Founded by owner Kim in 2002, Salon Evolve is a Limerick-area hair salon and skincare studio specializing in personalized hair design, beauty services, and scalp care. The salon has grown from three stylists into a 21-person team and now serves the Royersford, Collegeville, and surrounding Montgomery County communities, with a particular focus on blonding and its YUME head spa treatments. Salon Evolve also developed its own hair-product line, launched in 2007, followed by a makeup line in 2014.
Metro SalonOpened by owner Stefania Buonomo in 2003, Metro Salon is a Rochester alternative hair salon offering styling, color, nail care and skin treatments. Curly hair is a specialty, and the salon takes a holistic approach rooted in scalp education, aromatherapy and plant-based care. Metro also makes and sells MimoSeven, its own small-batch line of organic, vegan hair and skin products.ROCHESTER, NY
niccktownsendPhiladelphia brow artist Nicck Townsend pairs a salon practice with a line of professional and consumer beauty products shaped by his signature Brow Harmony method. Townsend became Pennsylvania’s first licensed male esthetician in 2005, opened his salon in July 2015, and has since served clients from across the United States and abroad while teaching beauty professionals nationwide. Since 2016, he has developed 35 consumer products, including a professional brow-and-lash dye line that he says is only the third U.S. company to manufacture dye for both brows and lashes.PHILADELPHIA, PA
Bumble and bumble. Products LLCBumble and bumble began on New York City’s Hairdresser’s Row in 1977, growing from a salon into a hair-care company shaped by professional styling and education. Its Bb.U program brings stylists to New York to study the craft or business of salon work, while the brand’s cruelty-free products are sold through its salon network and select retailers.NEW YORK, NY
Blind BarberBlind Barber began in 2010 as a two-chair East Village barbershop with a hidden bar, and now pairs barber services with a line of grooming products designed in the shop. Its locations keep a neighborhood-by-neighborhood character, where a haircut can come with a complimentary cocktail and the barbershop doubles as a gathering place. The company’s product line has grown from pomade into broader hair, skin, body and fragrance offerings while retaining that shop-to-bottle connection.NEW YORK, NY