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San Francisco-based startup StyleBee allows clients to book appointments with professional cosmeticians and stylists who come to you, not the other way around.
Since it launched four years ago, StyleBee has earned the moniker "Uber for beauty" for its on-demand styling services that can come to you at your office, home, or anywhere you choose.
A slew of these "beauty on-demand" apps have cropped up in the past few years, including New York-based Glamsquad - arguably the most popular - which is now also available in the Bay Area. The salon-less concept is one that's been around for a while, but the on-demand service via an app is relatively new.
A personal need for one such service arose during a workday recently when I learned that a post-work event I was attending was a tad dressier than I had prepared for. I had packed a change of clothes, but had covered up my bedhead with a hat that morning.
So I booked a conference room in the WeWork building where I work to have a StyleBee stylist come and fix the monstrosity that was my hair.
Here's how it went.
