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Custom colour, precision cuts and hair health · Portland

Lived-in colour and easy cuts shaped around your natural texture

Healthy, luminous hair should not fight you every morning. At Fernway & Slate, licensed stylists and master colourists create dimensional colour, tailored cuts and restorative scalp treatments that grow out seamlessly between visits.

Styling chairs and mirrors along a salon floor, with product shelves at the back.
Plate 1 of 5 Styling chairs along the floor
Two wash chairs and arched mirrors against a terracotta wall in a salon.
Plate 2 of 5 Wash chairs and arched mirrors
A backwash basin with a black reclining chair and shampoo bottles on a white shelf.
Plate 3 of 5 The backwash station
A row of professional haircutting scissors laid out on a dark counter.
Plate 4 of 5 Cutting scissors, laid out
A nineteen-forties salon room: a styling chair at a panelled dressing station, with curtained booths along the wall.
Plate 5 of 5 Salon room, 1941 fitting

The wall, 5 plates

Cuts, colour and treatments

Every visit begins with an unhurried consultation on your hair history, upkeep goals and exact price before a single bowl of colour is mixed.

  • Botanical scalp spa and blowout

    A mineral scalp detox, a warm steam mask, a head massage and a bouncy round-brush finish.

    $78

  • Precision haircut and signature blowout

    Wet-and-dry cutting tailored to your density, face shape and routine, with a wash and blowout.

    from $85

  • Root retouch and shine glaze

    Natural grey coverage or richer base colour, with a sheer gloss through the lengths.

    $125

  • Full foil highlights and bond-repair gloss

    Bright, even lightness from fine micro-foils, protected with multi-step bond rebuilding.

    from $220

  • Dimensional balayage and lived-in colour

    Hand-painted ribbons and a soft root melt for a seamless three-to-five-month grow-out.

    from $245

  • Keratin smoothing and frizz control

    Formaldehyde-free smoothing that halves blow-dry time and resists humidity for up to 14 weeks.

    from $290

Hair health comes first

Great colour never comes at the expense of your hair. Colour is formulated in natural daylight with low-ammonia European colour lines, bond-rebuilding protection goes into every blonding and lightening service, and cuts are shaped to fall cleanly with minimal heat styling at home.

Inside the salon

The counter, the dryers and the room behind every cut and colour. More of the salon is on the gallery page.

  • A working counter with combs, scissors and clippers laid out beside a barber chair.
    Working counter, combs and clippers
  • A black and white photograph of a salon in 1934, with a dressing table, a mirror and a hood dryer on a stand.
    Salon interior, 1934
  • Two chrome hood dryers beside a dressing table holding a blonde practice head.
    Hood dryers and dressing table

Meet the stylists and colourists

State-licensed cosmetologists and certified colour specialists. Name a preferred stylist on the contact form and the salon confirms availability.

  • A close cut being finished at the nape with scissors, the client seen from behind.

    Margot Hale

    Creative cutting director

    State-licensed cosmetologist trained in Sassoon wet cutting and French dry texturising, with 11 years behind the chair. Margot builds effortless bobs, shags and long layers around the way your hair actually falls.

  • A salon interior with dark wood mirrored cabinets, chairs and a gown hanging by the wall.

    Devin Okonkwo

    Senior curl and texture specialist

    Certified curly and coily cutting specialist with a trichology and scalp health certificate. Devin shapes curls dry, curl by curl, and leads the deep hydration and scalp spa treatments.

  • Jars of semi-permanent hair colour lined up on a lit shelf.

    Simone Attah

    Founder and master colourist

    Wella Master Color Expert with 14 years in corrective and dimensional colour. Simone specialises in lived-in balayage, gentle blonding and complex colour corrections.

  • Two black backwash basins set into a wooden unit.

    Clara Nyquist

    Senior blonding and gloss specialist

    Redken Certified Haircolorist with 8 years in custom blonding and grey blending. Clara is known for bright micro-foil blonding, luminous coppers and soft silver transitions.

Notes from salon guests

  • Four months since my balayage and my hair still looks softly blended, without a single brassy streak or harsh root line. Simone gave me an exact quote before anything was mixed.

    Hannah M.

  • Finally a stylist who cut my curls dry, listened when I asked to keep my length, and got rid of the heavy triangle shape. My curls have bounce right from the roots now.

    Nadia K.

  • Clara helped me move into my natural silver without looking two-toned for a year. Fine cool foils blurred the line completely, and every stage of growing it out has felt polished.

    Evelyn S.

Colour and booking questions

Balayage or full foil highlights: how do I choose?

Think about your roots six weeks from now. Balayage keeps soft natural depth at the root and needs a visit every three to five months; full foils start bright near the parting and are refreshed every eight to ten weeks.

Why do some colour prices say “from”?

Starting prices include standard colour, bond protection, a custom gloss and a blowout. Very long or dense hair needs more product, and your stylist confirms the exact total in writing before mixing any colour.

How should I prepare my hair before a visit?

For colour, arrive with clean, dry hair washed a day or two before. For a curly cut, wear your curls washed, detangled, dry and loose, so your stylist can read the natural pattern.

Can I request a particular stylist?

Yes. Name the stylist in the contact form and the salon confirms when they are free.

Start with a colour consultation

It is complimentary, takes fifteen minutes, and ends with an exact written price before any colour is mixed.

Occasional email

An email when a cancellation opens a chair or the salon’s hours change. No fixed schedule, and one link in every message removes an address from the list.

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