking hair immediately after the haircut, but a cut that I couldn't really style very well, given the huge restraints on my time and my incompetence at styling hair.
So, recently I realized that one of my gym buddies has the same texture of hair that I do, and that she rocks a short little curly crop. It would look horrible on my face, but clearly there was someone in town who could give me a short curly cut. Hence, the referral to Tim Denham, who owns Denham & Co.
The salon is a second-floor walkup in the middle of Market Square, next to Nicholas Coffee. It's an Aveda salon, if all-natural products are important to you. The atmosphere is comfortable and remarkably peaceful, given the smallness of the space and the number of people who are there. I had a consultation with Tim on a Tuesday afternoon, for which he did not charge me, in which he basically said "Yeah, I can definitely cut your hair short. Bring me some pictures of what you'd like, and let's do it." Awesomely enough, the salon is open until 8 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I got a 6:30 appointment for that Thursday. Haircuts from Tim are on the pricey side for Pittsburgh salons, with a shampoo & cut at $49. I think the other hairdressers are probably a bit cheaper (after all, Tim is the owner and hair mogul-in-chief). But seriously, that was the best $50-plus-tip I ever spent.
On Thursday, I showed up armed with various pictures of haircuts that I liked. We picked the one that would probably end up looking the best on my head, and Tim went to work. (Tim is an ebullient and hilarious person, definitely one of the most entertaining people I've ever gotten a cut from.) Tim cuts wet hair, even if you're curly -- if you're curly-headed and insist upon getting a dry cut, this might not be for you. However, he clearly knows what he's doing with curly hair. My hair was not cut too short, even though curly hair gets curlier and therefore shortens much more than you would expect after a short cut. He did a really great job of shaping it, as well. Now I have an extremely cute, curly, asymmetrical bob-type thing going on, instead of the disheartening shoulder-length triangular frizzy mass that previously adorned the top of my body. I'll definitely go back here.
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