article_snippet: As a customer, all you have to do is point at the look you like best on the salon menu before you sit back for 45 minutes and sip a green tea as the stylist gets to work.
article_snippet: The style: The salon’s name for this look is the Red Carpet.
article_snippet: And even the shampoo the stylist is rubbing into my hair has Hollywood connections.
article_snippet: It turns out this is the first of many products that I need to be red carpet-ready.
article_snippet: Verdict: my pampered hair has more energy and bounce than Gwyneth after a pint of organic green juice.
article_snippet: n’t look ‘sensual and innocent’, as promised on the salon menu.
article_snippet: But as I soon discover, this is a seriously high–maintenance look
article_snippet: — not for nothing the salon calls the salon the Hunt Club — that takes a lot of backcombing.
article_snippet: Mandie (right) discovered that this seriously high-maintenance look took a lot of backcombing .