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Notes from the chair.

The answers I give all day long, written down — so you can read them before you sit down instead of after.

Everything here is mine: vivid timelines, what box dye actually does, why extensions cost what they cost, and the questions I ask before I touch anyone’s hair. The first pieces are being written now — each one goes up the day it’s finished, and nothing gets published just to fill the wall.

What’s being written.

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  • Long beachy dimensional blonde balayage with a shadow root and champagne ribbons, three-quarter back view.
    The Chair

    Is it your hair or his hair?

    The question I ask when someone hedges about what they actually want. Nobody has ever answered it quickly.

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  • Freshly toned wet platinum-pearl blonde in the studded black chair at the styling station.
    Color

    Why your vivid takes three sessions

    Lightening, toning, and the twelve weeks in between — what’s actually happening to your hair each time you sit down.

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  • Long dark espresso hair with a soft silver-grey dimensional blend and curled ends against the dark floral wall.
    Hair Health

    Box dye isn’t the villain. Hiding it is.

    I’ve seen everything and judged none of it. What I need to know before I mix anything, and why lying about it costs you sessions.

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  • The working station — ornate gold-framed lit mirror, black barber chair, taxidermy raven and a Bride of Frankenstein poster on deep green walls.
    Extensions

    What the extension price doesn’t include

    Application is my time. The hair is yours, ordered for your head. Here’s how the two numbers actually break down.

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  • Crimson wine-red vivid in a heavily layered shag with feathered ends, seen from behind.
    Cuts

    Shag, mullet, bixie: the actual difference

    Three cuts that get used interchangeably and shouldn’t be. What each one needs from your hair, and how they grow out.

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  • Wavy collarbone-length vivid in deep magenta and raspberry with a pale bubblegum money-piece.
    Color

    How to keep vivid from fading in three washes

    Water temperature, wash frequency, and the products that quietly strip your color. The aftercare conversation, written down.

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  • Long icy platinum beach waves with a soft shadow root against the dark floral backdrop.
    Extensions

    Move-ups every four to six weeks

    Why I rebook you before you leave, and what happens to your own hair when an install sits too long.

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  • A shelf still life in the studio — anatomical skull, porcelain doll, taxidermy chicks in spiked collars, a glass eyeball and a jawbone.
    The Chair

    Four hours in that chair

    What a full transformation appointment is actually like — the timing, the breaks, and the taxidermy you’ll be sitting across from.

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  • Glossy midnight cobalt-blue vivid on a blunt shoulder-length lob, held by the stylist’s hand.
    Hair Health

    The lift I’ll say no to

    Sometimes the honest answer is not today. What I check before lightening, and the plan I offer instead of a maybe.

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Near the Target off Katella.

Reading is free. The chair is where the real answer happens.

Cult Hair is a private suite inside Sola Salon Studios in Cypress, right on the Orange County / LA County line, about twenty minutes from the beach cities.

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6887 Katella Ave, Ste 122 · Cypress, CA 90630
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Cypress · Los Alamitos · Long Beach · Anaheim · Buena Park
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