PSA: The salon in the new Riverwalk mall has their station mirrors set up all wrong

I was walking through there last weekend and peeked in the window. Every single stylist's chair faces directly into a bright, white LED light panel on the ceiling. That's gonna cast the worst shadows on a client's face when you're doing any detail work, especially around the hairline or with color application. It's a basic setup flaw they could fix by just angling the chairs toward the natural light from the windows instead. How do places spend that much on a build-out and miss something so simple?

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hugo3715d ago

My old barber shop had that same problem with harsh overhead lights. I got a haircut once where the shadow made my sideburn look straight, and he ended up taking way too much off one side trying to even it out. It's such a basic thing to get right in a salon layout, you'd think someone in the design process would have caught it. That natural light from the windows would be perfect for color matching too. It's frustrating to see a nice new place make a mistake that affects the stylist's work and the client's result so directly.

jesse_white1915d ago

Totally agree, it's such a rookie mistake. Had a makeup artist work on me under lights like that once, and she had to keep turning my chair to check her blending in a compact mirror. The contour ended up looking crazy in normal daylight. You're right about the windows, that soft light is everything for seeing true tones. It's wild they dropped all that cash and didn't ask a single stylist how to set up the room.