The Lather Lounge Hair Studio LLC

Hair salon, Beauty salon in Durham, NC

Address

2902 Hillsborough Rd B, Durham, NC, 27705

Phone

(919) 477-3331

Website

thelather.com

About The Lather Lounge Hair Studio LLC

The Lather Lounge Hair Studio began with a Durham native who had known early what she wanted to do. Maggie Lewis grew up in the city, trained at Carolina Beauty College, and in 2008 opened her own studio to work the way she believed hair should be worked: for health first. That founding idea has carried through everything the studio does since. The premise she opened on — that every woman should have healthy and beautiful hair, whatever her budget — is still the line the whole service list is built around. What that looks like in practice is a menu organized around the condition of the hair rather than a single trend. Treatments and steam treatments sit at the front of the list; so do trims and shampoo-and-style visits. The color work runs from semi and demi through permanent color and highlights. And the studio keeps a full range of chemical services for those who want them done carefully — phyto relaxers, virgin and partial relaxers, texturizers, and the combined relaxer, trim and treatment appointment that folds the maintenance into the service. For clients wearing their hair natural, there are two-strand sets and updos and pinups for special occasions, alongside bridal packages available with or without travel. The Lather Lounge is a single-location, owner-run studio, and it runs on a booked, one-on-one rhythm. First-time clients start with a confirmed appointment — there is even a virtual consultation on the menu — and the studio holds to its time: arrive on time, give a day's notice to cancel, and expect the chair to be reserved for the work at hand rather than a walk-in crowd. It is an adults-and-clients room by policy; children come only when they are being serviced. Payment is kept easy, with cards, Apple Pay, PayPal, Zelle, Cash App and cash all taken. Lewis has framed the studio from the start as more than a place to get styled. She describes the goal as helping people feel good and look good, in a setting meant to be positive, professional and low-stress — hair therapy, in her phrasing, as much as hair care. Beyond the chair, she has put the business to work in Durham, taking part in community social events and educational programs in partnership with other local businesses, an extension of the same neighborhood roots the studio was founded on. More than a decade in, the throughline from 2008 has not moved. The Lather Lounge is still a stylist's studio built on the belief that healthy hair is the foundation everything else — the color, the set, the special-occasion style — is built on top of, and still run by the Durham native who opened it on that idea. For clients looking for careful, health-minded hair care in a booked and unhurried room, the studio is exactly what its founder set out to make it.

The Lather Lounge Hair Studio was opened in 2008 by Maggie Lewis, a Durham, North Carolina native who trained at Carolina Beauty College and set out to become a premier stylist in her hometown. She built the studio around a single conviction — that every woman should have healthy and beautiful hair regardless of budget — and has grown it into an established single-location salon offering healthy-hair treatments, custom color, relaxers, texturizers, natural styling and special-event work. Lewis is also active in the Durham community, taking part in social events and educational programs alongside other local businesses. The studio bills its work as hair therapy in a positive, professional environment, aiming to help clients both feel good and look good.

Services

• Haircut — $45+
• Highlights — $200+
• Natural Two Strand Set — $75+
• Partial Relaxer — $60+
• Permanent Color — $180+
• Phyto Relaxer — $160+
• Relaxer, Trim & Treatment — $120+
• Semi/Demi Color — $45+
• Shampoo & Style — $75+
• Steam Treatment — $55+
• Texturizer — $110+
• Treatment — $45+
• Trim — $35+
• Updos/Pinups — $80+
• Virgin Relaxer — $200+
• Virtual Consultation — $35

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