An elevation of chair two: a client in a gown, in profile, mid-colour — the hair drawn as one solid violet mass with three foils laid into the back sections and the stylist's tint brush working a fourth. The crown, the nape and the money piece are labelled. Behind her, the mirror shows the money piece from the front, and the sash window onto Beech Road throws light across the floor. Beech Road crown nape money piece two A head mid-colour, seen from behind and slightly to the side: the hair one solid mass, a parting struck down it, three violet section clips holding the divide, two foils laid in on the left, and the shears entering from the corner.

An hour,
a head.

This week —  a full head of lights, a money piece, a dry cut — every line timed and priced below.

Est.
2019
Chairs
Two
Open
Tue–Sat
Priced by
Time and service, not gender
Telephone
0161 860 0090

Before you ring

The book

Choose a service and the diagram shows the part of the head it covers. Half head is not half price, because it is not half the work — it is the top, the crown and the sides, and it takes two and a half hours.

A head drawn from above, marked with the sections a stylist works in: money piece, T-section, crown, sides and nape From above · face at the top money piece t-section crown side side nape

The whole head Choose a service to see what it covers

Hover or tab a service. Click to keep it lit.

The rule beside each time is that service’s length drawn to scale — the longest here is the full head of lights, at three hours fifteen. Pick as many as you want: the times add up the way the salon adds them, not the way a calculator does.

An example appointment

2 hr 15 · £110

One chair, one visit — start to finish.

Cut after colour: 45 min, not 60.

Every colour service includes the toner, the bond treatment and a finish. There is no upcharge at the desk.

These are the prices, not a starting point. If your hair is long or very thick we will say so at the consultation and give you the number before we start, not after. Four hours is the longest we will keep anybody in a chair; past that we split it over two visits.

What an hour is

The minutes

You’re paying for the minutes on the clock and the hands in them — so here are the minutes.

Every service drawn to its length on one clock, nought to three and a half hours: Full head of lights 3 hr 15 £124, Half head of lights 2 hr 30 £96, Money piece 1 hr 45 £68, Root tint 1 hr 30 £64, Cut and finish 1 hr £46, Gloss and tone 45 min £38, Dry cut 40 min £34, Blow-dry 40 min £32, Fringe trim 15 min £12.Full head of lights · 3 hr 15 · this week£124Half head of lights · 2 hr 30£96Money piece · 1 hr 45£68Root tint · 1 hr 30£64Cut & finish · 1 hr£46Gloss & tone · 45 min£38Dry cut · 40 min£34Blow-dry · 40 min£32Fringe trim · 15 min£12030 min1 hr1 hr 302 hr2 hr 303 hr3 hr 30

Nine services on one clock. Long or very thick hair moves a span to the right, and we tell you by how much at the consultation.

A plan of the studio from above: a mirror run along the back wall, two chairs, one basin, a door, and a window onto Beech Road. There is no third chair. one two basin mirror Beech Road

Chair one

Chair two

Sixteen chair-hours in a Tuesday, and no third chair.

Sixteen chair-hours

Two chairs, open eight hours on a Tuesday. Sixteen chair-hours is the whole capacity of this business — there is no third chair and, as the plan shows, nowhere to put one.

No music you have to shout over.

Nobody is being finished off in the corner while your colour develops, because there is nowhere to put them. It is why the times on this page are the real ones — we would rather turn a Saturday slot down than run forty minutes late into somebody else’s afternoon.

If you would rather not talk, say so when you ring or tick the box on the consultation card. It is a normal thing to ask for and it changes nothing about the haircut.

The first ten minutes

The chairs

Two chairs, and you can ask for either. Beside each name is that stylist’s own working drawing on the same head you have been lighting up all the way down this page — where Nadia puts her foils, how Jo builds a graduation. The consultation happens before anything is mixed or wet, and it is where the number on this page either gets confirmed or gets changed — out loud, before we start.

Nadia’s foil placement drawn on the head from above: colour through the T-section and crown with packets woven either side of the parting, crimped at the root, the longest two running out past the hairline

Foil weave · T-section and crown

Nadia

In the trade
11 years
Best at
Lived-in colour, foils, growing out a bad box dye
Instagram
@nadia.at.nine

Would put a money piece on almost anyone, and will tell you so within a minute of meeting you.

Jo’s clipper map drawn on the head from above: a graduated block through the nape under an accent weight line, the steps it is built in ruled above it, and the ear-to-ear section a short shape is taken from

Clipper graduation · nape up

Jo

In the trade
6 years
Best at
Short shapes, clipper work, the back of a bob
Instagram
@jo.cuts.short

Cuts her own fringe over the bathroom sink and does not recommend it to anybody.

Three heads from the book, as they left

Back view of finished colour: soft lightened pieces through a darker blonde base.
Half head of lights · 2 hr 30 · Nadia’s chair
Back view of long lived-in balayage waves, a soft blonde melt through the ends.
Full head of lights · 3 hr 15 · Nadia’s chair
Back view of a precision blunt bob with a sharp line at the jaw.
Dry cut · 40 min · Jo’s chair

When you can come

Hours, and how to reach us

Open

Latest start is shown for 1 hr

Opening hours by day, and the latest an appointment of this length can start
DayOpen Latest start
MondayClosed Latest start
Tuesday9:00 – 17:00 Latest start16:00
Wednesday9:00 – 17:00 Latest start16:00
Thursday10:00 – 20:00 Latest start19:00
Friday9:00 – 18:00 Latest start17:00
Saturday8:30 – 16:00 Latest start15:00
SundayClosed Latest start

The latest start is the close, less however long you are in for — and never later than an hour before we lock up.

Nine Beech 9 Beech Road
Chorlton, Manchester M21 9EQ
0161 860 0090

The consultation card

Half the people reading this are on a phone at ten at night, when there is nobody here to answer. This is the card a colourist fills in before anything is mixed — fill it here and the consultation starts where it would have finished. We come back to you the next morning we are open.

Pre-colour consultation Nine Beech · 9 Beech Road

A skin test at least 48 hours before any colour, every time — including if we have coloured you before.

Box dye, ever?

Salon use Stylist Test seen Quoted