Ryan, he/him

Hey, I’m Ryan. 27 years making mistakes behind the chair, with a few wins in between.

My first salon I worked at was Swizzlesticks in Calgary, a 4 story salon with 17 stylists and 6 assistants. To this day I still think about and talk to some of the people who first trained me.

Now having owned my own business for almost a decade, I want to truly say “I’m sorry” to everyone I worked for.

I specialize in getting your hair to it’s healthiest state. Curly hair is a strong passion of mine, though I never like to say I am a curl specialist because I love all the textures hair has to offer. It would be a safe estimation to say more than 85% of my clients have curly or wavy hair. I like hair that grows out beautifully and is not difficult to live with. I understand that hair is always changing and so are your needs. Relearning how to have great hair is not an easy process. Hair changes like the seasons, so I love to work with nature vs against it. 

I am high energy, passionate, and not afraid to say no. I love getting to know my clients, what makes them happy, sad, or what makes them tick. I tend to know my clients very well, and my clients know me equally as well. You are going to learn a lot in my chair, with a lot of it not being about hair at all. I’m a talker, but I can also get very focused on the details of what I’m doing and be quiet behind the chair. 

In the end, my goal is to bring you to the foreground in life. I know what it’s like to be constantly pushed in the background because I’m different. Having been told I’m too much one way and not enough in the other way, I have lived the experience of feeling like I don’t belong. That’s why I created BSH. So, let’s come to the front together. Let’s be weird together. This brand, like me, has changed so much since opening in 2016. BSH will always be evolving. BSH is about the stories of the people who walk through the doors. So let's keep changing and growing together.