Welcome!
The mini salon is an intimate neighborhood studio inspired by quiet luxury, where effortless style meets mindful care. Come in, relax, and together we’ll create hair that moves with your life—leaving you refreshed, confident, and elevated.
Your hair, your story.
A curated salon experience, designed around you.
Empowering Women To Find Their Identity
At the mini salon, every appointment is more than just hair—it’s a space to be seen, heard, and cared for. I created this studio for women who’ve spent years pouring into everyone else, and are finally ready to come back to themselves. Here, you don’t need to explain—you just arrive.
Our one-on-one experience is designed around you: your lifestyle, your texture, your identity as it is today. Through precision cutting and soft-focused, lived-in color, we create shapes and shades that move with you—effortless, refined, and always rooted in health.
This is not about chasing trends or looking like someone else. It’s about rediscovering your own confidence and stepping into the style that feels authentically yours.
Here, the salon experience becomes more than maintenance—it’s a personal connection, a creative collaboration, and a reminder that you deserve to feel elevated, confident, and completely yourself.
Most Popular Services
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Precision Haircut + Shaping
A haircut designed for long hair, designed around your hair’s texture, growth pattern, and personal style. Carefully curated from a one-on-one consultation, it highlights your hair’s natural movement, maintains softness and manageability, and ensures effortless, organic grow-out, creating a look that feels intentional and effortless. This service comes with a luxury cleanse, blowout, and personalized styling. -
Dimensional Brightening + Lived-In Glow
A lightening session designed to refresh your entire look with natural brightness and enhanced dimension while keeping hair healthy, soft, and manageable. Carefully curated from a one-on-one consultation, we consider your hair’s texture, growth patterns, color history, and lifestyle to craft a plan that feels effortless, intentional, and uniquely yours. Depending on your goals, this session may include highlights, baby lights, balayage, and/or a lowlight with a soft, organic grow-out with a focus on the full head. Ideal for clients ready for a transformation or who haven’t had color in a while. This service includes a luxury cleanse, The Gloss Edit, and The Studio Blowout. -
Revive + Shine
A luxurious blowout designed to enhance your hair’s natural texture and movement. Hair is cleansed and nourished for a smooth, effortless finish. This service comes with a luxury cleanse and personalized styling. -
Detox + Rebalance with Bentonite Clay
This purifying treatment draws out buildup, toxins, and excess oils while infusing your hair and scalp with essential minerals. Blended with rosemary and cedar oils to stimulate the scalp, encourage healthy growth, and calm inflammation. Perfect for reviving dull, congested strands and restoring natural curl pattern, shine, and softness. Ideal before a fresh color or when your hair needs a deep reset. This service comes with a complimentary blowout.
Schedule the Hair Discovery
At the mini salon, your first visit is all about you. Together, we’ll talk through your hair goals, answer any questions, and make sure the experience feels tailored from the very beginning. My focus is one-on-one attention—so you leave not only confident in your upcoming appointment, but also at ease knowing your hair is in the right hands.
To begin, all new color clients are required to complete the New Client Form before scheduling. This allows me to understand your hair history, needs, and vision so that our consultation feels thoughtful and personalized.
The complimentary consultation is a collaboration, ensuring we’re the right fit and your vision feels understood.
My Studio
Tucked into West Hollywood, the mini salon is an intimate studio hidden above the buzz of Santa Monica Blvd—a little escape, a lot of style.
8550 Santa Monica Blvd
West Hollywood, CA
Get to know Me
I grew up chasing the sun along the East Coast, drawn to the arts, fashion, and design. Acting and TV roles gave me a love for storytelling, but my focus has always been helping people express themselves with confidence and style.
A pivotal moment with my longtime friend and mentor, Kristen Shaw, inspired me to pursue training at Paul Mitchell. I also had the privilege of learning from many industry and celebrity hairstylists, gaining expertise in the art of creating authentic, personalized hair color. Kristen’s guidance, in particular, refined my skills in hair cutting and freehand shaping.
In 2025, I left the world of big salons to open my own private studio in the heart of West Hollywood — the mini salon. Here, I specialize in custom, intuitive shaping and soft-focused color designed for effortless, organic grow-out and long-term hair health. Whether it’s a lived-in blonde, a luxury blowout, or a transformative haircut, my one-on-one approach is about enhancing your hair’s natural movement, vitality, and style.
Client Love
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Girl! The amount of compliments on this hair is unreal. Also, I showered and then let my hair dry with just detangeler and Moroccan oil and nothing else. Slept on it. Got up. And it looked amazing. Nothing short of a miracle. You truly KILLED it with this cut and color!! Just wanted to tell you bc I'm actually obsessed with this hair in every single way a gal can be. Thank you once again!!!!
MEGAN
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James is pure magic. From the moment I sat in her chair, I felt completely seen, heard, and pampered. James didn't just give me a cut--she gave me main character energy. I walked out feeling like an absolute goddess! Her attention to detail, creative vision, and warm energy made the whole experience next level. I'm never going anywhere else.
GRACE
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After years of searching for a hairstylist I love in LA, I'm so happy to have finally found James! She really listened to everything I wanted and worked with me to achieve it. She explained everything as she went and is clearly incredibly knowledgeable about her craft. I have fine hair that really needs a thoughtful cut and she made it look full and bouncy. She also gave my dark blonde hair the most beautiful creamy blonde highlights. And as a plus, she was so much fun to chat with!
PAIGE