K. Monteil. a salon

Hello Everyone. I see that this page has been visited a lot lately, thank you everyone for your interest and continuing support since our inception in May 2012!! Some might not know that I had to and liquidate all the equipment walk away because of continued COVID closures. The website will be up for a few more months with everyone's contact info/phone numbers so call up your favorite hairstylist to make an appointment. Carissa Zwerling Baumhart, Aprill Lizotte, Amber Lizotte, and Sidney Marquez are all still working in the South Bay. I, at long last am going to follow my dream elsewhere, those who know me know what I'm talking about. Sorry to seem so cryptic, it's just a privacy thing. So that website, in case you don't know we have one is: kmonteilasalon.net
Thanks again all who had anything to do with my beloved salon.
All the best - Kirsten Monteil, Former Owner - k. monteil... a salon

Hello everyone. It's a sad day to say that we had to close the salon due to circumstances surrounding the COVID pandemic. We had a great run there for a while, eight years in fact. We are liquidating our entire place. We still have furniture, like our 2 black pleather futons, chairs, lamps, framed art, tools, tables, bookshelves, plants, brushes, kitchen items, and even coloring and other books for kids and adults alike. Please come in and see if there's anything you'd like to get. We're there Wednesday 8/26 - 8/31.
Thank you everyone who had anything to do with our salon. You are all valued, and you'll be in my thoughts always, as I reflect upon one of the most formative and exciting times in my life. I'll cherish it forever.

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It's time to say goodbye, sniff :-(
Thank you all who had anything to do with our salon and help make it the success it was.

The website will continue to be up for a while, so you can see your regular hairstylist's phone number under the 'talent' tab. Then you can call and see what their next step is.

We're having a liquidation sale today (8/16), next Sunday, (8/23), and the last weekend on August (8/29 & 8/30), as well as during the week these last two weeks. Lots of home goods, not just salon stuff.

From RETIRED SURGEON Sam Laucks:
“OK, here’s my rant about masks:
I have spent the past 39 years working in the field of surgery. For a significant part of that time, I have worn a mask. I have worked with hundreds (probably thousands) of colleagues during those years, who have also worn masks. Not a single one us of became ill, passed out or died from lack of oxygen. Not a single one of us became ill, passed out or died from breathing too much carbon dioxide. Not a single one us of became ill, passed out or died from rebreathing a little of our own exhaled air. Let’s begin here by putting those scare tactics to rest!
(It is true that some people, with advanced lung diseases, may be so fragile that a mask could make their already-tenuous breathing more difficult. If your lungs are that bad, you probably shouldn’t be going out in public at the present time anyway; the consequences if you are exposed to Covid-19 would likely be devastating.)
“But”, you ask, “can’t viruses go right through the mask, because they are so small?” (“Masks keep viruses out just as well as a chain link fence keeps mosquitoes out,” some tell us.) It is true that individual virus particles can pass through the pores of a mask; however, viruses don’t move on their own. They do not fly across the room like a mosquito, wiggle through your mask like a worm, or fly up your nose like a gnat. The virus is essentially nothing more than a tiny blob of genetic material. Covid-19 travels in a CARRIER – the carrier is a fluid droplet- fluid droplets that you expel when you cough, sneeze, sing, laugh, talk or simply exhale. Most of your fluid droplets will be stopped from entering the air in the room if you are wearing a mask. Wearing a mask is a very efficient way to protect others if you are carrying the virus (even if you don’t know that you are infected). In addition, if someone else’s fluid droplets happen to land on your mask, many of them will not pass through. This gives the wearer some additional protection, too. But, the main reason to wear a mask is to PROTECT OTHERS. Even if you don’t care about yourself, wear your mask to protect your neighbors, co-workers and friends!
A mask is certainly not 100% protective. However, it appears that the severity of Covid-19 infection is at least partially “dose-dependent.” In other words, the more virus particles that enter your body, the sicker you are likely to become. Why not decrease that volume if you can? “What have you got to lose?!”
“But doesn’t a requirement or a request to wear a mask violate my constitutional rights?” You’re also not allowed to go into the grocery store if you are not wearing pants. You can’t yell “fire” in the Produce Department. You’re not allowed to urinate on the floor in the Frozen Food Section. Do you object to those restrictions? Rules, established for the common good, are component of a civilized society.
“But aren’t masks uncomfortable?” Some would say that underwear or shoes can be uncomfortable, but we still wear them. (Actually, being on a ventilator is pretty darned uncomfortable, too!) Are masks really so bad that you can’t tolerate them, even if they will help keep others healthy?
“But won’t people think I’m a snowflake or a wimp if I wear a mask?” I hope you have enough self-confidence to overcome that.
“But won’t I look stupid if I wear a mask?” I’ve decided not to dignify that question with an answer!! 📷:)
“But I never get sick; I’m not worried.” Well, then, wear a mask for the sake of the rest of us who are not so perfect!
There is good evidence that masks make a real difference in diminishing the transmission of Covid-19. Please, for the sake of others (and for the sake of yourself), wear your mask when in public. It won’t kill you!
P.S. - And, by the way, please be sure that BOTH your nose and mouth are covered!
Recommendations around mask usage are confusing. The science isn't. Evidence shows that masks are extremely effective to slow the coronavirus and may be the best tool available right now to fight it.”

Yes we're open. Some people might not know that we re-opened the beginning of the month. We are sanitizing even more than before! Don't forget to wear your mask, (the disposable ones work best for us because they have the thinner elastic around the ears). We are wiping down everything anybody touches all the time, and washing our hands all the time, as well as sanitizing all our tools and capes and are also wearing our protective face coverings. It's also better if you bring your own drink, just to make things simpler.
Note: We still have individually wrapped candy, both chocolate and those square chewy fruity candies for our sanity, and to put back some of the weight we all lost while staying at home :-/