With over 20 years experience, native Annapolitan and co-owner Matt Hudson graduated from the prestigious Graham Webb International Academy of Hair. He has since stayed up-to-date with current trends and techniques by attending classes with renowned experts from L’Oreal and Bumble & Bumble, among others. Matt’s commitment to providing superior customer service and his devotion to helping his clients look their best has earned him a loyal following among clients who desire classic style and timeless sophistication.

Parisian-born stylist Luc Fouquet earned over 20 years of experience working in prestigious salons in Los Angeles, Paris, Saint Tropez and Washington, D.C. before opening Hudson & Fouquet in 2004. Luc is known for his skill in creating cutting-edge styles that grow out well, which has earned him a following among clients who want fresh and edgy looks that are also effortlessly manageable outside of the salon. With an intuitive eye for natural beauty, one of Luc’s greatest skills is drawing out and amplifying the inner-style and beauty of his clients, creating unique and trendsetting styles that stand out among a crowd.

Making clients feel good in her chair by helping them achieve the look they desire is a goal of Abby Manning. For the past eight years, the creative stylist has been honing her knack for creating a smooth polished finish that clients love. The Rizzieri Aveda School graduate, who has extensive continuing education with Vidal Sassoon, Deva Curl, Redken, Wella, Graham Webb, and other well-known academies and stylists, is known for women’s cuts—short and long, as well as blow dries and playing up shadings and accents with highlights and dimensional color.

Alexis Harrison’s creativity and understanding of her clients inspires her and helps her fashion the ideal style and color for each person who sits in her chair. While Balayage and long haircuts and styling are her areas of expertise, she is always keen to customize just the right look for her clients. The 2011 graduate of the Calvert Career and Technology Cosmetology program and the Hudson & Fouquet Protégé Program, also actively seeks information on the latest trends and advice so that she can discuss ideas with clients. (If you’ve been in her chair recently, she likely reminded you to rinse with cool water to seal the cuticles after conditioning your hair.)

When she’s not happily creating at Hudson & Fouquet, you can find Alexis indulging in good food and wine.

Amy Shaw was born to be a stylist.
The Graham Webb graduate has been doing hair since 2002 and lovingly learns new skills by continuing her education whenever and wherever she can, including through the Redken Exchange and Bumble and Bumble University.
Her passion is empowering women, especially those curly girls and redheads…because she knows the struggle.
When she is not enjoying the happy, healthy and fun staff and clients at Hudson & Fouquet, you can find Amy being a Mom and spending time with her family.

Andrea Glenn is one of the few hairstylist in the Annapolis area who has earned the designation of the American Board of Certified Haircolorist. Her vision for her clients is natural looking highlights and color placement for a soft, youthful and current look. By studying in New York with Lorraine Massey, author of Curly Girl the Handbook, Andrea has also expanded her expertise in cutting and caring for curly hair. She attended the University of Alabama and later received her professional education from the Graham Webb Academy.

Angela Jones loves working at Hudson & Fouquet. With 18 years of experience, the Blades School of Hair Design has the knack and passion for helping all of her clients feel their best.

To stay up on the latest trends and techniques, Angela regularly continues with classes on styling, cutting, and relaxers. Haircutting remains her favorite service because hair can be transformed and it makes the client feel great.

In her chair, Angela is happy to offer advice, including helping African-American women learn how to best take care of their hair between salon visits. She is savvy about products for men and women and likes to discuss which products work best for volumizing and for daily hold.

When she is not at Hudson & Fouquet, Angela loves to travel and take road trips because “it’s so relaxing to see this big beautiful world!”

Ann Marie Sopchick has been involved in the hair and beauty industry for over 25 years and has worked in some of the most respected salons in the country. While she is licensed in several states, Hudson & Fouquet is proud to have her call Annapolis home. Ann Marie excels in natural looking color and highlights using her keen sense of color, texture and shade. She is also gifted in understanding and working with challenged hair. She provides education for her clients and is able to prescribe products and remedies for hair damage as well as hair loss due to to health challenges. She continues to enhance her extensive knowledge and maintains her Manager/Senior Cosmetology license here in Maryland.

