North Willow Hair Studio · Portland, Maine
Haircuts, color, balayage, bridal styling, and extensions — worked strand by strand and checked in daylight. Tell us what you've been pinning; we'll tell you what it takes.
Soft root shadow into hand-painted light. Reads warm at the window, cool under the mirror.
The rail
Each swatch is work from the chair — balayage, gloss, bridal, length — shot in daylight, the way we hold it up before we call a color done.
Root shadow, three tones of light, a gloss to close the cuticle.
Dimensional brunette, single process, gray blending.
From pale blond to deep teal-brown — the span we keep at the chair.
Soft tones and styling that holds from the first look to the last dance.
Five services, one rail: haircuts, color, balayage, bridal styling, extensions.
Consultation
Color is usually a sequence, not a single appointment. At the consult we read your hair — density, porosity, what's already on it — and give you the honest version of what it takes.
A few images of what you like, plus one of your hair in daylight. That's enough for us to start.
We look at how your hair takes and holds color before we set a formula, so the plan is built for what's on your head.
Color, cut, bridal, or extensions — we book the sequence in the right order so nothing gets rushed.
Density, porosity, and what the last color left behind.
Three tones, blended root to end, finished with a shape.
Balayage · Gloss · Cut
The sets
Each set hangs together — same technique, different starting point. Three swatches per set, fanned out the way we'd do it at the consult.
Freehand lightening with a root shadow and a gloss to finish. Built for grow-out, not for the first week.
Dimensional brunette, single process, gray blending — depth and shine rather than a flat block of color.
Soft, photographed-in-daylight tones and styling that holds from the first look to the last dance.
Length and volume, color-matched and blended into your own cut so the line disappears.
Booking
Send a few references and one photo of your hair in daylight. We'll come back with the technique, the order of appointments, and how long to set aside.
North Willow Hair Studio, Portland, Maine. Consults are held in the studio, in daylight, before anything is booked.