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THE EYE AND
THE LISTENING
Understanding who you are before knowing what to cut
I DON'T DO THIS WORK
TO CHANGE HEADS.
My name is Tom Marcireau.
I'm a hairdresser. And for me, this is what the craft is.
Where it began
As a small boy I'd already say it out loud: "When I grow up, I'm going to cut women's hair."
I grew up far from Paris, in Poitiers. After secondary school I insisted on going all the way to the baccalauréat - I wanted a real culture, the kind that lets you talk about anything with the people in your chair.
Then I trained at my mother's hairdresser. For two years I worked in a salon where you were given time to learn - to watch, to start over, to understand.
Dessange, Charlie, Paris
I moved to Paris to work at Dessange, then was selected for a trial day at the salon of Charlie - Catherine Deneuve's hairdresser.
That's where I learned:
• how visible women relate to their image,
• the precision of a blow-dry under pressure,
• what it really means to work alongside public figures,
• and also where the limits lie when egos take up too much space.
That chapter shaped me deeply - technically, and humanly.
Carita: 21 years in the house
In 1996 I joined Carita as assistant to the Artistic Director. A few years later I took over.
For 21 years I led the hair team, imagined a salon flooded with light, and worked with loyal clients and household names.
For more than 18 years now, I've also been the hairdresser of the Grand Ducal family of Luxembourg.
What the Carita sisters taught me
The Carita sisters handed down an uncompromising standard:
"Always see the woman before you see the client."
and this conviction:
"There are no plain women, only women who don't yet know themselves."
Those lines walk with me every day: see the person before the haircut, find what can reveal her.
Today: my place, my pace
I chose to step out and open a place under my name, on my own scale:
• one person at a time,
• time to talk before doing,
• gestures of care that are never "just details",
• a relationship that builds over the years.
What I care about isn't being the most visible salon in Paris. What I care about is that the people who come here feel genuinely seen, heard, accompanied.
