A great hairdresser is an indispensable commodity. Nihad, owner of the new Virtu Salon, is just that. A master of styling hair into a perfect head of hair, Nihad works magic with a round brush. While sitting back and sipping wine, Nihad transforms your dull lifeless hair into a full bodied, shiny, and stylish coif. Virtu salon is a cozy space, filled with beautiful full-length mirrors, incredible artwork, and antique furniture, and is the perfect antithesis to typically starch and generic salon decor. Instead of sitting in an ugly Salon chair, a trendy leather chair awaits your company. Nihad moves around and crouches down to cut your hair instead of pumping you up and down in a plastic-y salon seat. He listens to his clients, but also has a good artistic eye and doesn't need a lot of guidance. A week after having 4 inches lopped off, I decided that maybe we had been almost a little too conservative and would like a little length taken off the back. Nihad was happy to have me come back in and, didn't just pull out his scissors and take off the length in a matter of seconds, whooshing me out the door in one fell swoop. He told me that he was glad that I came back and would rather take my hair to exactly how I want it in smaller steps. He actually shampooed my hair, trimmed up the back and angled it for me, gave me a great style, and then asked if it was OK if he ran the flat iron through it. He knows how important it is to have his clients looking fabulous when they walk out of his salon. Virtu boasts organic hair products, and is on his way to introducing the Phyto organic line to his new shop. Nihad gushed that Phyto is used by a lot of great stylists in Hollywood. I checked it out around Seattle and found that only a couple salons offer that line, and also charge a lot more than Virtu. Please read the rest of my review at the bottom of this...
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