Hey guys!
It's Emily and today I'm headed
to the Julien Farel Salon to get a $1,000 haircut.
That's right, $1,000 for a haircut
and that's before the full Power Hour Treatment
which includes getting
my hair colored and my nails done.
So obviously this is outside of my price range
but celebs like Kate Moss have gotten the cut.
My main goal for the day is to investigate why and how
this haircut could be worth so much money.
We met with Julien Farel himself in the VIP room of
his salon in New York City.
Emily: Well Julien, I'm so excited to be here today.
Thank you so much.
I can't wait for you to just
transform me.
I'm glad you came.
You have the best hair.
Thank you.
The best face and the best eyes.
Emily: You're wonderful, thank you.
So this part here?
Right now you're closing down.
Mhm.
We're going to reopen it.
I love the length, and I'm glad you say you haven't cut
it for three months.
Love it.
But we're going to make
this part to make sure that your eyes and cheekbones
can really highlight.
And you know hair is all about proportion.
Okay.
And what we do, we build a volume into a space.
The head is a space and we have to build a volume
around it.
So we're going to make you look like
a movie star.
And I have to ask your professional opinion about
something.
Do you like the bangs?
I do.
Okay, good.
But let me tell you.
We're going to change the bangs.
You're going to change my bangs?
Because, the bangs, right now, it's almost too quiet.
Too shy.
Okay.
Julien: So, we need to have a bangs who's like a,
a little bit more like a, like almost like a curtain bangs.
Uh huh.
To make sure that they embrace your beauty.
Emily: Well, wonderful.
I cannot wait.
It's a deal!
A deal! Absolutely.
Good.
Emily: For $1,000, Julien promises clients
to bring out their natural features.
But there's more than one reason he charges
a full grand for his services.
Today, my haircut is $1,000.
It's because A, I have very little time.
Number two is because when I do a haircut, you don't
need to come every two weeks to do it.
Unless you want to.
For a woman, the hair can grow for six months.
And the hair will be cut from A to Z, where there's always
a line for the volume grow together.
Emily: And I wasn't just at the Julien Farel Salon
for the haircut.
I had signed up for the full Power Hour Treatment
including color and a mani-pedi, which is a favorite
package deal for the salon's celebrity clients.
Oh, is this for me?
Wow.
I feel like a princess.
I've never felt like this before.
This is the Power Hour and it feels powerful.
I sat down, everyone just swooped in, and we just started.
It's fantastic.
Emily: I've never had this many people
pamper me at the same time.
So someone who's like a celebrity or something
this is how they feel all the time?
Senior Colorist: Yes.
Emily: I began to realize I had no idea what was
actually happening to my hair.
Julien and his team had taken one look at me and swooped
me in to transform me based on their expert opinions.
As I lay back in the Italian massage chair
it was becoming clear that I wasn't only paying
for the ultimate luxury salon day.
But I was also able to fully put my trust in the hands
of top-notch professionals.
So at 14 I start hair.
And what I really learn is when is when I understand
like, geometry.
And I never went to school but I was
extremely good in math.
And when I understood
a haircut is about architecture, it's about
the geometry in space, I became fascinated about it.
Mostly what happens, when you leave the hairdresser
you love it.
You look so amazing, it's big, it's great.
And then you go home it's like, and now what?
So it's very important to understand how to do the layer.
How to actually adjust the layer to make sure that
you got the lift but you don't take away the length
from the bottom.
Because if we want to keep the length, we don't want
to have strangly hair as well.
Emily: So when I go home, this is going to be so that
I can manage it better.
Julien: I want you to love it tomorrow too.
Emily: Yeah. (laughs)
Julien: You know.
Julien: I layer from short to long.
Emily: How should a good haircut make someone feel?
Julien: Well you're going to tell me.
(Emily laughs)
So, now I'm going to make you stand, please?
Sure.
'Cause when you stand, your two feet touch the ground
at the same time, and you're not crooked.
Emily: Wow.
I can already tell it's going to look phenomenal.
I cannot wait.
I'm so happy.
Julien: Remember to blow dry the bangs forward.
Not going back.
Emily: Yeah.
Not toward.
Emily: So instead of in, out.
Okay, that's blowing my mind.
That is something I never thought to do before
and it looks so good.
Somehow it looks longer.
Like my hair almost.
Julien: The volume has changed.
Emily: Yeah, it's unbelievable.
My face feels like it changed.
I feel like, alive!
I feel like I can see myself.
Just, oh my goodness.
I have so much to go do now.
I feel like I have
to go do everything.
Okay, so it has been about a month since my haircut
with Julien and I would just like to say
I am sorry, Julien.
I put my bangs right back in front.
But I would also like to say that I have been having
consistently, some of the best hair days of my life.
I wake up in the morning and my hair falls naturally
in a way that I absolutely love, and I've never been
able to say that before.
So while the changes in my haircut were subtle.
I really feel like it brought out the best of my hair
that I've ever seen.
The volume is growing out.
My hair is bigger than I've ever seen it fall naturally
before and people can definitely notice
that I've done something just a little different
but they aren't quite sure what.
When people say why pay $1000 for subtle changes
I can totally see why celebrity clients would come
to Julien and want to look just like the best version
of themselves without looking like they've done
a whole lot to really change.
I feel like my hair has never
just looked better as it is and I've always struggled
with loving my hair.
So I'm definitely looking forward
to spending many, many more months with this haircut.
Just enjoying how it's growing out before finally
returning to my normal, everyday salon.