Daniel Galvin was my salon of choice for my big transformation, leaving blonde behind and becoming brunette once again. Daniel Galvin is highly regarded as one of the top colourists in the country and he has built up an impressive empire. Every Daniel Galvin colourist is trained in house to use Daniel’s specially developed techniques, ensuring consistent excellence. My colourist, Ellie a lovely bubbly blonde, used to be Daniel’s junior, so had learnt from the very best first hand.
The salon is huge, apparently the largest in the UK, with colouring upstairs, cutting and café-bar downstairs. I was offered a drink and taken to my seat, which happened to be opposite Daniel’s working station, so I could see the master at work. Ellie indicated her expertise in colouring, talking me through my options and speaking to several colleagues to ensure we achieved the results I wanted. She worked miracles with my hair… I arrived with bleached blonde dry hair and left with divinely glossy chocolate locks with glinting honey highlights.
To prevent the colour from looking flat and boring, Ellie first put a few discreet foils through my hair. These were not always from the roots as this can look unnatural, instead they were staggered to give a summery sun-kissed look. Next came the serious dark dye… Daniel Galvin uses the mildest colouring products possible mixed with natural vegetable dye to improve the colour. The dye was applied to my hair wet so the colour didn’t come out too dark. Ellie and her junior had to massage the colour into my hair for a while to guarantee the brown colour was even and rich.
The effects of the dye and careful application were worth the wait… and the highlights came through perfectly. Once Ellie was happy with the colour, I went downstairs for a blow-dry with Molly. I had a quick trim to smarten the shape of my hair and then had a wavy messy blowdry. Molly was very efficient and speedy, achieving natural bounce with my hair in minutes.
The Daniel Galvin team encourage and advise their clients to help everyone achieve a look that is subtle and natural complimenting to eyes, skin tone and personal style.
With my new hair complete, Daniel spoke to me about my features specifically explaining how I could bring out the blue in my eyes and glow in my skin, it was very interesting and something I had never previously considered when dying my hair. Daniel Galvin was the obvious place for my colour change, and I couldn’t be more delighted with the results. I couldn’t recommend this spectacular salon highly enough, it is THE place to go for hair colouring in London.
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