With lacquered pressboard accents playing off industrial-gray walls, and vanity lights flanking oversized mirrors, Tchop Coiffure looks like a movie set or the backstage scene of a fashion show. “I hired a guy who works for movies, “explains owner Michel Moreau. “It’s really for you guys. It’s flattering for your face. No dark circles!” Indeed one does look flawless sitting in one of the chairs at the plateau salon, making it easier to focus on the real star of the show: your hair. “It’s simple,” explains Michel. “We keep it about hair, and we have fun doing it.”
The love for locks may very well be inscribed in Michel’s DNA. His mother has been doing hair since the sixties and is still active in the business. Michel began his career as her assistant at the age of fourteen, but the seed was planted long before that. “I decided to be a hairdresser when I was three or four,” he says. “I remember my Christmas present when I was four, it was one of those plastic heads with hair, the ones hairdressers practice on. Of course, after a week she had no hair left,” he adds, laughing.
