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Director shows her true colors at salons ■
by katie rose mceneely
Skokie’s Nicole Tabloff is the salon director of the Chicago Salon and the color director of the Chicago Salon of Northbrook and Chicago for Sassoon Salons. Reading: As a mom I don’t really have time to read, but I always read the Huffington Post in the morning — general news, and I read the crime and the good news. Listening: Lots of public radio and ‘90s rap. Wu-Tang, Notorious B.I.G — stuff from when I was a teenager. Watching: I have a four-year-old, so I watch a lot of “Yo Gabba Gabba!” I’m lucky — I live in Skokie, and I have a really great library. We check out a lot of Japanese samurai movies — I just watched Kurosawa’s “The Hidden Fortress,” one of his lesserknown ones, and it was really good. I guess it’s technically reading, too, because it’s all subtitles. Following: I’m one of those people who’s not on Facebook or Twitter — I just got an Instagram account. I follow Sassoon Academy and Sassoon Salons to see what’s going on in the company, and behindthechair.com, which lets you know what’s going on in the world of hairdressing, trend-wise. Activity: As far as being a salon director, it’s running the business part of the salon — mundane things like scheduling. I think it’s great that I also get to be the color director, because that’s the creative side. I travel and go to shows, and I do all the ongoing education for our colorists. I have apprentices
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who are training to be colorists. I also teach color classes for other hairdressers in the industry [at our Chicago school]. I’ve worked here my entire career, so I get the chance to meet the people in the business who are doing the same thing behind the chair. Being a hairdresser is on one hand really technical and on the other really creative. It utilizes both sides of my brain a bit — it never gets boring. I think the one thing right now is a lot of people are really into being natural, just as far as what their hair does. A lot of looks you’ll see in magazines emphasize what people have going on for them already and just making it better. I personally like doing things that are more experimental, but I really like giving somebody something that works with their lifestyle; I don’t think hair should be something you worry about or struggle with. I like enhancing what women already have. Eating: I mostly eat a pretty paleo diet. I really try to eat clean. We try to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables and lots of barbeque. What is your favorite mistake? Becoming a hairdresser! It was kind of an act of rebellion — it was something my parents, at the time, would have said was a mistake. I would have never called it a mistake, but if you asked my parents 20 years ago, they would have said it was a huge mistake. I did not grow up in a family where you would become a hairdresser. As soon as I started working at Sassoon when I was 18 — I was already very independent. It’s been a really great career. ■
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