Reviews
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San Francisco Chronicle
The San Francisco Chronicle covered the styling work the Cinta Aveda Institute did for the 2011 Trashion Show recycled fashion show fund raiser. article
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Nob Hill Gazette
Nob Hill Gazette recently engaged us to style recent “Alice in Wonderland” inspired cover.
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Elegant Bride
Elegant Bride recently sought our expertise for the fall issue:
Short-haired gals sometimes feel left out of all the fun, but stylist Arvin Tohardi (who also excels at long haired looks) loves his cropped brides to make a statement. ‘I’ll play around with curls and finger waves, and with short hair it’s nice to showcase a dramatic headpiece, like a veil with feathers,’ he suggests.
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Allure Magazine
The A-List
Cinta Salon was recently ranked by Allure Magazine readers as San Francisco’s top salon. Special props go out to stylist Sara Watson!
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Allure Magazine
Best of the Best
Allure picked Cinta Salon as one of their 2009 “Best of the Best.” A special mention goes to stylist Arvin Tohardi: “His delicate layers pump up limp strands.”
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San Francisco Chronicle
Public Eavesdropping
Rolling Stones pianist Chuck Leavell joined pianist Michael Udelson in some four-handed tunes in the bar of the Four Seasons after Monday’s show. And Courtney Love called for nail services—not a hammer, an emery board—from the Cinta Salon when she was here promoting her book, “Dirty Blonde.”
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Allure Magazine
We were desperate for a cut. A friend tipped us off to Gillin, who was able to fit us in the next day. Lopping off about four inches (just to our chin), she added side-swept bangs to flatter our long face. She then introduced us to Bumble and Bumble Styling Creme, which would smooth out our hair “without weighing it down.” Since we couldn’t help but refer three friends to Gillin in the next 24 hours, it looks like we’ll need to book ahead with this rising star soon.
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San Francisco Chronicle
On the Town: With Susie McCormick
Susie McCormick knows San Francisco. She’s not only the executive publisher of 7x7 Magazine but chairman of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau, where she uses her years of experience at San Francisco Focus and Where magazines to direct visitors to all the right spots. But why should out-of-towners have all the fun? We asked McCormick to send us a list of tourist spots locals must visit: Cinta Salon, 23 Grant Ave. No. 2. “I’m not a spa person, but if I do want to have a quick picker-upper and have someone else make me look fabulous, I will go to Cinta Salon on Grant Avenue for a blow dry. They are so nice, there’s no attitude, which is refreshing, and great hair wash stations with good massages.”
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InStyle Magazine
BeautyTalk
Call it the real San Francisco treat: in this loft space with 18-foot windows you can get a quick Mini-Beauty Booster (35 minutes). It combines fruit acid exfoliation with plant extracts to give skin a glow. For an eye-opening experience, take home MD Skincare Firming Gel ($32) which contains caffeine to reduce puffiness.
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The Source Magazine
Of Form Following Function
Located on Grant Avenue in the hub of San Francisco’s famous Union Square, Cinta Salon is a perfect example of form following function.
Entering the salon, you feel a sense of peace (there are no loud phones or distracting noises) and space. Beautiful 18-foot floor-to-ceiling windows and warm incandescent lighting provide abundant illumination. The lush suede sectional seating, cherry-wood shelving and mahogany hardwood floors add earth colors. Shades of deep amber, yellow, orange and purple are delicately placed to enhance the natural textures of wood, marble and granite.
On the main salon floor, the are is open, free-flowing and uncluttered. Stylists and clients choose the type of area they want. (The designers knew that some clients prefer to be in the midst of it all, while others like a quiet, secluded section.)
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San Francisco Chronicle
Brow Wow
Centuries-old threading procedure an easy, (almost) pain-free way to sculpt eyebrows
No one is sure about the birthplace of threading. It’s practiced in Asia and the Middle East, but it’s generally considered a centuries-old product of India. In New York, threading salons abound in predominantly Indian neighborhoods. Clients, both male and female, wait in line to sit on very unprivate stools while the threader whittles away.
In San Francisco, it appears that Cinta on Grant Avenue is the only major salon (the only kind of salon I’d trust) that offers the treatment. article
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San Francisco Metropolitan Magazine
Ancient Ink & Modern Girls
For those of you coming down from the whole Burning Man experience, reliving that tribal vibe is as easy as clicking your heels together and entering Cinta Salon. This former art gallery decked in mahogany floors offers Mehndi, or henna tattooing.
As I sat to have this done, three or four women approached me, cooing over how fantastic it looked. Over the next few days, at bars, restaurants, grabbing a coffee and just walking around the city, I was stopped repeatedly with enthusiastic gushes of “How fantastic!” and I must admit, all the attention made me feel rather exotic. When the design fades, it’ll begin to resemble a fairly heavy nicotine addiction, but until then I’m milking the attention.