Jon Charles is an award winning colorist and an intriguing businessman, who’s also an excellent educator and communicator. He won the Rocco Altobelli Award for Best Hands-On Education and served as an Artist Representative at the International Hair Color Exchange for four years.

Charles earned this career milestone with his self-named salon after an impressive decade or more of building salon brands in town while also becoming a distinguished Colorist. When Best Buy embarked in 2004 on its E-Q Life stores – merging discreet technology products with health and personal care services – it picked Charles to design, implement and run what turned out to be E-Q’s most successful part of the operation, the salon piece.

He’s also done numerous Beauty Shows throughout the country. During the mid-‘90s, he consistently played a major role in Innovative Styling Options (ISO Perm Systems) by producing an instructional video and photo shoot for Modern Salon, launching the ISO product at the Waldorf Astoria and speaking for ISO to trend-setting magazines like Vogue, Town and Country, Harper’s Bazaar, American Salon, Woman’s Day, Health and others.

The Jon Charles Salon was opened on Uptown Row (1221 West Lake Street) in the summer of 2006 by Jon Charles and Kimberly McCabe.