Having heard lots of great things about the hair salon
Lockonego, I thought it was about time I took a trip down the King’s Road in Chelsea to pay it a visit.
Set up by leading stylists, Jonathan Long and Ben Cooke in
2005, this salon is extremely friendly and although it has plenty of
celebrities as clients and the team regularly do cover shoots for magazines, it is totally unpretentious. I
loved the boutique-y feel and its intimate approach.
My stylist, Amy took one look at my hair and said: “the less
you do to it the better,” She went on to say that people now want laid-back
styles. “Working with their own natural texture, clients find their hair is
much easier to manage,” she added. Mid-length hair is really popular right
now.”
Another good tip from Amy is to blow-dry your hair when it
is practically dry and then smooth it out with a round brush. “So many
hairdressers try to dry hair from wet, resulting in them going over the same
piece of hair several times, which actually can do it more harm than good.”
When blow-drying it yourself, she advised drying it forward
and, taking sections, use a round brush to smooth
it out. “You should find it easier to create tension,” she said.
I like the way that the stylists really talk through your
hair and how it behaves before they start work. My blow-dry was superb – the kind of done but not done
look that I like.
By Daralyn Danns
Lockonego, 394 King's Road, London,SW1 (www.lockonego.com)
