Now there’s no excuse for an unkempt coif in the morning: Percy and Reed’s blow-dry breakfast service offers a ‘quickie’ fix which guarantees to have you groomed and fed, and out of the door – all within forty five minutes. The favourite salon of Sophie Dahl, it offes a classy but relaxed atmosphere, with chic design elements and kitsch effects, including coiffeur-butchered Barbie dolls peering out from behind shampoo bottles.
I’m met by a bonny girl called Lacy who I immediately fall in love with after she offers me a black coffee and an energising tea tree shampoo head massage. Very soon, her magic hands leave me feeling like an altogether different person from the dishevelled sloth who arrived on the doorstep less than twenty minutes before.
Whilst my considerably bountiful mane is tamed into shiny tresses, I’m brought the porridge I ordered from the breakfast menu of the delicatessen across the road, Villandry, which offers a range of pastries, hot drinks and other indulgent breakfasty treats. It’s normally a diet coke on the way into work but to hell with it – this is what pampering is all about.
I cannot praise the service enough-for putting a spring in my locks, as well as my step.
Prices for the breakfast blow dry start at GBP 25, and the salon uses Shu Uermura and Bumble and Bumble products, with Kérastase set to come in at the end of the month.
For more information, visit http://www.percyandreed.com.
