Nicole Higgins

Nicole Higgins is co-owner and creative director of the salon and works as an owner stylist. Her background is in fashion, and she works as an editorial colorist. Earlier she was USA Cutting Director for Balmain Hair Couture. Her work has included styling fashion shows, Vogue editorials and product campaigns, plus editorial work for Vogue Italia and Vogue Mexico. She has spent more than ten years at Paris and New York Fashion Week and worked at GQ Lounge. She has done hair for the Met Gala, the Oscars, the Grammys and the Emmys. She holds a degree in Fashion Design from FIDM, trained in barbering, has taught through the Aveda Institute, and has curl training. She was named 2016 NAHA Men's Hairstylist of the Year, and she mentored a student stylist to a NAHA nomination. Her specialties include blondes and dimensional blonding, major blonde transformations, grey transformations and grey blending, reds, precision cutting, bobs and short cuts, pixies, men's cutting and grooming, corrective and dimensional color, curly and wavy hair, and hand-tied and tape-in extensions. She takes on grey transformations, including longer transitions out of years of coverage, and handles dramatic color changes.