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Six chairs, two rooms, and one rule about honesty.
Six chairs, because the person who consults on your color should be the person who mixes it.
About the studio
Mara Solano opened the salon in 2019, in a former upholstery shop with good north light and terrible plumbing. The plumbing got fixed. The light is why the color is right.
We kept it small on purpose. Six chairs means the person who consults on your color is the person who mixes it, and the appointment after yours isn't stacked on top of yours. It also means we say no sometimes: to a cut that won't hold in your texture, to a blonde that would cost you your ends, to a Saturday we genuinely don't have.
What you get instead of volume: an hour that belongs to you, a price you saw before you arrived, and an opinion you can trust because it occasionally disagrees with you.
The boring parts we don't cut corners on.
We use ammonia-free lines where the result allows it, keep a fragrance-free option in every treatment, and everyone on the floor holds a current licence. Tools are disinfected between clients, capes and towels are single-use per guest, and the treatment rooms are sanitized between appointments, not at the end of the day.
ProductsTwo color lines and one care line, chosen because they perform. We don't stock anything we wouldn't use on our own hair.
Clients, on the record.
Named, with the service attached. We don't publish anything we couldn't point at an appointment for.
Come see whether we're right for your hair.
Come in and ask before you commit to anything. Worst case you leave with a straight answer and a price.
