Marisol Duarte
Owner and senior stylist
Opened the studio in 2014. Trained in Sassoon precision and French dry cutting, she builds bobs, shags and long layers that air-dry cleanly at home.
Colour, cuts & hair health · West Asheville
Lived-in colour and effortless cuts, designed around your texture
Fernhollow Hair Studio is an independent salon on Haywood Road. Its stylists and colourists craft dimensional colour, tailored cuts and restorative scalp treatments that grow out gracefully between visits, and every appointment starts with an honest consultation at the chair.
Cutting, colour and restorative care
Every visit begins with an unhurried consultation on hair history, upkeep and the exact price, before a single bowl of colour is mixed. A price changes only when a change is agreed at the chair, never at the desk afterwards.
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Precision Haircut & Signature Blowout
Wet-and-dry cutting shaped to density, face shape and routine, with a scalp wash and a polished blowout or diffuse.
$8560 min
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Dimensional Balayage & Lived-In Colour
Hand-painted ribbons and a soft root melt, made to grow out for three to five months without a harsh line.
From $2453 hr
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Full Foil Highlights & Bond-Repair Gloss
Bright, even lightness placed through fine micro-weave foils, protected by multi-step bond rebuilding.
From $2202 hr 45 min
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Single-Process Root Retouch & Shine Glaze
Natural grey coverage or a richer base, with a sheer glaze through the lengths for mirror-like shine.
$1251 hr 30 min
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Keratin Smoothing & Frizz-Control Treatment
Formaldehyde-free smoothing that halves home blow-dry time and holds off humidity for up to 14 weeks.
From $2902 hr 30 min
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Botanical Scalp Spa, Deep Mask & Luxury Blowout
A mineral scalp detox, a steamed mask, a head massage and a bouncy round-brush blowout.
$7850 min
Hair health first, in every formula
Good colour should never cost the hair its condition. Fernhollow Hair Studio formulates in daylight with low-ammonia European colour lines, builds molecular bond protection into every lightening service and shapes cuts to fall cleanly with little heat styling at home. Where a request needs more time than was set aside, such as a large change of colour, the studio says so at the consultation and offers a second appointment rather than rushing the first.
Inside the salon and wash lounge
The scissors, basins and chairs every appointment depends on, from the cutting kit to the reclining wash basins where scalp massages and steamed masks happen.
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Scissors in several lengths: one for blunt bob lines, another for soft dry refinement. -
A reclining backwash basin, where the wash and scalp massage begin. -
A classic hairdresser's chair facing its mirror, where every consultation starts.
Meet the stylists and colourists
Four stylists work at Fernhollow. The owner, who takes most precision cuts and restyles, and the colour director, a Wella Master Color Expert who leads every lightening appointment, are introduced here.
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Theo Lindqvist
Colour director
Wella Master Color Expert who leads every balayage and foil appointment, building lived-in blondes and brunettes that need fewer visits a year.
What clients say months later
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Four months after my balayage with Theo it still looks softly blended, without a single brassy streak or harsh root line.
Hannah M., Dimensional Balayage & Lived-In Colour
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Priya finally cut my curls dry, kept the length I asked for and got rid of the heavy triangle shape.
Nadia K., Precision Haircut & Signature Blowout
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My collarbone bob from Marisol tucks under all by itself when it air-dries. The best structural haircut I have ever had.
Claire D., Precision Haircut & Signature Blowout
Asked often
How do I choose between balayage and full foil highlights?
Think about how the roots should look six weeks from now. Dimensional balayage keeps soft natural depth at the root, with sunlit ribbons through the lengths and visits every three to five months. Full foil highlights place bright lightness right at the scalp and parting, usually refreshed every eight to ten weeks. Still unsure? Book either one and the colourist fine-tunes the technique at the consultation.
What if a fringe or toner needs a small tweak afterwards?
Get in touch within 10 days of the appointment and the studio books a complimentary tonal gloss adjustment or dry-cut refinement with the same stylist.
Is a separate consultation needed before a colour appointment?
Not for cuts, root retouches, highlights or balayage on healthy hair: consultation time is built into the appointment. For dark box dye, henna, metallic salts or a major corrective change, such as dark brunette to platinum, the studio recommends a complimentary 15-minute consultation first, so a test strand can be run and the right chair time reserved.
Why are some colour prices shown as “From”?
The starting price includes the standard colour allowance, bond-rebuilding protection, a custom gloss toner and the blowout. Waist-length or very dense hair needs extra bowls of lightener and more application time, so the price scales with the product used. The stylist always confirms the exact total in writing before any colour is mixed.
Ask about an appointment
Name a service and roughly when suits. Fernhollow Hair Studio replies with the chair times that are genuinely free, and the exact price.