I tuned in to this show on BRAVO yesterday (out of boredom). I really liked the show! Jonathan is like a bitchy old woman…he treats his staff like crap! The way he fired poor Brandon (who was really pulling the young chicks in)…what was that all about? Most of the clientele seemed to like Brandon, although I agree that his strip show was a bit off putting.
Anyway, I wish I was a hairdresser in BH! Jonathan is raking in the bucks…he really charges $400 for a haircut/perm??
I have a few questions for the ladies:
-(1) How much do you pay?
(2) do you like glitzey salons like Jonathan’s?
-(3) would you date a hot hunk like Brandon?
How much is jonathan making off this place…he lives in a swankey west LA condo, and drives a new M-B…he MUST be making at least $200K/year. 
The only time I have ever paid more than $20 for a haircut is when I lived in the NWT, land of overinflated prices. I would not go to Johnathan Salon for a cut that would cost me $125 with a new stylist (Kim).
I think Brandon was a butthead, and I didn’t find him particularly attractive either. I would not date him.
I’m not really all that partial to glitzy salons like that.
Why do only the ladies get to answer? The salon has male clients too.
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NYC, anywhere from $30–$125, depending where I go and what I need done. I don’t color my hair anymore, so it’s less expensive.
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I’ve been to “glitzy” (the West Village, Saks, Lord & Taylor’s, Bumble & bumble), and they have some really good and really bad stylists. Expensive is no guarantee of “good.” Sally Hershberger, the most expensive stylist today, is dreadful, I wouldn’t let her do my hair for free.
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Ew. No. I think not.
Brandon was an immature child, like pretty much everyone on Jonathan’s staff (Alicia, I’m looking at you), including Jonathan himself. I especially liked the repeated throwing of his cell phone whenever he was frustrated. Anyway, Brandon came off as abrasive, loud, and obnoxious, and if he did in fact call a client for a date after getting her number off their book then that’s pretty pathetic as well. He also seemed to be majorly famewhoring it up with that OC woman and his spite at Jason for “stealing” the waitress who came in for a haircut.
I’ve gone to some ritzy salons before, but can’t really justify paying hundreds of dollars for a haircut. I don’t have that complicated a hairstyle in the first place, nor do I color or otherwise treat my hair, so I don’t think I require the special attention one might presumably get for such an inflated ticket. My haircuts usually hover in the $30 range, which I suppose is a little pricey. I actually thought the interior of the salon looked rather ordinary to me, without anything really setting it apart from any other salon I’ve visited.
Jonathan himself has to be one of the smarmiest-looking men I’ve ever set eyes upon, and his personality is utterly unattractive (and, arguably, non-existent). His voice grates, hard, and his attitude of “if you don’t agree completely with what I say and what I want, then you’re working against me and perhaps I hired the wrong people” would become insufferable as an employee, I’d think. He comes across as self-involved, fake, and with a persecution complex the size of those “Viking-Barbarella” models’ hair.
Are these shows the future of TV? This one is basically one long commercial for American Express…but anyway, I still want to know: how much does this place gross? Can you get rich by running a hair salon in Beverly Hills?
Will Brandon be rehired?