Briana Lowe always loved playing with hair so perhaps it’s no surprise she followed her passion to become a stylist. “I love meeting new people, helping them enjoy their hair and teaching them how to style it.”

After graduating from the Temple Annapolis Paul Mitchell Partner School, Briana joined the Hudson & Fouquet apprentice program. She is particularly fond of blowouts and soft, natural looking hair and loves working with long hair.

If you’re looking to add bounce to your current do, Briana offers a great tip: When it comes to blowouts, women should not always blow dry with their part. It makes it hard to get volume. Blow dry straight up!

When she’s not at Hudson & Fouquet, you will find Briana enjoying a good book and spending time with friends and family.

Brittany Squillari sees life—and hair—as a journey.

The Crofton native loves employing her artistry to let loose her creative freedom and find ways to make clients happy with their strands, no matter the color and length. While Balayage is currently her favorite service because of the natural grow-out it provides clients, she also enjoys exercising her coloring skills to provide just the right shade of blonde. To ensure she can provide the best possible services for clients, Brittany regularly seeks out new education so she can continue to hone and expand her expertise.

In her spare time, you will find Brittany painting and spending time with her niece…often at the same time.

Leaving sunny California couldn’t have been easy but Elyse Biettchert has transitioned beautifully to Maryland and Hudson and Fouquet is happy to have her.

The nature-loving stylist, who now resides in Laurel, is passionate about all hair services but hair cutting is her favorite. “A good haircut can change your face shape, volume, and texture, and even create movement.”

Elyse enjoys cutting and styling curly hair and would love to talk to you about dry cutting. Have you tried it? After nearly a decade in the business, she knows it is her clients’ reactions that keep her inspired and motivated.
When she’s not at Hudson & Fouquet, you will find Elyse hiking. “Maryland is a beautiful state and it is so nice to see the greenery and take in nature!”

Coloring and styling specialist Gabriella Imperato wants you to have fun with your hair.

If you’re up for big changes with cuts and colors, count her in! “I love creating looks based on your lifestyle, whether you get your hair done four times a year or monthly. I can create a look to make it happen!”

After graduating from the Temple Annapolis Paul Mitchell Partner School and America’s Beauty School, she learned to blend her fashion and color sense into creating great looks for clients. She is a big fan of Balayage, a low-maintenance service that creates natural dimension in the hair and gets better with each service. And, she loves colors. She has fun blending colors and creating color changes, like making blondes pink.

In her chair, Gabriella will offer tips on detoxing your hair once a week to remove product and mineral buildup. Hint: it’ll make your blowout last longer.

Outside of Hudson & Fouquet, you will find Gabriella shopping if she isn’t napping, eating, or attending a concert.

Stylist Jessica Baden looks forward to having you in her chair. The Paul Mitchell School graduate loves making and creating connections with her clients and helping them find their beauty inside and out.

Jessica can talk about the latest trends as well as classic styles. She enjoys finding great hues through Balayage and dimensional color but styling remains her favorite service. “It is the last step for a client’s hair and pulls everything together,” she explains, “You see your finished work and how pretty or handsome your client looks and feels.”

As you leave the salon, Jessica may remind you to take into consideration how you take care of your hair. She believes in protecting and caring for this investment and is happy to make recommendations for maintaining those tresses.

She excitedly continues taking classes on cutting techniques and color technique and is delighted to be an industry that will forever grow.

Outside of Hudson and Fouquet, Jessica enjoys nice days on the beach and heading downtown to grab food with friends.

Jessica Era is known for her fine-tuned, soft and gentle touch. An expert with the blow dryer, she loves to demonstrate how to maximize lift and volume through correct use of the tool. She enjoys cutting, up-dos, balayage, highlighting and color. She is knowledgeable of products and can make recommendations based on individual client needs. Hudson & Fouquet is pleased to have Jessica as a valuable part of the team.

