Gray
Thirty-four years, two coasts, and a very good reason for being here.
The short version
He has been doing this since he was fourteen.
Pageants first, then friends, then family, then anyone who would sit still. He turned professional in Atlanta in 1992 and never stopped — editorial, campaign and celebrity hair, most of it under someone else’s name.
Palm Beach, then California, then Costa Rica through the pandemic — where he lived, and from which he flew back to his chairs on both coasts rather than give either of them up. Which tells you most of what you need to know about how he likes to live.
He’s done hair you’ve seen. He just can’t say whose.
Birmingham
He didn’t arrive here. He came back.
Birmingham has had a piece of him since 1997 — one weekend a month, quietly, for going on thirty years, long before there was a studio with his name on the door.
So when he came home in 2023, the chair filled itself.
Pepper Place, March 2024. That’s his mother, in the chair behind him.
Why he came home
Because his mother needed him in Georgia, and that was the end of the discussion.
When she’s able, she still comes and sits in the studio while he works. She takes the chair by the window and watches her baby boy “make magic.” She is, of course, Gray’s biggest fan.
Los Angeles is still there. A select few still keep him coming back to the west coast. But this — the room, the light, the woman in the corner — this is the part he came back for.
How he works
Every first visit begins with a consultation. Always, and with his compliments.
He needs his hands in your hair — to feel what's actually going on with it, and to weigh what you want against what's really there. Then he'll tell you the truth about both.
Everything depends on your hair's HEALTH…
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