Signature Cut
A dry assessment first, then a wet cut shaped to your parting and growth pattern. Finished with a blow-dry you could repeat yourself.
A small salon, letterpressed in plum
Hair that grows out kindly.
Plum Letter is a four-chair studio for unhurried consultations, lived-in colour and cuts shaped around the way your hair actually behaves on a Tuesday morning.
Services
Five things we do properly.
Every appointment opens with a proper conversation about texture, growth and how much time you want to spend on it at home. Times below include that talk.
Lived-in Colour
Soft root melts, low-contrast highlights and tonal glosses designed to blur the regrowth line instead of drawing it.
Colour Correction
For box dye, banding or a shade that drifted. Booked as a mapped plan across one or more visits, quoted in the chair before we begin.
Bond & Scalp Treatment
A warm basin ritual for hair that feels tired after summer, swimming or a lot of heat. Layered under a cut or booked on its own.
Curl & Texture Session
Curl-by-curl shaping, plus a plain-language routine for wash day. You leave with the products written down, not upsold.
The studio
We kept the room small on purpose.
Plum Letter began as a single chair in a borrowed room and never really lost that pace. Four chairs, no overlapping bookings, no music loud enough to shout over. The point is that you get the whole appointment, not the gaps between someone else's foils.
-
One stylist, start to finish
The person who consults with you is the person who cuts, colours and finishes. Nothing gets handed off mid-appointment.
-
Consultation before commitment
If a look needs more time or more visits than you have, we will say so in the chair rather than halfway through the bleach.
-
Routines you can actually keep
You leave with a short, written way to style it at home — three steps, not eleven.
Lookbook
Recent work from the floor.
A few finishes from the last season — shot in the studio, in daylight, with no filter beyond the window.
Blunt bob, soft ends
Cut dry to keep the weight line honest, then softened through the last inch.
Warm tonal gloss
A half-hour gloss over grown-out highlights to bring the mid-lengths back together.
Long invisible layers
Length kept, movement added — layers set inside the hair rather than on top of it.
The chairs
Who you will be sitting with.
Mention a preference in your request and we will hold that chair if it is free.
Marlow Reyes
Works mostly in tonal, low-maintenance colour and spends the first ten minutes of every appointment on the parting alone.
Ines Aldabe
Precision cutting, fringes and short shapes. Happiest when someone arrives with a photo and leaves with something better suited to them.
Danny Okoro
Curl-by-curl cutting and wash-day routines, with a soft spot for hair that has been told it is difficult.
Visit
Request a chair.
Send the form and we reply by email with two or three times that fit, plus anything to know beforehand — a patch test for first-time colour, for example. Nothing is confirmed until you reply.
Tuesday – Thursday10:00 – 19:00
Friday09:00 – 18:00
Saturday09:00 – 16:00
Sunday & MondayClosed
Before you come in
Questions we hear often.
Do I need a consultation first?
Not for a cut — the consultation is built into the appointment. For a big colour change or a correction, we usually ask for a short visit beforehand so we can look at your hair in daylight and plan the timing properly.
Is a patch test needed?
Yes, for any tint or bleach if it is your first colour service with us, or if it has been more than six months. It takes a couple of minutes and needs to happen at least 48 hours before your appointment.
How long will I be in the chair?
Times are listed with each service. Colour work varies with density and length, so we confirm the realistic window in your reply email rather than guessing on the page.
Can I move or cancel my appointment?
Of course. Reply to the confirmation email as early as you can and we will find another time. With only four chairs, a little notice makes a real difference.