When Star Local Media Readers’ Choice 2022 Best of McKinney results were released, there was one winner for Best Hair Salon in McKinney. That winner was All About U Salon, Spa & Boutique! Voters of were given an opportunity to choose among a dozen different salons in McKinney when casting their vote. Honored, humbled and extremely energized to be better than we have been. Still moved each time a new client says they are so glad they found All About U!

After 11-years in business, why is All About U still the best hair salon in McKinney?

· It’s All About U, The Client

· It’s All About U, The Hair Stylist

· The Culture

· Our Commitment

All About U Salon, Spa & Boutique is the best salon in McKinney because it was built with a clear vision to put the client first. Everything we try to do is from a...

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There are certain things in life so valuable that we spend years looking for just the right one. If that day comes when our search is finally over, we fight to never loose these rare treasures. These treasured matches include the right spouse, doctor, church and for some most importantly a great hair stylist in McKinney. Let’s be honest that a hair stylist that knows you as well as a dear friend or family member is priceless. There is something magical that happens when you sit in the chair of the right hair salon with the right hair stylist that is only focused on making your look and feel your best. Let’s admit it, many magical therapy sessions have happened in salon chairs. The shared visions of beauty and creative powers of a great hair stylist seem to make the world a better place. Out of all the hair salons in McKinney, how do you...

Believe it or not, temperatures will soon be changing and nature will remind us it is a great time of year to change our hair color. The latest autumn hair colors sound like a mixture of our favorite fall comfort foods mixed with depth, dimensions and eye catching freshness. These hair colors are described in terms like buttery blonde, milk chocolate, rich caramel, mocha, cappuccino and my favorite cinnamon toast. The deep tones in burgundy, chestnuts and copper reds are in full display. The use of these fall colors is unlimited. Like the changing leaves they can be applied in highlights, lowlights, Ombre or even in a Balayage.

Equipping our clients with the best haircare products is an important piece of an effective home haircare regimen. Preserving the color, treatment and style of your hair following a service can be greatly impacted by the shampoos, conditioners, gels and hairsprays used. During a service, we greatly encourage our clients to ask about the products that are being used and what products and care at home will maximize the ongoing beauty and style. All About U carefully selects certain product lines that are proven to be effective for the various haircare needs of our clients. Hair is subject to many conditions that impact its beauty and integrity. These include water quality, your diet, your general health and many other environmental conditions. When picking the right shampoos, conditioners and treatments these should be considerations. All About U uses the following product lines to provide our clients with the best haircare available. Leaf & Flower, Moroccan Oil, Keven Murphy, Amika, Olaplex, Joico and other quality product lines.

Once reserved for the younger daring types, the vibrant colored hair styles are now popular for all. With almost as many variations in colors, these hair styles are called many names such as vibrant, fantasy, mermaid, rainbow, unicorn and fun hair. Creativity abounds with the bright and bold dye shades. Fashioning these colors really allow our stylists to display their artistic creativity. Like any significant hair service or treatment success always starts with a thorough consultation. Each service is unique and existing hair color and treatments will make a difference in the outcome of each service. The attention clients get with these styles is maximized in many cases but many choose to add a vibrant piece or flare to a traditional color or style. Maybe a simple and subtle money piece of a favorite color sends exactly the right message! All About U Salon has numerous talented stylists that love to display their artistic talents helping clients reach their unique hair goals. Remember it’s All About U!

Now that our master esthetician is offering eyelash extensions at All About U (yeah I bet we have the most qualified professional offering this service around!), we wanted to share the differences between the most common form of eyelash extensions. In this blog we will simply describe classic, volume, hybrid and mega eyelash extensions.

Classic eyelash extensions basically make your eyelash line look darker and more curled while looking natural. Classic eyelash extensions are a one-to-one application with your natural lashes. This is a method where one eyelash extension is glued onto one of your natural lashes. The results appear natural, subtle and like a great mascara application that lasts!

Volume lashes deliver a thicker, more dramatic look, fuller and fluffy in appearance. The style gives a young and youthful appearance to your eyes. Volume eyelash extensions use more than one extension per natural lash in what is called a “volume fan”. Depending on the fans used, it could be a volume fan or a mega volume fan. Typically, a volume lash uses 2 to 5 extensions per...

Believed by many to be the best facial machine in the industry, All About U now offers the Ultimate OxyGeneo Facial Treatment. Our master aesthetician Rita Daoud states the Geneo 3-in-1 Facial is an innovative treatment that combines skin exfoliation and skin oxygenation for a smoother complexion and younger-looking skin. Other benefits include reduces fine lines, firms skin, brightens complexion and improves texture. Best of all, this treatment is made to feel relaxing while giving you the full benefits of intense skincare treatment. Includes OxyGeneo Facial, Dermaplane, LED light therapy all tailored to your specific skin needs. Let's discuss the benefits:

Exfoliation - Natural ingredients in the Geneo OxyPod react with the Geneo Primer Gel for gentle, non-invasive exfoliation and trigger the oxygenation process within the skin.

Oxygenation - Geneo’s oxygenation process triggers the body’s natural, physiological process of producing oxygen to increase oxygen levels internally within skin. Oxygen is carried to the surface of the skin where the heightened levels of...