After six years at Hudson & Fouquet, Jude Grimsley, knows she is in the perfect place. “I love the culture here,” says the Edgewater resident, “We call ourselves a relationship company that just happens to do great hair! We really are a team here and we all work together to make sure our clients have the best possible experiences.”

A graduate of the Hudson & Fouquet apprentice program, Jude continues honing her hair skills, taking classes in in cutting, highlighting, Balayage, color formulation, up-styling, brush set, and styling for editorial shoots. The brush set has become her favorite style. “I love how it can turn an average blowdry and style into something so much more, including longer lasting results with super smooth, super voluminous hair.”

If you’d like some advice when you sit in her chair, she will likely remind you about the importance of working hairsprays, “a great shield on the hair before using a hot tool that also helps shape style while remaining flexible.”

When she’s not at work, you can find Jude exploring her passions for music, art, and exercise. “I can’t pick just one. They all allow me to express myself and process thoughts and emotions.”

Kennedi Larson has a passion for fashion, which she avidly seeks in magazines and on Pinterest. That knowledge of upcoming and new styles and trends inspires her to create the right look for her clients.

The AVEDA Institute Washington D.C. and Hudson & Fouquet Protégé Program graduate loves making people feel good about themselves and their hair. Her favorite service is highlighting because she enjoys creating dimension and different shades of blonde. And, she knows how to help pick a skin-complimenting tone for hair to really make features pop. Her areas of expertise also include Balayage techniques as well as men’s haircuts and long haircuts.

When she’s not happily creating at Hudson & Fouquet, you can find Kennedi enjoying time with friends and spending time at her farm.

Laurel Mabe is on a mission to help people feel good about themselves, starting with their hair. The Paul Mitchell graduate has been working in salons since she was 17 and has continued her education through Hudson & Fouquet, Babe Things, and Kevin Murphy. Keen on cutting and styling long hair, Laurel also has a flair for helping clients find color, especially fun colors. Her areas of expertise also include men’s cuts and fading, hair painting, Brazilian blowouts, and keratin treatments. Her favorite service is root smudging with hair painting because it allows her to customize specific looks for her clients. Ask her about it!

When she’s not surrounded by the talented team at Hudson & Fouquet and enjoying making clients happy, Laurel loves to be outside, in the gym, and visiting her family in North Carolina.

Lillian Smith wants you to know everyone should have dimension! The graduate of Paul Mitchell and Hudson and Fouquet program can’t wait to explain all about dimensions, highlights, and contours for your hair. “The highlights pull out the lighter features of your face giving you glow and shine while the darker color contours your face giving you depth and shape for a natural look,” she explains. Perhaps that is why Balayage is her all-time favorite look for all. And, she notes, it’s low maintenance.

With her background as a Nordstrom’s employee and an esthetics license, Lillian also enjoys hand painting and customizing color and style for each client. “I love seeing a happy client’s reaction.
I want everyone to look in the mirror and see beautiful hair that they are proud of and feel good about,” she says.

When she’s not at Hudson and Fouquet, you will find Lillian with her friends, and likely on the water, boating, paddle boarding, and kayaking.

As a blonde who loves being a blonde, Lisa Richardson understands both the beauty and challenge of blonde shades. She is inspired by the seasons and like to see color change and adapt, always keeping her clients looking their best any time of year. Lisa also enjoys applying her skill to men’s cuts and color. A graduate of Graham Webb with previous experience in Georgetown and Old Town Alexandria, Lisa is loving being a part of the Hudson Fouquet team where stylists encourage and inspire one another.

A graduate of Towson University and The Fila Academy, a Paul Mitchell Partner School, Liza Barill brings 13 years of experience to the Hudson & Fouquet family. She is especially skilled at color and corrective work. She enjoys the instant gratification of a hair makeover. Always considering skin tone and face shape, Liza loves to see that smile in the mirror when her clients see the end result. Liza provides individualized styling tips to her clients and remains on the cutting edge of the industry via continued education and product review. She also has expertise in extension work and especially enjoys the enhancement that service can bring.

