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Brian at Tangle
Brian at Tangle
3000 N. State St., 601-987-0123
I’m damned picky about hair salons. Sometimes it feels like I want the impossible in a hair salon. Small and arty and rather hip. Not pretentious. Not filled with vapid conversation and gossip. A place where they don’t talk my head off when I clearly want to doze and enjoy the pampering. Somewhere I can walk to from work. A stylist who will work me in when I inevitably call too late to get an appointment before a big event. Somebody who doesn’t try to constantly sell me services and products (even though I might buy them).
Amazingly, I got all that this year when Brian Brower opened Tangle right here in Fondren. I’ve never had a better salon experience—he knows how to cut my hair, he tells me he doesn’t think I should try to cover my gray (“I like it,” he says simply). We talk about films, ART Mix, the important of shopping local, why Starbucks is a bad idea for Fondren. He fits me in late. He cuts my hair like the chicks’ in the pictures. A hair stylist can’t get any better than this. And apparently his packed client list agrees with me.
--Donna Ladd
(Best of Jackson, Best Hair Stylist 2006)
