Just off the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris, tucked inside a sunny private courtyard, resides an under-the-radar haven for beauty junkies: the Balmain Hair Couture x Nabil Harlow salon. The nearly 6,000 square-foot space is an ode to the wonders of ivory crown molding, the beauty of tiny chandeliers, and a space where a haircut, blow-out, manicure, or massage are elevated to another plane of Parisian opulence. To put it simply: it's the chicest salon you'll ever visit. And you'll never want to leave.
It's no wonder the quiet, airy salon has become a hot-spot for supermodels looking to refresh during fashion week. We paid a visit at the start of the fall 2017 haute couture shows to challenge Balmain Hair Couture's Creative Director Nabil Harlow to a major hair transformation. We sent a Parisian woman—with varying demands about her wavy, long hair—to Harlow for a high-fashion, Balmain-worthy hair makeover. At the end of it all, armed with a pair of scissors, a flat iron, and shine-enhancing argan oil, Harlow transformed her hair into an Old Hollywood lob with blunt, short, Cleopatra-esque bangs. It somehow looked longer than when he started; a special kind of haircut magic. Watch the whole process go down, above.
Balmain Hair Couture Argan Moisturizing Elixir, $46, store.balmainhair.com.
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Jenna Rosenstein is the Beauty Director at Harper's BAZAAR across both print and digital. While attending NYU, she held internships at Women’s Wear Daily, Bloomingdale’s, Harper’s BAZAAR, and Allure, the latter of which she parlayed into her first job as the Beauty Assistant. She left Allure three years later as the Senior Beauty Editor. She spent a few months at Refinery29 overseeing branded content in the same title, before finally landing back at BAZAAR to manage all beauty content. When she's not testing every lipstick known to mankind, getting zapped by new lasers, or interviewing experts and celebrities, you can find Rosenstein at home in New Jersey with her son, husband, and black cat named Maddie.
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