Visions Hair Salon Has Been Making Wellington Beautiful For Thirty Years.
For 30 years, Visions Hair Salon has been making Wellington residents beautiful with satisfying hairstyling capabilities that have kept the hair of local men and women of every age looking its very best.
Owner Tom Monticello grew up in the industry at his father’s barber shop in New Jersey. After extensive training, he moved to Wellington and opened Visions Hair Salon in 1988. While the shop has expanded — featuring 32 staff members today — it remains in the same shopping plaza where he first opened his doors and began to watch the community grow.
“We really care about satisfaction, and that attitude toward customer satisfaction is what keeps the people coming back,” said Monticello, who noted that many other salons have come and gone during his tenure. “For many salons, 10 or 20 years is a very long time. We have clients and employees who have been with us almost that long.”
Visions Hair Salon offers its clients a wide array of services.
“We handle every aspect of modern hair design, including color work, cutting and styling, conditioning, hair extensions, specialized treatments and much more, but we never got into nail and spa treatments — we specialize in hair,” Monticello said, explaining that the salon also uses and supplies the best hair care products. “It’s all about the client’s satisfaction. We use the finest, internationally known products.”
Monticello is proud that his facility has been a Nick Arroyo Ambassador Salon for the past nine years.
A well-known celebrity stylist with 30-plus years in the industry, Arrojo, who is based in New York City, was a pioneer of his own signature, razor-cutting, precision-based hairstyling technique that today is practiced worldwide because it offers versatility for stylists and beautiful, wearable styles for clients.
With exposure in magazines worldwide, and as the hairstyling host of the TLC show “What Not To Wear,” and with his own line of top-quality products, Arrojo has become an industry icon for his internationally renowned techniques and as an author, educator and mentor.
“We also use the Goldwell hair color line and award-winning products, programs and techniques from Balayage and others,” added Monticello, who said that his stylists, junior stylists and apprentice stylists attend seminars as well as on-going education and training on a weekly basis, and sometimes multiple times per week.
Monticello said clients come to Visions Hair Salon because the entire staff works to deliver the highest-quality professional service. “We start with a complimentary consultation about your hair and your goals,” he said. “Again, it is all about the client’s satisfaction.”
Monticello noted that some of their first-time business comes from clients needing his experts to correct color and fix mistakes made by others.
“We use only the finest products for each application that have been developed by hairdressers for other hairdressers,” Monticello said. “[The products] have to perform to help make the client’s hairstyle work, so it looks as good next week as it did when they left the salon.”
Sunday, Nov. 11 will be a banner day for Visions Hair Salon, as it celebrates the past three decades with an event starting at 6 p.m.
“It will be a two- or three-hour free event,” said Monticello, who said that Arrojo, as well as representatives from Goldwell and others will be present at the celebration and that many products will have featured percentage-off prices.
The evening will include a raffle with proceeds and a portion of the product sales benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Visions Hair Salon is located at 12793 W. Forest Hill Blvd. in the Wellington Plaza. Call (561) 790-1696 or visit www.vhsalon.com for more information.
