Reagan Breinholt didn't set foot into a salon until she was fourteen—before then her mom would cut her and her six sibling's hair at their home in Oak Ridge Tennessee—and she can still clearly remember the overwhelmingly giddy feeling she had that day; the excitement of having a seasoned stylist shape her hair and even the way the professional products smelled. It was that experience that motivated Breinholt to attend beauty school in Utah and then move to New York, where she apprenticed with Jenny B at Cutler salon before joining the staff at Whittemore House Salon.

Breinholt's work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, and on VH-1 and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. A longtime fan of blondes—she counts Daryl Hannah in Splash and Brigitte Bardot as her all-time favorite hair icons—Breinholt loves long, classically feminine cuts, and is most inspired by New York street style and the voluminous teasing and back-combing of the 1960s.