It seems each year there are more options to choose from when getting your next hair service. This article will keep it simple when getting color treatment and define how highlights and lowlights are used to bring the ultimate dimension out of your next color service. Keeping it simple, highlights are colored hair strands that are a lighter tone than your natural or colored base tones. Highlights are the most common color process and generally add lighter strands 2-3 tones brighter than the base or natural tones. Traditional highlights use a process called foiling that colors or lightens strands of hair from root to ends. Highlights can be subtle or bold and chunky for dramatic effects. Variations of highlights are also used to create beautiful effects including babylights, balayage and ombres. Lowlights on the other hand are strands of hair colored darker than your natural tones or base hair color. Similar to highlights, lowlights are generally 2-3 tones different from your base color. Lowlights give dimension, richness and the appearance of greater volume to the hair....

Since 2011, All About U has tirelessly strived to be the best salon, spa and boutique in our community. Being the best salon and spa serving McKinney, Frisco, Allen, Prosper and other neighbors is what we do. The magic formula sounds simple.

Treat each customer with individualized attention and make sure every visit to All About U is special. We genuinely want each client to feel welcomed and appreciated each time they walk through that door. Our service providers are trained to listen and consult on how to help each unique client reach their individualized hair and skin goals. At All About U customer service still exists!

Hire and develop the best team of hair stylists, estheticians and client coordinators. All About U is all about energy and the dynamic environment that comes from building an amazing team of talented ladies that constantly bring the best out of each other. This is not a place where our clients are jammed in a small suite. All About U was built to be different and full of positive energy to be felt by our clients.

And finally it’s U! Our...

Everyone wants that healthy and glowing complexion that comes from a little daily maintenance and some special time with an esthetician. Finding a licensed esthetician that not only provides good services but also has the knowledge and experience to develop a long term skincare plan is the key! A proper skincare plan accomplishes so much and can help address blemishes, signs of aging, fine lines, dehydration, dark circles and so much more. One of the easiest ways to start a skincare plan is with a facial. There are so many of benefits to getting a great facial starting with a deep cleaning of all the oils, dirt and makeup built up in your pores. The use of steam by your esthetician helps remove the deepest impurities and creates such a relaxing time to eliminate the stresses of life. The Spa @ All About U has carefully designed a series of facial packages to make achieving that radiant skin easier, effective and so relaxing.

All About U carefully selected an esthetician that is a personable, dedicated and highly trained. Lindsey’s passion and enthusiasm in helping people...

Like anything else, when you find someone who loves what they do, has crazy talent and is passionate about serving others - you have something great! That is exactly what All About U found in our new team member Karson Pettigrew. Karson is a licensed cosmetologist that specializes in full body waxing. She’s been licensed for seven years, but has been exclusively waxing for three years. After her first waxing experience, she fell in love with how confident she felt and aspired to help every woman and man feel that same confidence.

Karson is an expert providing body waxing services for men and women consisting of bikini, Brazilian, arms, legs, chest, back and other places. She also helps provide smooth and hairless facial features like brows, chin, lips and even nostrils.

Imagine the convenience and benefits that come from adding waxing to your usual beauty services at All About U!

Imagine The Possibilities! We are a lease and commission salon & spa.

Are you an existing lease stylist or esthetician ready for a change? Be independent but not alone. Be part of energy that comes from a true salon & spa operation working along a team that was voted “Best Salon in Texas” by a major supplier. Would you love to work with an assistant that allows you to double book and get the support to serve your clients first class? And yeah, 6 weeks of free rent!

Or are you a commission stylist nervous about change? We have 10-years of experience working with stylists to grow their clientele within a proven system developing 6-figure incomes. There truly is a partnership that exists to help you grow and reach your career goals. You may even aspire to someday be a lease stylist or esthetician but need the time to build your clientele. All About U is for you! Imagine building your clientele where you can transition to a lease stylist without making a change in your location.

All About U is truly the best of both worlds in a convenient growing...

Each year fashions and hairstyles seem to change, 2021 is certainly no different. In fact, the 2020 “let it go” style has worn out its welcome. Everyone is ready to move on from 2020 so let’s look at one of the hair trends predicted to be popular in 2021.

The bob is back!

There are so many variations to today’s bob hairstyles and plenty of names to describe them from soft a-line bob, textured fringe bob, blunt chin bob, soft curved bob and even one known as a Mia Wallace bob. They can have a clean and classic look to a shaggy and trendy appearance. In any case, they are low maintenance beautiful cuts that get you noticed. Generally speaking a bob length is at the neckline but there are shorter and slightly longer versions. Customized to your facial features the bob cut can combine layers, texturing and hair color variations that make this style so beautiful. The look simply says this is not 2020 and it shows!

All About U has a talented team of hair stylists that love to work with clients providing the best possible hair services. Providing precision cuts, colors...

