Portland, Maine · by appointment
Fernway & Slate cuts, colours and finishes in a four-chair room on Cushman Street. Every service is quoted at a consultation first, and the stylist named on the appointment is the one who does the work.
The wall, 5 plates
Each service carries its scope, the time it takes and the price it is booked at. The services page prints the full scope for every one.
Twenty minutes in the chair, dry then damp, before anything is booked.
no charge
A wash, a scalp massage and a finish shaped to the cut already there.
from $46
Demi-permanent tone, shine, and cover for the first grey.
$58
A full hour: consultation, wash, cut, and a finish that can be repeated at home.
from $72
One colour, root to end or roots only, with a bonding treatment.
from $110
Hand-painted lightening, a toner chosen at the basin, three hours at the chair.
from $215
An enquiry is answered by a person, a consultation settles the service and the price, and the appointment is booked for the time that service genuinely takes. Nothing is added at the chair that was not agreed beforehand.
Three plates from the gallery, each labelled with what it shows. The full set of eight hangs on the gallery page.
Four people cover the six services. A preferred stylist can be named on the contact form, and availability is confirmed separately.
Lead stylist
Runs the cutting side of the salon and takes the consultations where length, texture or a grown-out shape make the answer less obvious. Works dry first, so a client can see what the hair is already doing before anything is agreed, and says plainly when a shape will need more upkeep than the client wants to give it.
Senior stylist
Cuts fine and curly hair through the week and handles most of the fringe trims between appointments. Keeps a written note of each client’s finishing routine so a blow-dry can be repeated at home with the tools they actually own.
Colour specialist
Mixes and paints every colour service, from a single-process root to a full balayage, and takes the strand tests when box colour or henna is already in the hair. Books a follow-up gloss into the same appointment when a tone will need adjusting.
Salon manager and client care
Answers the contact form, holds the appointment book and confirms which stylist is free for a requested date. Also looks after the wash bar, the treatment timings and anything that needs rescheduling once an appointment is made.
She came in with photographs and no idea what her hair could actually do. The consultation ran twenty minutes, dry then damp, and ended with a written note of the service, the time and the price. Nothing was booked that day and nobody pushed for it.
Hannah B.
The cut was worked dry first, which no salon had done for him before, and the cowlick at the crown was allowed for instead of fought. Six weeks on, the shape still falls the way it did in the chair.
Marcus D.
Three hours, and the painting followed the way her hair falls rather than a fixed line. The grown-out edge stayed soft enough that she went four months before the next appointment.
Rosa N.
Start with the consultation: twenty minutes, dry then damp, ending with a written note of the service, the time and the price.
The published price applies to hair of average length and density. Anything longer or thicker is quoted at the consultation, before the appointment is booked.
Come with hair as it normally is, bring photographs of what is wanted, and know what colour has been on it in the last year.
Yes. Name the stylist in the contact form; availability is confirmed separately.
It costs nothing, takes twenty minutes, and ends with a written note of the service, the time it needs and the price.
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.
It is published in the open, where anyone can copy it, so it is left short of its final polish and audit pass. The design chosen is fully audited and polished before it goes live.