A shape built around how your hair behaves on a Tuesday, not just the hour you leave the chair.
A women’s haircut in Belmont is the most-booked thing we do — nearly eight hundred of them in the first eight months of this year, more than any other single service on the menu. Most of those are people who have been coming for years, which is the part that shapes how we cut.
The difference between a haircut that works and one that does not is rarely the day you leave. It is week four, when you are drying it yourself in ten minutes before work. So the conversation before we start is mostly about that: how much time you actually spend on it, whether you air dry, where it parts on its own no matter what you do, and what you have been fighting. Then the shape gets built around the answers. We have been doing this on Leonard Street for more than thirty years.
The full appointment: consultation, shampoo, cut, and a blow dry finish. Whether that is a trim holding a shape you already like or a real change, it starts the same way — with a conversation about what you do with it between appointments.
Length is easy to keep and hard to keep looking intentional. Layering that moves properly, ends that are not thin and stringy, and a plan for growing out if that is where you are headed.
Precision work where a quarter inch changes everything. Short shapes need more frequent visits than long ones — usually every six to eight weeks — because they go out of shape as soon as the outline softens.
Quick, and worth booking between cuts rather than reaching for the kitchen scissors. Ask when you book whether we can slot you in.
Tell us when you book, and come in wearing your hair the way you actually wear it rather than straightened. Curl is very difficult to cut for once it has been flattened, and the shape only makes sense when we can see the pattern.
Haircuts are priced on length and density, and confirmed before we start.
Booking color in the same visit saves a second trip, and color, cut and blow dry together is $190. If you want a blow dry on its own between cuts, or styling for a wedding or an occasion, that is booked separately. A smoothing treatment changes how hair falls, so it is worth having the cut adjusted afterward rather than before.
A women’s haircut with a blow dry finish starts at $95. Color, cut and blow dry booked together starts at $190. Price depends on length and density, and we confirm it before we start.
Every eight to twelve weeks for most shapes. Short cuts and anything with a defined line need it closer to six to eight, because they lose their shape as soon as the outline softens. Long hair being grown out can go longer, though the ends still need attention.
That is most people, and it is a good reason to come in rather than a reason to put it off. Bring a photograph if you have one, and tell us what you actually do with your hair on a normal morning. The second part matters more than the first.
Yes. Tell us when you book that your hair is curly, and come in with it worn the way you normally wear it rather than straightened — a curl pattern is very hard to cut for once it has been flattened.
Yes, a haircut includes the shampoo and a blow dry finish. If you want a blow dry on its own without a cut, or styling for an occasion, that is booked separately.
Of course, and say so plainly when you sit down. Tell us in inches if you can, or show us with your fingers — it is more reliable than “just a trim,” which means something different to everyone who says it.
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