Cat's Favorite Salon

There are people who can truly relax in salon chairs, but beauty assistant Cat Marnell is not one of them. Unfortunately, highlighting her long, thick hair takes two hours minimum from start to finish. Cat typically passes the time hoarding all of the good magazines so no one else can have any, squirming despondently beneath her smock, and earnestly soliloquizing on Lindsay Lohan. But at Bumble and Bumble's downtown Manhattan salon, which is on the seventh floor overlooking the Hudson River, she did nothing but stare out the window for the duration of the appointment and left feeling as if she'd had a massage and a Reiki session, so peaceful was she. The highlights were fabulous, too. If you're in the New York City area, you must check it out—the view must be seen to be believed.