Salon Robert Allicock Montréal

Salon Robert Allicock is situated on a tiny one-lane avenue in Côte-des-Neiges where it has been serving customers since opening in 1995. You could pass by the shop and mistake it for an ordinary barber shop, but hold on a minute, it isn’t! It’s in the major league of hair salons in the black hair industry. The man behind the salon’s excellence is Robert Allicock.

“It’s a small space salon, but the name is out there,” he says. “It’s known.”

He has made his renown through a commitment to quality, a genuine love for hair styling, and an interest in the people (and celebrities) he coifs.

“People come from many countries and they find us,” he says, referring to his three-member team, all certified hair stylists. He opened his hair salon straight out of cosmetology studies at Inter-Dec College in Montreal.

“I’ve always loved hairdressing,” he recalls. “I graduated fresh out of school and decided I wanted to open a salon.”

And it seems things were meant to be, because within a few short years of opening his salon, Robert won several SIFA Hair Awards, the industry’s equivalent of a Grammy, including International Stylist of the Year and Canadian Super Curly Hairstylist of the Year.

That certainly set the stage for Robert’s future assignments working on the set of Hollywood movies like The Bone Collector and Abandon, where he styled Queen Latifah, Anthony Anderson, Kerry Washington and singer Monica to drop a few names.

“I dreamed of it, but when it came to me, I was like, dreams are possible,” says Robert.