An independent salon on Abbeville Road, Clapham. Lived-in colour, patient colour correction, cuts that still sit right in week eight, and blow-dries that last until Sunday.
I trained in Marylebone and spent six years colouring in busy West End salons before opening here at twenty-three, three doors down from the deli. I wanted a place where a colour correction gets the time it actually needs, and where nobody is double-booked behind you.
Every new colour client starts with a proper consultation and a strand test. If your hair needs two visits to get where you want it, we'll say so on day one, and we'll never lift it further than it can take.
Most of our clients walk over from the Common, cycle in from Balham or hop off the Northern line at Clapham South. Plenty have been coming since we opened in 2009.
— Amara Okafor-Lane
Real hair from real chairs, not a manufacturer's swatch book. Bring a photo in and we'll hold it up against the card; it's the fastest way to agree on "warm but not orange".
Natural red kept rich with a copper-gold gloss every eight weeks.
Gloss £48
Soft brunette balayage that melts at the root. Grows out for twelve weeks.
Balayage from £185
Toned-down copper for a sharp lob. Shine first, colour second.
Root & gloss £110
Where many of you start. Two visits, a bond builder and patience.
We fix thisSame chair, same window. Box dye was photographed at the start of visit one and finished at the end of visit two; the cut was done in one sitting.
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Come ten minutes early if you can; the kettle's always on. 0:00 We sit you by the window, not the mirror, and talk. Bring photos of hair you love and, more usefully, hair you hate. We'll ask what you've put on it in the last two years, box dye and holiday Sun-In included. Nobody judges.
0:15 We test a hidden strand underneath. If it lifts cleanly, we start today. If it doesn't, we'll show you why, plan two shorter visits and only charge for the first one you've had.
0:30 Then the work: hand-painted over a board, foils only where we need the extra lift, bond builder in every bowl. You'll have a coffee, the Wi-Fi password and a phone charger.
Before you leave we book your gloss refresh and write your formula on your card, so whoever colours you next time starts exactly where we left off.
Three salons tried to fix my box dye and all of them made it more orange. Amara did it in two visits and it actually looks like my own hair.Hannah R. · Clapham Old Town · Google, October 2026
“Jess listened when I said I wear it up five days a week. Best cut I've had since moving to London.”
Femi A. · Balham“The Tuesday blow-dry is my little weekly treat. In and out in forty minutes and it lasts till Friday.”
Claire M. · Abbeville Road“Booked at 11pm on my phone, got a reminder text, and Theo had my old colour formula ready. Lovely.”
Sophie K. · Clapham South
Every free slot for every stylist, live. Book, pay your deposit and get a reminder text the day before. Need to move it? Do it yourself up to 24 hours ahead.
Prefer to talk? Ring 020 7946 0381. If we're mid-colour, our assistant picks up, answers questions and books you in.
Quiet-day blow-dry, £35. Tuesdays & Wednesdays before 3pm.
