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Your hair isn’t too difficult. Their skill didn’t meet your hair needs.
That's hair trauma, and it heals. No hair type gets called difficult in this chair — all hair types, all people, all welcome.
Before & Afters
Real clients · real photos · no filters · just transformations
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My favs
Two things people travel for.
Dimensional blondes
Lived-in, low-upkeep blonde with actual depth left in it — not one flat sheet of color.
Mullets
Cut with scissors and shaped to the head — the reason people book from out of town.
Client love
Her clients’ words, not ours.
Never had a stylist take such good care of my hair. She healed my hair salon trauma.
@nosymosi
Gave me a full consultation & recommendations. Can’t wait to head back for colour!
@dee1ofone
Did such a good job with my hair.
@kayatamar
Still obsessing over my hair while waiting to board. Thanks again!
@yaymeegoround
Thank you for slaying my hair once again — and for always being such a good friend and listener.
@nicole.co
Why I cut hair the way I do
For years I dreaded getting haircuts because my hair never grew. I would cry to my mom that I just wanted long hair.
In fourth grade I went to get a haircut and my mom specifically told her to cut one inch. She cut four. I was scarred for years.
When I became a hairstylist I vowed I would do my absolute best to be the stylist who listened to everyone in my chair — and didn't cut all their hair off without asking. Because although you are sitting in my chair, I am providing a service for you.
Hair is not just my career. It's my passion.
In this chair
Four promises — every appointment, in either chair.
You are listened to. I will not take length off without asking you first. You tell me what you want and I tell you honestly what I can do.
You are comfortable. I struggle with sensory issues myself, so I try my absolute best to keep water out of people's ears and make the whole thing as painless as possible.
You are respected. This chair is all-inclusive — all hair types, all people. Everyone is welcome here. No discrimination, ever.
Your hair is not the problem. There is no hair type I'll call difficult to your face. Fine, coily, thick, gray, damaged — it's all just hair, and it all has a shape that works.
What it costs
No packages, no upsell script. Two chairs, two price lists — SF and Marin. Every color service comes with a bond-repair leave-in treatment.
Hair color
Just roots grey coverage$120
Full head color$140
Dimensional foil$160
Dimensional foil + root color$180
Bright blonde foils$190
Bright blonde foils + color$200
Corrective color$220
Haircut & styling
Full haircut$90SF $110Marin
Haircut + flat iron curly hair$120SF $140Marin
Barber haircut$70both
Blowout$60SF $65Marin
Dry haircut color add-on$50SF only
Book a color in SF and the haircut is $50. In Marin, services are à la carte. Corrective work is quoted at consultation — you’ll hear the number before I start.
Marin in the daytime, the city in the evening. Each one books through its own system — pick the chair, not the service, and the services show up on the next screen.
I don't answer unknown calls (too much spam) — text first and we can set up a call.
Need to cancel? Give me 24 hours so someone else can take the slot — especially for the long color appointments.
Hair school
The fundamentals — what I'd tell you in the chair if we had another hour. No product I'm secretly selling you. For everything else, there's the blog.
Cleansing
Dandruff is usually the bacteria on your scalp overfeeding on oil. Cleanse at least once a week — a clogged follicle inflames, and an inflamed follicle stops growing.
Healthy scalp, healthy growth.
Conditioning
Shampoo takes moisture out; conditioner puts it back. Fine hair wants less of it, kept to the ends — the thicker the hair, the heavier the product it can handle.
Moisture matters most in the shower.
K-18
Fine hair breaks off before it ever gets long — that's what K-18 is for. It rebuilds the bonds you lose to color, and helps you keep length even if you never color. I use it every wash; it's why my hair finally grew.
Keep the bonds, keep the length.
Growth
Hair gets the last of every nutrient in your body, so growth starts with diet — vitamins and minerals before anything topical. Then massage the scalp with thin oils: rosemary, amla, fenugreek.
Feed your body from within and your hair shows the results.
The blog
Hair growth, healing and the things I get asked most. Written between clients, so it's short and it's honest.
Hair growth
Your hair probably didn't stop growing
If your length has been stuck at the same place for a year, the problem is almost never growth. It's that the ends are leaving as fast as the roots arrive.
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Hair grows at roughly half an inch a month for most people, and very little you buy will change that number. What you can change is how much of it you keep.
Breakage happens at the mid-lengths and ends — the oldest, most worked hair on your head. Heat without protection, a brush dragged through it wet, a tight elastic in the same spot every day, and color on top of color all take their toll. Fix those and the length arrives on its own.
The honest test: if your ends look thin and see-through compared to your roots, that's breakage, not slow growth. A trim feels counterintuitive but it stops the split travelling up the strand.
Scalp
Wash your scalp, condition your ends
Most people do it the other way round without realising, and then wonder why the roots are greasy and the ends are straw.
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Shampoo is for the scalp. That's where the oil, the product and the dead skin are. Work it in with the pads of your fingers — not your nails — and let the suds rinse down the lengths on their way out. That's all the cleansing your ends need.
Conditioner is the opposite. Your ends are the oldest hair on your head and they've lost the most moisture, so that's where it goes: mid-length down, never at the root.
How often is personal. Fine hair usually wants more frequent, lighter washes; thick and coily hair can go much longer. But a clogged follicle inflames, and an inflamed follicle stops growing — so nobody benefits from never cleansing at all.
In the chair
What to bring to a first appointment
Photos help more than words — but the ones you don't want are as useful as the ones you do.
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Bring a few photos of what you're after, and if you can, a couple of what you don't want. "Not this" tells me more than almost anything else, and it's the fastest way to make sure we mean the same thing by a word like "layers".
Tell me your history, even the parts you think I'll judge. Box dye, a bleach that went wrong, a relaxer years ago — none of it is a problem, but all of it changes what your hair can take today. I'd much rather know than find out halfway through.
And tell me what your mornings actually look like. A cut that only works with forty minutes and a round brush isn't a cut that works.
Before you come in
How do I know what service to book?
If you want clippers, a scissor cut on shorter hair, a beard or a kids' cut, book under barber. If you want long hair cut, curls shaped, color or a blowout, book under salon. Still stuck? Text me a photo and I'll tell you.
Should I wash my hair before coming?
Curly cut — come with your curls as they naturally are.
Color — day-two or day-three hair is ideal. Natural scalp oils are good; heavy oils are not.
Perm — don't wash it first.
Barber — up to you, just come without heavy tangles.
How long will I be in the chair?
Barber haircut, 45 minutes to an hour. Long haircut, 1 to 2 hours depending on density. Color, anywhere between 2 and 5 hours depending on the service. Perms, 2 hours minimum depending on length.
How often should I get cut?
Get a haircut when your hair starts to bother you. A good rule of thumb is once a season, which works out to every 3 to 4 months.
Why is my hair still dry after a haircut?
Because a cut can't do the maintenance for you. Weekly shampoo and conditioning between appointments is what holds it. If your hair runs dry, add a 5-minute deep conditioner while you're in the shower and follow with a leave-in.
What happens if I need to cancel?
Give me 24 hours before cancelling — that gives the slot a chance to get filled, which really matters on the big service gaps. After two no-shows or late cancellations I'll need a card on file to book you again.
Everyone is welcome in my chair.
No discrimination here. Come as you are and bring whatever your hair is doing.
