JENNIFER JOHNSON: HE SAID HAIRMONY >>>

Another wickedly smart idea Tacoma can benefit from has, not surprisingly, sprung from two women who possess the much sought after Midas touch. Patricia Lecy-Davis and Julie Bennett own Embellish Multi-space Salon and urbanXchange respectively and have added the exciting element of Embellish Style Annex to Bennett’s buy-sell-trade clothing store.

“The Annex idea came about when Julie reminded me that we’d discussed Embellish putting in some sort of a ‘Beauty Bar’ if they ever moved into a bigger space,” Lecy-Davis shared via e-mail. Sadly, after intense scrutiny she decided there didn't seem to be a way to make it happen. Then barber Tristan Marcum showed up in Patricia and Julie’s lives and their passing conversation bore fruit with the opening of the satellite cutting annex inside urbanXchange.

Barber Tristan considers himself a mystic haircutter and is dubbed The Mystic since he cuts by harmonics. “I look at it like sounds … like every hair has sounds in it and there’s a perfect haircut at any given moment for every person.” He relates this method and hair itself to that of sculpting and sculpture, and feels he’s “HAIRmonizing by bringing hair closer to what it really wants to be.”

Tristan’s truly organic, involved relationship with all of his endeavors is inspiring. Receiving a degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, performing live (currently in The Vells), and starting a record label (Destiny City Records), Tristan is coalescing all of this past and present experience and energy into his current passion â€" instant gratification for men and women’s hair needs. “True HAIRmony brings you that closer to being your ideal self.”

Looking forward to meeting more people, Tristan extends an invite to everyone to take a spin in his tricked-out shiny antique barber chair. “I’m ready to bring ‘HAIRmony’ to every person in the city.” The tiffany teal Annex will be open late while Tristan does cuts during the opening party for new performance space and tea room, The Den, in the back section of urbanXchange on Saturday, Feb. 7.

Regular Annex hours are Friday-Monday noon to 7 p.m. (Sundays until 5 p.m.)
All cuts, shampoos, styles are $20; $5 attitude adjustments (bangs, steps, lines, etc.)

[Embellish Style Annex inside urbanXchange, 1934 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, 253.572.2477]

Photo: Julie Bennett