TeaCut, in Seville, is a benchmark in hair color.
among the thousands of reasons you have to escape to Seville , perhaps you did not count on this one: at number 4 Plaza Puerta de Jerez there is a hairdressing salon that is a pioneer in natural coloration and capable of generating such a loyal clientele... that it is not too lazy to go through airport control. “Some of our clients take a plane every two months from Zurich or Hamburg to get the color ”, tells us José Miguel Gallardo, the director of TeaCut.
José Miguel Gallardo (director), José R. Frances (color expert), Rosario Gallardo (treatments) and Pepa Ruiz (color), from TeaCut.
They are compared to a haute couture workshop, where everything is made to measure. “Each case, each client is unique and when we talk about herbal and oil coloring , we adapt it to each person because we need to focus on specific solutions for each hair.”
Their diagnoses are very personalized and specific, which takes time. "There is no rush," says José Miguel. The room meets the requirements for the client to feel relaxed and enjoy their time. This mixture is what makes us different”.
The TeaCut worship hall, in Seville.
"We work slowly. we have only five dressers and we spend a lot of time to each person. We are in love with our clients”, adds José Miguel, who works with a closed agenda two months ahead.
“In our country there are, of course, different and excellent salons, but perhaps not as focused on relaxation, nature and silence like ours. Outside of Spain we also have good friends who are committed to some of these ideas, but we have not yet found one who shares our philosophy one hundred percent”.
TeaCut is specialized in natural coloration.
The phenomenon began “almost unintentionally”, following the visit of a Condé Nast editor who wrote about the salon, which led to appearances in other national headlines.
“She also visited us (and wrote about us) a famous german trend hunter blogger . They began to call us from magazines, to ask for our opinion, and so we began to prepare documents with informative interest. Little by little we were better known outside our city than inside it. We are more interested in pedagogy than in public relations”, adds José Miguel.
The typical landscape of Santa Cruz
The idea arose from a reflection “We felt that we needed to work slowly and carefully, surround ourselves with silence, and focus on the natural both in the search for styles and in the use of products”.
With these three principles so clear, the rest arose by itself. For example, him Feng Shui to design the structure of the living room , the muds to give color to the hair, the oils to treat it or the type of services they offer. "They intend to be not only a beauty experience, but also a sensory one."
TeaCut Seville
Location can also contribute to success. in one of the busiest and most beautiful areas of the city , next to the emblematic Hotel Alfonso XIII, the cathedral, the Alcázar and the Archivo de Indias.
“Although if you don't know where we are you won't find us. The size of the room is also based on these three principles and we have only five vanities. and then they are music, which is essential to quiet the mind , hot towels or tea, which accompanies each service”.
Urban Hotel in Spain: Alfonso XIII, a Luxury Collection, Seville
The team's passion for their work led them to travel to India and Morocco . “Also to London, where there is a strong Hindu community. We did not contact colorists from the other side of the globe who had been working with natural dyes for years. We talked to dry cleaners, we read everything published about herbal coloring . We did not doubt for a moment that this was what we wanted to dedicate ourselves to.”
"The beginnings were not easy," he continues. “We work with hair collected in the salon. They were months of tests, of formulation, of contrasting errors and successes. In the end we had a menu of brown, blonde and copper. We can currently offer coloring solutions with plants for almost all the cases that are presented to us . For this reason, when L'Oréal Professionnel offered us the opportunity to train its technicians from all over Spain in herbal colouring, it was an enormous satisfaction”.
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Although the greatest of all, they assure us, is to see the changes that occur in the hair of their clients when they go into the world of the natural. “ Hair thickens, shines, becomes abundant , rejuvenates, in short, is healthier. It is achieved by incorporating plants used since ancient times for their high pigmenting power and their affinity for hair keratin (cassia, indigo, emblica, rhubarb)”.