Consultation
We talk before we touch. Face shape, growth patterns, the grey question, and how much time you’ll honestly give it on a weekday morning.
Still from the studio floor, Pontcanna
01 — Philosophy
Great hair isn’t loud. It just never looks wrong.
Mara & Co. is an appointment-only studio on Pontcanna Street. We cut for the way hair falls, colour for the way light moves, and finish for the life you actually live — hair that works as hard on a wet Tuesday in Cardiff as it does on the night that matters.
— Mara
02 — Services & Prices
The list.
Short, deliberate, and priced for the time it actually takes. Nothing on this list is rushed.
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£58
Cut & finish
Consultation, precision cut, lesson in the blow-dry.
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£74
Restyle
For the bigger change — extra time, extra nerve held.
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from £140
Full balayage
Hand-painted, lived-in colour. Gloss and treatment included.
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£42
Gloss & tone
Refresh, soften or deepen between colour appointments.
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£65
Occasion hair
Weddings, events, photographs. Calm hands, early starts.
Every appointment begins with a conversation and ends with you knowing how to live with your hair.
Colour is quoted at consultation — no two heads take colour the same way.
03 — The Ritual
Wash & treatment
A proper double cleanse, a treatment matched to your hair rather than the season’s fashion, and a head massage we refuse to rush.
The cut
Precision sectioning, cut to the way your hair actually falls — not the way it behaves for one supervised blow-dry.
The finish
Movement, not lacquer. You leave with hair that looks like you on your best day — and instructions for every day after.
04 — The Stylists
Three chairs, no juniors.
Founder — cutting & direction
Mara
Twenty years on the scissors, from Cardiff salons to London fashion weeks. Believes a fringe can change your life, and has the evidence.
Colour — balayage & gloss
Efa
Lived-in colour that looks expensive in any light. Mixes by eye, never by recipe, and won’t lift what shouldn’t be lifted.
Cutting — bobs & crops
Josh
Sharp bobs, soft layers, and crops that grow out gracefully. Quietly obsessive about necklines; loudly opinionated about nothing.
05 — Kind Words
“I’ve stopped giving instructions. I sit down, we have a coffee, and I leave looking like the best version of myself.”
Carys — Llandaff
“The first salon where my colour photographed exactly the way it looked in the chair.”
Elin — Canton
“Three months on, the cut still falls into place every single morning. That has never happened before.”
Megan — Pontcanna
06 — The Studio
Coffee, vinyl, no rush.
Pontcanna Street, Cardiff. Flat whites from the place next door, records on the turntable, and never more than two clients in the room. Your appointment is yours — we don’t double-book and we don’t hover.