Platinum Salon by Merlande
Hair salon in Atlanta, GA
- Address
- 5975 Roswell Rd NE c343, Atlanta, GA, 30328
- Phone
- (770) 771-1981
- Website
- merlande.com
About Platinum Salon by Merlande
Platinum Salon by Merlande is the home of the Merlande Platinum Collection, led by award-winning master hairstylist, certified hair loss practitioner, and wig maker Merlande Petithomme. Located in Sandy Springs, the salon offers a full menu of hair services, from precision cuts and color to bridal styling, alongside a specialty in custom, handcrafted wig units built over more than fifteen years of practice. Merlande has developed particular expertise in serving clients navigating hair loss from alopecia, cancer treatment, and other medical conditions, pairing technical wig-making skill with genuine compassion for what her clients are going through. Beyond wigs, the salon offers hair extensions, lashes, accessories, and cranial prosthesis services, as well as educational classes for stylists preparing for industry competitions. Merlande, a first-generation Haitian-American, has built a career that spans film, television, and editorial styling, including work as Key Hairstylist for the upcoming film Children of Blood and Bone. She gained wide visibility as a competitor on Netflix's We Are the Champions, where she won the top prize in a Mardi Gras-themed hair competition, and she has placed in the top three at more than eleven national styling competitions. Her work has been featured in Variety, Essence, and Marie Claire. At the center of it all is a personal mission: helping clients look and feel their very best, a value rooted in her own childhood experience with alopecia. That lived experience gives her wig and hair-loss clients a stylist who understands their needs on a deeply personal level, not just a technical one.
Merlande Petithomme's path into hairstyling was shaped early by her own experience with alopecia as a child, which gave her firsthand insight into what it feels like to struggle with hair loss. That experience became the foundation for a career built around helping others feel whole and confident again through custom wig-making and hair-loss solutions. Over more than fifteen years, she developed the skills to handcraft wig units for clients dealing with alopecia, cancer, and other conditions, eventually building the Merlande Platinum Collection into a name recognized across film, television, and editorial styling circles. Her competitive drive led her to enter numerous national styling competitions, placing in the top three more than eleven times, and she found a national audience as a competitor on Netflix's We Are the Champions, taking the top prize in a Mardi Gras-themed hair challenge. As a first-generation Haitian-American, she has carried her personal history into her professional identity, and her rise from a childhood shaped by hair loss to an award-winning stylist featured in Variety, Essence, and Marie Claire reflects a story of turning a personal struggle into a source of expertise and purpose for others.
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