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To enhance his clients’ beauty
journey, Warren put a state-of-theart
medispa on the premises, so his
clients don’t have to travel far for
more advanced treatments. He says
his services — at the medispa and
salon — are within reach and offer
different levels of pricing.
“It’s not like you can’t come here
and get a $40 blow-dry,” he says.
“It’s all a la carte. You just need to
figure out what you want. There is
really something for everybody.”
Warren’s exclusive partnership with
Saks Fifth Avenue, he explains,
has given him a tremendous
opportunity that no other salon
has.
“I have salon support and a
partnership to help me drive
business into the place,” says
Warren. “We have events, personal
shoppers. We have everything
going on here that doesn’t exist
anywhere else.”
“Get clothes and jewelry,” he
continued. “Eat downstairs. You
can even get alcohol. You can stay
the whole day and walk out an
entirely new person.”
With The Salon Project at Saks, his
first and only Long Island location,
Warren is set to open 11 more
locations, with Manhattan and
Boca Raton next. In the meantime,
Warren, who doesn’t show any
signs of fatigue and is completely
energized by the buzz surrounding
his salons of the future, jokes that
his next project is figuring out how
he can clone himself.
The Salon Project is located at The
Shops at Walt Whitman Mall. They
can be reached at 631-421-0002 or
thesalonproject.com
FASHION
Joel Warren, creator/owner of The Salon Project poses with Ruth Bashinsky,
Long Island Press Beauty Editor, in The Salon Project “selfie” room that
features a hip black-and-white mural with important words to live by.
Inside the medispa
The Salon Project offers a medispa onsite
with the latest innovations in anti-aging and
rejuvenating skin and body treatments.
Services include CoolSculpting (a nonsurgical
fat-reduction treatment that uses
a handheld device to freeze and destroy
fat); ultherapy (a noninvasive procedure
that lifts and tightens the neck, chin, and
brow, and improves lines and wrinkles
on the chest); HydraFacial (hydradermabrasion
facial that combines cleansing,
exfoliation, extraction, hydration and antioxidant
protection), and IPL — Intense
Pulsed Light treatment (erases mild sun
damage, freckles, brown spots and irregular
pigmentation).
Trained aestheticians can also provide Botox
and Restylane therapy; microdermabrasion
(an instrument that gently scrapes the
skin to reduce light scarring, discoloration,
sun damage and stretch marks) and derma
planing (a method of exfoliation that uses
a surgical scalpel to gently scrape off dead
skin cells on the surface of the skin for a
smoother, brighter complexion).
As if that weren’t enough reasons to
stop in, the medispa will also offer minor
cosmetic procedures for the eyelids and
under-eye area. All the magic takes place
in a private area in the salon.