Let me preface my review by saying that I love a nice spa experience from the tea or expresso that you're offered as you enter to the long head massage as you get your hair washed, but when it comes down to it I am paying for highlights. In the past I've been willing to spend up to $300 for highlights, which includes no haircut and no blowdry, and after several tries at well known salons I had practically given up. The best is when you've just swiped your card and you can barely notice a difference or your hair looks orange, not blonde.
It was almost two years ago that I found Rita through reviews on the internet. I actually couldn't believe I was calling the Astor Place Hair Design Studio as I had always known it as a guys barber shop. Rita came to the phone, I scheduled my first appointment, and from then on I was addicted.
I get compliments everywhere I go for how gorgeous my highlights are, how natural they look, and did I forget to mention that sometimes I can wait 7 weeks between visits because her highlights are done so close to the root. Sometimes I stop by for a cut and a glaze, which she often encourages because she cares more about the health of my hair and making me happy, and in turn keeping me as a long term client.
Rita is super affordable, and when I say affordable, she still has to make a living and afford to live in New York. The cost of her services is relative to every other salon in NYC where highlights are typically 250 and up before a cut or a blowdry. A haircut is typically $100 or more anywhere else. If you're expecting prices that you would find in Atlanta or in a small town in upstate New York, you're not being realistic.
I can't tell you how grateful I am to have Rita in my life. I wouldn't know what to do without her!!!!!!!
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