Owner & colorist · Touchée Organic Salon, Juno Beach
Meet Nancy.
The short version Her clients have called her Nancy for forty years; on paper she is Nelcida Irizarry.
Nancy Irizarry has been coloring hair for forty years. She is Vidal Sassoon certified in both color and cutting, trained at Frédéric Fekkai, and has owned Touchée Organic Salon on US-1 in Juno Beach since 2004. She formulates and places every color herself, handles over 100 corrective cases a year, and writes your formula down so it repeats. Clients travel from Palm Beach Gardens, Jupiter and North Palm Beach to sit in her chair.
Forty years is long enough to stop guessing.
Nancy trained at Frédéric Fekkai and holds Vidal Sassoon certification in both color and cutting — a color education that shows in how she formulates, and a cutting one that shows in how she reads a head of hair before she reaches for anything. She opened Touchée on US Highway 1 in 2004 and has been in the same chair since.
What she actually does
She formulates and places every color herself. Not a colorist who supervises — the person mixing the bowl is the person who decided what goes in it, and the person who will see you again in six weeks.
The specialty is color correction: box dye, banding, brass, somebody else's plan. Over 100 corrections a year. It is the work most salons quietly decline, and it is the reason people drive here from three towns over. Much of it is blonde that went wrong somewhere else — which is the other half of being a blonde colorist: 22,500 blonde transformations, and the corrections that come from the ones other people got wrong.
Around that: color, blonde and blonding, gray coverage and blending, cuts and finishing.
The written formula
Every color she creates is written down and carried forward. Your shade, your ratios, your timing, the areas that resist. It is the least glamorous thing this salon does and the one clients mention most.
It means your color repeats. It means a good result is not an accident you hope recurs. And it means the conversation in the chair starts from what happened last time rather than from scratch.
She will tell you when the answer is no
She stops the lightening when hair has had enough. She will say a blonde needs two visits rather than force it into one. She will tell you a shade will not hold on your hair before she puts it there, not after.
it is not caution. it is forty years of knowing what happens next.
Six chairs, not thirty
Touchée is a small salon on purpose. You are not handed between stations and you are not shouted over. Nancy has assistants who wash, apply and finish, but the color decisions are hers, start to end.
Coffee is real, and Cuban, and she makes it herself.
Her work
Four from the chair — platinum, a correction, gray blended through blonde, and a golden blonde. Every photograph on this site is a real Touchée client. See all of it in the gallery →
Book a time with Nancy
Every appointment is with Nancy. If it is correction or a big color change, start with a consultation and bring the photograph.