Volume I · Seated artist · Los Angeles
The Master Who Trains the Masters
Lida Mehrabi
Founder & Master Stylist at Gloss & Glam Hair Salon & Head Spa
Lida Mehrabi built her first salon in Tehran and grew it to forty people. Then she took her own training programmes to Iran, Turkey and Dubai. Los Angeles was the encore. She built the whole thing again, on West 3rd, and Gloss & Glam now carries 294 five-star reviews.
- 23 years in the craft
- 294 five-star reviews
- Colour & extensions
- Beverly Grove W 3rd St
Why Lida is here
She built a house of forty in Tehran. Then she did it again in Los Angeles.
We go looking ourselves, city by city, for the artists we would send a friend to. Lida is our Los Angeles pick for colour.
Twenty years ago in Tehran she opened a hair salon, a nail salon and a spa. They grew to a team of forty. Then she started teaching: her own programmes for stylists and makeup artists, at home and across Turkey and Dubai. Then she moved, and none of the standing moved with her.
She re-licensed in California and took a chair at Juan Juan Beverly Hills. The clients followed. Her own room opened in 2019. Gloss & Glam followed in 2024, a colour house with the scalp work she had wanted to offer for years built in behind it.
“Many salons prioritize styling, but few consider the long-term health of the hair and scalp. We go beyond just making hair look good—we ensure that it’s nourished, healthy, and thriving.”
- Forty stylists, in Tehran A salon, a nail salon and a spa, founded nearly twenty years ago and grown into a team of forty.
- An educator in three countries Her own training programmes for stylists and makeup artists, taught across three countries.
- Juan Juan Beverly Hills Re-licensed in California, she worked the prestigious rooms before opening her own.
- 294 five-star reviews A perfect five, across more reviews than any other house in this volume.
Colour first, and length when the hair can carry it.
Twenty-three years in, colour is still what they come for. Blonde that stays cool to the ends. Corrections another room started and could not finish. Grow-out that never announces itself. She owns the place and she still takes clients.
For length the salon works in tape-in, weft, clip-in and ponytail. Which one you leave with depends on your hair. That is what the consultation is for.
She reads the scalp before she adds anything to it. Two minutes, at the start, every time. It is the part most rooms skip.
The house
You will know who is doing your hair.
Lida runs the floor and keeps her own chair. Here is the rest of the room.
- Lida Mehrabi Founder and master stylist. Colour and correction, and the consultation everything else starts from.
- Mona Forouzan Stylist.
- Mehran Karuei Senior stylist and makeup artist.
- Shiva Kakakhani Stylist and head spa technician.
“Lida is a hair genius! The result? A hair color that’s like it was custom-made for me.”
Five stars, 294 times over. Plenty of them name somebody other than the owner. That is what a well-run room looks like.
The work
From her chair.
Colour, mostly. It is what the room is asked for and what the reviews keep coming back to.
Cool blonde, carried the whole way down. The root left dark on purpose, so the grow-out never announces itself.
Shot outside on W 3rd, in flat afternoon light.
Platinum, kept glassy. No warmth left anywhere in it, and no snap either. The hair still bends.
Ash, melted out of a dark base. Ends left blunt, which is why the length reads as thick as it does.
The look
What the room is for.
A head spa, if your scalp needs one.
Gloss & Glam is one of the few rooms in Los Angeles with a proper Japanese head spa built into it. Scalp reading first, then a detoxifying scrub, massage, steam, serum under an oxygen spray, red light at the end. Thirty, sixty or ninety minutes.
Most people try it as an add-on. Then they keep booking it. If you are coming in for blonde or for length, it also tells her what your hair can take.
The room
Beverly Grove, second floor, on the W 3rd Street side. Gold light and warm water, and an hour in which nobody asks you anything.
The feed
@glossglamhairspaGloss & Glam posts on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube, all under the same handle. It is the most current record of the work: colour finished that afternoon, whoever happened to be in the chair.
Look there before you book.
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Book with Lida
Start with the consultation.
A proper look at what your hair is doing now. An honest answer about what it can carry. Colour, length, or the repair that comes first.
Book with LidaOr call the salon on (323) 424-4224. Suite 204, one floor up, on the W 3rd Street side.
- Start with
- Colour, extensions and head spa, by appointment
- Where
- Gloss & Glam Hair Salon & Head Spa
8474 W 3rd St, Suite 204
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Directions - Hours
- Mon–Sat 10–6
Sun 10–5 - Call
- (323) 424-4224
- @glossglamhairspa
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