Four state-licensed cosmetologists work at Fernhollow Hair Studio, each with a clear speciality and one shared approach: listen first, protect the hair's chemistry, and leave every guest with a style that is easy to wear.
Owner and senior stylist
Marisol Duarte trained in Charlotte in both Vidal Sassoon precision and French dry cutting, and spent nine years at a busy downtown salon before opening Fernhollow on Haywood Road in 2014. She takes most precision cuts, restyles and keratin smoothing, and her careful sectioning takes the bulk out of thick hair and gives fine hair real volume. She asks how the hair is styled on an ordinary weekday before she picks up the scissors.
Colour director
Theo Lindqvist is a Wella Master Color Expert with twelve years in dimensional and corrective colour, and he leads every balayage and foil appointment at the studio. He is known for turning brassy or over-processed hair into soft lived-in blondes and dimensional brunettes that need fewer salon visits a year. Each formula is mixed by weight and recorded, and he runs a strand test before any large change.
Curl and texture stylist
Priya Raman is a certified curly and coily cutting specialist who also holds a trichology and scalp health certificate. She came to Asheville from a texture-focused salon in Atlanta in 2019 and works with every pattern from 2B to 4C, cutting dry, curl by curl, for a balanced shape without triangle bulk. She runs the botanical scalp spa and teaches every guest a realistic three-step wash-day routine.
Gloss and blowout stylist, guest coordinator
Jonah Whitfield is a Redken Certified Haircolorist who takes root retouches, shine glazes and scalp spa blowouts, and looks after the front desk between appointments. His consultations are calm and thorough: he maps out a realistic colour plan and upkeep budget before mixing a single gram. He is the person to ask when it is unclear which service or which stylist fits a request.
Between them, the four stylists cover every service on the menu. Name a stylist or a service in the contact form and the studio replies with the times that are genuinely open.
Name a service and roughly when suits. Fernhollow Hair Studio replies with the chair times that are genuinely free, and the exact price.
An occasional email when a chair opens up or the opening hours change. One address, nothing else, and it stops the moment it is asked to.