I’m a celeb hairdresser – my client had a bizarre request to fix her marriage, I know everyone’s secrets
BEING a New York City hairdresser can sometimes leave you in a hairy situation.
Aside from cutting and coloring someone’s locks, the job sometimes entails fixing someone’s love life – and all it takes is a sexy new shade.
One such colorist turned couples counselor is Miguel Angarita, who has worked at Fifth Avenue’s Blandi Salon for the past ten years.
The salon, known for working with stars including Tom Cruise and Jennifer Aniston, is also in the midst of moving to the Plaza Hotel.
Known as the “blonde whisperer,” Angarita has seen his share of behind-the-fancy hair salon secrets.
He recalls a longtime client of his who did some snooping on her husband’s browser – and needed Miguel to save her relationship, one strand at a time.
“She came in, busted out her phone, and asked me to make her look like the screenshot image she pulled up,” he told The U.S. Sun.
The image in question was of a busty bleach-blonde woman on a porn site that her husband had been following online for quite some time.
Rather than sharing this find with her husband or seeking out a therapist, she told the only person she trusted with this information – and to make her look like the woman in the photos.
“My clients often tell me their biggest secrets and problems that they don’t even tell their spouses, friends, or relatives,” the 50-year-old stylist shared.
He also opened up about other intimate details he comes to know of the lives of those who sit in his chair.
“I’m the first one who knows when a client is pregnant because they’ll look at me a little nervously before I am about to start on their color, and I know right away what that means.”
They want to know if their usual single process, double blonde, or highlights are still safe, so we go over a plan.
He further explained that all of their products are not only pregnancy safe, but are also approved for use on patients undergoing cancer treatments.
“My clients trust me inherently, both with their hair – and their personal lives,” he explained.
“It’s an ongoing relationship.”
Originally from Venezuela, Miguel has a long list of high-profile clients including celebrities, business executives, and Wall Street wives.
His client with extra blonde ambition had met her porn site-searching husband, a high-ranking official on the police force, on the Long Island Railroad.
They wound up moving to the Long Island suburbs shortly after she became pregnant, and she was not about to let an adult star interfere with her marriage.
“I don’t think that she was really mad at her husband, she just wanted to make sure that she was the most desirable woman in his life,” Miguel empathized.
And with Miguel, there was nothing a few brighter shades of blonde couldn’t fix.
“When I first met her, she already had one child and would come in to see me regularly for her appointments.”
What was his reaction to this special hair-raising request?
“I thought ‘why not? Let’s do it.’ She wanted to do this for her husband, and I was able to help by making her super blonde.”
With the Midas Touch, Miguel worked his magic, and the marriage has been going well ever since.
“We keep up with the platinum look and she hasn’t brought it up since,” he shared of the couple’s happily ever after.
Four years later and with a second baby to speak of, it seems as if the blonde tresses did the trick.
“Who am I to judge what somebody wants to do in their personal life?” he explained.
In fact, he said that he feels “proud” that it worked, and he was able to help.
“She looked and felt super sassy afterward, and that’s what I’m here for.”
He also believes that changing your hair is one of the easiest ways to alter your appearance.
“People go under the knife to feel a certain way about themselves – or make someone else feel a certain way,” he said.
“This is the least invasive – and least expensive – to change things up.”
The always fashionable Miguel – who keeps up with his minor cosmetic treatments and can be seen strutting around the salon in gold sneakers or other designer footwear – knows that we all have to do what makes us happy.
“For me, I wear jewelry because that’s what I enjoy, and it makes me feel good. As my financial advisor says, you should spend on what you love.”
A spiritual being, he thinks that investing in yourself, regardless of the reason why and for whom, is the best self-care you can do for yourself.
Miguel, who believes that his purpose is to allow his clients to live their best lives – and that includes how they look and feel both inside and out – is just happy to help.
“I meet a lot of clients who have just come out of college, a lot of young women in their 20s going into finance and other very New York industries, and I can see where their lives will go.”
He further exclaimed that he felt proud to be a part of their journeys: “I see them going from living with three roommates in a small apartment to managing $250 million.”
It is this level of trust and longtime relationships that have led him to be passed on – like a family heirloom – from one generation to the next.
“In many cases, I wind up doing the mom, the grandma, the sister, etc.”
“I love it when I start working on a child’s hair and continue on their journey with them into adulthood – and even wind up doing their wedding hair.”
His desperate housewife also isn’t the only client who came in for a drastic hair do-over.
“I have a wonderful lady who is in charge of 40 district attorneys – she’s 6 feet tall, model height, and wanted to look like a Barbie.
“Her main goal, as she told me, was to go from classy to trashy.”
As usual, Miguel was obliged to fulfill another hairdressing dream.