Designer Jeans Salon
Designer Jeans Salon
191 Woodport Road
Sparta, NJ 07871
973-729-4002
designerjeanssalon@yahoo.com
At Designer Jeans Salon our staff of experienced stylists will work with you to design a look that is both natural and radiant. A look that you can maintain long after you have walked out our door. We recognize that each person is unique, and needs to find the right cut and color to suit everyday living yet without compromising the benefit of good design. This is our promise to you.... Custom Hair for Everyday Wear
Designer Jeans Salon in Sparta offers a refreshing way to look at hair styling - find the cut the flatters and fits you like a glove, exactly like that great pair of jeans that can easily be worn every day with comfort and ease, and glamour. "Think about the ones that fit and feel perfect," said Jean Cotis, owner of the salon. "When you find them, you may have to try on 400 pairs but once they're in your possession, you'll do anything to always have them."
In fact, the business mantra here stands out among salons in Sussex County, repeatedly whispering - this is all about you. When a customer phones in for an appointment, a full line of questions about your lifestyle and personal habits are first and foremost as the order of business, just as important to them as penciling your time and date on the calendar, for the actual service to be rendered.
"What we do here is customize the haircut to go with the person's personality and lifestyle," Cotis Said. "Not everyone can have a Posh (Victoria Beckham) hairstyle and deal with it. It may be on all the magazines but it doesn't mean it will necessarily work for you." A customer is interviewed, if you will, and asked a number of personal questions such as, what they do for a living, how much time they put into their hair every day in styling, how much maintenance (return trips to the salon) they are willing to initiate. "After discovering the answers to these important lifestyle questions, then we are able to decide together whether this is the hairstyle for you", Cotis said. "I'll then show them what I think would work best for them and if they want the other haircut no matter what, I give it to them but I do explain the amount of work involved."
With personality neatly fitted into their workday routine, creativity is the next styling tool in the arsenal of business know-how. "All of a sudden I felt like this industry started wearing black clothing and donning white walls," Cotis said. "When spas became incorporated into the mix, it became a different attitude, a very stifling way of acting that took the fun and excitement away. This is supposed to be a creative industry - it's art. We laugh and talk to our clients, the music is up." Cotis explained another nuance to this highly creative art form in designer haircutting. "Every generation has it's own styling method," Cotis said.
The '50's & '60's were the rollers; in the '70's and '80's blow-dryers and hairbrushes were the tools of choice, and today ask any girl between the ages of 12 & 18 and they will say: the flat iron. "That's why I have 10 different hairdressers all with their own special design expertise, including the knowledge and savvy on styling equipment that will best complement the new cut," Cotis said. "That's half the battle of getting what you want is getting placed in the right chair of the person that does that best. No one does everything perfectly but everyone does something perfect."
For example, a large audience (of wash and sets) comes in on Friday mornings, 55 years to 90 plus. "I put the radio on oldies and we are talking up a storm," Cotis said. If, however, a young client in her late teens calls for an appointment, she would be ushered to the stylist who knows the trends and styling tools that best suit her lifestyle.
Cotis has two very large diverse markets in Sparta that weigh in on both sides of the spectrum; the professional working woman who typically maintains cut and color every 4 weeks and, on the other end, the stay at home mom with three or four children in tow, who doesn't typically have a lot of time to put into her hair. All of her stylists are constantly taking various classes, including new techniques in cutting, coloring and styling. Many of the stylists were just in New York for a Wella Inspire Class. The salon carries the pure pigment line; the stylist prepares 100 percent of the color, it's not pre-mixed or pre-packaged.
The salon also recently opened The Gentlemen's Quarters, which is a separate room in the salon with its own entrance way, keeping the men in a place where they have privacy. An abundance of walk-ins find themselves pushing open the door and delightfully stumbling into this most unique experience. Many brides and wedding parties also avail themselves of the talent of Jacqueline Catanese of Facez, and air brush makeup artist who comes to the salon several times a week. "My new bullet-proof air brush make-up application was just trademarked," said Catenese. "It's a flawless look that adds contouring where needed, for example, if someone thinks they have a wide nose, we can work with it." Catanese also has many clients for eyelash extensions which last up to two months, with maintenance.
In five years, Cotis would like to also see a separate color and design section and have a constant overflow of students ready and willing for training in this most interesting and personal of art forms. "That's what I want to bring back - the personal touch - I mean really, you don't get more personal than a person's hair," Cotis said.
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