Known as the Portuguese girl with the flair for creating beautiful blowouts, Maria Neves, who does indeed hail from Portugal, has been working hair, especially curly hair, for 21 years. In addition to blowouts, Maria specializes in all kinds of hair extensions. She likes the diversity of combining color, cut, and style because it makes her feel good when a guest leaves her chair feeling gorgeous.

For nearly a decade, Annapolis native Megan Miller has enjoyed creating fresh and new cuts and color for numerous clients, many of whom have become friends. (Ask her what it was like to do hair for the Baltimore Ravens’ cheerleaders.)

The friendly and artistic stylist always wants her clients to leave with amazing hair and feel great, whether she is helping them create a whole new look or freshening what they already have. She loves cutting all types of hair, especially curly hair, something with which she has personal experience! When you sit in her chair, she wants to talk about hair, making sure clients are happy with all aspects of their style and color but aren’t afraid to make changes or ask for fun advice.

Outside of Hudson & Fouquet, look for Megan outside! She loves outdoor activities, especially when she’s accompanied by her child and family.

More than just a hairstylist, Noah Erbe is also an educator. He enjoys sharing his knowledge of cutting techniques and styling with his clients, so they can achieve the same great look when they style their hair at home. Noah has worked in the industry for 19 years and is a graduate of the 1994 International Beauty School. He is certified in color and cutting techniques for both men and women. He enjoys cutting, as it can produce the most updated enhancement for his clients, and specializes in encouraging a “natural” look. While Noah enjoys women’s haircutting, he has a new found passion for men’s modern barbering.

Priscilla Sheehan loves to help her clients feel beautiful inside and out. Giving every client special attention and customized services allows Priscilla to achieve fresh looks while maintaining healthy hair. Priscilla graduated from Graham Webb Academy and has over 3 years of in salon experience. With continued education from Redken and Schwarzkopf, she specializes in natural highlighting and color, dimensional color, balayage, and ombré. Priscilla also enjoys cutting mid to long length hair and smoothing treatments.

If you love hair, no doubt you already know PT Sevin. The long-time Annapolis stylist worked at Bubbles before opening up Glow Salon & Day Spa on Housley Road. Previously a UNITE platform artist, he is color certified in most brand lines, including Redken and Schwarzkopf and has cut hair around the world, even working Milan Fashion Week.

The creative and talented stylist considers himself “mainly a colorist and hair cutter,” and loves all color, although he may be best known for his blondes, from extreme to natural that doesn’t look “rooty” at all.

To ensure that he is clear on his clients’ wishes, PT suggests bringing in a photo. If you don’t have one, PT may whip out his phone to show you photos. “Communication is the biggest thing and we need to make sure we are on the same page so that I can create exactly what you want,” he says, noting that sometimes what one person thinks is blonde is really white blonde. “I’m never unhappy with clients’ needs,” he explains, “And, if we need to make a change, I have no problem correcting anything I’ve done.”

Outside of H&F, if PT isn’t busy hanging with his wife and kids, you’ll likely find him in downtown Annapolis or perhaps playing music with Matt, the two were in a band together for 20 years and still enjoy performing together.

Sarah Mahoney loves working with color because “you can really alter a style using the right pop in the right place. I love experimenting with color and trying out different trends like hidden rainbows and hair that glows in the black light.”

The Temple Annapolis, a Paul Mitchell partner school graduate, is loving the continued training through the on-site workshops. She loves the many different treatments, color selection and styling products offered at Hudson & Fouquet, which makes it easier to give each client a customized service. Her current favorite services are dimensional color via Balayage. Foil work, block coloring.

When you sit in her chair, Sarah may want to talk about your scalp. “Most people don’t realize a healthy scalp is the key to healthy hair growth,” she explains.

Our Salon Director, Steve Metzdorf, specializes in customizing new cuts for women and has a passion for men’s modern barbering while providing easy-to-follow advice to keep styles perfect and polished. Inspired by the ever-changing fashion world, Steve brings over 25 years of experience to H&F. He graduated from Florida’s Roffler Academy, is an educator for Kevin Murphy and has continued his education alongside beauty industry leaders at L’Oreal, Redken and Bumble & Bumble.