OUR PRESCOTT STORY

Bringing Big City Style To “America’s Home Town”

Hair By Joey opened as a private hair studio in Seattle in 2006 when Joey, who’d been cutting and coloring hair since 1994 built his first salon into the front of his beautiful North Seattle home.

By 2011 Hair By Joey was a huge success, drawing clients from all over the Northwest’s premier city. Joey connected with Jessica that summer and the couple married in the fall. Jess moved in and before too long it became clear that sharing a house and with a hair salon just wasn’t going to work long term. The couple wanted kids, more space, more privacy… the home salon just wasn’t a fit. After a few years of trying different options Joey and Jess (who’d grown tired of the Seattle weather and traffic) decided it was time for a major change.

During the winter of 2015, they expanded the space, transitioned the salon and home into the hands of a capable team of stylists and began casting about for where they might want to start a new life. Plans were made to scout out Bend, OR, Austin, TX, Santa Fe, NM and Flagstaff AZ, all of which seemed to fit the bill, and a multi-week road trip was planned for early 2016.

In November 2015, Joey reached out to a friend he had met at church, Grant Quezada. Grant, a hair stylist and army ranger, had lived in Seattle but moved back to his hometown of Prescott, AZ where he opened the John Hancock Barbershop in 2010. Reconnecting with his friend, Joey felt called to take a closer look at Prescott. He showed pictures of the town to Jess, researched weather trends and the climate…and soon the wheels were in motion to head to “Everybody’s Hometown”. Within days of arrival Joey went to work at Grants barbershop in February 2016. In April that year, the couple bought their dream house in West Prescott and just like that, the decision was made! Prescott became their new home. Over the next year the kiddos came… 5 of them!!! In July of 2017, Joey and Jess welcomed into their home a sibling group of orphans from Phoenix…. Amiera, now 15, Isaiah 13 and Emrys 9 all of whom they went on to adopt a year later. The party got a little more lively when in September 2018 they celebrated the birth of their first bio baby, Jasiri (now 4) and finished out with the arrival on Thanksgiving 2021 of Raphael Phoenix Furlan!

After decades of working with both men and women Joey decided (with the big move and lifestyle change) it was time to focus on men’s grooming. While he enjoyed doing women’s hair the truth is… Joey just missed hanging out with guys. The John Hancock opportunity was a Godsend. Joey feels immensely blessed for the time he spent working with the John Hancock Team honing his skills with clippers, straight razors and all the little details men’s grooming requires. Working with Grant and the Hancock team allowed him to focus exclusively on men’s grooming for 3 solid years… doing thousands of men’s haircuts and getting to know the town and its diverse population. With the John Hancock team doint major expansion of the Barbershop… tying it into The Founding Fathers Collective in 2019, Joey began to feel the call to once again step out and do his own thing! After a lot of prayer and looking around a bit, Joey realized recreating the intimate, laid back, super Zen vibe salon he’d established in his Seattle home all those years ago was exactly what he wanted to bring to his new home town. Soon he was throwing everything into laying out his vision for the perfect hair oasis.

Launching with just just Joey and 150 clients in January of 2019 Hair By Joey began steadily doubling every year, bringing on seasoned stylists from LA to Austin and garnering a strong local presence, hundreds of 5 star reviews and thousands of clients. As of this writing (in 2023) Hair by Joey has a staff of 9 brilliant hair artists and over 4500 regular guests who’ve decided to make HBJ their Prescott salon home.

Joey and Jess love Prescott. They love pampering people and welcoming newcomers. They’ve created a space where stylists feel valued and clients feel pampered and loved every day of the week. They love great hair. HBJ is designed with one thing in mind…. bringing big city, high end hair design to this amazing little town!