After another stylist left me with hideously dark, virtually Goth-looking hair (I am 58 years old, with extremely pale skin; this is not a good look for me), I was lucky enough to find Rubann's online ad for ""hair color disaster repair in NYC."" I called them in a panic at 6:30 on a Thursday evening; literally by 7 p.m., Annamarie was at work assessing the problem and getting ready to apply trillions of very fine golden highlights to counteract the darkness. Even at the end of a long day, she was patient and reassuring and incredibly skilled.
I've been coloring my hair for 15 years, with largely mediocre results, but Annamarie instantly transformed the worst color I've ever had into the absolute best. (She also emphasized that I should come back next week if there was anything at all that I didn't love--but I can't get over how totally great it looks. Even my normally hard-to-impress 21-year-old daughter keeps going out of her way to compliment me.)
It was worth it to have a hair disaster to find Annamarie. I can't even imagine going to anyone else from now on.
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