Baby it’s cold outside! Although we are focused on staying warm this time of year, your hair needs special attention to look its best too. We are all aware of the term “bad hair day” that usually relates to hot humid weather and the resulting flat hair look. You may not realize that cold air and its moisture robbing characteristics can be more detrimental to the health of your hair. Dehydrated hair and scalp due to cold air can create dull appearance, static, dandruff, split ends, breakage and even excessive hair loss. There are some simple things we can all do to prevent hair damage and treat cold weather hair challenges:

· Use a quality moisturizing or hydrating shampoo, conditioner and treatments. We found Olaplex to be an amazing product line dedicated to the dynamic unique health of your hair. In fact, they have a hair assessment on their website we encourage you to take to best equip yourself to care for your hair. The assessment can be found here. We also love products from Moroccan Oil, Kevin Murphy and...

We all have seen the popularity of eyelash extensions. What’s not to love when you can have full natural looking eyelashes without the endless effort of mascara or a lash curler. Eyelash extensions are one of those services that once you have them applied, you just can’t live without them!

Never tried them?

Let’s discuss what to expect with your service and a simple plan to care for them.

· Make your initial appointment when you have 2 hours of uninterrupted time to enjoy the process of quietly being pampered. You want to first speak with your esthetician and agree on the look you desire such as a classic look or volume. Don’t come to your appointment with mascara or other eye makeup already applied if you can avoid it. If you wear contacts, it may be a good day to bring the glasses. These things are not a requirement but may cut some time off the process. Finally, make sure you set up follow-up visits to touch up your lashes and maintain that dramatic look we all love. We recommend a touch-up every 2 weeks and it generally takes 30-45...

Rita Daoud has joined the All About U Spa team from San Diego, CA. Rita is an accomplished advanced permanent makeup artist and licensed master esthetician.

Rita will be providing a vast array of permanent makeup and master esthetic services at All About U. These services include microblading, microneedling, plasma skin tightening, permanent eyeliner, permanent lips/lipliner, freckles & beauty marks.

Check out Rita’s amazing work here

January Spa Specials Just For You!

$50 Off Microneedling

$100 Off Plasma Skin Tightening

Tired of spending hours trying to pencil in the desired shape and color of the perfect eyebrow? All About U now offers the solution – it is called microblading!

Microblading is a semi-permanent tattooing technique that creates hair like strokes to fill in sparse, irregular or thinning brows. The final product is amazing. Imagine a customized look based on the structure of your face, skin tone and consultation with our licensed master esthetician. Desired looks can range from daring and bold to subtle and natural appearing.

The process starts with cleaning and numbing of the existing brow area prior to treatment. A small handheld tool is then used to create thin, filling, hair like strokes that determine the color and shape of the new brow. Different than in permanent tattooing, the microblading tool uses special ink that is less concentrated and applied in thinner strokes. This process results in realistic natural appearing brows that are beautiful and hassle free.

Microblading treatments at All About U also include a touch-up 4-6 weeks after procedure....

In the year of a pandemic we have seen it all in the hair salon. Box dyes, home hair services, take home kits, “miracle” products, neglect and even challenges caused at another hair salon. We affectionately call all this “Covid Hair”. Shortcuts and intended savings often result in unexpected results and we are frequently asked to fix the consequences. Unfortunately damaged hair caused by these practices can be very time consuming and expensive to repair. It may take a series of appointments and time to restore your hair to pre Covid Hair condition. The reason for this is that these products often damage the hair and rarely do it consistently across all areas of your hair. These damaged areas have different ph, color, luster and strength than healthy hair. Color corrections over Covid Hair may not respond the same as healthy hair. The first thing we do is assess the condition of your hair and determine if corrections at this time are best. Some hair is literally falling out when we first see clients with Covid Hair. The long term health and beauty of your hair is our greatest...

Balayage is a hair coloring technique where the color is gradually applied to the hair in a vertical fashion. Balayage comes from the French term “to sweep” which describes the natural appearing transition in hair color. This process results in a more natural looking color application giving seemless blends of lights and darks with vast dimensions.

How is this different than traditional highlights or Ombre? Highlights are known for chunky variations or strands of color. Ombre is a more rapid transition in hair color creating a horizontal variation in tones. Balayage is focused on natural transitions, subtle yet defined.

The stylists at All About U are artists in creating the ultimate Balayage. Often described as one of the most enjoyable services a stylist performs, Balayage allows creativity working on the clients hair as if it were a fine painting. Compliment a Balayage with curls and a precision cut, the final product is magical. The transition the hair goes through is amazing to experience and the clients...

Our hair salon in McKinney, Texas offers women beautiful hair with a special discount. Each day, thousands of women hit search engines looking for a convenient and top-rated hair salon or hair stylist. Trying to determine what women’s hair salon will be your forever home can be a daunting task. Sometimes, it takes a little nudge to try a new hair salon or hair stylist.

All About U Salon, Spa & Boutique is now offering new clients $25 off salon or spa services totaling $100 or more. Our agenda is clear, provide you with an incredible discount to try All About U and earn your repeat business by pairing you with a stylist that listens to you and provides the highest quality services while in an inviting, safe atmosphere.

Over the last 9 years All About U has received numerous awards from product suppliers, our community and clients. Most important to us is being voted Best Hair Salon in McKinney by our clients. Time to try something new – it’s All About U!

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