Maybe there's nothing to it, but until a concerned friend, well-versed in modern hair terms, takes me by the hand to a skilled stylist on Newbury, where the three of us can discuss my hair, I can get a good cut, and I can develop a relationship with my stylist, I am mystified. It could be the stylists I choose. Relationship might be a key word in this whole discussion. People form relationships with their stylists. They follow them throughout their career moves, as the stylist goes to work in a different salon or opens his or her own salon.
Clients develop fierce loyalty to the person who keeps their hair looking good.
This is no fluke. You'd be an idiot not to. My roommate has followed her stylist, Melissa, through two salons and into Melissa's own new salon, even as her rates rise. My father would probably marry Diane if he could. As it is, they do lunch occasionally.