Hair studio · Elmwood Village, Buffalo

VesselHair

A four-chair studio built around long appointments and honest advice. We will tell you when the cut you brought in won't work with the hair you have — and then find you one that will.

Est.2019
ChairsFour
Rating4.9 ★ · 240
Colour correction · Curly cutting · Balayage · Extensions · Bridal · Consultations always free ·

Services &
prices

Priced by the time your hair actually needs, not by a menu code. Where you see a range, we confirm the figure at consultation — before we start.

01
Cut & finish
Consultation, wash, cut and blow-dry. Around 75 minutes.
$85From
02
Curly cut — dry
Cut curl by curl, dry, in its natural pattern. Includes a wash and diffuse to finish.
$110From
03
Root tint & gloss
Regrowth colour with a shine gloss through the mid-lengths.
$130From
04
Balayage
Hand-painted lightening, toner and finish. Three to four hours depending on length.
$240$240 – 340
05
Full highlights
Full head of foils, toned and finished.
$215From
06
Colour correction
Box dye, banding, brass, or a previous salon's work. Quoted only after a face-to-face consultation.
$95Per hour
07
Hand-tied extensions
Application, cut and blend. Hair charged separately at cost.
$450From
08
Bridal — trial & day
One trial, one wedding morning, and we travel within 25 miles of the studio.
$390Package
09
Consultation
Twenty minutes, no obligation, and genuinely free — including for colour corrections.
Free20 min

The chairs

Four stylists, each with something they're genuinely better at than the rest of us. Book the person, not the slot.

NB

Nadia Brack

Owner · Colour

Fifteen years behind the chair and the person other salons send their colour disasters to. Trained in Toronto, back in Buffalo since 2019.

CorrectionBalayageBlondes
RO

Rome Odell

Senior · Texture

Cuts curls dry, always, and has a waiting list to prove it works. Also the studio's quietest chair if that's what you need on a Tuesday.

CurlyCoilyBig change
JW

June Whitfield

Stylist · Bridal

Does about forty weddings a season and has never once been late. Extensions and updos, plus the calmest hands in the room.

BridalExtensionsUpdos
We would rather lose the booking than give you a haircut you'll regret.
The only rule we've never broken
The studio

A room that doesn't rush you.

Four chairs above a bakery on Elmwood, with the windows we found under forty years of plasterboard. No overlapping bookings, no music you have to shout over, no upselling.

Bring a coffee up from downstairs. Most people do.

Address742 Elmwood Ave, 2nd floor
AccessStairs only — ground-floor chair on request
ParkingFree on Bidwell after 6pm
Cancellations24 hours, no fee
Bookings

Come in.

Tell us roughly what you're after and who you'd like to see. If you're not sure, book the free consultation and we'll work it out together.

(716) 555-0480

New colour clients need a consultation first — we'll book both in one go.