In the press
Ricardo Vila Nova is newly installed at Urban Retreat at Harrods. Armed with his microscope, winning smile and a chemistry set of swabs and potions (plus impressive so-thick-it-looks-stuck-on hair), Vila Nova gives a strikingly detailed appraisal of hair quality…
Hair needs help too. I ask Ricardo Vila Nova, resident trichologist at Urban Retreat, Harrods, what I can do to lift my roots and my spirits. ‘Hair is the mirror of your hormones and can become unbalanced, resulting in greasy roots, dry ends and shedding,’ he says…
Trichologist Ricardo Vila Nova has developed a mesotherapy treatment for hair, in which the necessary nutrients are injected directly into your scalp. “Injectable technology enables us to focus more closely on the scalp and means we can multiply the number…
The lowdown Ricardo, a talented Brazilian tricologist, is the enemy of post-partum and menopausal hair loss. A full consultation includes taking hair samples (to see what’s going on), treating your scalp with a mixture of trace-element injections…
“Wow, look at that!” says Ricardo Vila Nova as he peers down his microscope at a strand of my hair. The Hair Whisperer, as Ricardo is known, has been working his magic on my thinning hairline for months. “Come and look!” he beckons excitedly…
A healthy scalp is the key to a luscious and full head of hair; at least that’s what the “hair whisperer” Ricardo Vila Nova says. A Portuguese trichologist with a background in biochemistry, Vila Nova has spent decades researching ways to revitalisee…
It was a friend with a particularly bounteous mane who first mentioned his name: Ricardo Vila Nova. She had been to see the “Hair Whisperer” in his sleek little salon in a corner of Harrods, and compared the feeling afterwards…
The process begins with an informal consultation with trichologist Ricardo Vila Nova. Then he took several strands of my hair from the root for analysis – to identify whether the main cause of my hair change is genetic, nutritional, metabolic…
Ricardo Vila Nova, also known as ‘The Hair Whisperer,’ explains that healthy hair comes from the inside out, why the scalp should be treated with the same care as your face, and his tips to make your hair as healthy as it can be…