Custom colour, precision cuts & hair health · Providence, Rhode Island
Lived-in colour and easy cuts shaped around your natural texture
Wilder & Ash Hair Salon on Wilder Street in Providence paints dimensional balayage, protects every lightening service with bond repair and cuts each shape to how the hair really falls.
The salon was opened by Nora Wilder to run one chair at a time: an unhurried consultation before anything is cut, colour formulated by the window in daylight, and a finish checked dry so the shape that leaves the salon grows out softly between visits.
- Today at the chair
- Tue–Fri, 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
- Saturday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Sunday and Monday, closed
- Bond repair in every lightening service
- One chair at a time
On the board
Cutting, custom colour and restorative treatments
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Precision haircut and signature blowout
$85
About 60 minutes
Wet-and-dry cutting tailored to the density of the hair, the shape of the face and the daily routine, with a relaxing scalp wash and a polished blowout or diffused curl finish.
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Full foil highlights and bond-repair gloss
from $220
About two and three-quarter hours
Bright, even lightness from root to end, placed through fine micro-weave foils across the whole head and protected with multi-step bond rebuilding.
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Dimensional balayage and lived-in colour
from $245
About three hours
Hand-painted ribbons and a soft melted root, made to grow out seamlessly for three to five months without a harsh line.
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Root retouch and shine glaze
$125
About 90 minutes
Natural grey coverage or a richer base colour at the root, with a translucent gloss pulled through the mid-lengths and ends to bring back a mirror shine.
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Keratin smoothing and frizz control
from $290
About two and a half hours
A formaldehyde-free amino-acid smoothing treatment that halves blow-dry time at home and holds off humidity for up to 14 weeks.
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Botanical scalp spa and blowout
$78
About 50 minutes
A mineral scalp detox, a warm steamed hydration mask and a tension-melting head massage, finished with a bouncy round-brush or iron-finished blowout.
Before a colour
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About the salon
Hair health first, with bond protection in every formula
Every appointment at Wilder & Ash Hair Salon starts with a conversation rather than a pair of shears. A stylist asks about your hair history, how you wear it on an ordinary morning and how long the shape or the shade has to hold before the next visit.
Great colour should never cost the hair its strength. Formulas are mixed by the window in natural daylight using low-ammonia European colour lines, molecular bond-rebuilding protection goes into every blonding and lightening service, and cuts are tailored so the hair falls cleanly with very little heat styling at home.
The salon books one chair at a time, so a first visit can expect an unhurried consultation before anything is switched on, an exact price agreed before the colour is mixed, and a finish checked dry so the shape that leaves the salon is the one that turns up the following morning.
The question every appointment opens with
Tell me what you actually do with it on a Tuesday morning, not what it looked like the day you left the chair.
Behind the chairs
Meet the stylists and colourists
Nora Wilder
Owner and master colourist
Wella Master Color Expert with 14 years in lived-in balayage, gentle blonding and complex colour corrections, and still in the first chair.
Isabel Ash
Senior blonding and gloss specialist
Redken Certified Haircolorist known for bright micro-foil blonding, luminous coppers and soft silver-grey transitions.
Theo Marchetti
Creative cutting director
Trained in architectural wet cutting and French dry texturising for easy bobs, shags and long layers.
June Okafor
Curl and texture specialist, salon coordinator
Certified curl specialist and scalp-health practitioner for dry curl-by-curl shaping, pintuck highlights and deep hydration, who also keeps the diary.
Pictures
Cuts in progress and studio moments
Said afterwards
Love notes from salon guests
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“I came to Nora after two years of stripy, over-bleached highlights elsewhere that had me back in a chair every six weeks. She spent fifteen minutes looking at my hair in the window light, gave me an exact quote upfront and painted the most seamless neutral-honey dimension with a soft root melt. Four months later my ends feel healthier than when I walked in.”
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“After twenty years of dark root dye every three weeks, I was ready to embrace my natural silver but dreaded a harsh skunk line. Isabel wove ultra-fine cool micro-foils and lowlights to blur the line completely, and every stage of growing it out has felt polished and flattering.”
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“I have thick, straight hair that usually shows every scissor mark when it is cut short. Theo took out the hidden bulk underneath without thinning my ends, so my collarbone bob swings cleanly, tucks under on its own when it air-dries and never puffs out on humid days.”
Visit the salon
Wilder Street, Providence
Wilder & Ash Hair Salon is on Wilder Street in Providence, Rhode Island. A message through the contact page or an email to [email protected] is read during opening hours, and a time is agreed in the reply.
- Tue–Fri
- 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
- Saturday
- 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Sun–Mon
- Closed
Talk to the salon
Planning a big colour change? Start with a consultation
A message reaches Wilder & Ash Hair Salon directly and is read during opening hours. For a major transformation, ask for a complimentary 15-minute colour consultation first.
The column
A short note when the salon changes something
Holiday hours, a stylist joining or leaving, a price that moves. Two or three notes a year and nothing else.