salon11:11
Serving Monrovia

Hair salon serving Monrovia

Salon 11:11 is a boutique studio suite on Pacific Coast Highway in Hermosa Beach, and it is a deliberate trip from here rather than a convenient one for Monrovia, known for the Myrtle Avenue old town and the foothill wilderness above it. This is a long way to come for hair, and worth saying plainly. The clients who make this trip do it because they want a specific stylist, not because it is convenient.

Blonding, lived-in color & effortless hair in a private studio suite, with Justice Pallais — Bellami certified in hair extensions and specializing in blonding and lived-in color.

Lived-in blonde balayage by Justice Pallais, the kind of color Monrovia clients travel to Salon 11:11 for
Hair in the San Gabriel foothills

What Monrovia hair is up against

Along the foothills the sun is more direct and the air drier still, and hair shows it at the ends first — brittleness by late summer, static through winter, and highlighted hair going warm within weeks rather than months. Altitude and exposure do more damage here than most people credit.

The right work is conditioning-led: color kept off fragile ends, a gloss schedule that matches the seasons, and cuts that take damage out without sacrificing length.

Getting here

The drive from Monrovia

The 210 west or the 605 south to the 105 — a genuine cross-county drive.

The studio is at 1559 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 202, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. It is a private suite rather than an open salon floor, and appointments are by arrangement, so there is no waiting room and no overlap with another chair.

If you are making the drive, it is worth booking a longer appointment and handling everything in one visit — consultation, color, cut and any extension work together — rather than splitting it across trips.

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Common starting points

Where Monrovia clients usually begin

If a previous color did not go to plan

Corrective work is its own service and its own conversation. Banding, patchiness, a box dye that has gone green or an at-home bleach that lifted unevenly all need diagnosing before anything is applied, because the wrong second step makes the first one permanent. Bring photographs of what has been done and roughly when, and expect the first appointment to be longer than a standard color.

If you are in the water regularly

Chlorine and salt both strip tone, and they do it faster to lifted hair than to virgin hair. Rinsing before you get in matters more than anything you do afterwards, because hair saturated with clean water absorbs less of what it is sitting in. Beyond that it is a toning schedule rather than a product problem, and the schedule depends on how often you are actually swimming.

If none of that is quite your situation, the consultation is the place to say so. Nothing gets mixed before it has been talked through.

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Also serving the San Gabriel foothills

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