Essa Makhoul: Meet Dubai's Best Blonde Specialist at March14 Beauty Residence

Ask around Dubai's beauty circles for the city's best blonde specialist and one name keeps coming up: Essa Makhoul, the colourist behind the Hair Studio at March14 Beauty Residence. An international L'Oréal Professionnel colourist with a career built on fashion and editorial hair, Essa has turned blonde highlights into one of the most requested services at the Residence.

Who Is Essa Makhoul?

Long before he joined March14, Essa built his name as a celebrity hairdresser recognised by L'Oréal Professionnel, the brand that trains and certifies some of the most respected colourists in the industry. His background sits in fashion and editorial hair, the kind of work styled for cameras rather than a single mirror, where tone, dimension and shine all have to hold under studio lighting. Clients at the Hair Studio already know him as the colourist behind Insta Shine, March14's light reflective finishing treatment. His blonde work is the other half of that reputation.

The Blonde Highlights Technique at March14

Blonde highlights sound like a simple request until they are done badly. Regrowth lines that show within weeks, a flat single tone instead of dimension, brassiness creeping in within days of leaving the chair, these are the results Essa's technique is built to avoid. Every set of highlights is mapped section by section around the client's natural base, face shape and how the hair falls, so the lightened pieces sit exactly where light naturally catches the hair rather than in a generic pattern.

The result is blonde with depth: soft, blended and multi tonal rather than one flat shade, closer to hair that has genuinely lightened in the sun than hair that has visibly been processed. It is the same instinct for what reads well under light that shaped his editorial career, now applied to a Dubai client instead of a photoshoot.

Inside the AED 1,650 Blonde Package

March14's full blonde highlights package is priced at AED 1,650 and covers three stages in one appointment: a full head of highlights, a repairing treatment to rebuild the hair after lightening, and a blowdry finish. The repairing step is not optional at the Hair Studio. Lightened hair loses strength and moisture during processing, and skipping the rebuild is how highlights end up dry, dull or prone to breakage within weeks. Booking it inside the same appointment as the colour keeps the hair in condition to actually show off the highlights, rather than needing a separate visit to fix them afterward.

Why Clients Call Him Dubai's Best Blonde Specialist

Colour work is one of the hardest services to get consistently right, which is why clients tend to stay loyal to one colourist rather than shop around. At March14, that loyalty is built on Essa's background: an L'Oréal Professionnel colourist whose eye was trained on the kind of shoots where a colour correction is not an option once the camera is rolling. That standard is what carries over into the Hair Studio at March14 Beauty Residence, a beauty salon in Dubai built around the same performance level clients expect backstage rather than the level typically expected at a neighbourhood salon.

Book Dubai's Best Blonde Specialist at March14

Essa Makhoul's blonde highlights package is available inside the March14 Hair Studio, alongside his Insta Shine finishing treatment and the rest of the Hair Studio menu. March14 Beauty Residence occupies 3,500 square feet in Al Quoz 3, Goshi City 2, Dubai. Appointments can be made here or on +971 58 554 6222.