Abstract a Hair Salon brings Vegas style to Cleveland Heights

Ryan Simons and John Paul DeJorgia (inset) and Ryan Simons and Cindy Jahn at the White Party in Las Vegas.

Cindy Jahn, owner of Abstract a Hair Salon, and Ryan Simons, lead stylist, attended The Gathering 2011 for Paul Mitchell in Las Vegas in July.

There, at the annual event for stylists and salon owners from all over the world, they learned some of Paul Mitchell’s current and most creative cutting and coloring techniques.

"We came back energized and excited about ourselves and our abilities," said Simons. “Meeting John Paul DeJorgia, owner and cofounder of John Paul Mitchell Systems, was a highlight,” she said, "as was the White Party, where the hairdressers, who always wear black, finally get to wear white and let their hair down."

Abstract, located on the mezzanine level of the Heights Medical Building at Cedar Fairmount, has been a Cleveland Heights staple for moer than 20 years. Jahn said that continuing education helps keep her and her staff on the cutting edge. “Tinsel and feathers,” she noted, “are in every fashion magazine, and we offer a wide variety of both.”

Jahn said she is happy to have gotten so much from her five-day stay in Las Vegas, and Simons, commenting on how much she learned at the convention, joked, “Not everything that happens in Vegas should stay there.”

Amy Schneider

Amy Schneider is an Oberlin and CWRU alumna, an avid knitter, and Harry Potter fan. She owns Hang it Up! framing in Cedar Fairmount.

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Volume 4, Issue 9, Posted 11:09 AM, 09.02.2011