Cutting specialist
Megan Robinson
Founder and Hairstylist, Pearlita NYC
Megan Robinson is a dry haircutting specialist in New York and the founder of Pearlita NYC. She shared her advice with RŌZ on caring for 2A, 2B and 2C waves.
Credentials and experience
- Based in New York, NY
- Works at Pearlita NYC
- Credentials Founder, Pearlita NYC (opened July 2021)
- Learned dry cutting at White Rose Collective
- Taught a Minimalist Dry Cutting Class at Pearlita (May 2026)
- Dry haircutting specialist in New York
Selected work
- Interviewed in Beauty Independent about opening Pearlita NYC (May 2022)
- Named by actor Sarah Pidgeon in Into The Gloss as the stylist who cuts her hair at Pearlita every couple of weeks
About Megan
Megan Robinson is a New York hairstylist who calls herself a dry haircutting specialist. After moving to New York, she worked at White Rose Collective, where she learned to dry cut. In July 2021 she opened Pearlita NYC, a downtown salon she has described as a creative beauty collective. Beauty Independent profiled the salon's opening, and actor Sarah Pidgeon told Into The Gloss that she gets her hair cut with Megan at Pearlita every couple of weeks. In May 2026 she taught a Minimalist Dry Cutting Class at the salon. For RŌZ, she shared advice on 2A, 2B and 2C wavy hair, including how to keep waves from getting weighed down or brushed out.
In Megan's words
Type 2A patterns can get weighed down easily, and tend to lose their shape faster.
With most of the wave patterns we are discussing, the curls will be tightest and most dense near the back of the head, above the nape but below the crown. You can brush those out with a wet brush or wide tooth comb, and leave the top of the hair untouched by a brush to keep the shape.
2c tends to be drier and frizzier, with curls starting closer to the root.
